Stoned (Signed 1st Edition)

Andrew Loog Oldham

ISBN 10: 0436288664 / ISBN 13: 9780436288661

Published by Secker & Warburg, 2000

About this Item

Yellow boards with black lettering to the spine. Clean pages that have a bit of toning. Firm binding. Signed by the author to the half title page. Jacket is not price clipped. Jacket has some fade to the spine. 1st edition. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stoned (Signed 1st Edition)
• Publisher: Secker & Warburg
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0436288664
• ISBN 13: 9780436288661
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

"People say I made The Stones. I didn't. They were there already. They only wanted exploiting. They were all bad boys when I found them. I just brought out the worst in them." - Andrew Loog Oldham

Andrew Loog Oldham was nineteen years old when he discovered an unknown band called The Rolling Stones. His radical vision transformed them from a starving south London blues combo to the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band That Ever Drew Breath. Ultra-hip, flash, brash and schooled in style by Mary Quant, he was a hustler of genius, addicted to scandal, notoriety and innovation. Brian Epstein hired him to break The Beatles, but it was his thrilling work with The Stones that turned him into a legend and introduced sex and hype to an austere, conservative industry. A ferociously brilliant, near-mythical svengali to many, a manipulative upper-class thug to others, he quickly established himself as the most mercurial and anarchic impresario of the decade.

Stoned is Andrew Loog Oldham's astonishing story told in his own words and those of his contemporaries captured in seventy original conversations. Mary Quant, Pete Townshend, Vidal Sassoon, Nik Cohn, George Melly, and Lionel Bart are among the colourful cast reassembled for his historic look at one of our era's most influential and elusive figures.

About the Author

Andrew Loog Oldham was born in London and currently lives in Bogota, Colombia.