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What a Drag
(Melody Maker, 1971-10-30)
Alice Cooper, the rather unusual American "entertainer", flew into London last Thursday accompanied by his snake. The couple gave a visually zany, but otherwise straighter than straight press conference at Heathrow Airport, where Mr Alice...
Caught In The Act
(Melody Maker, 1971-11-13)
Alice Cooper gave a most moving performance at London's Rainbow Theatre on Sunday night. She made me want to move right out of the theatre; out of the rock business; out of the country....
Interview
(Melody Maker, 1972-07-01)
The cannon has just arrived from Warner Bros, Burbank, and stood impressively in the large ballroom at Alice's surrealistic mansion. Alice fondled the barrel, and burst into a scared laughter....
Alice Cooper — Cool Ghoul
(Melody Maker, 1972-07-15)
Henry McCulloch of Wings was there, with a Paul and Linda tee-shirt and a blond child in his arms. So was Ian Wallace, who used to drum for King Crimson. Then there was Wiggy of the Who's set-up, Claude the famous roadie, and B.P. Fallon...
Alice Is Still Swinging — By The Neck
(Melody Maker, 1972-11-18)
The kids at Green's Playhouse, Glasgow, were yelling "Alice, Alice, Alice" at the top of their voices in deafening unison as the object of their emotion stepped up to the gallows. But as the volume grew louder and the cries more disjointed...
Alice: an obituary
(Melody Maker, 1973-03-17)
The rock world today mourns the death of Alice Cooper who was accidently killed last night when the safety screws failed on the guillotine he uses in his act. Cooper was appearing here at the Spectrum Theatre at the start of his 56-city tour...
Alice Lives!
(Melody Maker, 1973-03-24)
RUMOURS of Alice Cooper's death have been greatly exaggerated. A fierce onslaught of phone calls - more than Osmondrama or Cassidymania produced - struck the MM office following last week's "obituary" story which was a satrical review of Alice's American concert...
Alice On Boredom
(Melody Maker, 1973-03-31)
The unlit Marquee of the Capitol Theatre, situated on the corner of a cold, dark, windswept street in the New York suburbs of Porchester, advertises: "This Theatre Available For Rent For Rock Concerts." "I'm not sure," says my driver...
Killer comes home!
(Melody Maker, 1973-04-14)
Alice Cooper and Howard Kaylan are grappling with each other on the floor of the Roostertail, a Detroit night club whose wall of windows looks across the Detroit River to Canada. It's 2 a.m. and they're laughing and clowning around with each other...
No More Mr Nice Guy Single Review
(Melody Maker, 1973-04-21)
A breezy tune that lacks some of the impact ("How dare you," reader Susan Catsmeat, Harrow), of previous hits, and as it is readily available on the latest album, will not sell sufficent quantities to make serious inroads in the MM chart...
Mr. Nice Guy!
(Melody Maker, 1973-06-02)
In a week when Britain was rocked and rolled by the sexual confessions of leading members of Her Majesty's government, another scandal shook the very foundations of our society: Member of Parliament Leo Abse grumbled...
Alice Cooper debags Nixon
(Melody Maker, 1973-06-09)
Alice Cooper, in the final week of their giant American tour, came up with another great gimmick at the end of their Sunday show at New York's Madison Square Gardens. On came this dark suited gentleman who is the spit of Richard Nixon...
Alice Cooper: Patron Saint of Trash
(Melody Maker, 1973-09-29)
At age seven Vincent Furnier was playing in his back garden, down in Phoenix, Arizona, when he found a baby King Snake. He took it home and watched it grow, day be day. He even caught small mice to feed it...
A Clown Like Alice
(Melody Maker, 1973-12-01)
One covets his cash, another makes a deal with a midget pimp, the other three monkey around. After some 40 minutes of thick rock, the guys, bleeding and bedraggled, are turfed out by a gorilla with blond locks. Special Police drag 'em...
Government threat to Stones, Alice
(Melody Maker, 1973-12-08)
An anti-censorship committee has been set up to fight the new pornography bill which, they claim, threatens the freedom of rock musicians. They fear the bill will be used against rock groups with the result that companies producing album covers...
Alice: A Christmas Chiller
(Melody Maker, 1973-12-22)
The great Sherlock Holmes, cleverly disguised as MM investigator Chris Charlesworth, pulls his deerstalker over his eyes and sets forth on his most dangerous adventure. Red herrings and chopped up babies abound, but the devious Holmes...
TV Warlock Role for Alice
(Melody Maker, 1974-01-19)
Alice Cooper will be making his first non-singing appearance on American television mid - way through March in a TV movie entitled 'The Snoop Sisters'. Shooting starts in Los Angeles next week. Alice will be playing a bar owner...
Fangs ain't what they used to be
(Melody Maker, 1974-03-23)
At the end of the second evening of his three-day trip to London, after a gruelling schedule of interviews for the press, radio and TV, Alice Cooper was turning out another great performance. Stretched along a sofa in the Habitat atmosphere...
Alice's house burns down
(Melody Maker, 1974-06-24)
The Alice Cooper Mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut, was razed to the ground by fire last week. At the time Alice was in Los Angeles, but damage to the house and surrounding buildings is in the region of $350,000. Cooper and his band...
Solo Alice
(Melody Maker, 1974-08-03)
Alice Cooper plus two members of his band - drummer Neal Smith and guitarist Michael Bruce - are planning seperate solo albums. But reports of a split in the band are, according to a spokesman, "hotly denied."; Alice is also...
Alice's Crazy Daydream
(Melody Maker, 1974-09-07)
Spin off into the endgame, skydivers, with ol' snake-eyes and the gang's Greatest hits, a real hotchpotch hoola of the most deranged rock 'n' roll to ever slice across your head. Step into your last goodbye, cuz the shots are deadly...
Alice Cooper: solo album with Lou Reed's musicians
(Melody Maker, 1974-10-05)
Alice Cooper was back in New York this week playing golf with his biographer, New York author Steven Gaines. Gaines is writing Alice's story with full co-operation from Alive Enterprises, the Cooper company. Recently Alice has been in Toronto...
Tee with Alice
(Melody Maker, 1974-10-12)
Chris Charlesworth has a round — of golf, that is — with Alice Cooper in New York and finds the ghoul of rock is a little concerned about his image... "You won't believe this," said Alice Cooper emerging from some bushes...
News Report
(Melody Maker, 1974-12-21)
Alice Cooper's tour manager, Dave Liebert, is the only roadie to have two gold albums — he got them when he was a member of The Happenings. Alice Cooper has a golf handicap of 12....
Quotes
(Melody Maker, 1974-12-28)
IF Bela Lugosi did an interview and said that everybody should suck blood, then I would say he'd be adding to violence. If Alice said in an interview that he wanted all his fans to pick up a hatchet and chop a baby's head off...
Alice solo tour!
(Melody Maker, 1975-01-11)
Concert dates are being finalised for a massive Alice Cooper tour, in which the master of macabre and gore goes solo for the first time. Alice's new album, to be released this spring, is called "Welcome To My Nightmare," and presents...
News Report
(Melody Maker, 1975-01-18)
Alice Cooper made his first appearance on a TV talk show this week on CBS's Mike Douglas show. Cooper appeared with actor Ryan O'Neal and Peter Falk. Falk plays Columbo, the seedy police Detective, in the hugely successful TV show...
Cooper Signs Secret Deal
(Melody Maker, 1975-01-25)
Alice Cooper has signed with Atlantic Records after five years on the Warner label. As yet the details of the deal are being kept secret, but Alice was due to sign contracts on Monday afternoon. All that's being said at the moment is that Atlantic...
Alice's Nightmare
(Melody Maker, 1975-02-00)
Alice Cooper was eating canned octopus, pulling the pieces out of the can and popping them into his mouth with his fingers. He stuck a livid chunk, complete with tiny suckers, under my nostrils, which flared with disgust. I tried to get him back...
News Report
(Melody Maker, 1975-02-01)
Alice Cooper officially signed with Atlantic Records last week and 800 cases of Budweiser beer were shipped into Atlantic's Rockefeller Plaza offices to celebrate the occasion. The formed a back-drop for a photo session ...
News Report
(Melody Maker, 1975-02-08)
Kirshner introduced In Concert. The first show that was something of milestone in TV rock. It featured Alice Cooper and was taped at Madison Square Gardens instead of at a normal TV studio. Because it was Alice at his grossest...
News Report
(Melody Maker, 1975-02-15)
It could only happen in New York department. A five-year-old beagle was presented with a gold record last week for her contribution to the title song Alice Cooper's "Muscle Of Love" album. The dog, one Dolly Leibert...
Department of Youth Single Review
(Melody Maker, 1975-03-01)
A. Cooper, snake-lover, golfer, and rock singer, makes singles which despite varying degrees of camping up, are pretty basic. This is typical, a heavy metal Marc Bolan, that sticks closely to the formula of "School's Out" and "Elected." It's gritty ...
Welcome To My Nightmare Album Review
(Melody Maker, 1975-03-15)
Well, here's another Alice Cooper album which will crawl off into the pile and take up a secluded residence besides rarely played copies of "Muscle Of Love", "Billion Dollar Babies" and so on back to "Love It To Death". I can't be bothered...
Alice's tasteful Nightmare
(Melody Maker, 1975-04-12)
Detroit: The new Alice Cooper Revue, which opened in Chicago last week and moved on to Detroit and Cincinnati, is yet another step forward in the growing close relationship between theatrical choreography and what was once called rock 'n' roll...
News Report
(Melody Maker, 1975-04-21)
Alice Cooper stars in his first television spectacular Welsome To My Nightmare with a special presentation of Wide World: In concert on April 25 on American TV Guest star on the show is Vincent Price who will lead Cooper on a visit...
News Report
(Melody Maker, 1975-05-03)
The much-heralded Alice Cooper TV special which was due to be aired on Friday, but which was previewed with press screenings earlier in the week proved something of a disappointment after the current live tour....
News Report
(Melody Maker, 1975-05-15)
It could only happen in New York department. A five-year-old beagle was presented with a gold record last week for her contributions to the title song on Alice Cooper's "Muscle Of Love" album. The dog, one Dolly Leibert...
Superstars on sci-fi album
(Melody Maker, 1975-05-17)
John Entwistle, Alice Cooper, Jim Dandy, Frankie Miller, Jim Dewar, Maddy Prior, Nicky Hopkins, Keith Moon, Bill Burford and Justin Hayward are among the rock superstars who have made contributions to a new rock concept album...
Alice Cooper
(Melody Maker, 1975-09-20)
Alice Cooper's "Welcome To My Nightmare" extravaganza which was given its English premiere last Thursday at London's Wembley Empire Pool, threatened occasionally, to submerge itself beneath the weight of it devious, if spectacular...
The Monster Mash
(Melody Maker, 1982-02-20)
After sex, drugs and gratuitous violence, the strongest selling force that keeps rock rolling has got to be nostalgia. Now Alice has the lot. I can remember ages ago my first girlfriend's best friend telling me that Alice at Wembley...
A Clown Called Alice
(Melody Maker, 1982-02-27)
SLA-A-A-A-P! The Savoy room door swings open, this maniac anorexic takes two strides inside and skins my middle knuckle with a thick black leather riding crop. Sla-a-a-a-a-p! A sneering death's head, pore-clogged and filthy from 15 years...
Alice's Cash-In
(Melody Maker, 1982-03-20)
WHAT'S WITH all this Alice Cooper publicity? Here we are complaining as ever, about the state of "new music" and the lack of attention given to embryonic groups when, suddenly, you get the chance to cash in on a recent tour and flog a few copies....
Looking After Number One
(Melody Maker, 1996-04-27)
"A dramatic, exciting production, destined to be a Number One hit and one of the great rock classics. Much as I dislike them, it has to be said, the record is effective. If there has to be Alice Cooper as decreed by the record industry...
News Report
(Melody Maker, 1997-11-01)
Alice Cooper's original guitarist, Glen Buxton, dies of complications from pneumonia on Saturday, October 18 in Clarion, Iowa. He was 49. Buxton, co-writer of classics such as "School's Out" and "I'm Eighteen", played lead guitar...
Alice Comment
(Melody Maker, 2000-06-14)
Prince Charles and Camila. Should they get married? "Oh, yeah! Of course they should — I think it's inevitable. They've been going out for 42 years or something. I think it's about time they did something about it. I don't think it would be a big...
Singles
(Melody Maker, 2000-06-28)
Metallica — I Disappear (Hollywood): From the soundtrack of "Mission Impossible 2" comes the same blend of grunts and riffs that we've heard a hundred times before. If it's representative of the film, expect Tom Cruise to half-heartedly...