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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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Steppenwolf is like the football club that always wins more than it loses, and perennially finishes second or third in its conference–something like Purdue. Sound in the skills but hardly ever brilliant. Always in contention, but never the champ.

Steppenwolf does have a gifted quarterback in...

1971 RS: Not Rated

Monster

1969

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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