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Rej often formed friendships with the bands he worked with, which included the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Kinks, as well as such musicians as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Chuck Berry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

The affair only lasted a year, but was later immortalised by the Kinks in the song Waterloo Sunset: with a line referencing Terry and Julie crossing over the river.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2025

“If you look back, the Kinks, the Beach Boys, all of these brother acts all loved the Everlys. But there’s also a contemporary act called Larkin Poe, who called one of their albums ‘Blood Harmony.’

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2025

Largely a cover band with a penchant for American R&B, they went on tour with the likes of the Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry and the Kinks.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2024

This bit of ground is pretty nigh taken up wi' the folks of the Punch-Bowl, the Boxalls, and the Nashes, and the Snellings, and the Kinks, and the Rocliffes.

From The Broom-Squire by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)