Troggs Singer Reg Presley Dead at 71

Gems/Redferns Reg Presley

Reg Presley, accompanist of the affecting English garage-rock bandage the Troggs, died endure night at home in Andover, England, afterwards a year-long action with lung cancer, The Associated Press reports. He was 71.

With Presley's age-old voice, abrasive guitar riffs and bludgeoning drums, the Troggs were allotment of the British Invasion beachcomber of bands that included the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks and the Who. On songs like their 1966 individual "Wild Thing," the bandage helped to ascertain barn bedrock in the Sixties and aggressive the architects of what would advance into jailbait bedrock in the Seventies, including Iggy Pop, the Buzzcocks and the Ramones.

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"Wild Thing," accounting by Chip Taylor, was a Number One hit for the Troggs in the U.S. The aftereffect single, "With a Girl Like You," topped the archive in four countries, including the U.K.; while their 1967 individual "Love Is All Around," afterwards covered by R.E.M., accomplished the Top 10 in the U.S., U.K. and Canada. All three songs accept awash added than one actor copies.

Born Reg Ball, the accompanist was alive as a bricklayer if he helped begin the Troggs in Andover in 1964, adopting the name "Presley" at the advancement of the band's manager. The bandage appear just 11 flat albums over the years, but the Troggs frequently toured, and Presley fronted assorted incarnations of the accumulation until endure year, if he retired afterwards accepting the blight diagnosis.

He aswell had an absorption in crop circles, UFOs and added abstruse activity.

Presley is survived by his wife, son and daughter, who were with him if he died.