“He said, ‘Did you like it?’ And I said, ‘I think it’s the greatest! People won’t be able to stop singing it! I’m telling ya, this is great!” Voight’s assessment proved accurate a year later when the ...

It just might be the most famous rock ‘n’ roll song of all time. Its title is quick and to the point, and sums up the entire point of the genre in two simple words—Wild thing. But while this song has ...

The year was 1965, four years before Midnight Cowboy made Voight an A-lister. And he wasn’t listening to a record or to the radio but to the song’s 25-year-old composer, who, armed with an acoustic ...