Exceptionally rare program for a Rolling Stones performance at the City Hall, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, on November 13, 1963, four pages, 7.5 x 10, signed inside in blue ink, “Mick Jagger,” “Keith Richards,” “Bill Wyman,” “Brian Jones,” and “Charlie Watts, xxx.” Other scheduled performers include: The Four Plus One, Vance Arnold and the Avengers, Johnny Tempest and the Cadillacs, and Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders. In very good condition, with three horizontal folds. Accompanied by a letter of provenance from the original recipient, in full: “In Nov. 1963 I was a 19 year old & I used to help Geoff & Peter Stringfellow on club nights. They had three clubs in Sheffield at this time....They then decided to put a pop concert on at the City Hall in Sheffield including Sheffield, Liverpool & Manchester groups with the Rolling Stones as the headline act. I stood at the back of the auditorium to watch the ‘Stones’ as they were my favourite act of the time. After the show I went back stage & asked if they would sign my programme which they did. Peter Stringfellow then asked myself & another lad if we would take the ‘Stones’ across the road to a restaurant called ‘The Roman Room’ for a meal. When we arrived the manager took one look at us & promptly claimed they were full. When I explained who they were, that they were the headline act from the City Hall, he relented and put us in a room to ourselves upstairs. Also included on the programme was Vance Arnold And The Avengers. Vance Arnold is nowadays better known under his real name, Joe Cocker.” An exceedingly early complete set of Stones signatures from right around the time they released their second hit single, ‘I Wanna Be Your Man.’ Pre-certified REAL.
