One of Roger`s regular girlfriends was Jill Johnson. A former pupil at Truro`s County Grammar School for Girls, she spent a year with Roger and was part of the set wich followed The Reaction around and hung-out at Truro`s cofee bars. Roger and Jill often teamed up with his neighbour Vaughan Hankins and his wife-to-be Gill Wilton. Vaughan`s father owned a garage so getting a car was never a problem. The four would have nights out together at Tregaye Country Club, Flo`s Bar in Devoran or at the Pandora Inn at Restronguet on the road to Falmouth. "It was just a normal boy-girl relationship," said Gill. "They got on very well together and seemed quite fond of each other."
Jill Johnson was afterwards part of an all-girl trio called The Three J`s. The other members were sisters Pat and Sue Johnsone. One of Roger`s first recording sessions was back-up musician to The Three J`s. The girls, playing guitars and flutes, have been rehearshing with Roger on drums in premises next to the Barley Sheath pub in the centre of Truro. They met Rod Wheatley, the owner of a Ferrograph tape recorder, and he offered to tape some of their songs, Rod was helped by his friend, Grenville Penhaligon, and they put down two songs on two-track tape. "I remember Roger turning up with these three gorgeous girls with gorgeous voives," he said. "The session wasn`t very long, an hour perhaps. The music was very, very good. They certainly had it all together." (...)
Jill Johson incidentally, forged her own career in music, fronting the folk quartet, The Famous Jug Band, until they split in the early Seventies. They released two albums on Liberty Records, before Jill became ill with agoraphobia and later moved to Canada where her two elder twin sisters already lived.
Source: "Queen: The Early Years", by Mark Hodkinson