Classic Rock

The Six Best Extreme Songs That Aren’t More Than Words

TEACHER’S PET

(Extreme, 1989)

An impressively shameless riff on Van Halen’s cheeky paean to adolescent lust, served notice that in Nuno Bettencourt Eddie Van Halen had a young pretender worth paying attention to. All together now: ‘Schoolboy

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