MEDIA RELEASE
For immediate release
It Took 60 Years to Look This Good?
‘The Dream Tour’ State Theatre Sydney, Saturday, 16 May 8pm
Australian music legend Marty Rhone has survived a lifetime of personal and
professional challenges to find himself back on top of the entertainment tree at 60 with
sell out concert tours, an ABC TV Special and his first major film roll in ‘Nude Study’
The man who has shared the stage with the Rolling Stones, the late Yul Brynner, John
Denver & Peter Allen is on his second national tour of Australia in 12 months, following
his sell out 2008 tour to theatre venues around Australia.
After five decades in show
business this is quite an achievement for an artist, who unlike many of his
contemporaries, does not have a catalogue of hits, just 3……. Denim & Lace, A Mean
Pair of Jeans & On the Loose Again.
He has survived two life threatening illnesses,
cancer & heart disease,
and was the victim of racial taunts from an early age,
befriending and playing Aussie Rules with young indigenous players in Darwin as an
Rhone was recently described as a ‘darling of the YAH generation’ (young at heart). It
might best be summed up in the words of one female concert fan in Melbourne last
year who remarked
“Marty Rhone is better than Botox - Botox makes you look
good! Marty Rhone made me feel young!”
Rhone’s audiences today are a mixture of the old, the in between and the young;
mothers bringing mostly their daughters to see the man whose picture they had on their
bedroom walls in those halcyon days of Countdown. But it is the quality of his shows
that has audiences admiring his presentation, energy, youthfulness and the quality of
his singing voice.
Fed up with the attitude of Australian promoters towards local artists and their belief
that more mature locally based acts can’t fill theatre venues Rhone, with his new
management team, has assumed business and artistic control over his affairs drawing
on his many years of experience as a producer of successful charity events such as
the Desperate & Dateless Balls and ROCKINC which he produced for Olivia Newton-
John’s charity at Rod Laver Arena.
It took many attempts and considerable persuasion to convince Rhone to embrace a
50th Anniversary tribute to music icon Sir Cliff Richard
and the Shadows and he only
gave his nod on condition he would do it his way and not pretend to be Cliff Richard.
On the Dream Tour he is joined by Dean Bourne who has been described as ‘the new
Roy Orbison and an amazing talent’ by Australian radio personality Alan Jones, and A
J Ferris who recreates the unmistakable Hank B Marvin Shadows sound.
This world class All Australian production has already had the Manager of the
Laycock Theatre in NSW remark “This is the first time EVER we have had so much
positive feedback about a show.”
Media enquiries & interview opportunities with Marty Rhone, can be arranged by
contacting: Ben Maiorana, Maiorana Marketing 0409 988747
benmaiorana@bigpond.com
DATE
VENUE
Saturday 9 May 09
Melbourne : The Palms at Crown
Saturday 16 May 09
Sydney : State Theatre
Saturday 23 May 09
Canberra : Canberra Playhouse
Saturday 30 May 09
Newcastle : Civic Theatre
Saturday 06 June 09
Adelaide: Her Majesty’s Theatre
Saturday 13 June 09
Penrith : Evan Theatre NSW
Saturday 20 June 09
Perth : Burswood Theatre
Saturday 4 July 09
Brisbane : QPAC Concert Hall
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