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About This Track
“School’s Out” is a 1972 title track single released on Alice Cooper’s fifth album,School’s Out.
Cooper has said he was inspired to write the song when answering the question, “What’s the greatest three minutes of your life?”. Cooper said: “There’s two times during the year. One is Christmas morning, when you’re just getting ready to open the presents. The greed factor is right there. The next one is the last three minutes of the last day of school when you’re sitting there and it’s like a slow fuse burning. I said, ‘If we can catch that three minutes in a song, it’s going to be so big.’”
Cooper has also said it was inspired by a line from a Bowery Boys movie. On his radio show, “Nights with Alice Cooper,” he joked that the main riff of the song was inspired by a song by Miles Davis.
The lyrics of “School’s Out” indicate that not only is the school year ended for summer vacation, but ended forever, and that the school itself has been blown up. It incorporates the childhood rhyme, “No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks” into its lyrics. It also featured children contributing some of the vocals.
“School’s Out” became Alice Cooper’s first major hit single, reaching #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart and propelling the album to #2 on the Billboard 200 pop albums chart. The song reached #1 on the UK singles chart for three weeks in August 1972. It also marked the first time that Alice Cooper became regarded as more than just a theatrical novelty act.
Cooper has said he was inspired to write the song when answering the question, “What’s the greatest three minutes of your life?”. Cooper said: “There’s two times during the year. One is Christmas morning, when you’re just getting ready to open the presents. The greed factor is right there. The next one is the last three minutes of the last day of school when you’re sitting there and it’s like a slow fuse burning. I said, ‘If we can catch that three minutes in a song, it’s going to be so big.’”
Cooper has also said it was inspired by a line from a Bowery Boys movie. On his radio show, “Nights with Alice Cooper,” he joked that the main riff of the song was inspired by a song by Miles Davis.
The lyrics of “School’s Out” indicate that not only is the school year ended for summer vacation, but ended forever, and that the school itself has been blown up. It incorporates the childhood rhyme, “No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks” into its lyrics. It also featured children contributing some of the vocals.
“School’s Out” became Alice Cooper’s first major hit single, reaching #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart and propelling the album to #2 on the Billboard 200 pop albums chart. The song reached #1 on the UK singles chart for three weeks in August 1972. It also marked the first time that Alice Cooper became regarded as more than just a theatrical novelty act.
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KISSastrophe wrote:
This song was playing in my head the first time I ditched school in 8th grade lol ahhh good times...
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TheDarkSide73 wrote:
I Hate School But I Love This Song
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BMWPRETTY wrote:
Spank! All the girls and boys! Take me back! :-)
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BMWPRETTY wrote:
Nice! Well we have got not choice!
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lisabemine wrote:
Dazed and Confused!!!!!!!!!!!
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njbell2000 wrote:
Amazing song.
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oldiesfanjohn wrote:
rebellious rocker !
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LUCEROCK666 wrote:
all right i´m school´s out for xxxmas
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andymadden wrote:
oh yeah schools out for christmas (a sequal?)
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rg1157 wrote:
Awesome classic rocker!!
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rafael_freitas wrote:
TODAY SCHOOL'S OUT FOR ME!!!!
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GilQuinn wrote:
prelude to a great summer! yeah!
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jsin48r wrote:
Alice Cooper is the man. Marylin Manson is the woman. You dig?!
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Kunew wrote:
classic song. Always played at summer holidays hahaha
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whatanight wrote:
human's out......
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ADAMLEEGUZMAN wrote:
old school we used to crank up our cassett player in our cars on the last day of school.Last time i crank it up like that was back in 84 last time in school!!!!
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andymadden wrote:
He's a great DJ on planet rock too, nice guy!
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southstarmusic wrote:
makin all that noise :)
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x3Charliex3 wrote:
Nya.~ AMAZING. ♥♥ ^-^
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kiteo wrote:
It's funny that the first time I've seen last.fm bother to label a track as live, it actually isn't.
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