Career
Presley, whose stage name was given to him in 1965 by the New Musical Express journalist and publicist Keith Altham, was born at 17 Belle Vue Road, Andover, Hampshire. He joined the building trade on leaving school and became a bricklayer. He kept up this occupation until "Wild Thing" entered the UK Singles Chart in 1966. It reached No. 2 in the U.K. but No. 1 in the U.S. and sold five million copies.
Presley wrote the hits "With a Girl Like You" and "I Can't Control Myself," but his most famous composition is "Love Is All Around". Wet Wet Wet's 1994 cover stayed at No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart for fifteen weeks. Presley used his royalties from that cover to fund his research subjects, such as alien spacecraft, lost civilisations, alchemy, and crop circles and outlined his findings in a book, Wild Things They Don't Tell Us, published in October 2002.
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