Original Alice Cooper band bassist Dennis Dunaway celebrates his 72nd birthday today (December 9th). The band wanted to write something the record buying public could relate to, a calculated attempt to come up with a hit. It worked. “I’m Eighteen” peaked at number-21 on the
Billboard Hot 100. Here is
Alice Cooper bassist Dennis Dunaway on what inspired “I’m Eighteen.”
“We intentionally decided that, who’s the record buying public? A kid that’s still living at home with his parents that’s 18 years old. And so we decided we were going to write a song about being 18. And we could all relate, because we all became friends in high school. We were teenagers, we all came from the same state with the same experiences. So it made that easy.”