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December 9, 2004

Born to Be Wild

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July 13, 1999

This Day in Rock

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Monster

Monster is the latest volume in Steppenwolf's continuing campaign for social justice, soil conservation, and sexual freedom. John Kay even appears on the album cover without his shades, man. His eyes are brown.

Steppenwolf, who gave us those really fine first albums, and one of the best car songs...

1990 RS: Not Rated

For Ladies Only

1971

Steppenwolf The Second

1968

Steppenwolf

1968

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Though tangentially identified with late-'60s West Coast psychedelia, Steppenwolf's music was uncompromising hard rock, and the term "heavy metal" was popularized in their first hit, "Born to Be Wild."

Leader John Kay, never seen without sunglasses in part due to the fact that he has been legally blind since childhood, escaped from East Germany to West Germany with his war-widowed mother in...

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