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Alice in Monsterland
(Famous Monsters, 1999-08-00)

Hollywood is fond of summarizing an act in a few short words. If we applied that formula to Alice Cooper we could do it in just two words: class act. After years of battling conventional thinking, Cooper managed to craft a unique style that personified the growing angst of youth culture in the late 60s and 70s. He plucked the petal from the flower children and screamed out the frustration of the counter culture. When the very nature of rock-and-roll music was taking it rebellious roots to extremes - when bands like The Who, The Animals, Frank Zappa and even The Beatles were vocalizing the outcast aura of a generation - Cooper cast aside all the social stigma and became the poster boy for the primal scream....

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