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Troggs Triumph..Overnight success is claimed by almost every to top group, but in the caase of the Troggs it really is true. The four boys from Andover were cuitely going about their respective jobs as carpenter, bricklayer, electrical enginer, and camera technician on that red-letter day when their record Wild Thing was released. And wild went the pop experts within three weeks the reocrd hit the top of the Top Twenty of one musical chart and No 2 in the others. Success followed in America, Germany and Sweden. A followup had to be found, always a worrying problem, but not to the Troggs whose lead singer Rag Preseley wrote With A Girl Like You'- another hit, just like that. All four Troggs continue to live in Andover, Hents where their popularity as local boys having made good is, ofcourse, enormous. Our pictures were taken in London when they came up to record their next singel and already called a monster it by those in the know. It's title I can't Control Myself and it was written once again by Ref. Preseley, 24-year-old ex-bricklayor. Photo shows Going up? Right to the top of the hit parade, that's where the Troggs are heading for

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