What is Born to Be Wild?
{{Infobox song | name = Born to Be Wild | cover = | alt = | type = single | artist = [[Steppenwolf (band)|Steppenwolf]] | album = [[Steppenwolf (Steppenwolf album)|Steppenwolf]] | B-side = Everybody's Next One | released = June 1968<ref>{{cite magazine|title= U.S. Metal's Lost Legends |magazine= [[Record Collector]] |access-date= December 30, 2019 |url= https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/us-metals-lost-legends}}</ref> | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = {{hlist|[[Hard rock]]<ref>{{cite book|first= Ian |last= Inglis |year= 2003 |title= Popular Music and Film |publisher= Wallflower Press |page= [https://archive.org/details/popularmusicfilm00iani/page/13 13] |isbn= 978-1-903364-71-0 |url= https://archive.org/details/popularmusicfilm00iani |url-access= registration |quote= Steppenwolf's 'Born To Be Wild', a gritty, hard rock song that quickly became an anthem for defiant individualism.}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title= Heavy Metal |magazine= [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date= May 10, 1986 |page= H-1 |volume= 99 |issue= 18 |issn= 0006-2510 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=8CQEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22born+to+be+wild%22&pg=PA47-IA2}}</ref>|[[proto-metal]]<ref>{{cite book|editor-first= Robert |editor-last= Dimery |year= 2011 |title= 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die |chapter= The Pusher – Steppenwolf (1968) |publisher= [[Lagardère Publishing|Octopus Publishing Group]] |isbn= 978-1-84403-717-9 |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=UH_EOUR4tmkC&pg=PT634}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first= Barney |last= Hoskyns |year= 1996 |title= Waiting for the Sun: The Story of the Los Angeles Music Scene |url= https://archive.org/details/waitingforsunsto0000hosk |publisher= Viking |page= [https://archive.org/details/waitingforsunsto0000hosk/page/n187 172] |quote= The brilliant soundtrack, including the Byrds' 'Wasn't Born to Follow', Steppenwolf's proto-metal 'Born to be Wild', and Jimi Hendrix's 'If Six Was Nine', helped to set the film in a kind of o