Andrew Loog Oldham: Last News

The Rolling Stones and Watts’ family, has been announced.Charlie’s Good Tonight: The Authorised Biography of Charlie Watts is due to be released on September 15 in the UK and October 11 in the US, according to Rolling Stone. The book features forewords from both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, plus a prelude from the band’s former manager/producer Andrew Loog Oldham.The longtime Rolling Stones drummer died at the age of 80 last August prompting a huge outpouring of tributes from the music world and beyond.His surviving bandmates reflected on the “huge loss” in September last year before later dedicating their first show of 2021 to Watts.The new biography has been written by author-broadcaster Paul Sexton and includes new interviews with Jagger, Richards, and Ronnie Wood, as well as friends, family and collaborators.“Our dear friend Charlie Watts was not just a fantastic drummer but a wonderful person,” the Rolling Stones said in a statement.

The Clash, Gorillaz and The Good, The Bad and The Queen, has teamed up with singer-songwriter Galen Ayres for a new project.The pair are set to release their debut album, ‘Can We Do Tomorrow Another Day?’, under the name Galen & Paul, on May 19. The album comprises a collection of bilingual duets, with both singers singing in English and Spanish, in which they explore a variety of European music cultures.Per a press release, the album began coming together in lockdown, which Simonon spent in a Mallorcan fishing village writing music and painting. As COVID-19 restrictions lifted, he began working with local musicians and busking in front of cafes in Palma.

EXCLUSIVE: Double Elvis, the podcast company behind hit music series Disgraceland, is bolstering its slate of original podcasts with a new post-punk series from members of Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Cure as well as adding a trio of shows to its banner.

Andrew Loog Oldham, the Stones’ manager, at the end of 1964, after photographing my first big star Marianne Faithfull, who he also managed. He invited me to meet the Stones at their office in Gloucester Place in London.I was just 17, only two years into the job, and like most of my contemporaries, I listened to the Beatles but 
I loved the Stones – they were rebellious and naughty.Andrew asked me if I’d be the Stones’ official photographer on their American tour – for eight weeks in the autumn of 1965.