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Rock Joy Fully Revived
(Globe & Mail, 1969-09-15)
The Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival, Saturday at Varsity Stadium was the most exciting, most smoothly produced, most beautiful event to have hit Toronto since the Pop Festival. ...
Alice, the all-American boy, feeds them perversion, violence
(Globe & Mail, 1972-09-02)
Some of the 20,000 people expected to show up at Varsity Stadium tonight will be vying for front row positions so that a 24-year-old rock singer named Alice Cooper can shake up a can of beer, open it, and spray foam on their heads....
Alice Cooper exploits depravity
(Globe & Mail, 1972-09-04)
It was a rough night for a few members of the press, but a great night for nearly 24,000 howling fans as Alice Cooper, rock's gift to sado-masochism, vamped, crawled, kicked and screamed his way through through a 90-minute set Saturday night at Varsity Stadium. ...
Apocalypse Alice: the flash and trash can't hide the rock
(Globe & Mail, 1981-11-25)
Out of the rising smoke came two men in camouflage outfits, rushing onto the Maple Leaf Gardens' stage carrying flashlights and looking fearfully up into the bleachers. (Drum rolls; shriek of guitars. Enter Alice Cooper, hair pulled back, carrying a whip and dressed in leather.) The grunts in camouflage grabbed guitars, and the band sprang into the opening song, Who Do You Think We Are? Apocalypse Alice is a new creation, but it has a lot in common with some of the old ones, including the black eye makeup, wild rolls of the eyes, and that up-and-down-the-stage marching strut....