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Deep Cuts: Easy Rider, Electra Glide in Blue, and Being Evel
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Deep Cuts: Easy Rider, Electra Glide in Blue, and Being Evel

by Pablo Kjolseth

Apr 25, 2025
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Spring is a time when the open road calls out for us to “head out on the highway, looking for adventure and whatever comes our way.” Those words, of course, are from the 1967 Steppenwolf mega-hit “Born to be Wild,” which also served as the theme song for Easy Rider, directed by Dennis Hopper and released in 1969. Hopper claimed he was trying to make the…

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