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SUMMER'S GREATEST SONGS COUNTDOWN: Alice Cooper - "School's Out"
·16 min·1 clip
The episode explains how 'School's Out' proved shock rock could produce hits and became a ritual played on the last day of school for over 50 years.
As heard by us
A school-out anthem that still plays as rebellion, theater, and summer history.
The episode treats Alice Cooper's "School's Out" as more than a novelty hit. Set against summer 1972, with Watergate newly in view, Vietnam still raging, and the counterculture growing sharper and more skeptical, the song starts to read as a release valve: a little reckless, a…
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You want a rebellion anthem that still bites.
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