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Alice Cooper? David Bowie? Ugh! And Ugh Again!
(New York Times, 1972-09-24)
UGH. Alice Cooper is ugly. His music is ugly. His boa constrictor is ugly. Why, then, is he the hottest rock act around? Because, my pets, ugly is in. Call it freak rock, transvestite rock or decadent rock, the uglies are the latest giggle...
Pop Notes: Here Come the King of Shock Rock
(New York Times, 1975-03-16)
Bace yourself: After 20 months out of the public eye, Alice Cooper is bringing a new dose of madness and mayhem to the nation's giant-sized arenas. Commencing on April Fool's Day in Chicago, the 27-year-old, snaggle-toothed, stringy-haired...
Theatrics Overwhelm Show by Alice Cooper
(New York Times, 1977-07-23)
The show Alice Cooper brought to Nassau Coliseum on Thursday night, his first touring show in more than two years, was a case of the tail wagging the dog. The theatrical elements that Mr. Cooper introduced into arena rock - and theatrical means the full...
Blood, Sweat and Oldies In New Alice Cooper Show
(New York Times, 1989-00-00)
Alice Cooper was, unfortunately, a pop-culture prophet in the mid-1970's. Long before MTV, he realized that rock could be treated as a theatrical spectacle, and he anticipated slasher movies by putting his hard-rock songs behind blood-splattered, Grand Guignol vignettes. For audiences that wanted jokey titillation, Mr. Cooper became the tasteless entertainment of choice, and every so often he'd come up with a well-made hit single. At his best, songs like "School's Out" and "Eighteen," he could probe taboos and summon a spirit of nihilistic anarchy, though he was usually better on concept than on follow-through. But he couldn't keep topping himself, and by the end of the 1970's, while Mr. Cooper had become a regular on the game show "Hollywood Squares," punk-rock and heavy metal had stolen his thunder....
Cooper Resurgent
(New York Times, 1990-03-07)
"One thing I've noticed is that you can't really shock an audience anymore," Alice Cooper said the other day. "When I started in 1970, it was before movies like 'Friday The 13th' and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and the new generation of horror characters...
'ALICE COOPER: THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF'
(New York Times, 1999-12-12)
EACH year recording companies dig more deeply into their archives. They are eager to retrieve the obscure recordings that justify expanding greatest-hits collections into the boxed sets that have becomefixtures of the holiday market. Theme anthologies are devised; concert tapes and studio outtakes are gleaned; old recordings are remixed. And if there's nothing left in the vaults, then new material is created: electronically assisted posthumous collaborations (as with the latest set by the Doors) or recent live recordings (as with Phish)....
Brutally Frank Cooper Stupor
(New York Times, 2000-06-00)
After hearing master shock-rocker Alice Cooper's new "Brutal Planet," it's clear that Marilyn Manson and others of his ilk are pale by comparison. On this monument to Goth-metal headbanging fury, Cooper is the devil's cabana boy. He'll definitely be called irresponsible for this ode to destruction, but he makes people listen - and think....