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Alice Cooper - Love Them To Death
(Circus, 1971-06-00)
"We're merely the end product of an affluent society," Alice Cooper is fond of saying. "We enjoy getting on stage and showing the public what their world has come to. Only usually they're shocked." Alice and the group are not shocked...
What Makes Alice Run
(Circus, 1972-02-00)
Alice Cooper' new production, Killer, had its premiere performance here in New York recently and, just as expected, it went well beyond spectacular. Alice has always been more famous for his gaudy theatricality than, quite unjustly...
Behind 'School's Out'
(Circus, 1972-08-00)
It's two o'clock on an exhilaratingly sunny Thursday afternoon when the sleek black Cadillac limousine turns off the main road, drives past a wrought iron gate that leans at a dilapidated angle, and rolls up the long, winding driveway through the trees...
Alice Plans A Broadway Surprise
(Circus, 1972-10-00)
The summer's shenanigans prompted the London Sunday Times to growl about a star who looked "like a cross between Rasputin and Bela Lugosi, or Tiny Tim after tip-toe-ing through the deadly nightshade." But they were noting compared with what's...
Alice Cooper for President
(Circus, 1972-11-00)
First they dressed him up as a girl. Then they hung him, now they're running him for president. Yup, Alice Cooper, symbol of everything that sets Tricia Nixon's teeth on edge, has abandoned his "Schools’ Out" idea of "blowing school to pieces" and...
Hurricane Alice Takes Europe By Storm
(Circus, 1973-02-00)
In a matter of moments, Alice's grin of excitement turned to open-mouthed terror as three thousand of Glasgow's screaming meanies gave the band its wildest reception ever. "Alice, Alice, Alice," screamed three hundred frenzied fans as the red...
Magic Alice On The Road
(Circus, 1973-04-00)
While Billion Dollar Babies (Warner Bros.) was racing up the charts, New York's Alice Cooper office was in a flurry of active preparations for his newest venture, a three month extended tour of the U.S. The Amazing Randi stood colorfully...
Alice Tours With Monster Tooth
(Circus, 1973-05-00)
"And now, America's own Billion Dollar Baby... the legendary Alice Cooper," screamed the intro tape as the curtain lifted on the most amazing show in the history of rock 'n roll wizardry. From the moment Alice's eighty passanger Electra jet...
Alice Quits The Stage
(Circus, 1973-07-00)
Alice's confidantes have leaked word of a Cooper game plan that could hit fans harder than a blast of billion dollar blood. The F 27 Elektra jet with the blackjack table planted in its cushion-strewn interior and the dollar sign painted on its towering tail...
Why Britain Wants To Ban Alice
(Circus, 1973-09-00)
"Alice Cooper is peddling the culture of the concentration camp," sputtered the outraged English government official. The British have blackballed Mott The Hoople from the Albert Hall. They have forbidden David Bowie, Led Zeppelin and Slade to play at...
Neal Smith Tells Terrifying Tales About The Band
(Circus, 1973-10-00)
Sexy blond Neal Smith reclined a little deeper into his chaise lounge, his slim tan legs tossed casually over the side of the chair as he chatted with a reporter in New York over the phone. A cool, frosty drink stood on the table only yards away from Neal's...
The Double Life of Alice Cooper
(Circus, 1973-12-00)
The Eastman "Valley Faucet" rolled thirty feet across the green and into the cup like a homing pigeon returning to its nest. It was an amazing putt, and no less amazing is that the golfer was Alice Cooper, attired in an orange Ban-Ion shirt, plaid pants...
Alice Gang Beats Business Kings to Moneybags
(Circus, 1974-00-00)
Who's the biggest money-making couple in show-biz? Liz and Dick? Nope. It's Carly and James, who stands to clear a cool four million while the merry Burtons sob over a paltry three. What entertainment industry makes more money than television...
Alice Cooper's 'Muscle of Love' - A Shocking Course in Pop Sex
(Circus, 1974-01-00)
"As long as nobody gets pregnant or hurt," Alice told Circus, "Sex is healthy." 'Muscle of Love' will tell millions of people all about it! Alice Cooper was sitting in the living room of his Malibu beach house surrounded by empty beer cans and five press...
Alice Cooper Retires Rock Career!
(Circus, 1974-04-00)
In what may turn out to be the career move of the century, the world's favorite ghoul may give up a career of rock for TV and films. Why? The answer lies in a club and a golf ball. Highly reliable sources reported to Circus Magazine that Alice's rock...
Alice Assaults Brazil!
(Circus, 1974-07-00)
The Voodoo religion Makumaba is even bigger than Catholicism in the steaming land of the Amazon, and when 'The Devil with a Snake' jetted in from North America he caused the most profound social paroxysm since the landing of the...
Led Zep vs Alice: The Battle Of The Bucks
(Circus, 1974-09-00)
Like Godzilla locked in combat with King Kong, two of the heaviest rock monsters are slugging it out for first place in the big buck sweep-stakes. While Alice Cooper counts the attendance records he smashed and the millions his concerts grossed...
Alice Hits The Rock Pile With 'Greatest Hits'!
(Circus, 1974-10-00)
Up in the Hollywood Hills, where show business mansions pepper the steep slopes like million dollar mushrooms, a long-haired, familiar looking construction worker was busy tearing apart and rebuilding a house. Far across the country, on a flat...
Alice Cooper: Groucho Of The 21st Century
(Circus, 1975-05-00)
Alice Cooper has been away so long they thought he was finished. Following the uneventful Muscle Of Love campaign in the winter of 1973-74, the shock troops from Phoenix fragmented, and many predicted the king Coop himself was creatively dead...
'I'm Not Lewd,' Swears Alice
(Circus, 1975-07-00)
"There's nothing lewd in this show," Alice Cooper told a reporter before one of the warm-up dates on his 68 show "Welcome To My Nightmare" tour. "I believe in suggestion. I don't do it. I suggest it." But Alice's reputation for the violently bizarre...
Cooper Backup to Go It Alone?
(Circus, 1975-08-00)
"We've been kicking around the idea of maybe this band recording on its own" says guitarist Steve Hunter. He's talking about the group that has supported Lou Reed in concert and most recently backed Alice Cooper on his 'Welcome To My ...
Alice Celebrates 200 Years Of Song
(Circus, 1975-09-00)
Alice Cooper pulled out all the plugs recently in a Bicentennial tribute to the 200-year history of the American music industry. Although Francis Scott Key might have felt out of place at the extranaganza Alice co-hosted with the Los Angeles...
Alice's Nightmare Filmed Live
(Circus, 1975-10-00)
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...
Is Alice Going to Hell? Two Views
(Circus, 1976-00-00)
It's genius. Sheer genius. I mean, what do you do for a follow-up to an album about a nightmare? of course! You do Alice Cooper Goes to Hell, another album about a nightmare. It's so simple. One of those ideas that is only visible to the truly enlightened...
News Report
(Circus, 1976-07-06)
Alice Cooper: The King (or Queen?) of Menace brought new depths of raunch to the already sex-filled pits of rock and roll. The whipflipper was the first to put snarling sado-masochism to music. Alice passed the bump and grind musical test when he...
Alice Cooper Dances in Hell
(Circus, 1976-08-10)
Alice Cooper is about to return to the public eye with a new album, a cross-country tour and a possible major film role which would mark his first departure from the character that began overtaking his life in the late 60's. Cooper's new album...
Creature Feature
(Circus, 1976-08-24)
"Beware of the dog," the sign says on the door of Alice Cooper's house and automatically visions of gruesome canines conjure themselves up. Fierce, with bulldog teeth and the personality of a German Shepard on patrol. Visions of snakes, of chickens...
Battle Axe Review
(Circus, 1977-00-00)
"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...
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...
The Transformation Of Alice
(Circus, 1977-05-12)
"You know I lie all the way through these things doncha?" Alice Cooper asks as he walks up to his silver and green Rolls Royce outside his Benedict Canyon home. In bright, sunny California blue and yellow, the license plate read: A CLUE. "Yeah?...
Billion Dollar Babies
(Circus, 1977-05-26)
This is not another "whatever became of" story. This is the story of three former members of the original Alice Cooper Group. Three-fifths of the original Alice Cooper Group, as a matter of fraction. Mike Bruce, Dennis Dunaway and Neal Smith...
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...
Lace and Whiskey Review
(Circus, 1977-07-21)
What's green, red, and moaning in the corner? Alice Cooper eating razor blades. That's, of course, a reworking of a dead-baby joke, once the source of Alice Cooper's joyfully repellent visions. Yeah, Alice was a guy you really could relate to. ...
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...
Return of the Bizarre — Alice Cooper's New Show
(Circus, 1977-09-08)
With television cameras filming the proceedings for a projected 90 minute network special, Alice Cooper returned to the American stage for the first time in two years before a slightly less than capacity crowd at Anaheim Stadium. ...
Alice Comes Alive
(Circus, 1978-01-19)
In Autumn of 1974 Alice Cooper was sitting in a Toronto bar getting plastered, after he finished a recording session for Welcome To My Nightmare. He had some good reasons: his old band was contemplating suing him and ending his solo career...
Alice Cooper Goes Straight
(Circus, 1978-12-19)
"Keith Moon was probably the greatest life-lover I've ever known. He didn't want to go to sleep, he loved life so much. The thing is, he didn't use any wisdom with it. He could've been just as crazy and had just as good a time if he'd taken a look...
Alice Cooper: Nightmares, baby dolls & snakes
(Circus, 1980-00-00)
He danced with a boa constrictor, had Black Widow eyes, hacked dolls to death, splattered himself with blood, threw live chickens into the audience, was attacked by a giant Cyclops, had himself executed in an electric chair and was deemed "ugly" by...
1972: Alice Cooper
(Circus, 1981-10-00)
Alice Cooper's impact of rock in 1972 can't be measured solely by his record sales. (Perhaps researching that year's fortunes of the cosmetics industry would provide a better barometer.) It's not true that Cooper was responsible for bringing theater to rock...
Alice Cooper: Welcome To My Nightmare, Again
(Circus, 1987-01-00)
"He's Back" is Alice Cooper's theme song for Friday The 13th, Part 6 — but could just as well apply to Cooper himself. The legendary frontman is making a strong comeback with the late 1986 release of Constrictor (MCA) and a U.S. tour after five...
Raise Your Fist and Yell Album Review
(Circus, 1987-12-00)
Alice Cooper barnstorms his way through ten anthemic rockers that hearken all the way back to his classic Billion Dollar Babies days. Like Aerosmith, Alice has improved upon his comeback LP. Producer Michael Wagener has given the sound a harder...
Alice Cooper: Still The Shock Rock Master
(Circus, 1988-10-00)
Armed with a boa constrictor, guillotine and teen anthems like "I'm Eighteen" and "School's Out," Alice Cooper (a.k.a. Vincent Furnier) has been the shock rock master ever since his 1969 debut. His gore-filled extravaganzas like 1975's Welcome...
A Little Help From Alice's Friends
(Circus, 1989-00-00)
Crediting Alice Cooper for the success of Trash is a little like thanking Lee Lacocca for a good Chrysler. Both guys get lots of help. Just check out the thank-you's gracing Cooper's Desmond Child-helmed latest album. Save for Brad Whitford, every...
News Report
(Circus, 1989-03-00)
Alice Cooper, shocking and rocking since the '60s, is having the last laugh on everyone in the music business who though he was gone for good. With his strong new entry in the Top 20 (Trash), Top 10 hit single ("Poison"), and major tour on tap, the now...
Alice Cooper: Trash (Epic)
(Circus, 1989-08-00)
Alice Cooper's comeback seemed to be on solid artistic ground with '87's Raise Your Fist And Yell, a passionate aural horror story that bristled with intricate musicianship and wonderfully sick gothic lyrics. But - perhaps disheartened by that LP's...
Alice Cooper roars back to the top with 'Trash'
(Circus, 1989-12-00)
The third times seems to be the charm for Alice Cooper comebacks. After his legendary stint as the shock-rocker of the '70s, Cooper took a detour into the land of chemical excess and sluggish record sales. His first sober re-entry into the rock...
Alice Cooper Updates His Naughty Nightmare
(Circus, 1990-04-30)
When you think of the pioneers who helped shape American rock & roll, you'd be hard-pressed to find one who's had a bigger impact than Alice Cooper. Do you think Poison invented face makeup? Guess again. Do you consider Kiss the founding...
Various Unknown Circus Articles
(Circus, 1991-00-00)
"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...
Alice Cooper Puts Shock Back Into Rock:
(Circus, 1993-10-00)
What do boa constrictors, electric chairs, hypnotism, guillotines, severed heads and dead chickens have to do with rock & roll? Everything, if your band's called Alice Cooper. As rock becomes an accepted part of the mainstream, L.A.-cum-Detroit hard...
Alice Cooper: The Icon of Rock Returns
(Circus, 2004-11-20)
"I really never had to compromise in any way" laughs Rock icon Alice Cooper aka Vincent Furnier, "And look how things turned out!" He was the public enemy #1 in the 70’s and shocked America and the rest of the world with alcohol-fueled stage...