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Song Stories

“School's Out”

Alice Cooper | 1972

Alice Cooper wondered why the joy of the last day of class was never put to music, so the shock rockers set out to rectify this situation with "School’s Out." "Going to school is the most common factor in juvenile life," explained co-writer/guitarist Michael Bruce. "And what moment of the school year does every kid look forward to? Summer -- when school's out. And 'school's out forever' is the ultimate dream to a kid." Hopefully, you were lucky to have purchased the original copy of the School's Out LP, in which the actual vinyl disc came wrapped in a pair of panties.

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“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell | 1974

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.

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