"They hated my guts. Said I was an unethical bastard."

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To Andrew’s way of thinking, the British record industry was hidebound and moribund. The culture gap between the music and the street scene that fed it on one side and the old farts at the record companies that he relied on to market the Stones on the other was maddening and almost unbridgeable. Indeed, Oldham’s guile, cheek, and extraordinary self-assurance had frequently been his chief weapons in forcing the business to take notice of the Rolling Stones, and it had impressed the band. “He was smarter and sharper than the assholes that were running the media, or the people running the record companies, who were totally out of touch with what was happening,” Keith Richards said.