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The Troggs were a successful English rock band of the 1960s, who had a number of hits in Britain and America, including their most famous song, "Wild Thing". The Troggs were from the town of Andover in southern England. The band's name comes from shortening the word troglodyte - meaning "cave dweller".
Band members Biography The Troggs were signed by the manager of The Kinks in 1966 and recorded on Larry Page's Page One Records. Their most famous hit was the single "Wild Thing" (written by Chip Taylor), which reached They also had a number of other hits, including "With a Girl Like You" (a UK The Troggs still exist and still play gigs. Their original drummer Ronnie Bond died in 1992. Legacy and influence The Troggs are widely seen as a highly influential band whose sound was one inspiration for garage rock and punk rock. The Jimi Hendrix Experience famously covered "Wild Thing" during their appearance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, introducing it as the British "national anthem", and climaxing with Hendrix burning his guitar. In 1990, the first hit for the band Spiritualized was a cover of "Anyway That You Want Me." This cover was later used in the movie Me and You and Everyone We Know. In 1994, "Love is All Around" was covered by Scottish band Wet Wet Wet, whose version of the song spent 15 weeks at number one in the UK. An in-studio tape of Reg Presley's running commentary on a recording session, filled with in-fighting and swearing (known as "The Troggs Tapes") was widely circulated in the music underground, and is believed to be the inspiration for some of the dialog in the comedy film "This Is Spinal Tap." (Some of this dialogue was sampled by the California punk band The Dwarves on their recording of a cover version of a Troggs song, "Strange Movies".) "Love is All Around" was also covered from the film Love Actually and released late in 2003 performed by actor Bill Nighy and the band Radiohead. | ||||||||
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