School's Out

[laughs]

One song-

Leave those singers to it.

Well, I felt, I felt embarrassed doing it, and then-

Mm

...

in the sense of the Platinum Hour we get away with playing songs that Radio X wouldn't normally play.

So it can be a bit poppier, a bit dancier, a bit more kind of, you know, glam rock, dare I, dare I say it.

Here's the top three.

Downer number three, School's Out from Alice Cooper.

And would you believe it, Dave, we have a brand new number two.

Really? Remember, we're all crazy now from Slade.

Like, you can't...

Alice Cooper, Schools Out.

Yeah.

Fit so perfectly to the point where I played it after, after watching.

What English rock icon released a single inspired by and sharing a title with the George Orwell classic 1984, and was included on his 1974 studio album Diamond Dogs? Question number five.

What hard rock legend behind the hit School's Out has suffered several onstage accidents, including nearly being hung to death on multiple occasions due to a gallows stunt gone wrong, accidentally stabbing himself in the leg with a sword, and breaking six ribs after falling offstage? Question number six.

While performing his hit song Goosebumps in 2017, what popular rapper backed into a large hole in the stage that was built for a globe prop? Two years later, he injured his right knee during a bad landing while performing at the Rolling Loud music festival in New York.

Question number seven.

It sure does.

Question number five.

The hard rock legend behind the hit School's Out that suffered several onstage accidents is Alice Cooper.

Yeah, he's got some wild stuff going on onstage.

And so I think this is sort of one of Bowen's more anthemic slices of glam.

Next, Alice Cooper with Schools Out.

By this point, Cooper was huge and the closest thing the U.S. had to a glam rock star.

A huge worldwide hit and to this day perhaps Cooper's most famous song, this is both a song about youth rebellion and an exercise in glam rock style being elevated to arena rock powerhouse.

So if you were to think about the centre, what songs come to your mind? And interestingly enough, it relates to the last one, the last comment that you made about the school children back.

But what she chose was Alice Cooper and School's Out.

For her, it kind of summed out that whole summer kind of vibe of being free.

And that's what the centre is to her.

So we listened to Alice Cooper and School's Out.

Now, Falter Ash, we're now going to hear two more interviews recorded at the Hunstown Community Centre last Tuesday.

First up, we'll hear Mary Peel.

Yeah, always talk about Alice Cooper.

So 1972, Alice Cooper topped the charts, the UK charts, with Schools Out.

Nice.

Do you know what inspired him to write the song?

[upbeat rock music]

This is so unfair for everybody who literally just started school that we're playing Schools Out for summer.

Yeah.

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