A visit to my music vault would not be complete without some ALICE....parents hated him, we loved him! Take away the make-up and the snakes and other theatrical antics, unlike some artists, you still end up with a talented musician with meaningful songs/lyrics!
"School's Out" is a 1972 title track single released on Alice Cooper's fifth album. Cooper has said he was inspired to write the song when answering the question "What's the greatest three minutes of your life?"...His reply was " 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.'"
Apparently he was correct! The song became his first major hit single, reaching #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and in Canada, the single went to #3 on the RPM Top Singles Chart following the album reaching #1. (Source: Wikipedia)
Four decades later, the song is still a bit of a 'student's anthem' at year end and it still receives considerable air play-as it should! WHO doesn't recognize this song's instantly recognizable guitar riff and who can't sing the chorus at least?
Here goes....
"Well we got no choice
All the girls and boys
Makin all that noise
'Cause they found new toys
Well we can't salute ya
Can't find a flag
If that don't suit ya
That's a drag
School's out for summer
School's out forever
School's been blown to pieces....
Well we got no class
And we got no principles
And we got no innocence
We can't even think of a word that rhymes..."(Source:azlyrics.com)