NEWS OF THE WORLD ADVERT 1967

[simonwells61]

Hi there,

I have been told that an advert promoting the News of the World's infamous series of features entitled "Pop Stars and Drugs" was created in early 1967. As the author of a book on the whole Rolling Stones/Redlands/Drugs saga, I'd love to track this down. I have seen a few adverts online for The Sun and Sunday Pictorial - (courtesy of the "find-a-clip" archive) but this would seem a needle in the haystack proposition if ever there was one. Were ads archived anywhere? I presume a lot were, as evidenced by the online presence at youtube, but where to start....?

best

Simon Wells

[Peter Stirling]

Apr 20, 2015 14:28:13 GMT simonwells61 said:

Hi there,

I have been told that an advert promoting the News of the World's infamous series of features entitled "Pop Stars and Drugs" was created in early 1967. As the author of a book on the whole Rolling Stones/Redlands/Drugs saga, I'd love to track this down. I have seen a few adverts online for The Sun and Sunday Pictorial - (courtesy of the "find-a-clip" archive) but this would seem a needle in the haystack proposition if ever there was one. Were ads archived anywhere? I presume a lot were, as evidenced by the online presence at youtube, but where to start....?

best

Simon Wells

IIRC. ITV use to archive their adverts (when they were on film) at their old technical HQ which was in the southern counties, which I cannot recall at present exactly where, but it was somewhere like Hampshire or Berkshire?. ..Not sure what happened to the place after ITV started breaking up and reforming?

However probably the last place you would want to look is the newspaper office themselves who in line with other advertisers are usually nonchalant about that sort of thing.
Perhaps the best place then is the advertising agency who made the ad, they usually keep samples of their previous glories, but going back nearly 50 years is going to be a tall order.