S4E4: Andrew Loog Oldham
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
This week Guy and Gary chat to a man ingrained in the very fabric of 60s pop culture, Andrew Loog Oldham. From his early days working in fashion with Mary Quant to music PR for Dylan and the Beatles to managing The Rolling Stones, Andrew led the charge for swinging London. He helped propel the group to new levels of success and produced all of their early recordings. With stories of Mick and Keith, Paul and John, and even Phil Spector this a real-life musical history lesson.
Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones and Ian Callaghan for Gimme Sugar Productions
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| 0:30.0 | Hi Guy. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello Gary, how are you? |
| 0:35.0 | I'm pretty excited, Andrew Goldham. |
| 0:38.0 | It's, this is a big one. |
| 0:40.0 | This is a big one. |
| 0:41.0 | I mean, it's Andrew Goldham. |
| 0:42.0 | He kind of, you know, wrote the the book it's sort of him and he did |
| 0:44.5 | Brian Epstein and Kit Lambert and Chris Sam those are the names that's right |
| 0:49.5 | Peter Meadon does he fit in there not Not really, although Don Arden does, although in a very different way. |
| 0:57.0 | So basically this is the birth of Rock and Roll. This is Mount Olympus, and Rock and Roll is being |
| 1:01.5 | invented up there by these guys, and he's the youngest of all of them isn't he he's even younger than the rolling stones who he's about to manage |
| 1:09.0 | That's right and he was I mean he was literally writing the book as he went on on what you did you know I |
| 1:14.7 | always wonder with Andrew it is because he went on obviously and and started the |
| 1:19.2 | immediate label with small faces and yeah and and Jimmy page etc but I always wonder with him you know |
| 1:25.6 | did he see himself as being part of the band or was he like you know was he |
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