Thousands of Sydney teenagers, most of them girls packed into Sydney Stadium last night for the ‘Big Show’ . . . Keith Relf (above) lead singer of the English group, clutching the microphone and gleaming in a shirt of pink silk, seems to reflect the hysterical excitement of the evening.

Sydney Morning Herald (January 24, 1967)

An old picture . . . *Morning Herald* (January 22, 1967)

‘The Yardbirds, four bedraggled but friendly Englishmen’
Melbourne’s The Age (January 25, 1967)

‘The Yardbirds were disappointing compared to their discs’, wrote Mike Walsh.
Sydney Morning Herald (January 29, 1967)

Festival Hall, Melbourne (January 26-27)

‘Yardbirds . . . a bizarre English group . . . Lead guitarist Jimmy Page bears a mention if only for his dress –a black frock coat, heavily jewelled tie, synthetic shirt and purple bellbottom trousers. On his lapel he wore medals – I don’t know why; they certainly aren’t for his singing’.
First night review, The Age (January 27, 1967)

State Express’s Terry Clark claims to have played sessions with The Yardbirds . . . Another chancer?

Sydney Morning Herald (December 3, 1967)