Genre Heavy metal Label Metronome Music GmbH | Length 4:10 | |
B-side "Don't Go Stealing My Soul Away" Released November 1982 (1982-11) Writer(s) Peter Baltes, Udo Dirkschneider, Wolf Hoffmann, Stefan Kaufmann, Stefan Kaufmann | ||
"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.
"Restless and Wild" appears on eight Accept compilation albums: Restless The Best (1982), Best of... (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).