Reg Presley, his real name was Reginald Maurice Ball was born on June 12, 1941, at 17 Belle Vue Road, Andover, Hampshire.
Reg Presley was an English singer and songwriter. He was best known as the lead singer in 1960 prominent rock and roll band The Troggs, whose best known hit was "Wild Thing", although their only UK number one single was the track "With a girl like you."
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His most famous composition is "Love Is All Around". Wet Wet Wet 's 1994 cover remained at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart for fifteen weeks. Presley used his rights from the cover to fund his research into the crop circles and presents its findings in a book, monsters They do not tell us, published in October 2002.
Reg Presley appears as a character in Steve Erickson novel 's These Dreams of You (2012).
In December 2011 Presley was hospitalized in Winchester, Hampshire, with what was suspected to be a stroke. He was also suffering from pneumonia and fluid around the heart. Presley had suffered a major stroke about a year before. His wife said he first began to feel bad while performing in Germany on 3 December 2011, and had got progressively worse. "Doctors think he has had another stroke. He's not very well and I have no idea how long he'll be in hospital", she said. The following month, Presley announced he had been diagnosed with lung cancer and therefore decided to retire from the music industry. Just over a year later, on 4 February 2013, Presley died from this cancer and, according to his friend the music publicist Keith Altham, "a succession of recent strokes".
