So was I, but less seriously.Are you as bad a man as you’d have people think?Michael Forman, by e-mail I’ve never set out to have myself thought of as bad I just lay the facts out as flat data, ma’am Truculent, obstinate, teenage, excessive.. yes. What do you expect from a 21-year- old kid driving around in a Phantom V who hasn’t paid his taxes? But bad? Not at all, my universe is clear and I’m an asset to it.Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone?P McMillan, Stafford I was sure not to have daughters so as to avoid dilemmas of that sort. A friend once told me that if I’d had daughters I’d have packed them into a plane and I’d be at the gun turret aiming at all incoming genitalia.The Stones have produced their own records for decades. But up to Sticky Fingers, they worked with a strong producer. If you were to produce their next record, what would you do differently to The Glimmer Twins?Steven Gaydos, HampsteadI’d like ‘em all in a room, on no more than 16 track, that way you might get a recording as inspired as Stripped, which was the group’s last great recording. The rest of it, post ­ “Start Me Up”, has been a techno mumbo-jumbo subject to a world that’s, for the most part, more interested in Jerry Hall’s point of view than Mick Jagger’s.What kind of a name is Loog, isn’t it time you dropped it?Pauline Symes, Colchester No, it’s not Loog was my father’s surname He was a Texas airman of Dutch heritage named Andrew Loog My mother was his girlfriend during World War Two.

He expired dropping bombs for you on Hitler six months before I was born. My mother gave me his name, Andrew Loog and her maiden name, Oldham, and I’m proud of all them.What were the three adjectives that went through your head when you first met Mick Jagger?Meera Norton, London I can’t remember the adjectives but my general reaction “Oh, my God, I never thought my future would be in trousers”.Don’t you realise Scientology is a form of brainwashing?S Patton, by e-mail Oh, I hope so, my brain really needed a spring clean. I no longer keep any thoughts that I did not choose to put into my own uni-verse. I’m sure there are many ways to get better and back into life but Scientology is what worked and works for me. It jump-started my ability to return to a productive life after 30 years out there in the cold.Who killed Brian Jones?Olivia Wade, CardiffPJ Proby. Just kidding, Brian managed it all on his own.Of all the beautiful women who used to hang out with the Stones, which one was the most arresting?Kyle Hanlon, by e-mail Anita Pallenberg. An absolutely devastating lady, deadlier than the male and twice as attractive.

If she had played guitar!Do any of today’s bands have what you saw the Stones had when you saw them for the first time?Rupert Morden, WimbledonThe last time I saw that flash was when Ken East of EMI took me to a club on Charing Cross Road underneath the old Astoria to see the first London gig of Duran Duran as their first single was about to enter the charts So it was a career-breaking moment The group were on that exciting tightrope and it showed. The drummer was real, and was as opposite to the group as Charlie Watts was to the Stones and it worked They were hungry young pups with a view for the kill. Since then, the first eight years of Gary Oldman is about as good as it gets. He gets all the roles Mick Jagger dreams of.Met any good Svengalis lately?Lisa Clements, by e-mail My last sighting was Berry Gordy Jr in 1972. Does that count? The problem with being a Svengali in such an excessive media age as today is that you get a platform that rightfully belongs to the artist and that is not good for business.

The true Svengalis of the day are the artists who basically manage and divine themselves daily ­ Ricky Martin, Madonna, Tom Cruise, Mariah Carey are some who do it. This brand of artist all have business antenna that make your actual Svengali, such as the likes of Malcolm McLaren and those who followed me, redundant.If the Sixties was your decade, whose century was it?W Hughes, HastingsSir Alexander Fleming, Aids, Adolf Hitler and The Beatles have to be in the A list.Why did you move to Colombia?Sarah Milnes, by e-mail I went to see a play called John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert at the Saville Theatre in London in 1974. In the intermission I was introduced to an actress from Colombia named Esther Farfan I was mesmerised, I still am. I had the good sense to follow her home to Colombia the next year and ask her to let me be a part of her life. We’ll have been married 25 years next 14 February.Since giving up drugs have you ever been tempted to take them again? If so what provoked it?B Burridge, LondonOh, they’ve loomed up on my radar screen and the cinema screen via such films as Trainspotting or Traffic. The toilet scene in Trainspotting had me forget I was watching a movie and wonder how they knew so much about me.

I’m not tempted because I never get the “nice to be high” re-stimulation, I get the “done too much” re-stimulation and there’s nothing attractive about that. I saw cocaine in a dressing room in New York last September, it was the first time since I stopped all that in 1995. It was a dead issue.Who of the other greats of the Sixties would you have most fancied managing?T Branwell, Luton I had the very best of it. I met the Stones when we could do no wrong and for a short while everything we did was right. I’ll settle for that.’Stoned’ by Andrew Loog Oldham is published as a paperback by Vantage, priced £7.99. If you tried and failed to escape Big Brother last summer, be warned ­ this time, it’s going to be even harder to avoid Channels 4′s intrusive television phenomenon. If you tried and failed to escape Big Brother last summer, be warned ­ this time, it’s going to be even harder to avoid Channels 4′s intrusive television phenomenon.
When the second series begins this month, not only the television and the internet hich will bring details of the ups and downs of life in the house.The mobile phone company BT Cellnet will offer constant updates by text message and E4, Channel 4′s new digital entertainment channel, will be screening up to 21 hours of live footage daily for those unable to wait for the nightly updates on terrestrial television.Yet the 10 contestants ­ who are still to be chosen ­ will be competing for a prize pot that remains unchanged at £70,000 despite the lucrative success of the first series.