The Troggs: Soft-hearted Reg Presley
Keith Altham, NME, 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 he feels involves cruelty to either animals or children ("I can't stand bullfighting or fox-hunting"), and gets physically sick when he reads of the tragedy of the children of Aberfan.
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