Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The song was recorded using leftover studio time, and it was done in record time. Troggs guitarist Chris Britton told the Sydney ...

Reg Presley, the founder and lead singer of The Troggs, the rock group best known for the performing the original version of the song "Wild Thing," has died. Presley was 71. He died of lung cancer ...

“He said, ‘Did you like it?’ And I said, ‘I think it’s the greatest! People won’t be able to stop singing it! I’m telling ya, this is great!” Voight’s assessment proved accurate a year later when the ...

The year was 1965, four years before Midnight Cowboy made Voight an A-lister. And he wasn’t listening to a record or to the radio but to the song’s 25-year-old composer, who, armed with an acoustic ...