WHERE DID THE TERM HEAVY METAL COME FROM?.......................... STEPPENWOLFS CLASSIC SONG BORN TO BE WILD WAS RECORDED ON THIS DAY- JULY 13, 1968. WITH THE LINE HEAVY METAL THUNDER, THIS SONG BECAME THE FIRST POPULAR SONG TO USE THE PHRASE HEAVY METAL. THIS WAS TO BECOME A PHRASE FOR HARD ROCK. WRITER WILLIAM BURROUGHS IS CREDITED WITH COINING THE PHRASE. HE USED IT IN HIS 1961 NOVEL THE SOFT MACHINE TO DESCRIBE THE CHARACTER URANIAN WILLY AS THE HEAVY METAL KID. ACCORDING TO BURROUGHS: I FELT THAT HEAVY METAL WAS SORT OF AN ULTIMATE EXPRESSION OF ADDICTION. THAT THERES ACTUALLY SOMETHING METALLIC IN ADDICTION, THAT THE FINAL STAGE REACHED IS NOT SO MUCH VEGETABLE AS MINERAL. THE SONG GAINED TREMENDOUS POPULARITY WHEN IT WAS FEATURED IN THE 1969 JACK NICHOLSON-DENNIS HOPPER FILM EASY RIDER.
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