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Sex, rock and a boy called Alice
(New Musical Express, 1971-06-05)
ALICE COOPER. Now isn't that a real, cute, old fashioned apple pie and ice cream name for a healthy young All-American BOY? No, dear reader, it isn't a typographical error, for She just happens to be a He, and if that's not enough, the four other...
Under My Wheels Review
(New Musical Express, 1971-11-13)
Another hard-hitting rocker, with a sizzling rave-up beat and reverberating guitars supporting the spirited gravel-voiced vocal. Like most rock numbers, it's based upon a simple repetitive riff, and is therefore quite catchy. Works up to quite a frenzy...
Alice Cooper for Wembley
(New Musical Express, 1972-06-17)
ALICE COOPER, the American satiro-sexual band, are booked for the Wembley Empire Pool on June 30. It is the first British appearance by Cooper since his promotional tour earlier this year. The concert, promoted by Jumpin' Jack Promotions, is scheduled to take place...
All people want is sex and violence
(New Musical Express, 1972-07-01)
There maybe some truth in the expression "There's No Business Like Show Business", but in endeavouring to further shock his audience, that transexual singing snake charmer Alice Cooper almost over-excelled even his most bizarre on-stage antics...
ALICE COOPER — politics and bloodlust
(New Musical Express, 1972-10-14)
ALICE COOPER ENJOYS underlining the band's "all-American wholesomeness" — it's there beneath the stage depravity — and when we last met he backed up his claims by noting: "Me and Dennis were on the track team in school. Neal...
Candles in Connecticut
(New Musical Express, 1972-11-11)
THE MOON WAS low over the forest of trees surrounding Alice Cooper's white mansion somewhere in Connecticut, and outside the outasight I could hear a million crickets making their presence heard as Alice lay prostate on a king-size bed in candle-lit...
Broken Ribs And Fake Blood
(New Musical Express, 1972-11-18)
D'You ever see a film called 'The Young Savages'? It starred Burt Lancester as some hokey white liberal politician and a bunch of film-star nonentities most of whom are totally forgettable. The real meat of the flick hung in the presence of three juvenile...
Alice's Free Single For Britain
(New Musical Express, 1973-02-03)
Alice Cooper - voted The World's Top Band in the NME Poll - is giving a complete 4 min. 20 sec FREE SINGLE as a Thank You to British reader of NME...
And more news on THAT ALICE SINGLE
(New Musical Express, 1973-02-10)
A BONUS SELECTION of five excepts from their new "Billion Dollar Babies" album has been added to the world exclusive Alice Cooper single available ONLY with copies of next week's NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS (week ending February 17)...
Free Alice
(New Musical Express, 1973-02-17)
This free single "Slick Black Limousine" is a world exclusive and was specially recorded by Alice for New Musical Express as a tribute to readers who voted the band World's Top in the recent NME Poll...
The Development Of The Mini-Cooper
(New Musical Express, 1973-02-24)
Alice Cooper calls a temporary halt to rehearing his new show in the ballroom of the band's Connecticut country mansion. Pausing just long enough to re-arm himself with cans of Budweiser, he hops into the backseat of is chrome speed-wagon and maked...
Billion Dollar Babies Album Review
(New Musical Express, 1973-03-03)
Superficially, Alice Cooper's appeal is to the man who shoves his way to the front from the back of a crowd inquiring tersley: "What's going on!" Nothing has interested the gent up to the present time, but, some geezer's messing about with a snake...
Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies on the road
(New Musical Express, 1973-03-31)
The Alice Cooper Show - America 1973 Philadelphia Itinerary - reads thisaway: "You are residing at the Penn Centre Inn, 20th and Market Philadelphia, Penn, If you lose this - You're LOST!! Now that we've got you captive for several hours...
Freaks In New York, Bad taste in Detroit
(New Musical Express, 1973-04-14)
The man was balding, podgy, 50, finely-suited and standing on the steps outside the Knoedler Art Gallery. He looked like an art critic and was leaving in digust, talking volubly. "I tell ya, I don't know what things are coming to. Nothing's done right...
Abse V. Alice - Hypocrisy?
(New Musical Express, 1973-06-02)
LEO ABSE, the M.P. for Pontypool, is another of those individuals clearly bent on restricting the public's freedom of choice. He announced last week plans to revoke Alice Cooper's entry permit for his forthcoming Britsh tour. Not to be outdone, Mary...
Hype Hype Hurray
(New Musical Express, 1973-06-30)
Let's assume, just for the purpose of arguement, that you're a sensitive soul filled with love for your fellow humans, and that you really get off on beauty and loveliness. Let us further assume that you believe that rockanroll is the key to the solution of all...
Bob Ezrin
(New Musical Express, 1973-08-18)
Bob Ezrin currently packs a fair credibility among those-who-know (the presence of a striking array of musicians — Jack Bruce, Aynsley Dunbar,Steve Winwood et al — now working on Reed's album has not a little to do with Ezrin's exceptional reputation...
New Alice LP Due
(New Musical Express, 1973-09-29)
Alice Cooper's new album "Muscle Of Love" will be issued simultaneously throughout the world by Warner Brothers on November 15. Tracks comprise "Big Apple Dreamin", "Teenage Lament", "Woman Machine", "Working Up A Sweat"...
Alice Cooper Due in February
(New Musical Express, 1973-12-00)
After month of rumour and speculation, it is now officially confirmed that Alice Cooper will be undertaking a full European tour in the New Year. Promoter Harvey Goldsmith, for John and Tony Smith, revealed to the NME that he is in the process...
Return of the vomit-stained sailor
(New Musical Express, 1974-01-19)
WOWEE, that Ailce Cooper is certainly a funny fellow an no mistake. Consider, if you will, the extraordinary range of poses that he and his partners in crime have effortlessly assumed since Bob Ezrin first rescued them from the mouldering vaults...
Alice flexes his muscle
(New Musical Express, 1974-02-02)
Alice Cooper has become a living legend. And despite the tales of his physical decay, it looks like he's gonna keep on living. Could it be that Cooper is a liar? At any rate, far from having burned himself out, Cooper was sitting in the back room...
Two-hour Alice Film - But No Gigs
(New Musical Express, 1974-03-23)
Alice Cooper flew into London last weekend — "just to say hello", he commented, though he also spent some time negotiating a deal for the British distribution of his upcoming feature. The movie, which has the working title of "Hard Hearted Alice"...
October U.K. Gigs By Alice
(New Musical Express, 1974-05-04)
PLANS ARE NOW being finalised for Alice Cooper to bring his new roadshow to Britain this autumn, cables our U.S. correspondent. He will be coming here as part of a major European tour, though it is not yet known how many dates...
News Report
(New Musical Express, 1974-07-06)
"Alice Cooper asked for two midgets, 12 monkeys and a Marachi player. I managed to get everything except the Marachi player as he was doing a recording session. But with people like Alice Cooper I don't really mind. It's a challenge...
Alice's absurd achievements
(New Musical Express, 1974-09-07)
Music was never much more than a peripheral interest for this bunch of theatrical con-artists - after all, the early seventies' audience was disillusioned to the extent that cynical opportunism had no need to masquerade as anything saleable. It was a...
Remember Alice Cooper?
(New Musical Express, 1975-01-18)
When Alice Cooper starts his U.S. tour on April 1, he'll have already filmed an NBC-TV special based on his forthcoming solo LP "Welcome To My Nightmare" — which will be used as the soundtrack. The plot of the programme with be loosely...
Alice for July gigs
(New Musical Express, 1975-02-01)
Alice Cooper is to tour Britain this summer, it was officially announced this week. He will play at least five venues in this country, as part of a full European tour. It will be his first British visit for over 18 months, and the first to feature him as...
The Man Who Ate Alice Cooper
(New Musical Express, 1975-02-15)
Yes, once again CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY, Regius Professor of Logic, Rhetoric, Trash Aesthetics, and Hohner Super Vamper, leaps forth with a mouthful of scintillating verbosity aimed, with all the abandon of the truly crazed, straight at your frontal lobes...
Department of Youth Single Review
(New Musical Express, 1975-03-08)
"Department Of Youth" finds Alice Cooper re-running "'School's Out", but this one lacks even the illusion of spontaneity and commitment; and besides, it just ain't as good...
Alice: gigs set
(New Musical Express, 1975-08-02)
After much speculation concerning a September visit but Alice Cooper, he was this week officially confirmed for three British dates — they are Wembley Empire Pool (September 11 and 12) and Liverpool Empire (14). Alice will be starring in his brand...
Ladies 'n Gennelmen: Welcome To MY Rationale...
(New Musical Express, 1975-09-06)
"PEOPLE WANT artists to have messages - which is dumb. Your average wino in the street's got more of a message than any artist." Alice — the new, cleancut, lovable, inoffensive ol' Alice - continues his policy of Owning Up... He's over in England for...
Concert Review
(New Musical Express, 1975-09-20)
You missed it? You missed Alice's new show? Better let me tell you all about it, kid, else ain't no one in school gonna talk to you. Well for starters nearly missed it myself, waiting for my girlfriend to turn up, and when I arrive there's this really keen bunch...
Alice in Cabaret
(New Musical Express, 1976-02-21)
Nestled in the scenic High Sierras (made famous by the Humphrey Bogart epic of the same name), Stateline, Nevada, on the equally scenic Lake Tahoe is the home of four resort hotels housing both gambling casinos and music showrooms...
Alice And Groovies: UK Trips Postponed
(New Musical Express, 1979-05-19)
PLANS FOR Alice Cooper to visit Britain at the end of this month have now finally been abandoned. As previously reported, promoter Harvey Goldsmith has been holding three nights for him at London's Wembley Arena, but Alice's management...
Interview
(New Musical Express, 1982-00-00)
I interview Alice Cooper, the American singer, in his modest French hotel room. Resembling a Harryhausen hybrid of a prune, a crow and a well-Becketted Billie Whitelaw, his liquorice thin frame is bent awkwardly into a chair and he's blowing Q-tips...
Trash Sicky Rocker
(New Musical Express, 1989-08-12)
They don't write them like that anymore... and that's a shame. They don't write them like that because, owing to a law passed in secret around the middle of this decade, all chart singles are prevented by stringent regulations from containing...
Thrills, Shocks And Scars
(New Musical Express, 1990-01-06)
EVERYONE'S UPTIGHT. Just because '70's surviver and Rocky Horror rocker ALICE COOPER is doing live TV link-up with an Australian night club from The London Dungeon, tempers are fraying. Bossy PR women (invariably clipboard-carrying...
Concert Review
(New Musical Express, 1997-07-19)
"'SCHOOL'S OUT'... er...that one with the snake in the video or something... er... 'All You Young Dudes'... no, that's wrong... er..." Such is the usual response when you, The Kids, are asked the question 'What Alice Cooper songs do you know?'...
Bad Santa
(New Musical Express, 2011-12-17)
NME's introduction to Alice Cooper is not how we imagined it would be. What he should be doing, see, is hanging from the rafters of his Parisian hotel room, dressed like death, biting off chicken heads and/or shagging snakes....