The Library of Congress > LCCN Permalink

View this record in:  MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)External Link

Presley, Reg

LC control no.nb2002056604
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingPresley, Reg
    Browse this term in  LC Authorities  or the  LC Catalog
Variant(s)Ball, Reginald Maurice
See alsoCorporate body: Troggs (Musical group)
    Browse this term in  LC Authorities
Birth date19410612
Death date20120204
Place of birthAndover (England)
Place of deathAndover (England)
Field of activityRock music
Profession or occupationSinger Rock musician
Found inWild things they don't want us to know, 2002: t.p. (Reg Presley)
Telegraph WWW site, Feb. 5, 2013 (Reg Presley; b. Reginald Maurice Ball, June 12, 1941, Andover, Hampshire; his pseudonym was given to him in 1965 by the celebrated publicist Keith Altham; d. Feb. 4, 2012; lead singer with The Troggs, the pop group which notched up seven huge hits in the mid-1960s including Wild thing; in later years, he became an idiosyncratic philosopher and student of intergalactic travel)
Associated languageeng