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A recently restored 1982 performance was released as a new music video in 2025 to accompany the expanded edition of their album Long After Dark .

Ranked #257 on Rolling Stone’s "500 Greatest Songs of All Time," it is cited as a foundational influence on hard rock, garage rock, and proto-punk. Legendary Interpretations Wild Thing

The song's simplicity made it a perfect canvas for other artists to project their own "wild" energy: A recently restored 1982 performance was released as

It reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 30, 1966. In 1989, the song was reinvented as a massive rap hit

In 1989, the song was reinvented as a massive rap hit. Produced by Matt Dike and Michael Ross, it sampled Van Halen's "Jamie's Cryin'" and became the first rap single to go platinum.

Due to a distribution dispute, it remains the only single to ever reach #1 simultaneously for two different companies ( Atco and Fontana ).

The Wild Ones released the first version in November 1965, but it failed to gain traction. It wasn't until a year later that an English band from Hampshire would turn those three chords into history.