Ronnie Bond was born Ronald James Bullis on 4 May, 1943 in Andover, Hampshire.
He is best known as drummer in The Troggs, a successful English rock band of the 1960s, who had a number of hits in Britain and America, including their most famous song, "Wild Thing".
The band's name comes from shortening the word troglodyte - meaning "cave dweller".
Ronnie Bond also had a hit single called "It's Written On Your Body", released on Mercury Records. It entered the UK Singles Chart on 31 May 1980.
Ronnie Bond died on 13 November, 1992.
Factoid: an in-studio tape of Reg Presley's running commentary on a recording session, filled with in-fighting and swearing (known as "The Troggs Tapes") was widely circulated in the music underground, and was included in the Archaeology box set, as well as the compilation album The Rhino Brothers Present the World's Worst Records.
The tape starts with drummer Ronnie stating: "Whether you think so or not, that is a number fucking one, and if that bastard don't go, then I'll fucking retire! I fucking do."
The in-group infighting is believed to be the inspiration for a scene in the comedy film This Is Spinal Tap where the band members are arguing. Some of this dialogue was sampled by the California punk band The Dwarves on their recording of a cover version of the Troggs song "Strange Movies".