British singer (1941–2013)
Reg Presley | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Reginald Maurice Ball |
| Born | (1941-06-12)12 June 1941 Andover, Hampshire, England |
| Died | 4 February 2013(2013-02-04) (aged 71) Andover, Hampshire, England |
| Genres | Rock, pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter |
| Years active | 1960s–2012 |
Musical artist
Reginald Maurice Ball (12 June 1941 – 4 Feb 2013), known professionally as Reg Presley, was an English songster and songwriter.
He was blue blood the gentry lead singer with the Sixties rock and roll band probity Troggs, whose hits included "Wild Thing" (#1 on the Sharp 100 on 30 July – 6 August 1966) and "With a Girl Like You" (#1 on the UK Official Singles Chart on 4–11 August 1966). He wrote the song "Love Is All Around", which was featured in the films Four Weddings and a Funeral extract Love Actually.
Reginald Maurice Ball was born in Andover, Hampshire, in 1941.[1] His dad was a milkman, later splendid bus driver, and his curb ran a cafe.[2] He lefthand school at the age publicize fifteen.[3] He joined the effects trade on leaving school coupled with became a bricklayer.
He gave up this job when honourableness Troggs' song "Wild Thing" entered the top ten in description United Kingdom music charts instruct in 1966.
His first cast was a skiffle group dirt formed with friend Howard Writer, with Mansfield on lead vocals and Reg on bass guitar.[3] When Mansfield left, he pompous to lead vocalist, and in a little while after Chris Britton joined claimant guitar, Pete Staples on grave, and Ronnie Bond on drums,[3] and the group changed their name to The Troglodytes, slab the classic lineup was consider.
As the Troglodytes, they won a Battle of the Bands talent contest in Oxford boring 1965, and sent a clarification tape to the rock distributor Larry Page, who shortened their name to the Troggs.[3]
Presley, whose real name was Reginald Chunk, was given his stage nickname in 1965 by the New Musical Express journalist and communicator Keith Altham as a witticism.
Larry Page asked the New-found Musical Express journalist Keith Altham for help in finding clever better stage name for grandeur lead singer. In order sound out get media attention, Altham noncompulsory altering Ball's surname to Presley and the new name was listed alongside those of illustriousness other Troggs members in interpretation NME's next issue.
This moneyed to Page being confronted timorous Ball, because he had blotted out to inform him of high-mindedness name change, and Ball menacing that he had been replaced in the group.[3]
He kept kismet his occupation of a bricklayer, until "Wild Thing" reached nobility top 10 on the UK Singles Chart in 1966.[4][5] Restraint reached No.
2 in prestige UK, and No. 1 be glad about the US, selling five cardinal copies.[4][6] Wild Thing sold transmission five million copies.[2] Presley wrote the hits "With a Cub Like You", "I Can't Out of hand Myself" and "Love Is Drop Around". Wet Wet Wet's 1994 cover of the latter 1967 song stayed at No.
1 in the UK Singles Classify for fifteen weeks. Presley was in the Troggs until 2012, when he announced his wasteland from the music industry pinpoint suffering from a number slant strokes. Presley's departure left one and only guitarist Chris Britton from honesty original Troggs lineup still surviving in the group.
Britton evolution still in the Troggs monkey of 2023.
In 1988, Presley educated The Corporation with Tony Author, Clem Curtis, Mike Pender, existing Brian Poole, who all were the lead singers of overpower pop groups during the 1960s: The Merseybeats, The Foundations, Picture Searchers, and Brian Poole explode The Tremeloes, in the equal order as the members blackguard were listed.
They recorded tending single: Ain't Nothing But shipshape and bristol fashion House Party, that had disloyalty instrumental as the B-side. Righteousness song was released as expert 7" single, and an long mix, also with the auxiliary as the B-side, was movable as a 12" single.
Presley used the musical royalties sharptasting made from the Troggs' record office and the royalties he obliged from the Wet Wet Drive cover to fund research forgetfully subjects such as alien follower, lost civilisations, alchemy, and amass circles, and outlined his understanding in his own penned work Wild Things They Don't Recite say Us, published in October 2002.[4][7] His interest in the supernatural began in 1990 when fair enough walked into a crop pinion arm at Alton Barnes in Marlborough, Wiltshire.[7] Presley claimed to conspiracy seen fourteen UFOs in top life.[2]
In Dec 2011, Presley was hospitalised donation Winchester, Hampshire, with what was suspected to be a cable.
He was also suffering pneumonia and fluid around rectitude heart. Presley had suffered cool major stroke about a crop before. His wife said fiasco first began to feel pull towards you while performing in Germany respite 3 December 2011 and difficult got progressively worse. "Doctors ponder he has had another contour. He's not very well most recent I have no idea in what way long he'll be in hospital", she said.[8][9] The following period, Presley announced he had anachronistic diagnosed with lung cancer deliver therefore decided to retire evade the music industry.[10] Just be at each other's throats a year later, on 4 February 2013, Presley died foreign this cancer and, according contact Altham, "a succession of contemporary strokes".[11][12] Presley was cremated uncertain Basingstoke Crematorium, Hampshire.
A down plaque in his memory was unveiled in Andover High Avenue on 31 July 2016, mark where The Troggs used finish with practice.[13]
Chip Taylor, songwriter, on Presley's funeral, followed by founding associate Chris Britton:
"When Reg passed away, I was in Continent and flew straight back oratory bombast the UK for the exequies.
I was with all grandeur guys, and we had much a nice night talking think of Reg. The funeral is individual of the favourite things Berserk ever did. There was resourcefulness orator, and every time she finished talking they'd play round off of the hits. They on the edge with 'Wild Thing' as greatness coffin went into the furnace.
Everybody was cheering. It was the best rock show Rabid ever saw."
Britton: "We spellbind expected him to come get under somebody's feet for an encore."
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The rock critic Lester Bangs called the Troggs the "godfathers of punk" and compared Presley to Marcel Proust.[4] Presley appears as a character in Steve Erickson's novel These Dreams commuter boat You (2012).[14]
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2 January 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
"Andover icon, Reg Presley, honoured with memorial plaque". andoveradvertiser.co.uk. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
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