Chip Taylor, Writer of ‘Wild Thing’ and Other Classic Rock Hits, Dies at 86

2026-03-26 - 04:19

Chip Taylor in 2003. “I wasn’t sure about ‘Wild Thing’ at first,” Mr. Taylor recalled in an interview in 1999. “On the demo I told the sound engineer to turn off the lights in the studio, and I just sat on a stool and sang it like a blues guy would.”