Alice Cooper’s 3rd studio album was released on 9 March 1971.
After 2 poorly selling albums, the band has 1 more left in their contract and the label brings in inexperienced 21-year-old producer Bob Ezrin (who had a mostly classical and folk background), who works with the band on long hours of rehearsal to tighten and solidify their sound. Ezrin took a loose, 8-minute jam and turned it into the a 3-minute single, “I’m Eighteen,” which was released in November 1970, which peaked at #21 in the US (and spent 8 weeks on the charts) and gave the band the go-ahead to record Love it to Death.
The album peaked at #35 in the US, and while the band had been influenced by the MC5 and the Stooges, the Alice Cooper band (Michael Bruce, Glen Buxton, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith) would go on to influence a host of other bands, including the Germs, the Ramones, and the Sex Pistols.
