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 ...

When veteran music journalist Philip Norman turns his attention to a musician, the word “definitive” is not an understatement. For while many of his subjects are themselves subjects of dozens—even ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Philip Norman, who has written the ...

Chip Taylor, who was Yonkers-born James Wesley Voight and the songwriter of “Wild Thing," which was performed by the Troggs ...