The Troggs' biggest hit was penned by a songwriter who gave them bold, raw material in "Wild Thing". They delivered on its ...

Punk would come into existence in the mid-1970s. But in the 1960s, a few proto-punk tunes predicted the future of the genre.

“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 ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

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 ...