Gimme (Alice Cooper song)

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"Gimme"
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Single Cover
Single by Alice Cooper
from the album Brutal Planet
B-side "Brutal Planet"
ReleasedAugust 2000
Recorded2000
Length4:46 (album version) 3:51 (radio edit)
Label Spitfire Records
Songwriter(s) Alice Cooper, Bob Marlette
Producer(s) Bob Marlette
Alice Cooper singles chronology
"School's Out (Live)"
(1997)
"Gimme"
(2000)
"Keepin' Halloween Alive"
(2009)

"Gimme" is a single by rock singer Alice Cooper, released in 2000.

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The song appeared on Cooper's album Brutal Planet , and was its first and only single. Its highest chart position was 103 in the UK. The song was written by Cooper and Bob Marlette.

The song is about a deal with the Devil, sung from the point of view of Satan. This is a recurring theme for Cooper, and a motif he uses in songs like "I'm The Coolest" from 1976's Alice Cooper Goes to Hell and "I Just Wanna Be God" on Dragontown , the follow-up album to Brutal Planet. The lyrics also make a reference to "Nothing's Free" from The Last Temptation, another song with the same theme.

Music video

A music video was produced to promote the single.

Album appearances

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2000)Peak
position
UK Singles Chart [1] 103

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