Front cover of concert program: ‘The Hi-Fi Club presents Johnny O’Keefe, the Wild One, backed by the Fabulous Hi-Marks’, c1962.

‘The Boomerang Boy’: Johnny holding boomerang with arms raised high for publicity shot for America's Liberty Records, 1960.

Johnny O’Keefe and first wife Marianne standing on balcony of Melbourne Town Hall before performance at 3UZ's Rock and Twist Spectacular, 1962. Photographer: Laurie Richards.

Cover of ‘The Fabulous Johnny O'Keefe Show’ concert program from 1964 tour of Perth, Kalgoorlie, Geraldton, Bunbury and Albany, WA.

Johnny O'Keefe plastic double-sided poster featuring the postage stamp design, issued in 1998.

Johnny O'Keefe on set in front of boom microphone and camera at Channel 7 studios in Sydney.

In this clip from a 1966 special episode of TV’s Bandstand, Johnny O’Keefe and fellow rock pioneers Col Joye and Digby Richards reminisce about the thrills and perils of performin

Johnny sitting at the base of an ATN 7 camera holding a broom on the set of ‘Sing Sing Sing’.

In this clip, from a 1966 Bandstand special, Johnny talks to Brian Henderson about returning from his disappointing American tour and the lead-up to his horrific car crash in

The boomerang made by Joe Timbery that Johnny took with him to America in April 1960 for his whirlwind six-week, 36-state tour.