"The Wild and the Young" is a song by American heavy metal band Quiet Riot, released in 1986 as the lead single from their fifth studio album QR III.

At the detention zone, Quiet Riot successfully escapes through a utility hole into an underground storage area and pick out instruments with which they perform the song.

DuBrow then awakes on a tour bus to find himself surrounded by the rest of the band and together watch an announcement on TV which states: "In Washington, Congress has just passed legislation that requires record companies to reproduce song lyrics on all album jackets.

[5][6] The video ends with the tour bus driving into a hangar guarded by troops and the military commander walks up to the camera and covers it with her hand while shouting "Stop!"

"[10] In a review of the song's music video, Lydia Kolb of The Paducah Sun felt it "expresses some of the exaggerated fears some people have about censorship" and noted that DuBrow is "hardly recognizable" due to his "much longer hair".

[6] Keith L. Thomas of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution considered it to "look like a cross between a Mad Max movie and Woody Allen's hilarious sci-fi classic, Sleeper" and felt the idea behind the video "isn't that original, but Quiet Riot makes it entertaining".