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OOPS! A TROGG named PRESLEY! And his relations were furious.

Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 28 May 1966

HAVE YOU ever come to wonder about Reg Trogg's surname being Presley? It's very strange really. ...

The Troggs: Troggs Politeness

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 3 June 1966

THE TROGGS, who have a monster hit with 'Wild Thing', are still new and enthusiastic enough to be excited by the glamour and attention injected ...

The Troggs: From Nowhere The Troggs (Fontana)

Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 1 July 1966

Troggs' first LP — Track-by-track review by Keith Altham  ...

Amid Controversy Troggs Break-Out

Report and Interview by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 2 July 1966

PROBABLY NEVER before has a totally unknown group caused the amount of comment and controversy (not to mention record sales) as the Troggs from England ...

Troggs Have A Lot To Go Wild About

Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 15 July 1966

REG PRESLEY and his band "barn" into the NME Chart this week with the highest entry — 'A Girl Like You' (No. 19) composed by ...

The Troggs: Troggs Went Wild Over Fan Slur

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 29 July 1966

THE TROGGS are "wild things" this week and the man responsible for raising the wrath of the West Country group is singer-journalist-composer-student and good all-round ...

The Troggs: Double-Top Troggs In America And Britain!

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 12 August 1966

LAST WEEK the Troggs were in the enviable position of being No. 1 in England with 'With A Girl Like You' and No. 1 in ...

The Troggs: Larry Page — The Man Who Fights In Pop Without Being Nasty

Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 13 August 1966

LARRY PAGE used to be a recording artist — and his exploits were headlined in national newspapers. Now he's on the management-production side and his ...

Troggs: Why The Nasty Knocking?

Comment by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 27 August 1966

I WOULD like to defend The Troggs. ...

The Astonishing Troggs Do It Again!

Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 9 September 1966

THOSE astonishing Troggs have done it again! At the little Olympic studios, concealed in a small mews off Baker Street, during an incredible session Larry ...

Trogg-Alog-Ology

Interview by Mike Grant, Rave, October 1966

Which, roughly translated, means what the Troggs, think of the pop scene today. ...

The Walker Brothers, The Troggs, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich: Granada, East Ham, London

Live Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 8 October 1966

Scott Was The Hit On Walker Tour First Night ...

The Walker Brothers, the Troggs, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich: Granada, East Ham, London

Live Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 8 October 1966

They're Off! Walkers, Troggs, Dave Dee ...

Troggs: Trogg-Men Ridicule Song Ban

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 21 October 1966

FOLLOWING AUNTIE BBC's policy of giving The Troggs' new single, 'I Can't Control Myself' the cold shoulder with only restricted airplay, that land "down under" ...

The Troggs: Chris The Charmer

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 28 October 1966

THE TROGGS' lead guitarist, Chris Britton looks at women because he likes them — smiles at strangers as though he had known them all his ...

The Troggs: Soft-hearted Reg Presley

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 4 November 1966

REGINALD MAURICE BALL is a soft-hearted ex-bricklayer born in Andover on June 12, 1943, who reads the Daily Mirror, is particularly sensitive to anything which ...

The Troggs: He's Got A Grip On Their Money

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 18 November 1966

THERE IS the air of a surprised cocker spaniel about Trogg drummer Ronnie Bond who uses his hands to communicate what his conversation lacks. He ...

New singles from the Who, Cream, Tim Hardin, the Walker Brothers et al

Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 10 December 1966

WHO AND THE HAPPY WORLD OF PETE TOWNSHEND 'Happy Jack' (Reaction) — Happy Who, happy us, happy world of Pete Townshend! ...

Troggs Caged In Berlin Zoo!

Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 10 December 1966

ERIC BURDON, who is so devoted to the birds in London's St. James's Park, would love it here on the twelfth floor of the Berlin ...

The Troggs: Trogg-Maker Reveals Secrets

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 21 January 1967

LARRY – "Lawrence" to his friends – Page is the one-man organisation behind the phenomenal success of the Troggs. Lawrence is the group's business manager; ...

The Troggs: Trogglodynamite (Page One)

Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 11 February 1967

Keith Altham tracks down an undiluted pop album ...

Gene Pitney, The Troggs, Sounds Inc., David Garrick: Finsbury Park Astoria, London

Live Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 25 February 1967

Pitney tour — a birthday triumph for first night ...

Gene Pitney, The Troggs: Finsbury Park Astoria, London

Live Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 25 February 1967

Gene Captures Audience Despite Sitdown! Says Keith Altham ...

Gene Pitney, the Troggs: Finsbury Park Astoria, London

Live Review by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 25 February 1967

GENE PITNEY strolled on stage on the first night of his last British tour last Friday at the Astoria, Finsbury Park and proved once again ...

Trogg Reg Reveals Success Secret

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 11 March 1967

THERE WAS a touch of the "Ready Steady Ooops" about the Troggs' new single, 'Give It To Me', after it leapt high into the NME ...

The Beach Boys, Small Faces, Dusty Springfield et al: NME Poll Winners Concert, Empire Pool, Wembley, London

Live Review by Keith Altham, Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 13 May 1967

POLL SHOW THRILLS ALL THE WAY ...

The Troggs: Love Saves Troggs

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 18 November 1967

HERE COMES the pop phoenix again! Arising from what so many cynics thought were their own ashes, the Troggs now have their sixth smash hit ...

New Albums from Manfred Mann, Judy Collins, Butterfield Blues Band et al

Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 9 March 1968

MANFRED MANN: Up The Junction (Fontana TL 5460). HOW FORTUNATE it is for the Manfreds that this LP of film music — never strictly commercial ...

Troggs: Fond Rememberings And Frank Quotes From The World's First Punk Rockers

Retrospective and Interview by Harold Bronson, Phonograph Record, February 1973

WHATEVER HAPPENED to all those exciting, tuneful British rock acts who thrilled us during the mid-Sixties? ...

David Bowie: Zigs and Troggs and Backless Nuns

Report by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 27 October 1973

IT DOESN'T MATTER who's playing. The Marquee's always a drag on Saturday nights. It's hot, crowded, uncomfortable, and noisy, and it poses a severe visibility ...

The Troggs: The Troggs

Review by Gene Sculatti, Creem, October 1975

I DON'T KNOW about anybody else, but this is one I've been waiting for ever since I caught Reg Presley, 20 pounds overweight and stuffed ...

The Troggs: The Troggs

Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 9 October 1975

NOT SINCE MARC Bolan noshed himself into semiretirement have our pre-nursery-school age friends been given product on which they could so effortlessly get off as ...

That's Cool That's Trash: A History of the First Punk Era, Part 2

Retrospective by Robot A. Hull, Creem, July 1979

THE STANDELLS story convolutes through a media maze. Russ Tamblyn's brother, Larry Tamblyn, had already recorded on an East L.A. Mex-punk label when he founded ...

The Troggs

Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1982

Reg Presley's rustics reaped a chart harvest ...

The Legendary "Troggs Tapes"

Report and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, May 1991

Long before there was Spinal Tap, there was something else that stood for all that is inept in rock'n'roll. A fading pop group assembled in ...

The Troggs: The Missing Links

Retrospective and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, July 2011

"YEEEEOW," THE GUITAR howled and groaned, the band went dumdum, dumdum, and "Wild thing!" Reg Presley breathed and sighed… and across the table in this ...

Reg Presley, 1941-2013

Obituary by Dave Laing, The Guardian, 5 February 2013

THE TROGGS WERE not among the most technically proficient of British pop groups of the 1960s, but they generated great affection among audiences and disc ...

Reg Presley, 1941-2013

Obituary by Alan Clayson, The Guardian, 6 February 2013

REG PRESLEY was the singer and principal songwriter of the Troggs, the group that put the Hampshire town of Andover on the pop map with ...

How 'Wild Thing' Became the Ultimate Rock Anthem

Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, 2017

'WILD THING', as performed by the Troggs, is a perfect distillation of rock 'n' roll's primitive impulses, and became so central to the basic cultural ...

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