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Alice Rocks Like He's 18
(Windsor Star, 2004-07-22)
Alice Cooper filled staid Chrysler Theatre with loud and proud rock Wednesday before a jammed, pumped and sweaty crowd. All ages screamed and sang along as the 56-year-old shock rocker from Detroit proved there's life after the headbanging...
Alice Cooper Concert
(Record, 1977-07-14)
Professional fruitcake Alice Cooper brings his act to Nassau Coliseum July 21 for his only New York appearance on his current tour. Cooper's performance features a $400,000 stage show with giant video screens and four dancers who portray...
Alice Cooper Finds the Going Tough
(Miami Herald, 1977-08-28)
Alice Cooper, who helped usher in the age of glitter rock at the turn of the '70s, is back on the concert trail after a two-year absence, trying to expand his following beyond the usual rock audience.The going so far has been tough. Cooper has...
Romantic Ghoul
(Record, 1977-03-07)
Has Alice Cooper, the grand ghoul of rock 'n' roll, the granddaddy of glitter rock, gone soft? Will he purge his show of such grisly antics as electrocutions, hangings, and simulated mauling's of babies and chickens? Speculation about the...
Alice Cooper
(Hellzine, 2017-08-00)
The one and only Alice Cooper talks to us about his new album "Paranormal." The new release is truly an event because, although the king of "Shock Rock" has by no means disappeared from the spotlight, he hasn't released any...
Back To Detroit
(Classix!, 2003-11-00)
Alice, Alice... He's still there, more alive and angrier than ever, always ironic and captivating in his records, and we've wasted a lot of time with his copies, photocopies, and imitations. The original article, the reference model, has returned...
With Alice in Weirdland
(New York Daily News, 1974-11-17)
THE LIGHTS went down. More from the audience joined the crush at the front, lunged against the barricade, screaming. The musicians took their places at the various levels of the set...
Tending Sick Alice On Tour
(Akron Beacon Journal, 1973-04-08)
It's the City of Brotherly Love and the birthplace of Liberty. So why did Alice Cooper choose Philadelphia to launch his latest outrage? Well, the Liberty Bell is cracked. A few miles from Independence Hall, in a huge arena called the Spectrum...
Clearing the Decks for '74 Album Flood
(Los Angeles Times, 1973-12-11)
With only three weeks left in 1973, we've got to hurry to catch up with some of the year's remaining albums that deserve comment — either pro or con — before turning attention to the flurry of next year's offering...
The Line Between Illusion and Reality Grows Thin
(Los Angeles Times, 1973-07-01)
They have gone too far. We almost cannot know any longer what is real and what is not. Down from that part in the hills between Westwood and Encino where L.A. leaks into the rest of the world, there comes a runnel of cars along the highway...
Who is Alice Cooper?
(Entertainment Magazine, 1973-05-00)
"On stage, I'm Bela Lugosi; offstage, I'm Fred MacMurray." Alice Cooper delivers a broad grin. 24 years old, he is currently America's most popular rock star. Many consider him a sensational trendsetter; others label him a menace. No other...
News Report
(Los Angeles Times, 1973-02-20)
ALICE COOPER DATES: The local stops on Alice Cooper’s lengthy March 5-June 3 U.S. tour will include May 11 at the Inglewood Forum, May 12 at the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino and May 13 at the San Diego Sports Arena...
News Report
(Los Angeles Times, 1973-01-23)
Alice Cooper, who ran into legal problems with flammable panties in the packing of a recent album, has new problems with its "Billion Dollar Babies" album. It seems the U.S. Treasury Department has refused authorization for a Los Angeles firm...
Back in Business
(Times-Tribune, 2022-03-16)
Like most people, Alice Cooper learned a new skill over quarantine: tap dancing. It may be hard to imagine the legendary musician, also known as the Godfather of Shock Rock, outside of his onstage persona and his theatrical...
Shock and Awe
(Times-Tribune, 2023-09-06)
When it comes to intricate "shock-rock" performances, few do it better than Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie. The pair bring their Freaks on Parade 2023 Tour to the Pavilion at Montage Mountain, 1000 Montage Mountain Road, Scranton, on...
Sweet Perversity
(Jazz & Pop, 1971-06-00)
It's a strange thing, but one of the most obvious aspects of rock 'n' roll music is the one which is most consistently overlooked: that is, that it is performance, illusion. It is theater. Musicians who wriggle and writhe all over the stage do not continue...
Circus Magazine's Supersonic 60
(Circus, 1974-09-00)
Alice Cooper set the limits for outrage on the rock frontier when he initiated "punk rock," a mixture of violence, sex changes and crazy rituals. Today the Coop is conquering TVland, and tomorrow the movies...
'Circus' And Alice
(Circus, 1974-02-00)
Alice Cooper was on the other end of the phone, while Circus Magazine correspondent Kathy Stein popped questions at him on the touchy subject of venereal disease. Ms Stein had called Alice from Circus World Headquarters for an exclusive interview on...
Muscle of Love Review
(Circus, 1974-03-00)
At this point everything Alice Cooper puts out sounds very similar. Muscle Of Love sounds a great deal like Billion Dollar Babies which sounded a great deal like School's Out which sounded like the album before that, etc. This is to say, a great...
The Rock Managers — Who Steers The Stars?
(Circus, 1974-11-00)
He's seen this rock and roll act more often than anyone in the world. Pacing just outside the glare of the spotlights, he's one of the most essential members of the group, yet he's never seen onstage. A combination mother hen and shark-hearted...
Alice Hatches An Oozing Film
(Circus, 1972-12-00)
The official announcement of Alice Cooper's Broadway debut in February (dubbed "Alice At The Palace") had hardly tumbled from the printing presses when the leotard-clad author of "Elected" sprawled on a couch in his manager's...
Alice's Gangland Hit
(Circus, 1974-12-00)
Sunset Boulevard has seen every variety of madness in the last decade, so a promotional stunt for Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits at the huge Tower Records Store on the strip challenged the most sensationalistic minds at Alice's Alive Enterprises to come up...
Alice Escapes From His Own Nightmare
(Circus Raves, 1975-08-00)
On a rare day off in the midst of his marathon 68-city "Welcome To My Nightmare" tour of America, Alice Cooper is lounging on the terrace of his Tampa hotel suite. Though his bedroom offers a palmy riverfront view, the Coop has wheeled his color TV onto...
How To Start Your Own Rock Band
(Circus, 1973-08-00)
It was a meeting of minds that was to shape the course of American culture, and it all started because three guys from Phoenix, Arizona were horny. Vincent figured it this way; the very best way to be popular in high school was to be a jock, but...
The Seven Most Outrageous Rock Stars of 1972
(Circus, 1973-01-00)
1972 was the year of unadulterated outrage in rock. It was the year of men in hot pants and lipstick mincing around the stage, baby dolls hacked to bits amid showers of blood, and lawsuits so large they rivaled the Pentagon budget. It was the year of a...
Billion Dollar Babies Costs a Million
(Circus, 1973-06-00)
Alice Cooper's current Billion Dollar Babies tour cost 1.2 million to produce. The three month tour ends up in New York at Madison Square Garden on June 3, at which time Alice hopes to have onstage "everyone Rona Barrett knows." Asked if he...
Alice Toys with Nightmare Images
(Circus Raves, 1975-06-00)
"It's suggesting images. It's just suggesting images and then letting the audience fantasize on that." Alice Cooper was relaxing after a day on the golf course and talking about the show which would appear as both a 90-minute TV...
The Record Producers: How They Create Idols of Sound
(Circus, 1975-01-00)
With his pipe clenched solidly between his teeth, a serious faced gentleman gave the signal to his engineer that started the Record Plant's massive tape machines rolling. In a flash, what seemed to be a dozen arms started twisting knobs and...
Alice Cooper's nightmare worth a million!
(Muziek Expres, 1975-11-00)
A nightmare of a million guilders. That’s how you could describe the show that Alice Cooper recently presented to his European fans. Because no less than 400,000 American dollars — or one million Dutch florins — the American superstar had to invest...
Alice Cooper: Master of Macabre
(Ithaca Journal, 1975-04-19)
The pathway leads past a manicured lawn, around an incline sheltered by blooming bougainvillea — to an attractive wood framed house on the edge of a Hollywood hilltop. This is the home of America's master of mayhem and the macabre...
Alice Cooper and Vincent Price create a fiendish fantasy
(Sentinel, 1975-04-19)
It is the continuing dream — or delicious nightmare — of those who find fiendish fantasy fascinating and horror tales titillating to awake to the discovery of a chilling successor Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon...
Alice Cooper: The Phantom Returns
(Circus, 1991-10-31)
"Role model?" The question bounces off Alice Cooper like a rubber bullet as his eyes bulge in mock disbelief. In a career that´s stretched from the late-60′s, Alice has been called many things; "the King of Shock Rock" the most durable...
Devil or Angel
(16 Magazine, 1973-02-00)
A Bizarre And Exciting New Personality Has Risen From The Rock Underground To Take The International Music Scene By Storm — And Alice Cooper Is His Name!! Who Is This Weird Wizard? Should You Fear Him Or Love Him? Delve...
Alice Cooper's Cash the Real Thing
(Los Angeles Times, 1973-01-27)
Alice Cooper, that rock 'n' roll lovely whose new "Billion Dollar Babies" album cover had been placed in peril by federal regulations covering color photographs of money, has been granted permission to use the original art work. So, the...
Metal Detector
(Metal Hammer, 2008-08-00)
ALICE COOPER has influenced all of shock rock's biggest names, from Marilyn Manson to Rob Zombie. And with a career spanning a spooktacular 40 years, he shows no signs of hanging up his boa. If you ask Alice Cooper about his secret to the...
:60 Second Interview
(Metro, 2010-10-29)
Vincent Furnier, 62, found success with his panto-rock incarnation Alice Cooper in the '70s with hits including School's Out and a stage show involving snakes, fake blood and, during one infamous gig, chicken dismemberment. He is currently...
Alice's Nightmare Filmed Live
(Circus, 1975-00-00)
Alice Cooper's Welcome To My Nightmare show was filmed in London recently for conversion to a movie and soundtrack LP. The producers hope to have the film premier in 17 Canadian cinemas on November 28. The film is being directed and co-produced...
Shock Rock 'n' Awe
(Vive Le Rock, 2017-00-00)
How are you doing Alice? "I'm great! I'm in St Louis tonight with Deep Purple and the Edgar Winter Band. It's show day today, then we're in Cleveland tomorrow and then Cincinnati the day after and then we get to go home for a week and then we're...
Punk and Ghoul Packs a Punch
(Evening Post, 1987-08-25)
HE'S every mother's bad dream. He plays with snakes, he talks about nasty things — he's Alice Cooper. Named after a witch allegedly contacted through a ouija board, Alice has been a shocker since 1969. He broke in Britain way back in 1972...
10 Questions with Alice Cooper
(Autograph Collector, 1997-11-00)
Since his 1970 debut on the rock 'n' roll scene, Alice Cooper has been a disturbing proposition. "We were into fun, sex, death and money when everybody else was into peace and love," laughs the macabre music maven. "We wanted to see...