“He said, ‘Did you like it?’ And I said, ‘I think it’s the greatest! People won’t be able to stop singing it! I’m telling ya, this is great!” Voight’s assessment proved accurate a year later when the ...

It just might be the most famous rock ‘n’ roll song of all time. Its title is quick and to the point, and sums up the entire point of the genre in two simple words—Wild thing. But while this song has ...

The visceral power of the Troggs' "Wild Thing" drove the song to No. 1 a few months after its release in April 1966. Jimi Hendrix performed an incendiary version at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, but ...

On an afternoon in late 1965, Chip Taylor went to a darkened New York recording studio, sat down with his big old Kay guitar and started banging away. Out came “Wild Thing.” The song wasn’t Taylor’s ...

Tom Petty estate has debuted a brand-new music video for Petty and the Heartbreakers’ inspired 1982 live-in-the-studio cover of The Troggs’ 1966 hit “Wild Thing.” Tom and his band recorded the song at ...

The year was 1965, four years before Midnight Cowboy made Voight an A-lister. And he wasn’t listening to a record or to the radio but to the song’s 25-year-old composer, who, armed with an acoustic ...