Andrew Loog Oldham (January 29, 1944) was a musician and served as the manager of the Rolling Stones from 1963 to 1967. His mother was Australian, and his father, who died in World War II, was of Dutch-American descent. In 1955, Oldham dedicated himself to rock music and was expelled from school at the age of 16 for skipping classes too often. He briefly worked for a designer and then tried his hand as a pop singer, but had very little success with it.