The Troggs
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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. ...
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 ...
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" ...
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! ...
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 ...
Live Review by Keith Altham, Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 13 May 1967
POLL SHOW THRILLS ALL THE WAY ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1982
Reg Presley's rustics reaped a chart harvest ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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