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Around with Alice
(Guardian, 1997-06-28)
Alice Cooper has inspired everyone from The Sex Pistols and Slayer through to Kiss and Ice T. One of his songs, Only Women Bleed, has even been covered by Andrew Lloyd Webber protegee Julie Covington. ...
Welcome to my nightmare
(Guardian, 2000-07-22)
The stage sweats under camouflage netting; a backdrop depicts a scorched earth in green and black. Suddenly, to an explosion of lights and sonic grinding, a metal box on a plinth opens to reveal a wild-haired Methuselah consisting only of head and upper torso on a stick. He pleads with us to run for our lives. "I am the only piece of technology left on this dead planet," he thunders with staring eyes. "A lifeless, godless world, run by the sadistic megalomaniac, Alice Cooper!"...
Alice Cooper, Along Came A Spider
(Guardian, 2008-07-25)
Golf addict Alice Cooper has dragged himself away from the fairway just long enough to make his 25th album and re-establish his shock rock roots. Revolving around the comic book crimes of a serial killer called Spider, who cuts off one leg from each of his female victims then binds their bodies in silk, it's as close to his 70s heyday as Cooper has come in decades, the metal guitars glinting against a wash of soaring pop choruses. His snarl and sneer intact, Cooper stalks the streets for prey in I Know Where You Live and The One That Got Away, though power ballads Killed By Love and Salvation are infinitely more scary. Some songs, like I'm Hungry, are laudably silly, others simply bland, but with a little help from Ozzy Osbourne and Slash, who adds glitzy embellishments to the heavy, anthemic Vengeance Is Mine, Cooper's back on par....
School's out, and so is Alice
(Guardian, 2008-07-27)
Alice Cooper - British International Motor Show, ExCel, London, E16...
Alice Cooper delivers 'Don't throw your TV' message for Sony ad
(Guardian, 2009-08-21)
Alice Cooper's Sony Bravia TV ad suggests trading in an old television is better than throwing it out of a window....
'We Upset the Whole World'
(Guardian, 2014-06-13)
Alice Cooper is reminiscing about the days when he killed himself for a living. "Any time you have moving parts on stage, you are asking for Spinal Tap," he says of the gallows and the guillotine that were climactic fixtures of his live shows in the...
'This guitar-driven sound: it's in my DNA'
(Guardian, 2021-02-26)
Rock music in Detroit in the 1960s was hard, fast and loud. Alice Cooper recalls the scene in his hometown that produced Iggy Pop, Suzi Quatro and the MC5, and tells Michael Mann why it has inspired his new album. In the beginning there was...