Born To Be Wild — The unlikely backstory behind an iconic hit record

Scott Westerman
7 min readMay 24, 2019
Steppenwolf

Life is an evolutionary art. We are in a constant state of becoming and never know at the beginning how things may turn out.

Such was the case for Canadian Dennis Eugene McCrohan. He and his brother Jerry, changed their names to “Edmonton”, in honor of one of their favorite cities. They felt the brand might generate some memory traction when they…

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