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'I Used to Be Very Good With a Whip'
(HOOKA, 1971-06-04)

Six HOOKA staffers joined a relatively small — for Ft. Worth's Will Rogers Coliseum — crowd of very enthusiastic rock and blues fans gathered to hear Brownsville Station, Alice Cooper, and John Mayall. B.S. quaked the crowd into a maniacal...

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Welcome to His Nightmare...
(Music Revue, 2002-10-00)

For more than 30 years, Alice Cooper has been hitting the road, treating fans to his own unique type of rock and roll horror show. The man who's famous for stage props ranging from boa constrictors to straight jackets...

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School's In!
(Juke, 1989-00-00)

After years in the wilderness, ALICE COOPER learned to take the trash out and become a Billion Dollar Baby again. Anita Winslow spoke to him about returning to find a sea of imposters and imitators. LAST YEAR SAW several cartoon characters come back into...

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Feel like cutting up a doll? Try a slice of Alice Cooper
(Louisville Times, 1973-04-03)

Act One — Alice as Jekyll. Time: Yesterday afternoon. Scene: A conference room in a downtown motel. Enter Alice Cooper, big rock star, stage right. He wears a very hiply tailored suit in a loud green-and-red plaid. Beautiful suit of clothes...

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Q&A with Alice Cooper
(Decibel, 2019-09-00)

Alice Cooper is at home in Phoenix, where it's a hellish 105 degrees. Which might make some of us cranky and sluggish, especially if we were — like Cooper — 71 years old. And yet, the godfather of shock rock-the man to whom KISS, Rob Zombie...

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Yule's Out
(Musician's Friend, 2016-12-00)

As the Godfather of Shock Rock, Alice Cooper has been the exemplar of live concert theatrics for over five decades. His Vaudeville-inspired musical horror show has featured everything form electric chairs and fake blood to boa constrictors and decapitation...

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The Rock Monster Rages Like in Old Times: Alice Cooper
(Bravo, 1977-08-11)

It has been quiet around Alice Cooper for two years. He had a total break: "I had to recover from myself first. I played golf. Met friends, got married and developed new ideas." He has been back on stage for a few weeks now....

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Snake Warms Alice's Heart
(Circus, 1977-08-18)

The rigors of life on the road claimed another casualty some five years ago when Yvonee, the 'Killer' cover girl and a featured performer in the Alice Cooper show, slithered into obscurity somewhere in the Nashville Holiday Inn...

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Coopermania in Australia
(Circus, 1977-06-23)

"I'm not talking to anyone or making a move until I receive advice from my lawyer, Frank Sinatra." So said a dead-pan Alice Cooper after finishing a highly successful Australian tour which included a SRO audience of 40,000 in Sydney...

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Alice Cooper Goes To Sunday School
(Circus, 1977-01-13)

Having just completed his third solo album, 'Lace And Whiskey' (Warner Brothers) Alice Cooper is venturing into serious acting on both screen and stage. His latest project is the lead role in the stage drama, "Billy Sunday." The story is based...

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Book Review
(Publishers Weekly, 1973-09-23)

Young Chicago Sun Times columnist Greene has fulfilled the fantasies of many of his contemporaries by going on tour and performing with the Alice Cooper band. Alice Cooper (né Vincent Furnier) specializes in what Greene calls...

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Book Review
(Publishers Weekly, 1974-11-04)

For those who really want to know, the reason that Vincent Furnier, once a musician with a group called the Nazz (also the Spiders, also the Earwigs), changed his name to Alice Cooper is that the real Alice Cooper, an English girl living several...

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Book Review
(Publishers Weekly, 1976-03-22)

This book read like a faithful reflection of its rock star subject — mindless, energetic, vulgar and probably honest. Ghostwriter Steven Gaines, author of "Marjo." tells the raunchy story of how an undersized minister's son named Vincen ...

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On Tour with Alice Cooper
(Publishers Weekly, 1974-08-05)

"I have always been attracted by the fantasy of being a wealthy superstar, of performing on a stage before 20,000 adoring fans," says Bob Greene, the 27-year-old Chicago Sun-Times columnist and author of Atheneum's "Billion Dollar Baby"...

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Alice from Wonderland
(Gay, 1970-05-11)

"We're not on an anti-sex trip. Like we're taking sex, which is probably another half of American entertainment, sex and violence, and we're projecting it, and we're saying this is the way everything is right now....

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High Times with Alice Cooper
(Rolling Stone, 2015-07-16)

Dennis Dunaway — bassist for the Alice Cooper band from 1968 until Cooper became a solo act in 1975 — has collected his wildest tales for a new memoir, Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group...

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Shopping with Alice
(FHM, 2003-12-00)

Alice, who are you holiday shopping for today? The band, the family, my son, my two daughters, Uncle Axl Rose and Rob Zombie. Last year, I got Rob a Wicked Witch of the West cookie jar. He got me a cane with a removable skull on top. You can store ...

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Bid to Ban Alice Cooper
(Lancashire, UK, 1973-05-29)

AMERICAN pop star Alice Cooper was accused by an MP today of "peddling the culture of the concentration camp." Labour’s MP Leo Abse is to ask Hom Secretary Robert Carr to ban the entry of the male musician, who was reported...

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Alice Cooper's Array of Rock Gimmicks
(Akron Beacon Journal, 1972-08-07)

The young man in the washroom at the Rubber Bowl had, by his own testimony, gulped down three tabs of yellow sunshine — which accounted for his preoccupation with the paper towel dispenser ("Oh, wow — this...

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October U.K. Gigs By Alice
(New Musical Express, 1974-05-04)

PLANS ARE NOW being finalised for Alice Cooper to bring his new roadshow to Britain this autumn, cables our U.S. correspondent. He will be coming here as part of a major European tour, though it is not yet known how many dates...

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Alice Cooper back with nightmarish Paris Hilton salvo
(Vancouver Sun, 2005-10-13)

There are, generally, two types of show biz folk. There are the rock stars who take their craft terribly seriously and disdain the mundane parts, such as answering the same interview questions over and over again...

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Alice Cooper — A Dream Come True
(Record World, 1973-01-27)

Alice Cooper is rock's own American Dream Machine. Almost an impossible joke only four years ago, when they signed with Straight Records along with such short-lived wunderkind as the Girls Together Outrageously, Alice and the band, under...

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Welcome back to your nightmares!
(Monde Du Rock, 1987-03-00)

"He's back, the man behind the mask, and he's completely mad" (He's back, Alice Cooper). As in the most manic horror films (Friday the 13th, Halloween, Opera of Terror, etc.), Alice Cooper is immortal. We thought he'd disappeared...

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Alice Cooper At Verdun On The 28th
(Pop Rock, 1987-02-06)

1986 is the year ALICE COOPER returns to the world rock scene with his new album "CONSTRICTOR", and as Alice says: "This album is dedicated to real hard-rock fans, as it contains no ballads." Produced by Beau Hill (producer of RATT) and...

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A New Nightmare Begins!
(Metalized, 2011-11-00)

Alice Cooper. Few can claim not to have an opinion of him, and no one can deny his huge influence on the rock and metal scene. The imprint of his innovative and shockingly theatrical shock rock of the 70s is evident everywhere you look or listen...

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Alice Cooper's School Daze
(Creem, 1973-10-00)

Remember, O brudders, those good old days in high school when you dreamed that someday you'd be in a longhaired rock 'n' roll band just like the Beatles and the girls'd be drooling all over you? Or maybe you're in high school right now, and...

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Alice v. Coop
(Record Mirror, 1975-09-06)

Alice Cooper is the kind of star whose $350,000 house burns down before he's even moved in — and it's Elton John who phones the fire brigade. Coop was planning to live next door to Elton in Beverly Hills, when an electrical fault reduced...

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Alice Cooper's Back: 'It Was Time'
(Tucson Citizen, 1986-11-04)

Razor-sharp guillotine. Crackling electric chairs. Slithering boa constrictors. These are wonderful ingredients for a hellish nightmare. But, in the dark and mysterious world of legendary shock-rocker Alice Cooper, these are but a few of his...

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Alice Cooper still rockin' at 48
(Arizona Republic, 1996-06-23)

Mom, Dad, three kids and Grandma pack into a van and head for Tucson. Dad looks a bit road-weary when he pulls up to the hotel at midafternoon on Tuesday. He registers in the lobby, and the rest of the clan slowly gather their belongings...

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Cooper is back with shock rock
(Des Moines Register, 1986-10-30)

Razor-sharp guillotines. Crackling electric chairs. Slithering boa constrictors. These are wonderful ingredients for a hellish nightmare, but in the dark and mysterious world of legendary shock-rocker Alice Cooper, these are but a few of his...

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Alice Cooper: His effect on audience is frightful
(Palm Beach Post, 1986-12-26)

If you've ever been to a Motley Crue concert, you've seen living evidence of Alice Cooper's effect on rock 'n' roll. The whole notion of theater in rock originated when the preacher's son decided that he knew how to grab people's attention...

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Detroit and the Politics of Rock
(Hit Parader, 1971-12-00)

"The alternative culture in the Detroit/Ann Arbor community is first and foremost a rock and roll culture," says Dave Marsh, editor of Creem Magazine. "It is around the music that the community has grown, and it is the music which...

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His Satanic Majesty Requests
(Sounds, 1975-03-29)

HIS SATANIC Majesty lay quietly on the couch, head propped up on the arm-rest, a can of dire elixir in hand. Ture to folk-lore of old, the being I watched exists by deceit and deception. It's apparent that his current incarnation as a rock and ...

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A Devil's Advocate Slicks Up His Act
(Los Angeles Times, 1973-05-20)

"You know what?" Alice Cooper asked the capacity audience that paid nearly $100,000 to see his rock 'n' roll sideshow at the Inglewood Forum "I think you're crazier than I am."" To prove his point, Alice sauntered to the edge of the stage...

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Never Can Say Goodbye
(Vancouver Sun, 2021-03-06)

In 1970, 22-year-old Alice Cooper decided to leave Los Angeles. Frustrated with his band's lack of success after two years of gigging, the theatrical rocker had to admit he had caught the ear of almost no one. (Frank Zappa was an idiosyncratic exception, telling Cooper...

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Alice Cooper's Nightmare Lives On
(Vancouver Sun, 2013-11-14)

If Alice Cooper was one of the first true shock rockers, he is now one of the last remaining few. Speaking to a crowd of recording arts students at the Vancity Theatre last year, Cooper and longtime friend and producer Bob...

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Readers' Reviews
(Hit Parader, 1971-10-00)

I've waited a year for this album and it was well worth the wait. Alice Cooper is a group that is one of Frank Zappa's discoveries and isn't it funny that all the good groups are: unknown (Editor's note: At this writing Alice Cooper have...

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Readers' Reviews
(Hit Parader, 1971-04-00)

Alice Cooper is a five man group with their hair down to their elbows. They're the best acid rock group in the world. "Mr and Misdemeanor" is a great song if you're feeling angry and "Shoe Salesman" is a great song if you're feeling happy...

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Readers' Reviews
(Hit Parader, 1972-04-00)

In my opinion, it's their best ever. Alice Cooper can't be categorized as just an everyday rock group. They are far out, just as their music is. This stuff is kind of what you would call "third generation music". It isn't about love or beauty...

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Readers' Reviews
(Hit Parader, 1972-10-00)

Alice Cooper, the most glamorous group in the world, has released and uncaged a fantastically eery album. This unique audio portrait starts off "Under My Wheels", so to speak, in a rocking vehicle. Believe it or leave it, this song pulls...

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