“How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?”

—  Alice Cooper

From a Texas concert in 1973, recorded in Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQdhKUNkdUg&feature=player_embedded#at=235.

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