'Music was almost like a consolation prize.' 'The basis of what we were doing is we avoided getting a regular job and having the lack of a future, which is what we'd been promised after supposedly winning the Second World War,' said Oldham. He said the course will provide his insider perspective from post-Second World War England, 1960s British Invasion and the counter culture, 1970s punk and new wave to the 1980s video generation. What made us ambitious in music or art or whatever it was.' 'I'll be able to offer what formed our lives. 'It's been an ambition of mine to do this,' said Oldham in a telephone interview from Bogota, Colombia, where he lives. It is being billed as a 'life lessons course using music as the medium.'

Rock Dreams: A History, 1954-1984 Up Close and Personal with Andrew Loog Oldham, is being offered as a full credit course in January in the Faculty of Arts. Now at 75, the member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame said he's bringing his music industry experience and 'war stories' to Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C., to teach a 13-week course. Andrew Loog Oldham was 19 years old when he joined the vanguard of rock and roll history known as the British Invasion, becoming the first manager and producer of the Rolling Stones in 1963 and co-founding Immediate Records, an influential label with a roster of music superstars including Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton and Fleetwood Mac.

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