Alice Cooper: School's Out
Ben Edmonds, Creem, October 1972
AS WE ALL KNOW, summer never lasts forever, and Alice was faced with the problem of rushing out a follow-up album before the leaves began to fall. The results, while as exciting in places as Killer, show a bit of strain.
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