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Iggy and Alice — the Outer Fringes
(Chicago Tribune, 1971-04-19)
HALLOWEEN came early to the Opera House this year. Iggy Stooge [or Pop, as he's calling himself this year] flounced onstage in a weird winter wonderland flash, his face, torso and chest covered with specked of icicle glitter, his hair thickly...
Poco, Pie, and Cooper
(Chicago Tribune, 1971-11-04)
POCO, Humble Pie, and Alice Coper have been booked by Howard Stein Productions for appearances next month at the Auditorium Theater. Poco will appear at 8 p.m., Dec. 3; Humble Pie's concert is scheduled for the same time Dec. 8. Alice...
Alice Cooper at L.B. Arena on Sunday
(Press Telegram, 1971-07-07)
Alice Cooper, a five-man rock group, will appear at the Long Beach Auditorium with Black Oak Arkansas and Savage Grace. Cooper, Warner Brothers recording artists, will headline the 7 p.m. concert with is produced by KRLA and Concert...
Rock by Alice a new scene
(Press Telegram, 1971-07-13)
Alice is good-time gal — kind of sleazy, with holes in her stockings and an arrogant charm that is beauty itself — and about all the class she'll ever need. Alice is full of surprises, she's a man, the 23-year-old body-stocking-clad son of a...
Phoenix Dude
(Arizona Republic, 1971-12-12)
A concert by Alice Cooper is supposed to be pretty wild. Feathers, smoke, lights, the spearing of stuffed dolls, more ballet than Jethro Tull, straight jackets and even some music. The records aren't bad either. For the most part Alice Cooper is...
Iron Butterfly here next Friday
(Arizona Republic, 1969-05-17)
Sharing the stage with Butterfly will be Alice Cooper, once known locally as the Spiders. Cooper is one of those groups you can't quite classify, if only because no such word has been written yet. Frank Zappa, of the Mothers, claims...
Just another neo-depraved, decadent, transvestite rock band
(Philadelphia Daily News, 1971-06-24)
America deserves a rock group like Alice Cooper — a rock group that would send anybody's parents up the wall in disgust and horror. Every decade of rock has had it deliciously repulsive and immoral demi-gods. In the fifties, it was Elvis; in the...
Love It To Death Album Review
(Philadelphia Daily News, 1971-04-29)
Alice Cooper plays neo-degeneracy rock. You'll understand why it's neo-degeneracy when you discover that lead singer Alice is a man. Proteges of Frank Zappa Alice Cooper combine fragments of the Mothers of Invention feel with lots of hard electric...
Dali Exhibits Cooper Portrait
(Cash Box, 1973-04-14)
Salvador Dali recently presented his latest work, a three-dimensional portrait of rock star Alice Cooper, to a small coterie of friends, patrons and reporters at the Kneodler Gallery here. The portrait is the first work executed by the artist in over a...
Cooper has a dream of a 'Nightmare'
(Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1975-03-00)
Vincent Price, TV's horror scorer, does the narration in "The Black Widow" song on Alice Cooper's latest Atlantic LP That should give you some idea. "This is my prize," exults Price, the museum curator, warning the little nippers to keep their hands...
Alice Cooper continues his lock on shock rock
(Tennessean, 1986-12-28)
Before there was Twisted Sister, Ozzy Osbourne, Kiss, W.AS.P., Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, or any other metal madmen, there was Alice Cooper. And now he's back, promising more outrage than ever. "Everything I pick up...
Alice: Forget the ghoul, you're good
(Toronto Star, 1972-09-04)
Alice Cooper doesn't have to horrify people to make them listen any more. The music has reached the point where people will come for it rather than the sideshow, entertaining though it is. And 24,000 young people came to Varsity Stadium...
Alice: face of a very hungry ferret
(Vancouver Sun, 1972-02-14)
I'll try to describe Alice Cooper for you. The hair. Well, if he ever washed it, you could deep-fry fish in the rinse water. Long fingernails you could punch open beer cans with. The shoulders, well, if he wore suspenders, they'd slip off...
Alice has his own hang-up
(Vancouver Sun, 1972-01-11)
CHICAGO — The last time I had seen Alice Cooper, he was recording an album called Killer at the RCA studios in Chicago. Alice, who is a male rock and roll singer, was very excited at that time about the possibilities presented by one of the song...
World of Alice Cooper gets stranger every day
(Cincinnati Enquirer, 1971-02-12)
It looks like there is going to be no stopping Alice Cooper. Ever since "Eighteen," Alice and the boys have been one of rock's biggest drawing cards. Getting bigger all the time. We'd like to think it's the music that everyone is going in for, but that would...
Killer Alice is Coming
(Sounds, 1971-10-09)
AMERICAN BAND Alice Cooper have been booked for three British dates during their forthcoming European tour — and Kinney, who have just signed the band, plan to release their new album "Killer" to coincide with the visit. Alice Cooper play...
Alice Cooper "School's Out" in June
(Sounds, 1972-03-25)
ALICE COOPER exclusively told us backstage at the Academy of the new album they are recording. The album will be "School's Out", and will be released on June 1, in time for the end of the school session. The album will feature a cut out or photo...
Alice Shows His All
(Sounds, 1972-05-13)
"SCHOOL'S OUT", Alice Cooper's new album is due shortly and we can report that the wrapping on the album will be a pair of ladies' panties (bikini of course). Right now the gang of engineers at Warner Bros. are trying to figure out how to affix...
The Return Of Alice Cooper
(Goldmine, 2021-07-00)
Veteran shock-rocker Alice Cooper has had a legendary career with plenty of accolades, but even he admits to being surprised at having a No. 1 album with his latest release, Detroit Stories. "If someone had told me 50 years ago that in 2021 at 73...
Alice Cooper Talkin' Trash
(Faces Rocks, 1989-11-00)
You're sitting across from one of rock's originals, a true legend, the man who combined Bela Lugosi and Mick Jagger to derive Alice Cooper. Alice was one-of-a-kind: that is, until everybody started copying him. But, that's okay, Alice Cooper is still...
The Resurrection of Alice Cooper
(Classic Rock, 2023-09-00)
It's a couple of hours before show time, and Alice Cooper is waiting for Alice Cooper to show up. It's been more than three years since he last played a gig. Three years in which he hit rock bottom, addiction-wise, and then dragged himself all the way...
Sharpen up Alice Cooper!
(ZONK, 1973-00-00)
When Alice Cooper says "No more, Mister Nice Guy," the words carry a more menacing undertone than if any other creature on earth had uttered them. The disgusting wax head with the blood pouring from the throat is already tossed aside...
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...