The last word on the Rolling Stones by the man who discovered\nand managed them. In his first book,Stoned, Andrew Loog Oldham\nrecorded his early years and the meeting with the Stones in 1963\nthat changed all their fates. 2Stoned is the story of what followed\nin the most exciting period of the band’s history – 1964 – 1967,\nby which time the Stones had achieved worldwide celebrity, been\narrested in a notorious drugs raid and split with Oldham, the\nmanager who made them. This book is the remarkable record of those\nyears – the untold story of the Rolling Stones from the man who\nsteered them to fame. An utter original, a svengali figure and a\nhustler of genius, Oldham had, by the age of twenty-one, made the\nStones famous, made himself a million – and spent it – and\nrevolutionized the music business. Revered and reviled in equal\nmeasure, he had a flair for style, outrage, hedonism and success.\nWhile he was managing the multiple recording sessions and the\ntouring for the group’s first golden run of seminal tracks, he was\nalso controlling the permanent storm of publicity around the band.\nIn this antidotal portrait of the “Swinging Sixties,” the Stones in\nAmerica and the “Summer of Love,” there is also an unflinching\nrecord of the drug-soaked years after his break-up with the Stones.\nTold both in his own words and those of his\ncontemporaries,2Stonedis a unique account of the charmed period\nwhen Andrew Loog Oldham and the Rolling Stones were invincible.

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