Reg Strikes Back For', which Elton would perform at an AIDS benefit show in Los Angeles during the summer of 1988, but has yet to see official release on any format. Reg Strikes Back Reg Strikes Back, released in 1988, is the twenty-first studio album release for Elton John. It was his self-proclaimed comeback album, and his own way of fighting back against bad press. The "Reg" in "Reg Strikes Back" refers to John's birth name, Reginald Kenneth Dwight. In the US the album was certified gold in August 1988 by the RIAA. This was the last album that bassist Dee Murray (albeit
Reg Grundy Australia, "Reg Grundies", "Grundies" or "Reggies", is rhyming slang for "undies" (underpants). Reg Grundy Reginald Roy Grundy (4 August 1923 – 6 May 2016) was an Australian entrepreneur and media mogul, one of the pioneers and most successful of his generation, best known for his numerous television productions. He was the creator of game shows such as "Blankety Blanks" (based on a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman production, "Match Game") and "Wheel of Fortune" (based on the Merv Griffin production of the same name), before later diversifying into soap operas and serials including "Prisoner", "The Young Doctors", "Sons and Daughters" and "Neighbours",