Andrew Loog Oldham: The strange rock manager who passed on Jimi Hendrix and called Marianne Faithfull “an angel with big tits”
Andrew Loog Oldham, best known as the manager who shaped the Rolling Stones' early image and pushed them to write original material, is also remembered for two notable misjudgements: dismissing Jimi Hendrix as untalented before his rise to fame and making a demeaning remark about Marianne Faithfull's talent. The article revisits these episodes as examples…