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School's Out, the title track from Alice Cooper's 1972 album, was the band’s biggest hit after it aimed to capture a “slow fuse burning” sensation.
Apr 30, 2020 · The Alice Cooper band knew what it wanted to achieve when it set out to write “School’s Out.” They aimed to create a piece almost dripping with tension and anticipation, and finishing in an explosive release of raw animal energy.
"School's Out" was Alice Cooper's biggest international hit and it has been regarded as their signature song and reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100, number three in the Canadian RPM 100 Singles chart, number two on the Irish Singles Chart and number one on the UK Singles Chart.
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Jun 27, 2023 · More than a decade into his career, Cooper scored his first mainstream hit with “School’s Out” when it reached No. 7 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100.
- Cillea Houghton
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Jun 19, 2022 · Released in the wake of its hit title track, Alice Cooper ’s fifth album, School’s Out, took the legendary Detroit shock-rocker and his band to a whole new level of fame.
- Alan York
Jul 11, 2022 · This is the story of “School’s Out” — an album that mentions both Cortez and Camelback high schools in a bittersweet ballad that also references Miss Axelrod, a Cortez science teacher — as told by Cooper and his three surviving bandmates (Buxton died in 1997), manager Shep Gordon and their producer, Bob Ezrin.
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Aug 12, 2023 · If ever a rock song demonstrates the advantages of writing about what you know best, then Alice Cooper’s signature hit, School’s Out, is surely that song writ large. A transatlantic smash on first release in 1972, this ferocious anthem has barely aged a day since – and why would it?
