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Provenance:
Property From The Collection Of The Late Derek Taylor.
Derek Taylor was a journalist, author, record producer but is probably best known as press officer for the Beatles. In early 1964, whilst working for the Daily Express newspaper and ghostwriting a column for George Harrison, Brian Epstein hired Derek as the Beatles' publicist. He accompanied them on their first US tour that summer.
He moved to the US in 1965, setting up his own PR company and, working with groups such as the Beach Boys and the Byrds, became highly successful. In early 1968 he retuned to England as press officer for the newly-formed Apple Corps. He left in late 1970, following the Beatles' break-up and went to work for WEA. After a few years he was back in the US, as a VP for Warner Bros. Records.
Things came full circle when, in the early 1990s, he re-joined Apple, working on the Anthology project, amongst others.
Widely regarded as one of the best Stones concerts posters of all time, it was designed by Australian-born freelance artist, Kate Burness, who was living and working in London in 1973. In an interview with Radio New Zealand in 2014 she recalled that her fee for the commission was modest and that Mick Jagger was so taken with the design that she sold the original art to him.
The planned concerts fell foul of Pembrokeshire Borough Council, who refused permission for the concerts to take place over concerns for health and safety issues. Councillors feared the anticipated large numbers of people attending the concerts would lead to the area being shut down and local facilities being overwhelmed. Following the cancellation of the concerts, the already-printed posters were destroyed with, it is believed, just a small number surviving.