I'm Eighteen

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Written by: Michael Bruce, Glen Buxton, Cooper, Dennis Dunway, Neal Smith
Produced by: Bob Erzin, Jack Richardson
Released: Feb. '71 on Warner Bros.
Charts: 13 weeks
Top spot: No. 21

Before "I'm Eighteen," Cooper was just another hairy rock oddball. But this proto-punk smash defined the age when, in Cooper's words, you're "old enough to be drafted but not old enough to vote." Years later, Johnny Rotten sang this at his audition for the Sex Pistols; by then, Cooper was a guest on The Muppet Show.

Appears on: Love It to Death (Warner Bros.)

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