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Alice thrusts again Rock
(Telegraph, 1997-07-13)
"I SAW Baz last night," shouts Mert over the rumble of the support band. "Yeah. He's had his hair cut and he's wearing normal clothes." Mert, on the other hand, is wearing Alice Cooper-type PVC trousers, a gigantic Alice Cooper belt-buckle and a remarkably well-preserved Seventies heavy metal haircut. The Astoria itself is getting to be a 1970s museum-piece, with its black and purple warrens of levels and bars. And when he comes on, Alice Cooper is as unreconstructed as his venue and audience....
Obituary: Glen Buxton
(Telegraph, 1997-11-06)
Obituary of Glen Buxton Guitarist who contributed a riff or two to Alice Cooper's rock horror show, which featured straitjackets and headless chickens. GLEN BUXTON, who has died aged 50, was the lead guitarist with the American rock group Alice Cooper, known for its gruesome and outlandishly theatrical stage shows. While the name Alice Cooper came to be applied solely to the band' s singer, it originally signified the whole band. They started off as a rock band in the mid-1960s, playing covers of Rolling Stones and Who songs. Their performances - which included biting the heads off live chickens, dancing with a boa constrictor and staged deaths by guillotine, electric chair and hanging - inaugurated a type of adolescent, fake-blood-soaked performance rock which still fills stadiums today. ...
Alice Cooper's holiday heaven and hell
(Telegraph, 2009-11-19)
My wife Sheryl and I went to Jamaica a couple of years back after we'd been on tour for two years staying in a different Holiday Inn every night. We literally travelled with no luggage – we just jumped on a flight that showed up, and that was it....
Today's bands are more soft clay than hard rock
(Telegraph, 2011-09-00)
ALICE Cooper has a message for today's rock bands - man up. The rocker who has titled his Australian visit the No More Mr Nice Guy tour said yesterday pop divas such as Lady Gaga, Kesha and Katy Perry had stolen the rock star crown....
Department of Youth
(Telegraph, 2011-09-00)
You won't see Alice Cooper at the supermarket. Instead, the man his mother knew as Vincent Furnier goes out to buy the milk or play a round of golf....