music · 12 June 1941 · 83 years ago
birth Reg Presley, singer, The Troggs, (1966 US No.1 & UK No.2 single 'Wild Thing'). Wrote Love Is All Around, covered by Wet Wet Wet in 1994, which stayed at No.1 in the UK Singles Chart for fifteen weeks. In 1990 Presley began to develop an interest in the paranormal, in particular crop circles. He used the royalties Love Is All Around to fund his research into the area and outlined his findings in a book, Wild Things They Don't Tell Us, which was published in 2002. Presley died on 4th Feb 2013.
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