![]() The song will be released today digitally iTunes, Spotify, Google Play and all good digital outlets.Ĭlick here to hear Ross Wilson’s Wild One (Real Wild Child): Jerry-Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Jet Harris, Status Quo, Everlife, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Glamour Camp, Marshall Crenshaw, Brian Setzer, Teenage Head, Albert Lee and Wakefield are among the artists who have payed homage to the track.”Ĭovered by such luminaries as Iggy Pop (the David Bowie produced track is still used as the theme song to ABC’s RAGE program today), Wild One has since become a rock music standard. “Wild One (Real Wild Child) is demonstrably Australia’s first genuine home grown rock’nroll composition. “As a 10-year- old boy the first rock’n roll performer I saw was Johnny O’Keefe on a bill with Buddy Holly & The Crickets and Jerry Lee Lewis at Festival Hall in 1958. Stashed in the vault for years, Ross has been waiting for the perfect time to release his rollicking version of Wild One, a song he believes to be Australia’s first genuine home grown rock'n'roll composition and the song which sparked his interest in becoming a musician. ![]() The legendary Mondo Rock and Daddy Cool frontman Ross Wilson today releases his previously unreleased version of Johnny O’Keefe’s classic Wild One (Real Wild Child), for The Melbourne Reclink Community Cup, which he will play at the beloved event on June 26 at Elsternwick Park.
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