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Striktly For Konnoisseurs
(Kerrang!, 1981-11-00)
Lookit those clothes! Gold lame pants, yum-yum! Pervets. Before Alice Cooper took up celebrity golf and dried out, before he cut 'Love It To Death' even, Frank Zappa let him make a couple of albums just so Alice would quit annoying him. And this is the better one kids. Produced by Neil Young's pal David Briggs(!), it bangs it's way around from minute to minute without a hint of direction, but is plenty revealing all the same....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1982-02-00)
Alice Cooper, one of the leaders in glam rock will play two dates in Britain in February. They are Birmingham Odeon, February 12 and Hammersmith Odeon, 14. It is expected that more dates will be added but no further details are available at the moment. Tickets for the shows are £5, £4.50 and £4.00. Alice, who hasn't toured Britain since the mid-seventies, is expected to appear with the full works of make-up, costumes and, of course, the snake. He has had to apply to the Home Office for a permit to bring the creature over....
Feature
(Kerrang!, 1982-03-00)
Cosmetic pioneer Alice Cooper may be re-recording his '72 hit 'School's Out' with the equally mascara'd Adam Ant. Cooper, on the brink of his first British tour for six years, also has a video-cassette on the way and while Adam won't appear the much publicised snake might. ...
Welcome To The Nightmare
(Kerrang!, 1982-03-10)
Rock fashion being the cyclic thing it is, it was perhaps inevitable that there should be a resurgence of interest in Alice Cooper. Adam Ant claims him as hero and inspiration, while the concept of 'putting on a show' as opposed to simply playing gigs has never been more fashionable. Ol' Snake Eyes could scarcely have chosen a better time to reconquer Europe, and on the strength of this show and the fact that his planned UK dates are almost sold-out, I'd say that is precisely what he is going to do....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1982-04-08)
Alice Cooper addicts may well be interested to lean that a video of his 'Welcome To My Nightmare' show is now available in Britain. The footage comes from 1976 Wembley dates and basically the 84 minute film comprises an entire show from start to finish. Most of the 'Nightmare' songs are featured, as well as other classics like 'Eighteen', 'No More Mr Nice Guy' and 'School's Out'. One of the highlights is the lengthy guitar battle between Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner. The overall quality is pretty good as far as video concerts go and it's worth noting that this is not the same as the 'Strange Case Of Alice Cooper' video film which has been available over here for some time. Mind you, a copy of 'Welcome To My Nightmare' will set you back £39.95 but those interested should contact PMA Video, 18 Warren Court, 291 Euston Road, London NW1 3AA...
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1982-09-09)
Talking of weeping, Alice Cooper's wrenching new album, due around the same time (next month), is titled 'Zipper Catches Skin'. Kerrang has always approved of honesty in rock....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1982-09-23)
Yet another rock'n'roller to contribute music for a movie is Alice Cooper who has written and recorded a brand new tune titled 'I Am The Furture' for the film 'Class Of 1984'....
Zipper Catches Skin
(Kerrang!, 1982-11-04)
"Ouch," Alice seems to whimper from the back cover; "ouch," thought I listening to this. Alice is not a healthy man as the last couple of albums have shown and this doesn't do much to convince me he's getting any better. Believe me, Alice, it pains me to write this, I really wanted to love this album to death. You remember in 'Sunset Boulevard' how Gloria Swanson shut herself off from the world to watch old movies and answer the fan mail sent by her manservant? Well, in the ivory tower Alice has constructed over Beverly Hills he has a huge video screen that spews out movies all day long. I counted at least six film titles that were either directly named or infered on 'Zipper Catches Skin' and even then I probably missed some....
I Am The Future
(Kerrang!, 1983-04-07)
From the reportably appalling 'Class Of '84' film which by all accounts is 'Happy Days' meets 'The Warriors', we have an equally limp soundtrack from the one time master of menace - re-mixed especially for the occasion. As much as I would really like to like this (being a total fan of the man) it's nothing more than a cliched cop out, aiming for the charts and MOR fans. This was not made for Alice Cooper fans....
Rock USA
(Kerrang!, 1983-10-06)
Alice Cooper's coming out of seclusion (ie a million dollar mansion in exclusive Scottsdale) to put out a new album. 'Dada' is due late September....
Dada Album Review
(Kerrang!, 1983-12-15)
"Come now, lay down on the couch and watch the swinging locket. You're eyes are getting heavy. You are sleeping deeply. Now, what's the trouble?" "I've got this daughter, I mean son, sorry, called Alice Cooper, doc..." "Oh dear, now I begin to understand the problem." Imagine it - being 'Da Da' (or 'Ma Ma') to this guy. Alice's parents must spend a fortune on analysts bills - almost as much as him! This record, his umpteenth at last count, has Alice continuing through his third vinyl decade as gracefully, yet tastelessly, as his terminally twisted mind will allow. He may have long since lost the ability (or probably the desire) to write punchy rock anthems but he can still come up with mature and quirky AOR (never bland like it's sickly FM relative).
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News Report
(Kerrang!, 1984-02-09)
The man who wrote the classic 'School's Out', ex-Alice Cooper Band member Michael Bruce, has just finished 'Rock Rolls On', his first solo album. Dino Dinelli and Gene Cornish, ex-Rascals, helped out....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1984-03-22)
Alice Cooper has parted company with his longstanding record label, Warner Brothers. According to a spokesman for Cooper: 'He has fulfilled his contractual obligations to the company and is now negotiating a new deal which should be announced within the next few weeks."...
Wake Up Screaming
(Kerrang!, 1984-05-31)
Just think. If there'd never been an Alice Cooper, Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue would probably be wearing clumpy shoes now instead of those fetching stilettos, Dee Snider'd doubtless look like a lorry driver and Ozzy's dove might be safely hatching eggs in a little LA nest somewhere. Alice Cooper may not have invented outrage and perversion and nasty ghoulish kinkiness, but he did more than anyone to bring it out of the whip closet and put it up onstage before millions of drooling headbangers....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1985-02-07)
It seems that Dee Snider of Twisted Sister recently had the chance of a lifetime when he met Alice Cooper. Apparently, Cooper read an interview with Snider published in the 'Los Angeles Times>', wherein the long-haired blond singer confessed that Alice had been his inspiration and brightened up an otherwise dreary adolescence. The two rock legends spent the whole night talking away, and there are rumours that the result of this pow-wow may be a joint vinyl effort sometime this year....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1985-05-03)
What's long and thin and slimy and sends you screaming from the room? Alice Cooper's snake naturellement, which as we speak is being coaxed out of retirement in it's Beverley Hills home (Alice left it there while he and the missus scarpered off to Arizona) to go back out on the road....
Alice In Twisted Land
(Kerrang!, 1985-10-31)
Pictured above at the Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles are Twisted Sister lead vocalist Dee Snider and none other than Alice Cooper. TS were recently in LA putting the final touches to their latest album, due for release through the Atlantic label within the next month. Producer Dieter Dierks has been at the helm, beginning his chore at the Hit Factory in New York before moving lock, stock and mix-down equipment over to the West Coast....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1985-12-12)
Alice Cooper will be recording with producer Beau Hill in New York during January, testing out material for his latest studio album. If all goes according to plan these sessions will be used as the basis for his next LP. As yet untitled, the album is likely to be issued through MCA during the Summer....
Back Alice
(Kerrang!, 1986-08-21)
Alice Cooper's back! Having sorted out a fresh deal with MCA Records, the King Of The Night Time World returns to the scene with a new single/album and an upcoming tour. The single, 'He's Back - The Man Behind The Mask' (the theme song from the movie 'Friday The 13th Part VI'), is set to be released towards the end of August in the US, with the album, titled 'Constrictor', lined up to follow the following month - and what's the betting that the sleeve will feature a snake in some shape, size or form?!...
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1986-10-02)
Alice Cooper who will issue a new album ('Constrictor') on the MCA label shortly, is expected to play 10 shows in the UK at the end of the year. This is probably going to include a date at Wembley Arena on November 23. Watch out for confirmation shortly....
Crawl To Be Kind
(Kerrang!, 1986-10-16)
He's back! Alice Cooper welcomes the world to the Nightmare of 'Constrictor'. Dave Dickson watches as AC flexes his new muscle of love... All together now!! 'He's back...He's the man behind the mask....And he's out of control!!!!'...
Alice In Splatterland
(Kerrang!, 1986-11-13)
After three years away from the scene, three years spent nurturing psychotic urges with regular daily doses of hack 'n' slash movies, the gorier the better, Alice Cooper returns to the UK with a carefully planned OTT stageshow harking back in places of his classic 'Welcome To My Nightmare' era. ...
Teenage Frankenstein
(Kerrang!, 1987-04-02)
I've a feeling this is also on the 'Friday The 13th Pt. 786' soundtrack along with Alice's last single, 'He's Back...'. This one, though, is devoid of all trace of a synthesiser and just kicks serious thingy. Buy. The B-side, I'm told, has a bunch of old Alice hits!...
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1987-04-30)
Thunderbolt records have just put out 'Ladies Man', a live album from Alice Cooper recorded at the Toronto Rock And Roll festival. This mid-priced LP has been repackaged for the UK market and includes two bonus tracks not available elsewhere. ...
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1987-07-09)
Alice Cooper has just completed work on his latest album with producer Michael Wagener. As yet untitled, it should be out on the MCA label to coincide with his headlining appearance at the Reading Festival on August 30....
Kulture - Vids
(Kerrang!, 1987-08-06)
For real laughs and delightfully disgusting entertainment, check out the noo Alice Cooper vid - 'The Nightmare Returns' (Hendring) - which captures all the bowel-opening excitment of his Halloween '86 show in his hometown of Detroit. Yup, the man who makes Ozzy Frogspawn seem like Keith Chegwin is on peak (puke?) form as he lurches through all his classic kuts, lancing baby dolls with swords, singing with a live snake around his neck, impaling a cameraman on a mike stand, fighting with a quickly constructed robot during 'Teenage Frankenstein' and being 'beheaded' by a blood-splattered guillotine at the end (three brilliant illusions!), before returning for 'School's Out', 'Elected' and 'Suffragette City'....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1987-08-20)
Alice Cooper, the man who put the gore into 'gore-blimy-what-a-brilliant-meisterwork-just-sitting-here-waiting-to-rip-it-off', has just completed a new album. Anthemically-titled 'Raise Your Fist And Yell', it's due out (in the states at least) through MCA in the first week of October and produced by Michael Wagener (who helped out Beau Hill on 'Constrictor'). "Michael, I think, really does great with that kind of sound", says Alice. "The thing that makes it different from a metal album is we used all the elements I like from metal, but lyrically and melodically, it's a whole different thing. I'm really happy with it! I think it makes 'Constrictor' sound tired! It's much heavier and much more guitar-orientated."...
Reading '87
(Kerrang!, 1987-09-17)
Alice Cooper was the reason why a whole lot of people braved three days camping in a field, not washing or eating (probably) and being sick (certainly). Alice Cooper has always had a hold on people and in '87, with no new album or stage show to offer, he's still got it in him to headline Reading. I guess that being brutally frank there was no way I wouldn't have been disapointed. After all, I'd seen exactly the same show not that many months back and as such knew all the thrills and spills in advance. That Alice was as entertaining as he proved to be in spite of that is a big feather in his cap to my mind....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1987-10-10)
Alice Cooper will issue his latest studio album, 'Raise Your Fist And Yell', through MCA on October 19. Produced by Michael Wagener, it has the following track listing: Side One: 'Freedom', 'Lock Me Up', 'Give The Radio Back', 'Step On You' and Not that Kind Of Love'. Side Two: 'Prince Of Darkness', 'Time To Kill', 'Chop Chop Chop', 'Gale' and 'Roses On White Lace'....
Raise Your Fist and Yell Album Review
(Kerrang!, 1987-10-17)
'We the people of the United States ... Stop pretending that you've never been bad. You are the rulers with the iron hand!' Alice launches hot foot into a powerful assault that attempts to prick the nation's conscience. He demands 'freedom to rock and freedom to talk.' but Americans have done nothing but talk and rock for years on end. They invented the chat show, Elvis Presley and the Washington Post after all. But doubtless Alice sees deep dangers in the current anti-rock stance being taken by some concerned US citizens. Nothing to get up about, as John Lennon might say. Rock, and indeed all art, thrives on oppression. More freedom usually means less quality, but that's one of life's ironies....
Shriek Of The Mutilated
(Kerrang!, 1987-10-24)
ALICE COOPER leads DAVE DICKSON through the spooking glass and talks about his latest album 'Raise Your Fist And Yell', his sordid past and his gore-drenched future. Picture this: Me, my friend Kay, Andy Layson (then marketing man at MCA), Kane Roberts (Alice Cooper guitarist) and Alice himself. We're lounging around Alice's suite at the Birmingham Holiday Inn. It's about midnight and I've just finished an interview with Kane, and a little while ago we all trooped down the corridor to join Alice in his suite, the inner sanctum. Before me sits a pot of tea and some empty cans of Diet Coke. The TV is showing 'The New Avengers' and Alice has just passed some admiring comment about Joanna Lumley (Purdey)....
Blood Orange
(Kerrang!, 1987-11-28)
Exactly one year after Alice Cooper made the comeback of the '80s on his 'Constrictor' tour, he returned to San Bernardino to give us a chance to raise our fists and yell before going on to once again conquer the rest of the world. With two strikes already against him - the first being that virtually no-one was aware of the new album, 'Raise Your Fist And Yell', and second being that he was playing to an audience whose local radio station considers Bruce Springsteen and Madonna to be hard rock - 'The Coop' definitely had his work cut out, and there was one other minor problem to be dealt with: Faster Pussycat. The opening act, were definitely no favourites with the locals, having been pelted with beer bottles and booed off stage during their last appearance in nearby Corona....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1988-02-13)
Alice Cooper returns to a nightmare near you with his 'Live ....In The Flesh' tour in April. He plays Edinburgh Playhouse April 1, Sheffield City Hall 4 , Birmingham NEC 5, Wembley Arena 7, Manchester Apollo 10-11. Expect all of Alice's usual theatrics, and see you in hell, losers......
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1988-03-05)
Alice Cooper has added extra dates to his spring UK tour. He plays Edinburgh Playhouse April 2, Newcastle City Hall 9. Even more dates may be added soon. Chrome Molly will support Alice Cooper on his forthcoming tour. Readers Poll results: No. 10 Live Gig. No. 8 Retail Video (The Nightmare Returns). No. 1 Kerrang Cover...
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1988-03-12)
Alice Cooper has added another date to his spring UK tour. It's Machester Apollo on april 12....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1988-03-19)
Alice Cooper has re-recorded his old classic 'Under My Wheels' for the soundtrack of a new film 'The Decline Of Western Civilisation Part 2'. Guns'n'Roses singer Axl Rose duets with Alice, and the guitars feature Kane Roberts plus Slash and Izzy from the Roses....
Who Made Who?
(Kerrang!, 1988-04-02)
Around 17 years ago, an ordinary guy called Vincent Furnier cam up with an extraordinary idea. He decided to invent an alter ego name of Alice Cooper and tread a rockin’ trail strewn with blood ‘n’ gore across this beleaguered planet. Now, in 1988, the dividing line between the man and the character he created has become blurred. No-one is entirely sure who is who any more - Steffan Chirazi least of all, as you can read in this schizophrenic story from the (altered) States......
Concert Review
(Kerrang!, 1988-04-16)
Good Friday, April Fools Day becomes Bad Friday, April Ghouls Day, 'cos he's back - AAAAAALISS COOPERRR! Beyond legendary, beyond mere infamy, the anti-hero personified. Just seein' ol' black-eyes in the flesh again made me feel all warm inside...
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1988-06-25)
Alice Cooper's recent tour of Germany was hit by censorship and protest about the content of his stage show. Following reports in the English tabloid press about girls fainting in horror at Alice's antics, he was forced to drop sections of the show that involved spearing baby dolls on his swoord, axing a female mannequin, disembowling a pregnant woman and splattering fake blood. Alice commented: "The most important thing was to play a show, even a censored one, for fans who've waited so long for me to return to Germany. I'm sorry that they didn't get to see the entire show, but they seemed to enjoy each night just as much as if we hadn't changed a thing."...
This Week In Rock
(Kerrang!, 1988-12-17)
A New York Department store stays open late on December 14 so that Alice Cooper, wearing silver pants and a 'Paul McCartney Lives' badge, can do some private Christmas shopping. ...
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1988-12-24)
Alice Cooper, king of gore-filled rock, is currently writing songs for his next album, a follow-up to 'Raise Your Fist And Yell', due on the MCA label early next summer. Hit-maker Desmond Childs is co-writing a number of songs, and will be producing the album. Recording takes place in Woodstock, New York. ...
Trash Steet Kid
(Kerrang!, 1989-00-00)
Walking into this place during the Front's third song is tike stepping into their first MTV video: the stained glass is glowing, the band are gyrating, and there's no audience in sight. Okay, I'm exaggerating: there are people in the building, but everyone's butts are firmly packed on their comfy chairs. Vocalist Michael Franano is not happy with this state of affairs. 'Make some f**king NOISE, people!" he exclaims at regular intervals. And it's a show worth making some noise for. ...
The Greatest Heavy Metal Albums Of All Time: No.74
(Kerrang!, 1989-01-14)
Alice Cooper (vocals), Glen Buxton and Michael Bruce (guitars), Dennis Dunaway (bass), Neal Smith (drums). Maybe not every 'classic' Cooper fanatic's favorite, yet the definitive Cooper album in terms of money, acclaim and most important of all ..... er ..... Money. In a bulgin' snakeskin sleeve, the American dream in the shape of a decayin' apple pie is force-fed to the greedy. The horror is the reality, as the lyrics on the title-track splinter bone more effectively than any model guillotine. ...
Alice Cooper in 'no gore' shock
(Kerrang!, 1989-04-08)
Godfather of gore Alice Cooper is currently mixing his new album. Entitled 'Trash', with producer Desmond Childs in New York. The album will be released on the Epic label, and although no release date has been lined up yet, late May or early June looks likely. Alice has personally chosen the albums ten songs from 40 that were available. This means that only one of the three songs Bon Jovi penned for him will be used, and similarly only one of three by Kane Roberts. A spokesman for Alice's management told Mayhem: "Alice has picked the songs purely by how good they sounded. The direction is less gore, more MOR!" ...
The Week In Metal
(Kerrang!, 1989-04-15)
The number one US album is 'Billion Dollar Babies' from Alice Cooper, born Vincent Furnier, the son of a Mitchigan preacher. Alice has built his reputation to fever pitch with this record - the American tour becomes one of the biggest money-making jaunts in the history of rock, employing all aspects of the bizarre including the chopping up of dolls, electric chairs, boa constrictors and gallows. ...
The Week In Metal
(Kerrang!, 1989-06-03)
Alice Cooper, preparing for his first American concert appearances in two years (kicking off on June 19 in Anaheim, California) suffers a setback when his boa constrictor, for many years a feature of his stage act - is mortally bitten on June 5 by the live rat at was fed for breakfast. A public audition for a new performing snake is scheduled for June 13 at the ABC Entertainment Centre in Century City, California, where a panel of judges consisting of Cooper and some musician friends will chose a boa named Angel from a field of 40 slithering herpetoids. ...
The Week In Metal
(Kerrang!, 1989-06-10)
'Roadie', a rock comedy film about the trials and tribulations of a typical rock band equipment handler (a roadie), opens in theatres across America on June 13. It stars Meatloaf and features a live in concert performance from Alice Cooper. ...
The week In Metal
(Kerrang!, 1989-06-24)
Alice Cooper falls off the set of his 'Welcome To My Nightmare' tour in Vancover on June 23 and breaks six ribs, forcing the cancellation of a few subsequent dates. 1988. Alice Cooper is hit by calls for censorship regarding the content of his European stageshow. Following reports in the English gutter press about girls fainting in horror at Alice's antics, he was forced to drop sections of the German show that involved spearing baby dolls on his sword, axing and disemboweling females and splattering fake blood. Elsewhere in Europe, the full show was performed without incident and, ironically, the storm created in England leading to the ban was begun by a blind member of Parliament! ...
The Week In Metal
(Kerrang!, 1989-07-08)
Alice Cooper's fifth album 'School's Out' is certified gold. The album's title track will peak at number seven in the singles chart and solidify Cooper as one of the fathers of metal, or at least metal's image. Cooper's hard rock sound, however, is just part of the story. A stage act that includes live boa constrictors, macabre make-up, tattered costumes, a simulated decapitation, and the mutilation of dolls, will earn Cooper the title King Of Shock Rock. Within three years Cooper's show will be deemed so unrevolutionary that he will star in a prime American television special 'Alice Cooper - The Nightmare' and have a hit ballad, 'Only Women Bleed'. ...
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1989-07-15)
The legendary Alice Cooper releases a new single, 'Poison', through Epic on July 17. Co-written by Alice, John McCurry and Desmond Child, it's backed with 'Trash'. 12" and CD versions add a live version of 'The Ballad Of Dwight Fry', while a second 12" version includes 'Cold Ethyl' (live) and 'I Got A Line On You'. Alice's new Desmond Child produced album, 'Trash', is due in August. ...
Poison Single Review
(Kerrang!, 1989-07-22)
The intro belongs to something called 'Sweet Child Of Mine'. Desmond child helped write it and it shows; slowly picked guitar verses and a big, big chorus with heaps of backing vocals. I think he's singing about kissing his snake, though I could be wrong. Actually, his words save a little, but not enough, 'I want to hurt you/Just to hear you scream my name.' He's still got it, shame about the rest of the song. ...
The Week In Metal
(Kerrang!, 1989-07-29)
An Indian art store in Scottsdale, Arizona owned by shock-horror rocker Alice Cooper is hit by a fire bomb thrown through a rear window by an unknown vandel on July 27. Over $200,000 worth of native American artefacts are destroyed, as are some of Cooper's gold records, stored at the rear of the emporium. Cooper declares the biggest loss to be $75,000 worth of Hopi Indian dolls, and tries to explain the attack by saying: "Maybe it was some disco-music freak. I've been making some positive anti-disco remarks lately."...
Less Gore, More Whore
(Kerrang!, 1989-08-05)
The last time I saw Alice Cooper, back in April 1988, he was still working alongside Vincent Furnier, as opposed to with him. The two had an understanding of course - much like they've had for their entire 17-odd year career....
What Do You Think Of It So Far?
(Kerrang!, 1989-08-12)
"Rubbish!" choruses the beleaguered Kerrang! sub-editor, the memory of wading through Alice Cooper feature part one (last week) still looming large in his mind. "Trash!" exclaims Steffan Chirazi in response, slipping in the title of the new AC album along the way. "Who writes this garbage?" asks the entire big K! Readership. (And well they might, as this sleazy saga draws inexorably to a close...) In many ways, "Trash" is an extremely appropriate title for Alice Cooper's new album. Smacking of good ol' glorious Hollywood sleaze, 'Trash' - with it's blatant hit-machine formula - could be considered to be the vinyl equivalent of a highly talented whore....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1989-08-26)
Former Kiss and White Tiger guitarist Mark St. John is rumoured to be part of Alice Cooper's touring band which takes to the road in America this autumn....
Alice/Britney package line up Euro-tour
(Kerrang!, 1989-09-16)
Gore/whore merchant Alice Cooper is said to be planning a European tour for November with Philadelphia Glam quartet Britny Fox in support, although this is unconfirmed as yet. Alice has just released his 'Trash' album through Epic and the first single from it, 'Poison', has done well in both the UK and US charts. ...
Hey! Alice! It's time to take out the Trash
(Kerrang!, 1989-09-23)
America's king of gore Alice Cooper will hit the UK with a full British tour in December! The 'Alice Cooper Trashes The World' tour will run as follows: Glasgow SECC December 5, Whitley Bay Ice Rink 7, Wembley Arena 10 and 11, Birmingham NEC 14. Tickets are priced for Glasgow and Whitley Bay, Birmingham and Wembly. On the hotline from Toronto, Alice told Mayhem: "I'm real excited about this tour. It's gonna be a whole new show, more like a 'Billion Dollar Babies' type show. More bed, less red!" ...
Bed of Nails Single Review
(Kerrang!, 1989-09-30)
Oh, lots better than that last mush of pithy harmonies. This is 'Livin' On A Prayer' in overdrive. Desmond Child, have you no shame? So, anyway, in the (paraphrased) words of Big Black, it's more songs about f**king. Alice is going to, uh, drive into her or something and, apparently, he gets deeper inside than anyone else. I suppose we can be reassured that he'll never grow up, and that the flip, 'I'm Your gun', is close to superb....
The Week In Metal: 1974
(Kerrang!, 1989-10-21)
Alice Cooper comes forth in the Nashville Pro-Am golf tournament....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1989-10-28)
Alice Cooper has recruited former Lita Ford bassist Tommy Caradonna to his touring line-up. No details of the rest of the band are available as yet....
The Week In Metal
(Kerrang!, 1989-11-04)
Alice Cooper makes his TV acting debut playing Archie Bunkers neighbour in US TV's 'All In The Family' (the US version of 'Till Death Do Us Part')...
What A Load Of Rubbish!
(Kerrang!, 1989-11-18)
US goremaster Alice Cooper will precede his December UK tour with a one-off show at London's legendary Marquee club! The show is on November 23 - Thanksgiving Day in the US! There will be no advance tickets for the show. Instead, in order to buy tickets, priced Alice fans will have to come to the Marquee on the day of the show with a bag full of trash collected on the streets of London! Alice will then collect all of the trash in his customized Trash Truck, which he'll bring to the gig as part of his 'Keep Trash Off The Streets And On Your Stereo' campaign!...
House of Fire Single Review
(Kerrang!, 1989-11-25)
Ooops, after all I've said in the past I actually like this one. Damn. This posiitively thunders along, sort of, and I think it's probably something to do with sex again. I remember when he used to just kill women. Now all he wants from them is a warm face. Think about it, please. ...
Trash 'n' Carry
(Kerrang!, 1989-12-02)
Alice Cooper has been open all hours for longer than most in the rock biz. Now, with his latest album 'Trash' he's come up with a few special offers that look set to keep him clear of the bargain bins and instead make him a chart-topping best seller. But with the news that, to get into last week's Marquee show, fans would have to first clear London streets of a sackful of garbage, we feel it's time to ask the question: in the Great Supermarket Of Life, is this man completely off his trolley? Elianne Halbersberg wanders round with a shopping list....
Heavy Bevvy
(Kerrang!, 1989-12-16)
Openers Britney Fox came on at 6.30 so I unfortunately missed them, but fear not you oglers of the semi-detached wig! There'll be a full live report from elsewhere in the next ish. I can go halfway to understand the buzz around Great White at the moment. Live they're a tight unit, every last move perfectly executed. However, they lack any real raw anergy. They didn't set my nerves tinglin', or even any bells ringin' with their rockier material, which tended after a while, to sound standard, and plodded too much to make any real impression....
This Week In Metal
(Kerrang!, 1990-03-03)
Alice Cooper releases 'Billion Dollar Babies', but the UK tour is almost cancelled as guitarist Glenn Buxton is taken ill with a stomach ailment, and hospitalised....
San Antonio, Texas '90
(Kerrang!, 1990-03-31)
...when the lights go down and the opening bars of 'Hello Hurray' reach our ears, there's no doubt this crowd came to party. A huge garbage can gives birth to our Alice, and the visuals are great - he's got tight red trousers, black leather jacket, Sacred Heart T-shirt (the good religious symbol, not the bad Dio album) and, oh baby, a riding crop. Even nasty feedback and too-low vocals don't bring the fans down. They're with him all the way - grabbing paper money off a sword during 'Billion Dollar Babies', belting out 'Eighteen' during you-know-which-song, a generally treating Alice like (ye gods!) a sex symbol....
Alice Cooper starts video landslide
(Kerrang!, 1990-06-30)
Legendary bad guy Alice Cooper releases a full length concert video from his last tour, 'Alice Cooper Trashes The World', through CMV on July 9. Filmed at the Birmingham Exhibition Centre last year, it features the following tracks: 'Billion Dollar Babies', 'I'm Your Gun', 'Desperado', 'House Of Fire', 'No More Mr. Nice Buy', 'This Maniac's In Love With You', 'Steven', 'Welcome To My Nigjhtmare', 'Ballad Of Dwight Fry', 'Gutter Cats Vs. The Jets', 'Only Women Bleed', 'I Love The Dead', 'Poison', 'Muscle Of Love', 'Spark In The Dark', 'Bed Of Nails', 'School's Out', 'Under My Wheels'....
Slack Alice
(Kerrang!, 1990-07-14)
Mr nice guy is 95 minutes of leather and black eyeliner at the Birmingham International Arena....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1990-10-13)
US gormeister Alice Cooper has begun writing material for the follow up to his successful 'Trash' album. Quireboys' Spike and Guy are set to pen a tune or two with alice, folling 'I Like It', a track they wrote for inclusion on 'Trash' but that arrived too late to be recorded. The album is due next year. ...
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1990-11-24)
Alice Cooper releases a two video box set through Hendring this week. It features his 1975 Wembley performance 'Welcome To My Nightmare' and 'The Nightmare Returns', filmed in Detroit in 1976. ...
Alice Gets 'Stoopid'
(Kerrang!, 1991-05-25)
King shocker Alice Cooper returns with a new album 'Hey Stoopid' through Epic on July 1. It's been produced by Peter 'Queensryche' Collins and features 12 new songs by a variety of guest writers and an all-star cast of thousands (almost). Present on all tracks are Alice (natch), his new guitarist Stef Burns, and drummer Mickey Curry but the guest list is headed by Ozzy Osbourne, Slash, Rob Halford, and Joe Satriani who all make an appearance on opening cut 'Hey Stoopid'. Satch also turns up on 'Burning Our Beds', 'Wind Up Toy', and 'Little By Little' and the track 'Feed My Frankenstien', (co-written by Zodiac Mindwarp)....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1991-06-14)
Shock rocker Alice Cooper releases a new single 'Hey Stoopid'. Through Epic this week. The track, which features contributions from Slash, Joe Satriani, and Ozzy Osbourne, is backed with 'Wind-Up Toy'....
Stoopid Time To Release An Album
(Kerrang!, 1991-06-29)
Legendary shock rocker Alice Cooper releases his new album, 'Hey Stoopid', through Epic on July 1. It features the following tracks: Side One: 'Hey Stoopid', 'Love's A Loaded Gun', 'Snakebite', 'Burning Our Bed', 'Dangerous Tonight', 'Might As Well Be On Mars'. Side Two: 'Frankenstein', 'Hurricane Years', 'Little By Little', 'Die For You', 'Dirty Dreams', 'Wind-Up Toy'. The album also includes guest appearances from Axl Rose and Slash, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Ozzy Osbourne. ...
Operation Rock 'N' Roll
(Kerrang!, 1991-08-03)
Although Motorhead raised the stakes significantly, Alice Cooper was capable of matching them. While this tour's stageshow is mild and tame compared to past antics, the music is incredible. Packing in 18 or so songs, Vincent and friends tore through a show that was simply awesome at times. With Stef Burns and Vinnie Moore handling the guitar chores in their own distinctive styles, 'Go To Hell', 'Eighteen', 'Elected' 'No More Mr Nice Guy', 'Under My Wheels', 'Billion Dollar Babies' and 'School's Out' were punchier and edgier than ever before....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1991-08-17)
Veteran gore God Alice Cooper has lined up a comprehensive UK tour in support of his current 'Hey Stoopid' album. Alice play the following shows: Dublin Point September 28, Wembley Arena 30, and October 1, Bournemouth Center 4, Sheffield International Arena 5, Whitley Bay Ice Rink 7, Edinburgh Playhouse 8, Birmingham NEC 10 and 11. Alice releases a new single, 'Love's A Loaded Gun' through Epic on September 23. ...
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1991-09-07)
Gore king Alice Cooper has been inducted into Hollywood's Rock Walk, leaving his handprints and signature in the Hollywood Boulevard pavement alongside the likes of Eddie Van Halen, Elvis Presley and Aerosmith! In honour of the occasion, Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley proclaimed the evening of August 27 'Alice Cooper Night'....
Cooper Scooper
(Kerrang!, 1991-10-12)
It was the moment of truth for Ray Zell. After nigh on 20 years of being a billion dollar baby, he was about to step out of the lift and meet his idol, Alice Cooper. Would Alice lasso him with a live python while dangling from the chandelier guzzling a bottle of meths? Would fake blood splatter the Zell chops as Alice decapitated a chicken? ...
Love's A Loaded Gun
(Kerrang!, 1991-10-19)
More sub-Desmond Child poop from the Coop, once the planets most dangerous rockstar. Jeff: "Alice Cooper hasn't done anything of any worth since the '70s, but you respect him just for having done that stuff." Jase: "I like 'Poison'..." Jeff: "When you hear it after 'Billion Dollar Babies', it just doesn't mean a thing." Blaze: "He's still got the voice." Jeff: "That's what makes me mad. He's still funny and clever, but the material's shit!...
News Rport
(Kerrang!, 1992-05-16)
Vetran Rocker Alice Cooper releases a new single, 'Feed My Frankenstein', through Epic on June 1. The track is performed by Alice in the hit movie 'Waynes World' and is backed with 'Burning Our Bed'. `12" and CD versions add 'Poison' and 'Only My Heart Talkin' '....
Feed My Frankenstein
(Kerrang!, 1992-05-23)
Written and latter recorded by Zodiac Mindwarp, 'Frankenstein' is typical latter-day Cooper no-shock rock, as seen in the movie 'Waynes World'. John: "I have a lotta respect for Alice Cooper, but this is nothing special. He did quite a good job in 'Waynes World' I thought, as far as his acting goes." Barney: "I don't like Zodiac Mindwarp, and I don't like Alice Cooper, so this is doubly bad. Alice Cooper's so overrated. In the old days his stuff was sort of revolutionary, but now he's conforming to the usual rock bullshit." ...
Alice's Warped Mind
(Kerrang!, 1992-05-30)
Legendary metal goremeister Alice Cooper, currently enjoying huge sucess as guest star in the mega-hit movie 'Wayne's World', returns to the studio in September to begin work on a new album. Cooper is currently collaborating on material with Zodiac Mindwarp, who penned Cooper's current single 'Feed My Frankenstein', which he performs in 'Wayne's World'. "I really like the way Zodiac writes," Alice told Mayhem. "And I'm gonna be writing with loads of people for the album. I believe that you should write 50 songs before you even think about recording. I'd say I've got about four songs finished so far." ...
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1993-01-02)
Alice Cooper is working on a new album. Cooper selected the tracks for inclusion over the Summer, and the album is due out late this year....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1993-01-30)
Alice Cooper begins recording a new album at the end of this month. Writing for the album has been protracted, but a release date has been slated for July or August. The album is to have a general concept, and features what Alice's management discribe mysteriously as "an interesting collaborator". No producer has been announced as yet. ...
Encyclopaedia Kerrang!-asaurus
(Kerrang!, 1993-08-07)
Alice was biting the heads off live chickens well before Ozzy got peckish onstage. He had guillotines and hatchets, did unspeakably gory things to baby dolls long before W.A.S.P. Ripped him off, and before David Coverdale had his Whitesnake, Alice had a big boa constrictor. Alice Cooper was rock theatre. He was Vincent Damon Furnier, preacher's son, who went from fronting one of the world's worst bands to recording classics like 'School's Out' and '18'. Hhe was also at least two onion slices short of a big mac, as the brilliant 'Welcome To My Nightmare' (1975) illustrates. This gave him the Wimp Rock mega-hit 'Only Women Bleed' - Alice had Wimp Rock mega-hits before other bands too. ...
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1994-01-01)
Alice Cooper releases a new album in March. Several songs have been co-written by Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell. The album is already completed, but its release has been delayed by work on a video-game which ties in with the album! Guests on the album include Alice In Chains and Screaming Trees. ...
The Last Temptation Of Alice
(Kerrang!, 1994-03-26)
Ol' black eyes is back! Yeah, it's he who dies for a living - Alice Cooper! Set for a June release, big Al's new studio opus (his 20th!) is titled 'The Last Temptation'. And it's business as unusual for the Coop! "It's really gonna be the first real concept album I've done since 'Welcome To My Nightmare', " announces an excited Alice, referring to his classic '75 album. "And it's accompanied by a comic book. Neil Gaimen, who does the 'Sandman' comic, is doing it....
The Cooped Crusader!
(Kerrang!, 1994-05-07)
ALICE COOPER, the indestructible rocker who makes Captain Scarlet look like an insurance risk, will have - as previously revealed in Mayhem! - a graphic novel (posh for 'comic book') included with his forthcoming album 'The Last Temptation', out June 6. A Marvel Comics collaboration written by Neil Gaiman (of 'Sandman' fame), the comic comes in a series of three; the remaining two issues - in a canny sales ploy - will be available with susequent single releases. Eventually, however, the comics will be available separately. ...
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1994-05-14)
Alice Cooper lifts the first single from forthcoming LP 'The Last Temptation' on May 16. Entitled 'Lost In America', the single will be released through Epic and will be available on seven-inch, 12-inch and CD. 'Hey Stoopid' (live) will appear on all formats, with the CD and 12-inch versions adding live renditions of Coop classics 'Billion Dollar Babies' and 'No More Mr Nice Guy'. ...
Lost In America Single Review
(Kerrang!, 1994-05-21)
Alice Cooper, whose new album 'The Last Temptation', is released through Epic in June, will be represented in a lookalike form on ITV's 'Stars In Their Eyes' on May 21! Chris Pavlou, frontman with legendary '80s Glam Rockers Aunt May, will be performing as Alice for the watching millions, and will also appear the same night with his band Aunt May's Masquerade at London Putney Fox And Hounds....
Alice, What's The Matter?
(Kerrang!, 1994-06-11)
I can think of other things far more tempting than the latest Alice Cooper offering, to be honest. And I fear that only die-hard Coop freaks will fully appreciate the finer elements of the album. As a concept records go, this baby is a big sluggish. Still, it is Alice's first full-on effort since 'From The Inside', so perhaps he could be forgiven if the plot gets a little cloudy or the music just becomes a little lame at times. And hopefully, the great man can find it in himself to forgive those of us who can't fully comprehend just what he's attempting here......
Coop Killer!
(Kerrang!, 1994-06-18)
The nightmare continues! Alice Cooper, Rock legend and alleged chicken murderer, is back with a killer new album - his best for two decades! Ray Zell scoops all the hottest Coop poop as Alice admits: "I look 400 years old!" and wonders: "Am I in another dimension?!" Alice Cooper and his stooges shuffle about the stage at London Weekend Television. They're waitin' for the call to run-through Alice's new 'Lost In America' single for 'The Brian Conley Show'. As I sat among the makeshift audience for this rehearsal take, I'm kind of amused that the original 'lock up your daughters' rocker - all nose and no chin, lookin' like a Muppet vulture - is now a family viewing curiosity. Yet the 'legend' lives on. ...
'It's Me'
(Kerrang!, 1994-07-23)
It's him, alright. Dear God, what have we done? We've taken Vince Furnier's schlock Rock alter ego and handed it a succession of manufactured Metal anthems to keep the doddering old tart alive. 'Lost In America' was pretty cool. 'It's Me' is a ballad. Big deal....
Trouble At T' Mill!
(Kerrang!, 1994-10-29)
Whisperings heard in the streets this week say that the Epic record label has been doing some house cleaning, dropping veteran Alice Cooper and less venerable Arcade - who are fronted by ex-Ratt man Stephen Pearcy. Reports that Infectious Grooves are out of the door were confirmed in the UK this week - Mike Muir's other project, Suicidal Tendencies are rumoured to be following soon. The rather negligable sales of both bands' latest albums seem to support all the speculation....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1995-01-14)
....finally, AC seems to be unhappy with his own situation with Epic, and it would seem that he is negotiating his way out of his deal. Hollywood Records, part of the giant Disney conglomerate, have emerged as the company to whom he is most likely to sign....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1995-01-21)
Alice Cooper has parted company with Epic Records. The rock legend - whose last LP 'The Last Temptation' was hailed as a remarkable return to form - intends to hook up with Us-based Hollywood Records, but has yet to sign a contract....
Alice's Last Stand
(Kerrang!, 1995-06-10)
"Special Versions of Alice Cooper's 'The Last Temptation' LP came with a free comic book. There were apparently two more to collect. But I've hunted everywhere for them without any luck. Any ideas where they can be found and at what price? Mick Crowe - Northants...
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1995-09-00)
The legendary Trash rocker will release a compilation album titled 'Classicks' via Epic on October 30. The full track listing is: 'Poison', 'Hey Stopid', 'Feed My Frankenstein', 'Love's A Loaded Gun', 'Stolen Prayer', 'House Of Fire', 'Lost In America', 'It's Me', 'Under My Wheels (Live)', 'Billion Dollar Babies (Live)', 'I'm Eighteen (Live)', 'No More Mr. Nice Guy (Live)', 'Only Women Bleed (Live)', 'School's Out (Live)' and 'Fire'. ...
Monsters Of Rock
(Kerrang!, 1995-10-07)
Alice Cooper was, frankly, boring. Without being to callous, the stage schtik came across as dated, the songs uninspired and Alice's pink plastic pants quite fucking frightening...much more so than the whipping of the blow-up doll and the ol' West Side Story rucking routine. Once highly entertaining, nowadays Coop simply shows those laurels got a little too comfortable....
Classicks Album Review
(Kerrang!, 1995-10-21)
When this sort of thing happens, the words "contractual obligation" spring to mind. There is no real point in releasing this compilation album, as it certainly doesn't offer an accurate representation of Alice Cooper's star-studded career. It's very tempting to assume that Cooper is nearing the end of his career, but still has one or two LPs left in his contract to fulfil. In these circumstances, a record company might chose to release or re-release just about anything in their vaults to get the aging artist off their backs....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1996-02-17)
On a lighter note, frontman Rob Zombie has teamed up with rock legend Alice Cooper to record a song for the forthcoming soundtrack album to the cult sci-fi series, 'The X-files'. Zombie and Cooper recorded the track - which has a working title of 'Whore Of Fire' - in a Florida studio on the same day as the recent US Superbowl. 'Whore Of Fire' was written by Rob Zombie and produced by Terry Date, who helmed White Zombie's million-selling new album, 'Astro Creep 2000...'. ...
Slash Joins 'Killer' Alice
(Kerrang!, 1996-07-13)
Oldies package tours seem to be in vogue at the moment over here at the moment. We've got Cheap Trick and Boston currently out together, and REO and Speedwagon and Foreigner also on the road. And then there's Alice Cooper and the Scorpions, who've just hit LA on their co-headling trek....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1997-05-03)
Finally, you'll be able to see shock rock legend Alice Cooper and US metal crew Megadeth in July. Alice plays Wolverhampton Civic Hall 3, Glasgow Barrowlands 4, Newcastle City Hall 5, Manchester Apollo 6, London Astoria 8 and 9. And the 'Deth are at London LA2 on July 7 and Nottingham Rock City the next night....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1997-05-17)
Alice Cooper will be playing the following UK shows: Wolverhampton Civic Hall July 3, Glasgow Barrowlands 4, Newcastle Hall 5, Manchester Apollo 6, London Astoria 8 and 9...
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1997-05-24)
Alice Cooper releases a live album called 'A Fistful Of Alice' through EMI on June 16. The album has contributions from Rob Zombie, Slash and Sammy Hagar....
Alice Cooper plays top festival
(Kerrang!, 1997-05-31)
Alice Cooper will be appearing at the Graspop Festival in Dessel, Belgium on June 29. Also on the bill will be Megadeth, Cradle of Filth, Biohazard and Obituary....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1997-06-07)
Alice Cooper will make a guest appearance at London's Tower Records in Piccadilly Circus on June 16. He'll be signing autographs for an hour from 5:30pm....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1997-06-14)
Alice Cooper has added another date to his upcoming 'School's Out '97' tour. It's at Southampton Guildhall on July 10....
Mister Superstar
(Kerrang!, 1997-06-21)
Alice Cooper - the original shock rocker - firmly refuses to endorse the talents of his '90s successor Marilyn Manson. When asked by Kerrang! what he thought of the man regarded as the world's most controversial rock star, Alice enigmatically brushed aside the question: "Marilyn Manson and I have this agreement, I don't talk about him, and he doesn't talk about me!" ...
Limo Wreck
(Kerrang!, 1997-07-05)
The original Marilyn Manson is running a bony hand over the soft leather back seat of a phallic stretch limo. "Just about everything you could think of has happened to Alice Cooper in the back of a limo at one time or another," grins Alice Cooper. "Fortunately, I can't remember most of them. The nice thing about drinking a lot is that you black out. I did wake up a few times in the back of a limo. I used to live in these things."...
The Last Word
(Kerrang!, 1997-07-12)
Last time you had a nightmare? "Just two nights ago. It's the nightmare every musician gets just before a touur. I'm about to go onstage and I find that the band is a totally different band and they tell me that they're doing all new songs. And there's 20,000 people ouut there, and I walk out and I don't know any of the songs. I've had many versions of that dream." Last Great Alice Cooper rumour? "There's a character in the States called Captain Kangaroo, and the guy who plays him has been on TV for 40 years....
Concert Review
(Kerrang!, 1997-07-19)
Tampasm singer Charllotte Honey drawls languidly on a ciggie and smirks at seats in front of her, "I bet this is the best school assembly you've ever been to." The new disciples of Manson have stayed away in their droves tonight. This is an old-school Alice Cooper show, with a crowd to match. You might expect south-coast riot girls Tampasm to struggle with an audience of receding mullets, but they acquit themselves well enough, sounding tighter and feister than their ramshackle early recordings would have you believe....
Alice Cooper Guitarist Dies
(Kerrang!, 1997-10-29)
'Glen Buxton, original guitarist with Alice Cooper and co-writer of such classics as 'School' Out' and 'Elected', has died of complications from a bout of pneumonia. He was 49. Kerrang! sends condolences to Buxton's family and friends.'...
Alice Opens A Pub
(Kerrang!, 1997-12-06)
Alice Cooper is going into the sports bar business. The legendary shock rocker is planning to open a sports bar in Arizona, called 'Alice Cooper'stown'. which the man himself claims will be the "Taj Mahal of sports bars". The bar should open shortly in Cooper's home toen of Phoenix. And in typical Alice fashion, the bar are planning to start up their own special hall of fame to celebrate "weird, wonderful and wacky" sports stars of the past! ...
Alice Cooper
(Kerrang!, 1998-06-03)
YAWN. THIS whole Backyard Babies thing really is becoming a bore. The seismic Swedes storm on, rip the place apart with a chain reaction of feedback linked nitro-fuelled sleazed-out rock 'n' roll and leave the stage triumphant. Again. From the Backyard variety to the billion dollar one. Yeah, start spreading the news; ol' blue eyes is dead and ol' black eyes is back. Alice Cooper. With no new ·product' to push, the anti-hero Cooperstar appears to be invading Europe with his 'Rock 'n' Roll Carnival' for nothing other than the best reason of all - the sheer hell of it....
Freedom For Frankenstein Album Review
(Kerrang!, 1998-07-18)
Alice Cooper has just released a compilation album titled 'Freedom For Frankenstein (Hits & Pieces 1984-91)' on Raven Records. ...
Cooper Gets Boxed
(Kerrang!, 1998-09-12)
Alice Cooper will have a box set released next February by Rhino Records. It will span his entire career. Titled "The Life And Crimes Of Alice Cooper", it will feature four CD's that will include material that dates back as far as 1967. There will be songs drawn from Cooper's early work with obscure bands The Spiders and The Nazz, as well as rehearsal tapes from the 70's, B-sides of singles, unreleased material and, apparently, a few surprises....
Top 100 most influential artists
(Kerrang!, 1998-11-25)
The Original Marilyn manson. A Guy with a girl`s name and long black hair playing shock rock. Simple, really. Back in the 70s, Cooper was Americas public enemy number one, horrifying parents with his outrageous stage-shows (monsters, guillotine executions, baby dolls on spikes) and teen rebellion anthems like `School`s Out`. It was all just harmless fun, of course. And the music was a brilliant mix of deafening rock`n`roll nastiness and biting social satire. ...
Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper Album Review
(Kerrang!, 1999-05-08)
NEVER DID Alice Cooper snarl a more prophetic line than in the 1972 single 'Elected', when he declared 'We're all gonna rock to the rules that I make'. Back list the bad guys, from Manson to Guns N' Roses to the Sex Pistols, and you're guaranteed one prime evil influence. No, not Donny Osmond but our boy Alice - heavy rock's premiere anti-hero. One of the coolest things about this four-CD Cooper box set can be found in the info-stuffed booklet with the two pages lovingly penned by former Pistols John (Johnny Rotten) Lydon. If anybody ever asks you what the hell you see in Alice Cooper, just give the buggers this to read. Never has the music, the concept and perhaps even more importantly, the fun of Alice Cooper been better understood. ...
Book Review
(Kerrang!, 1999-11-06)
Comprehensive guide to all things Alice Cooper-related. WHILE LIFE is generally considered to be far too short, it would appear that for Dale Sherman there are simply way too many hours in the day. Witness this excruciatingly detailed tome dealing with every single scrap of AC-related flotsam to have ever been belched onto the cultural foreshore. ...
Brutal Planet Review
(Kerrang!, 2000-06-17)
Another comeback from '70s shock rock legend. Although there would be no Marilyn Manson without his influence, Alice Cooper has wrongly interpreted this as an excuse for a comeback. 'Brutal Planet' is his first solo album in six years, and sadly serves to remind you that the original shock rocker is now 52 years old and really should be taking it easy....
Seminal hard rocker invades Germany
(Kerrang!, 2000-07-15)
Five modes of transport (underground and overground train, plane, coach and taxi!) your Kerrang! team went through to bring you this report from a German town that looks like it - gets sandblasted clean on a daily basis, takes recycling very seriously, and appears to have more shops selling lethal combat knives than it does supermarkets. But that's what Alice Cooper thrives on. That little twist. That pile of dog shit in the middle of the perfect garden....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 2000-09-09)
Alice will star as Satan in a new film entitled The Crossover which is being produced by Mike Myres. Described as an Irish black comedy, the film is about an over the hill rock band who sell their souls to Satan in return for fame and fortune . Cooper begins filming next month in Co Cavan, Ireland....
American Psycho
(Kerrang!, 2002-11-16)
Long before Marilyn Manson became public enemy number one, a snake-loving, noose-wielding madman was happily enraging moralists everywhere. This is the story of how Alice Cooper became rock's original bogeyman... THE YEAR: 1969 The remaining vestiges of the Summer 0f Love are about to be trampled underfoot by the Manson Family murders. On a stage in LA's Whisky A Go-Go club, five long-haired insurrectionists are doing their own bit to drive a stake through the heart of hippy culture. Going under the deceptively wholesome name of Alice Cooper, the band churn out a cacophonous mix of harsh psychedelia, driving hard rock and pure Dadaist confusion that garners more blank stares than applause The visual aspects of the show are just as bizarre. Lacking the resources to realise his grand vision of rock theatre, the fledgling group's singer - a scrawny blonde with garish make-up and a curled-up pre-punk sneer who also bears the name Alice Cooper - utilises whatever he could find that day....
Concert Review
(Kerrang!, 2002-11-30)
The Monsters of Rock super-tour kicks off In London FROM 1980 to the mid-'80s, the Monsters Of Rock festival celebrated all that was great about the musk we love. With bands as diverse as Motley Crue, Iron Malden and Metallica all contributing legendary performances. Now the Monsters of Rock brand has been resurrected to celebrate what was. Still, at least the line-up is impressive enough for those that still care. The pick of tonights supports are the Dogs D'Amour whose frontman Tyla is back to his gravely, heart-broken best. Thunder and The Quireboys are also on top form though. and both bands serve up what posses for greatest hits sets that keep the crowd happy....
Eyes of Alice Cooper Review
(Kerrang!, 2003-09-27)
The oldest shock rocker in town goes back to his garage roots Alice Cooper has always kept one heavily made-up eye on what's going down. When hair bands ruled he teamed up with pop-rock svengali Desmond Child and had a hit with 'Poison'. He dabbled in nu-metal and now, with The White Stripes and their ilk the hippest ticket in town, he returns with and album of pure garage-rock. Whether this makes him an icon with an instinctive feel for the musical zeitgeist or a sad old chancer desperate to stay in with the kids is open to interpretation, but at least this represents a return to what Alice does best. There's no 'Under My Wheels' on here, but 'Man of the Year' and 'What do you want from me' come close and, as the band rip through this funny, raw and sneering collection it soon becomes clear that this is the best AC album in years. ...
Don't Lose Your Head
(Kerrang!, 2015-10-31)
The legends goes that the blade of a guillotine is so sharp that it can slice through your neck at such a pace that your dismembered hear will still be able to see in the moments after it comes flying off your neck....