The Troggs – “Wild Thing”
HIT #1: July 30, 1966
STAYED AT #1: 2 weeks
Garage rock wasn’t just an American phenomenon. While teenage American knuckleheads were banging on their guitars and singing in fake English accents, English knuckleheads were banging on their guitars and singing in fake American accents. The Troggs, who formed in 1964 in the UK town of Andover, weren’t true garage rockers. They weren’t teenagers; frontman Reg Presley was 25 by the time “Wild Thing” hit. And they weren’t sloppy amateurs, either. “Wild Thing” wasn’t a regional obscurity that hit big; the Troggs were a professional band with a manager and everything. And yet “Wild Thing,” in all its simplistic hammering hormonal brilliance, is a sacred garage rock text — the sort of song that might as well be a standard the first time you hear it
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The “Tranz” clip was co-directed by Jamie Hewlett and Nicos Livesey. Watch it below.
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