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"School's Out", also known as "School's Out for Summer" 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?". Cooper said: "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.'" Cooper has also said it was inspired by a line from a Bowery Boys movie. On his radio show, "Nights with Alice Cooper", he joked that the main riff of the song was inspired by a song by Miles Davis.〔Originally stated May 4, 2008; clarified as just a joke on June 3, 2008.〕 Cooper admitted that guitarist Glen Buxton, was the one who created the song's opening riff. The lyrics of "School's Out" indicate that not only is the school year ended for summer vacation, but ended forever, and that the school itself has been blown up. It incorporates the childhood rhyme, "No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks" into its lyrics. It also featured children contributing some of the vocals. "Innocence" in the lyric "...and we got no innocence" is frequently changed in concert to "intelligence" and sometimes replaced with "etiquette." "School's Out" became Alice Cooper's first major hit single, reaching #7 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 pop singles chart and propelling the album to #2 on the ''Billboard'' 200 pop albums chart. ''Billboard'' ranked it as the No. 75 song for 1972.〔Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1972〕 In Canada, the single went to #3 on the ''RPM'' Top Singles Chart〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada )〕 following the album reaching #1.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada )〕 In Britain, the song went to #1 on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in August 1972. It also marked the first time that Alice Cooper became regarded as more than just a theatrical novelty act. The single version of the song is a slightly sped-up mono mix of the album version with one major difference — the "turn-off" effect used upon the school bell and sound effects at the end of the album version is not used on the single version, allowing the school bell and effects to simply fade out. Some radio stations banned the song from their airwaves, stating that the song gave the students a negative impression of rebelliousness against childhood education. Teachers, parents, principals, counselors, and psychologists also shunned that song and demanded several radio stations to ban the song from ever being played on the air. In 2004, "School's Out" was ranked #319 on ''Rolling Stone''s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 2009 it was named the 35th best hard rock song of all time by VH1〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://music.spreadit.org/vh1-top-100-hard-rock-songs/ )〕 and the song appeared on the TV show ''American Idol'' in 2010. Later performances saw Alice Cooper incorporate parts of the first verse in "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2", a song by Pink Floyd (also about school, and produced by Bob Ezrin) into "School's Out." ==Chart performance== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「School's Out (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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