“Under My Wheels” by Alice Cooper

"Under My Wheels" was the first single off Killer, the Alice Cooper band's fourth album, out in 1971, and it's a hot rod of a song, all revving guitars and leering menace. Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway and producer Bob Ezrin wrote it. Bruce and Glen Buxton handle the guitars with Rick Derringer sitting in, Bruce and Ezrin add keyboards, Dunaway plays bass, Neal Smith drums, and Alice himself snarls up front.

It stalled at 59 on the Billboard Hot 100, but that hardly mattered. The band ran it through on The Old Grey Whistle Test and West Germany's Beat-Club, and Cooper has played it on every tour since, putting it third on his most-played list. In 1988 he cut it again as a duet with Axl Rose and Guns N' Roses for The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years soundtrack.

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