8256 - Rolling Stones (2) 1965 Australia and Singapore Tour Promotional Items

Rolling Stones (2) 1965 Australia and Singapore Tour Promotional Items Two original Rolling Stones promotional items from their 1965 tour of Australia and Singapore: an 8.5 x 11 Australian concert program for Louis Armstrong and Trini Lopez, issued by Harry M. Miller-Pan Pacific Promotions, with a full-page advertisement at the back announcing the forthcoming Australian appearances of the Rolling Stones and Roy Orbison, headed ‘They’re Coming in January!,’ featuring individual portraits of the Rolling Stones and Orbison above booking information for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. Also includes a 4 x 2.5 Singstar promotional card featuring a group portrait on the front and the reverse bearing a 1965 calendar and advertising the ‘Big Beat Show’ at Badminton Hall on February 16th, with performances at 6:45 and 8:45. In overall fine condition with edgewear to both, a central vertical fold to the program, and creasing to the promotional card. The Rolling Stones' first tour of Australia ran from late January into mid-February 1965, part of a package tour with Roy Orbison, the Newbeats, and Ray Columbus and the Invaders, promoted by Harry M. Miller's Pan Pacific Promotions. The band played Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth, the five cities named in the concert program's advertisement. After concluding the Australian leg, the tour's final date came on February 16, 1965, at Badminton Hall in Singapore, promoted locally by Singstar Associates Ltd. and billed as "The Big Beat Show," bringing the band's first tour of the Far East and Oceania to a close.