Old School

A snazzy boxset has just been released for Alice Cooper's 1972 single release, SCHOOL'S OUT FOR SUMMER. The original design for the SCHOOLS OUT release was by Wilkes & Braun Inc., (Craig Braun and Tom Wilkes), who designed and directed many great covers including Rolling Stones' FLOWERS and BEGGARS BANQUET and Neil Young's HARVEST.

The school desk design, though, reminds me think of our visit to Lol Creme's studio in March when he talked about the cover he and Kevin Godley designed for their THINKS: SCHOOL STINKS release as Hotlegs in 1970.

THINKS was never a huge album, but the sleeve was great: the school desk crammed with cigarette butts, broken cookies, pin-up postcards, odd socks, and a creepily occupied gas mask that preceded the SCHOOL'S OUT release by two years.


Here are some more pics of Lol Creme's very own copy:

And a couple of shots of Lol himself, being a most obliging subject for a Hypergallery video (all of which will be on the website and on our Vimeo / YouTube channels in the near future:

I wonder, does anyone out there own this LP? Would make a great little display alongside the Alice Cooper vinyl. A hypergallery outing to the record store, as so often, beckons.