Restless and Wild (song)

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"Restless and Wild"
Restless and Wild single cover.jpg
Single by Accept
from the album Restless and Wild
B-side "Don't Go Stealing My Soul Away"
ReleasedNovember 1982 (1982-11)
Genre Heavy metal
Length4:10
Label Metronome Music
Songwriter(s) Peter Baltes, Udo Dirkschneider, Wolf Hoffmann, Stefan Kaufmann
Accept singles chronology
"Fast as a Shark"
(1982)
"Restless and Wild"
(1982)
"Balls to the Wall"
(1984)

"Restless and Wild" is a song by German heavy metal band Accept from their album Restless and Wild , released in 1982. Written and composed by Wolf Hoffmann, Peter Baltes, Herman Frank, Stefan Kaufmann, Udo Dirkschneider and Robert A. Smith-Diesel, it was also released as a single with "Don't Go Stealing My Soul Away" as the B-side. Another song from the Restless and Wild album, "Fast as a Shark", was also released as a single in 1982. "Restless and Wild" was later coupled with "Fast as a Shark" for a UK 12-inch single in 1983. [1]

Contents

"Restless and Wild" appears on eight Accept compilation albums: Restless: The Best (1982), Best of Accept (1983), Hungry Years (1985), A Compilation of the Best of Balls to the Wall/Restless and Wild (1986), The Collection (1991), Steel Glove (1995), Sharkbite – Best Of (2005) and The Accept Collection (2010).

Track listing

1982 7-inch single

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Restless and Wild"Robert A. Smith-Diesel and Accept4:12
2."Don't Go Stealing My Soul Away"Robert A. Smith-Diesel and Accept3:15

1983 12-inch single

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Restless and Wild"Robert A. Smith-Diesel and Accept4:12
2."Fast as a Shark" Hoffmann, Kaufmann, Dirkschneider, Baltes 3:49

Personnel

References

  1. Discogs' page about the 1983 single