[1] The song was already recorded in 1985 under the name Den vilda världen (“The wild world”).
The first release of the song on record was instead the English translation “The Wild World”, albeit with different lyrics to the Swedish version,[2] which was released as the B-side of the vinyl single Peace on April 2, 1986.
It was not until May 7 that the Swedish original was finally launched, now under the new title Var e vargen (“Where's the wolf”).
After the breakup of Imperiet in 1988, Joakim Thåström during his solo career and during the period with Peace, Love & Pitbulls performed Var e vargen on several tours.
One interpretation of the text is that it refers to the return of the wolf in Scandinavia, as the grey wolf had previously gone extinct in Scandinavia in the early 20th century, but later re-established itself when Finnish and Russian wolves migrated into Sweden and Norway during the late 1970s and then got puppies in the early 1980s.