Catholic School Girls Rule

"Catholic School Girls Rule"
Single by Red Hot Chili Peppers
from the album Freaky Styley
Released August 16, 1985
Format music video
Recorded 1985
Genre Punk rock, funk rock
Length 1:55
Label EMI/Capitol Records
Writer(s) Anthony Kiedis/Flea/Cliff Martinez
Producer George Clinton
Red Hot Chili Peppers singles chronology
"Jungle Man"
(1985)
"Catholic School Girls Rule" (music video single)
(1985)
"Hollywood (Africa)"
(1985)

"Catholic School Girls Rule" is a song from the 1985 album Freaky Styley by The Red Hot Chili Peppers. The song is inspired by a 14-year-old girl who attended a local Catholic school that singer Anthony Kiedis briefly encountered backstage at a concert before discovering her age.[1]

Although never released as a proper radio single, a music video for the song has been made and was directed by longtime friend Dick Rude[2], but was only played on the Playboy channel because of a nude scene, and because it also featured Kiedis singing from on a cross.[2] The video has only aired once on television making its only appearance on the Playboy Channel.

The song has only been played live twice since 1987 though was recently played on April 19, 2007, which was the first time the band has played it since 1991 and only the second time with John Frusciante and Chad Smith.

References

Notes

  1. ^ Kiedis, Sloman, 2004. p. 159
  2. ^ a b Kiedis, Sloman, 2004. p. 182