MY MAGAZINE VOL 8

BENT REJ
IN THE BEGINNING
Danish photographer, Bent Rej, began taking pictures of rock and
pop stars in the mid-sixties, which is when he met and got to know
The Rolling Stones. Bent accompanied The Stones on the Satisfaction
tour, where he captured a unique collection of iconic, and rarely
seen photographs of the band before they became the icons of rock.
Photographer Bent Rej on the right
In 1965, while working for a Danish newspaper,
Bent Rej received the assignment of
chronicling The Rolling Stones’ during the
Scandinavian and German legs of their
Satisfaction tour through Europe. Things
went so well that for an entire year Bent
pretty much never left the young musicians.
His work evolved into close friendships,
especially with band’s founder Brian Jones
and soon he became part of The Stones’
entourage.
Bent’s extraordinary collection of Stones
photographs taken during the spring of
‘65 to the summer of ‘66 reveals a fascinating
glimpse of a moment in the history of
rock. It was during this period that the
band found their feet and gained a lot of
confidence, but no one knew that they
would turn out to be some of the biggest
rock icons of the world.
“No photographer up to this point in our
career, or since for that matter, has had the
access to The Stones that Bent had. He was
right there, on the spot, at a crucial period
in our career, and in our lives like no other
photographer before or since. It’s the closeness
that makes what Bent has done
unique” say’s Bill Wyman in the book “In
The Beginning” that presents Bent Rej’s
fine collection of Stones photographs.
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