Guns and roses born to be wild

I remembered studying the periodic table of elements in school, and there was a category for heavy metals.

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The term 'heavy metal' as a music genre comes from the lyrics in 'Born to Be Wild. It reflects someone who embodies effortless flow. The line "We were born, born to be wild" reinforces the idea of a carefree, adventurous lifestyle. While, the declaration "I never wanna die" captures a desire to live every moment to its fullest. The repetition of "Born to be wild" as the final set of lyrics is a constant reminder to live without constraints.

Share this post. Born To Be Wild by Steppenwolf. Copy link. Ian Hardy. Dec 21, Power ballads, big choruses and even bigger hair were the order of the day, with the highly marketable Bon Jovi leading the pack. But even they became neutralised by the commercialisation of the rock industry. During the Nineties, the emergence of grunge would wipe away the narcissistic, sexist and pompous music form American rock had grown into.

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But, as Tom Petty surmises, it was ultimately the golden age of rap that replaced the golden age of rock, producing the big personalities the rock scene could no longer provide. Publicity contact: KA. Born To Be Wild is a three-part series telling the story of the rise and fall of the golden age of American rock from the late 60s to the early 90s.

This was a time when singers were gods, guitarists were axe men and songs were anthems, forging the soundtrack to the nation one stadium at a time. Born out of revolution, it initially scared the hell out of the establishment but ended up becoming a multi-billion dollar industry and the sound of Middle America.

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The series is set against a back-drop of three decades of seismic political and social change which American rock both reflected and ignored. The story is told by the people who were there, who lived it. This episode explores the artists that made the soundtrack to the peace and love generation. The culmination of this era was when half a million people descended on a field in the small hamlet of Woodstock.

At that moment rock music seemed a beacon of hope for those who believed in the ideals of equality and freedom. But instead of inspiring a new generation of artists to lead the revolution through political songs the festival proved to be a watershed moment for rock music's reactionary era. The marketing men lined up ready to sign and keen to turn this music from protest into profit.

Although the USA was riven by political disasters - the end of the Vietnam War, Watergate and the gasoline crisis - rock music seldom commented on them, although Alice Cooper's Nixon satire Elected was a rare exception.