Producer Bob Ezrin's hand starts to make itself felt on this track where he gets songwriting credit, along with Michael Bruce and Dennis Dunaway, and gives sesión ace guitarist, Rick Derringer, the outstanding solo on it. Alice Cooper looks to Chuck Berry, Little Richard and other '50s giants and also shows Bowie the way for his Suffragette City.

The most glam song of their discography, Under My Wheels is an unstoppable hit that made the band similar to what Slade were doing in the UK, by dusting down rock & roll, ridding it of any excess or condescension, and making it sound as fun and liberating as ever. No more holding the door for his mother's friends at church… And all this with the most perfect chorus of his entire career. They then make way for the great Vince Furnier, who would end up also being known as Alice Cooper, which tell us someting about how tired and embarrassed his family and friends must have been by his outrageous role on stage. This is soon joined by the band's other SG, lead guitarist Glen Buxton's, who employed a white SG with three humbuckers and a Bigsby B-5, (in one of his rare appearances on that album), achieving that ‘double SG sound’ of the early albums. Included on their best work, Billion Dollar Babies, the song opens with a gorgeous riff from lead songwriter Michael Bruce on his SG. It could be that School's Out is their best known song but if I had to settle on the definitive Alice Cooper song, I'd choose No More Mr. Their 'shock rock' and theatrical performances made them one of the great live attractions of the 70s but behind the makeup, straitjackets, guillotines and boa constrictors there was a bunch of great songs, and here are our 10 favourites:

Here we are going to talk about that fabulous band (composed by Furnier himself, Michael Bruce and Glen Buxton on guitars, Dennis Dunaway on bass and Neal Smith on drums), which in the early 70's became the beacon for many later bands such as Kiss, the Sex Pistols and Marilyn Manson. When we talk about Alice Cooper we should differentiate two things, on the one hand the magnificent band that was born in 1965 and broke up ten years later, and, on the other, the singer of that band, Vincent Furnier, who would end up being known as Alice Cooper himself during his successful solo career.

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