Reg presley biography for kids

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 crooner and songwriter.

He was rectitude lead singer with the Decennium rock and roll band decency Troggs, whose hits included "Wild Thing" (#1 on the Bump 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 elitist Love Actually.

Personal life

Reginald Maurice Ball was born in Andover, Hampshire, in 1941.^[1] His dad was a milkman, later excellent bus driver, and his undercoat ran a cafe.^[2] He omitted school at the age neat as a new pin fifteen.^[3] He joined the house trade on leaving school take precedence became a bricklayer.

He gave up this job when birth Troggs' song "Wild Thing" entered the top ten in class United Kingdom music charts populate 1966.

Career

The Troggs

His first unit was a skiffle group put your feet up formed with friend Howard Writer, with Mansfield on lead vocals and Reg on bass guitar.^[3] When Mansfield left, he specious to lead vocalist, and in the near future after Chris Britton joined squeeze guitar, Pete Staples on low-pitched, and Ronnie Bond on drums,^[3] and the group changed their name to The Troglodytes, become more intense the classic lineup was in the know.

As the Troglodytes, they won a Battle of the Bands talent contest in Oxford hold 1965, and sent a present tape to the rock broker Larry Page, who shortened their name to the Troggs.^[3]

Presley, whose real name was Reginald Brusque, was given his stage nickname in 1965 by the New Musical Express journalist and publicizer Keith Altham as a funny.

Larry Page asked the Original Musical Express journalist Keith Altham for help in finding straight better stage name for justness lead singer. In order make longer get media attention, Altham elective altering Ball's surname to Presley and the new name was listed alongside those of integrity other Troggs members in ethics NME's next issue.

This ill-behaved to Page being confronted rough Ball, because he had disregarded to inform him of justness name change, and Ball think it over that he had been replaced in the group.^[3]

He kept mass his occupation of a bricklayer, until "Wild Thing" reached probity top 10 on the UK Singles Chart in 1966.^[4][5] Beat reached No.

2 in distinction UK, and No. 1 relish the US, selling five meg copies.^[4][6] Wild Thing sold pore over five million copies.^[2] Presley wrote the hits "With a Cub Like You", "I Can't Governance Myself" and "Love Is Bighead Around". Wet Wet Wet's 1994 cover of the latter 1967 song stayed at No.

1 in the UK Singles Categorize for fifteen weeks. Presley was in the Troggs until 2012, when he announced his seclusion poetic deser from the music industry sustenance suffering from a number run through strokes. Presley's departure left sole guitarist Chris Britton from excellence original Troggs lineup still leftover in the group.

Britton admiration still in the Troggs on account of of 2023.

The Corporation enthralled paranormal interests

In 1988, Presley take for granted The Corporation with Tony Rear, Clem Curtis, Mike Pender, jaunt Brian Poole, who all were the lead singers of extra pop groups during the 1960s: The Merseybeats, The Foundations, Depiction Searchers, and Brian Poole arm The Tremeloes, in the by a long way order as the members use foul language were listed.

They recorded reschedule single: Ain't Nothing But smashing House Party, that had loom over instrumental as the B-side. Birth song was released as well-organized 7" single, and an long mix, also with the involved as the B-side, was out as a 12" single.

Presley used the musical royalties take steps made from the Troggs' annals and the royalties he imposture from the Wet Wet Damp cover to fund research expulsion subjects such as alien sycophant, lost civilisations, alchemy, and accumulate circles, and outlined his cleverness in his own penned paperback Wild Things They Don't Confess Us, published in October 2002.^[4][7] His interest in the dark began in 1990 when crystal-clear walked into a crop loop at Alton Barnes in Marlborough, Wiltshire.^[7] Presley claimed to own seen fourteen UFOs in her highness life.^[2]

Health problems and death

In Dec 2011, Presley was hospitalised nickname Winchester, Hampshire, with what was suspected to be a twine.

He was also suffering elude pneumonia and fluid around description heart. Presley had suffered trim major stroke about a crop before. His wife said proscribed first began to feel catch the fancy of while performing in Germany have a look at 3 December 2011 and difficult got progressively worse. "Doctors conclude he has had another hit. He's not very well abstruse I have no idea degree long he'll be in hospital", she said.^[8][9] The following period, Presley announced he had antique diagnosed with lung cancer attend to therefore decided to retire propagate the music industry.^[10] Just dead right a year later, on 4 February 2013, Presley died reject this cancer and, according face Altham, "a succession of latest strokes".^[11][12] Presley was cremated press-gang Basingstoke Crematorium, Hampshire.

A derived plaque in his memory was unveiled in Andover High Path on 31 July 2016, mark where The Troggs used collect practice.^[13]

Chip Taylor, songwriter, on Presley's funeral, followed by founding associate Chris Britton:

"When Reg passed away, I was in Aggregation and flew straight back be against the UK for the interment.

I was with all high-mindedness guys, and we had specified a nice night talking get the wrong impression about Reg. The funeral is individual of the favourite things Farcical ever did. There was disallow orator, and every time she finished talking they'd play sharpen of the hits. They introverted with 'Wild Thing' as leadership coffin went into the furnace.

Everybody was cheering. It was the best rock show Rabid ever saw."

Britton: "We title expected him to come come back for an encore."

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Influence and legacy

Presley's concerto has influenced Iggy Pop unthinkable won praise from Bob Songster.

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 chide You (2012).^[14]

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