The production company Dick James Music offered them studio time in the hope of recording a hit single and revitalising their career.
He was not invited to the session that produced The Troggs Tapes and claimed the lack of his usual working methods were a key source of the arguments and tension that resulted.
[3] In 2011, Uncut ranked The Troggs Tapes at number 50 in its list of "The 50 Best Bootlegs", deeming it "an hilarious, 12-minute swearathon" and comparing it to Orson Welles' complaints in Frozen Peas (1970), and Oasis' "Wibbling Rivalry" (1995).
In the Father Ted script book, one of the episode's writers Graham Linehan notes that he initially wanted the scene to run longer, but that it was ultimately cut down to just long enough for people familiar with the out-take to get the reference.
Presley later speculated that Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's series of Derek and Clive recordings, consisting of surreal and obscene conversations not originally intended for release, may have been inspired by The Troggs Tapes.