Reg Presley R.I.P

[Perry Milkins]

Hopefully love is all around him now.

The Troggs singer Reg Presley dies aged 71 - Telegraph

 

[Box of Frogs]

I liked his brother Elvis better.

 

[Mo Gosfield]

Lead singer of the Troggs and that naughty man who started all the crop circles and wound up a lot of people...
Good on yer Reg.....RIP.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

If I knew any Troggs songs I'd do a gag based around a song title/lyric. Unfortunately I don't know any.
RIP

 

[Mo Gosfield]

If I knew any Troggs songs I'd do a gag based around a song title/lyric. Unfortunately I don't know any.
RIP

' Wild Thing ' was their biggest hit....got to no.1 ( I think )

 

[wallyback]

I liked his brother Elvis better.

Sid Presley was the the best Presley...

 

[Razzoo]

RIP Reg. As The Phantom Band put it "I hope somebody sprinkles "Fuckin' fairy dust" on his grave.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

' Wild Thing ' was their biggest hit....got to no.1 ( I think )

I am just about to be a sad old git..... but Wild thing got to no.2. they reached no 1 with their 2nd single - With a Girl like You - and no 2 again with their 3rd - I can't control myself.

he also wrote Love is All Around, which the troggs took to no 5, but which spent about 4 years at no 1 with Wet, Wet, Wet.

(All Courtesy of the Collins complete UK Hit Singles 1952-2005.... I am sad like that.)

 

[Mo Gosfield]

I am just about to be a sad old git..... but Wild thing got to no.2. they reached no 1 with their 2nd single - With a Girl like You - and no 2 again with their 3rd - I can't control myself.

he also wrote Love is All Around, which the troggs took to no 5, but which spent about 4 years at no 1 with Wet, Wet, Wet.

(All Courtesy of the Collins complete UK Hit Singles 1952-2005.... I am sad like that.)

I stand corrected....never worry about being a sad old git. I am a fully paid up member of that club and proud of it. Perhaps Bozza will allow us to start an ' SAG ' section within NSC where we can bore each other senseless with trivia from a bygone age...an age before mobile phones..black and white tv....when BHA footballers could be seen at the County Ground in the close season, drinking beer, eating pork pies and piling on the weight. When you could always see an attractive woman, with good legs, in a pencil skirt and it was the young blokes who got blotto on a night out.......stop!!!!!
...enough.....I'm having one of those ' SAG ' moments again.......Bozza....help!!!!!!!

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I stand corrected....never worry about being a sad old git. I am a fully paid up member of that club and proud of it. Perhaps Bozza will allow us to start an ' SAG ' section within NSC where we can bore each other senseless with trivia from a bygone age...an age before mobile phones..black and white tv....when BHA footballers could be seen at the County Ground in the close season, drinking beer, eating pork pies and piling on the weight. When you could always see an attractive woman, with good legs, in a pencil skirt and it was the young blokes who got blotto on a night out.......stop!!!!!
...enough.....I'm having one of those ' SAG ' moments again.......Bozza....help!!!!!!!

I will drink to all that...... and reg presley.

 

[Buzzer]

One of my favourite rock n roll quotes was from Reg P. His advice on making a hit record was about the best I've ever heard: "You've got to sprinkle a bit of f**king fairy dust over the bastard".

Bonus points if you can name the song and/or singer that sampled that line.

 

[Buzzer]

No takers? It was Shake Your Money by Black Grape.

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[Driver8]

I met Reg a few years ago after a Troggs gig and he was a smashing bloke (sounded a bit like Ian Holloway though!)