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A Tired Nightmare Show Revitalized for Casino Gig
(Toronto Star, 1976-00-00)

ALICE COOPER could tell right away that he had hit the big leagues. For, instead of the usual tiled dressing room with all the personality of a meat locker, he had the entire 15th floor of the hotel at his disposal. Plus guards, a Lear jet, and a mansion...

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News Report
(Toronto Star, 1977-08-31)

ALICE COOPER'S 30-foot boa constrictor, Angel, is pregnant. Cooper, now halfway into this three month tour of the United States and Canada, places the time of conception at a rest break his entourage took at the end of July. "Obviously Angel did...

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When is Cooper not Alice?
(Toronto Star, 1991-07-00)

Philadelphia - Veteran rocker Alice Cooper, who claims "everybody I know in rock 'n' roll's a schizo," has always managed to live by that credo. Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; the son of a minister) refers to his stage alter ego...

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Alice's 'Bad Boys' make room for daddy
(Toronto Star, 1991-08-16)

Alice Cooper is living proof that you can't judge a kook by looking at its cover. Who'd have been dumb enough 20 yers ago this summer to be that the booze-soaked. Who'd have been dumb enough 20 yers ago this summer to be that the booze-soaked...

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Blasts from past unearth early Alice, $125 Stones
(Toronto Star, 1992-05-23)

Lost treasures and greatest hits packages are under the microscope this week: Alice Cooper Live At The Whisky A-Go-Go 1969 (Bizarre/Straight Records): Before Killer, before Love It To Death, before there even was the Alice Cooper we are all...

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Last Temptation Album Review
(Toronto Star, 1994-06-00)

Speaking of songs, this is the strongest collection of tunes by the worthy snake-charmer in quite a year, bringing to mind comparisons of his early '70s heyday. Credit goes to one his legion of new rock admirers, Soundgarden's Chris Cornell...

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Ghoul-rocker is all charm
(Toronto Star, 1994-06-14)

Toronto — The man they call Alice can still pack 'em in. The leather-and-denim crowd from tattooed headbangers to kid-toting housewives, squeezed into HMV's huge flagship store on Yonge Street to rub shoulders with '70s ghoul-rocker Alice Cooper...

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Welcome to Alice's nightmare
(Toronto Star, 1994-06-15)

Even a shock rocker has his limits, and for mayhem master Alice Cooper it came at the end of a street punk's gun in a Los Angeles diner. "We consider guns normal now in America, and they shouldn't be normal," Cooper, 46, said during a visit to...

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Alice Cooper undiminished
(Toronto Star, 1996-07-31)

Ol' snake eyes was back last night at the Molson Amphitheatre. So was that gang of heavy metal stingers. United as co-headliners on one decibel-damaging bill, Alice Cooper and The Scorpions took turns trying to deafen an audience of 7,500 in what had...

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Ol' Alice goth cred with young crowd
(Toronto Star, 2004-07-23)

There was a time when a triple bill headlined by Alice Cooper and also featuring Edgar Winter and Foghat would have been hailed as one of the boffo rock events of the summer. That time was 1974. While it would be stretching things to suggest that...

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