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Clones (We're All)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Clones
| cover = Alice-cooper-clones.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Single cover
| type = single
| artist = Alice Cooper
| album = Flush the Fashion
| B-side = Model Citizen
| released = April 1980 (US)
| recorded = January 1980
| studio = Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles
| venue =
| genre = {{hlist|New wave|synth-rock}}
| length =
| label = Warner Bros. Records
| writer = David Carron
| producer = Roy Thomas Baker
| prev_title = From the Inside
| prev_year = 1979
| next_title = Talk Talk
| next_year = 1980
}}
"'Clones (We're All)'" is a 1980 single by American singer Alice Cooper taken from his 1980 album 'Flush the Fashion'.
Background
The song is about forced conformity. Cooper reports that he wanted to do the song because he was looking for a new sound.'Prime Cuts: The Alice Cooper Story' (2001) The song was written by David Carron (194985), who had created the group 'Shenandoah', which went on to play with Arlo Guthrie, and the short-lived 'Gulliver.'
Chart performance
It peaked at No. 40 in the U.S. 'Billboard' charts, his first top 40 single in two years. As well as charting on the US dance charts.
Appearances on albums
*'Flush the Fashion'
*'A Fistful of Alice'
*'The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper'
*'Mascara and Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper'
*'School's Out and Other Hits'
Covers
The song has been covered by many artists, including:
*The Smashing Pumpkins and first released on the Bullet with Butterfly Wings maxi-CD in 1996.
*The Epoxies
*Penal Colony
*Mose Giganticus
*Bile, and The Wildbunch
References
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