Troggs "Wild Thing" singer, Reg Presley, dead at 71 of lung cancer

The Troggs, originally named the Troglodytes, weren't one-hit wonders. They had three million-sellers, but their rock classic "Wild Thing" was the only one included in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and the only song they made into a hit that provided the soundtrack of an adorable Kodak commercial aired to persuade Americans to take more pictures of Rover and Fluffy.
     Reg Presley, originally named Reg Ball, left school to become a bricklayer at 15, then became the lead singer of one of the more popular garage bands of the British Invasion of 1960s rock and an inspiration to 70s punk bands.
     Presley didn't write Wild Thing, Chip Taylor did; but he did write the top ten song above, Love is All Around, which reached the Top 10 in the U.S., U.K. and Canada and was later covered by R.E.M.
     Presley died Monday after a year-long battle with lung cancer in Andover, England, where he cofounded the Troggs in 1964 and where, at age 20, he asked his future wife, Brenda, to wed him. She, and their children Jason and Karen, survive him.