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- ↑ Amplifier Herma Keil & The Keil Isles
- ↑ The Film Archive Teardrops by Hermia Keil Archived 5 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Sergent.com The Keil Isles
- ↑ "Aotearoa Music Awards". aotearoamusicawards.nz. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
- ↑ Imdb Don't Let It Get You (1966)