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Alice Cooper
(Circus Raves - 1974)

Album covers have always been a sticky and expensive thorn in the side of record companies, and lately costs and competition for better covers have hurtled upwards faster than a pole vaulter on the end of a fiberglass pole. In the late 1960's...

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Alice Cooper Jail House Rock
(Circus Raves - April 1974)

The concrete walls seemed to stretch for miles, the pungent smell of disinfectant permeating the air. Each footstep, every movement, caused tiny echoes to reverberate through the gloomy passageways. It might have easily been the bowels of...

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Alice Unleashes Killer Autobiography
(Circus Raves - February 1975)

Alice Cooper is telling it all in an autobiography that will reveal his life and times from his first taste of copulation in a coffin through his salad-and-Budweiser days, when cracked actors like Troy Donahue occassionally fell out of his closet....

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Alice Toys with Nightmare Images
(Circus Raves - June 1975)

"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...

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Alice Welcomes Quatro to 'Nightmare' Tour
(Circus Raves - July 1975)

"I was very interested in a super-tour for her, to put her all across the country, to get her in front of like a million people." Leo Fenn, Suzi Quatro's American manager, was talking about her appearance as the opening act on Alice Cooper's 'Welcome...

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Alice Tumbles in Stage Debacle
(Circus Raves - October 1975)

After years of playing with death, Alice Cooper nearly treated himself to the real thing recently when he fell 17 feet to the cement floor during a sell-out concert in Vancouver, B.C. Some 18,000 fans at the Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum...

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