The Legends Of Music on Instagram: "Alice Cooper performing “I’m Eighteen” Live on the Beat Club in 1972 “I’m Eighteen” was written about the feelings of a frustrated teenager. In America at that point in time, the age of eighteen meant that you could be drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, but you had to be 21 to drink alcohol or vote. The group’s drummer, Neal Smith said this in an interview: “It was a song about growing up in the ‘60s, with lines in it like you could go to war but you couldn’