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The AMA and Alice Cooper
(Circular, 1971-09-06)

The American Medical Assn. Journal devoted an article to Alice Cooper's "I'm Eighteen" (a single and a track from Alice's current Love It to Death LP) and its pertinence to mid-teen alienation. Meanwhile, two Michigan University students toured...

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New Singles
(Circular, 1971-10-25)

Alice has revved up in his singles mode again, and the result is a predictably powerhouse side dominated by largish guitar chords and a hoarsely forceful vocal. The instrumental track hums with energy derived from a flotilla of guitars, drums, saxes and...

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He Could Drive Them Nervous
(Circular, 1971-11-01)

Alice Cooper arrived in England, to the unmitigated delight/dismay of the populace, with, sure enough, an electric chair, a boa constrictor and a straitjacket. The English didn't believe Alice would really bring those things. Wait till they find...

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Alice Cooper
(Circular, 1971-11-22)

I love you and your group. Everytime I play your album in the house my mother gets mad at me. When you were playing in Chicago at the Opera House in April, my parents forbid me to go, and my sister and I had to sneak out of the house so my...

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Do the Funky Chicken
(Circular, 1971-12-27)

Alice Cooper, the group unanimously blackballed from membership in the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Poultry (ASPCP), made it close to the top of the charts with the single "Eighteen" and entered the Hollywood social register...

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Alice Cooper: Weird May Not Be Beautiful But It Sure Is Strange
(Circular, 1972-01-24)

I was there before it all began to happen big for the ACs, as I like to call them. Sometime before the Love It to Death album was released and before "Eighteen" became a teenage — what would you expect with a title like that — smash I saw Alice and...

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New Singles
(Circular, 1972-02-21)

This side is almost already a hit, thanks to concerted exposure from its parent Killer album. Its incarnation as a fast-spinning single should cement its hitdom. Alice belts out a semi-autobiographical song anent the dating possibilities...

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Preacher Alice
(Circular, 1972-02-28)

From Atlanta, Georgia, comes the news that Alice Cooper performed a wedding ceremony. As a preacher. He joined in holy though probably illegal matrimony Smokey Frisch and Debbie Bost. Alice made up the vows as he went along...

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What Makes Alice Run?
(Circular, 1972-06-26)

Every new record release is accompanied by its share of traumas and travails from a production stand­ point. It's no simple matter preparing and reproducing a multicolored jacket in massive quantities at the highest possible speed, and things get...

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Ringling Bros., Barnum and Bailey and Alice Cooper
(Circular, 1973-03-05)

You haven't seen the biggest, you haven't heard the greatest, you haven't experienced the most fantastic rock & roll show on earth until you've been to The Alice Cooper Show, 1973. It will entertain more people (8,000,000 in 56 cities of the North...

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Alice in the Studio
(Circular, 1973-04-16)

He's an expert theatrician in the studio. He's an actor. His studio craft is totally distinct from his stage craft. He takes a lot more time on each piece of material, and tends to be much more analytical. He's not so much reacting to the feel of an audience...

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