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Two words: Alice Cooper
(Pittsburgh Newsweekly, 1997-08-13)
I have two words for all those people getting upset by Marilyn Manson recently: Alice Cooper. It's true that Manson might have upped the ante somewhat, but Alice has been exposing the nightmarish underbelly of the American dream for three decades. Over the years his lyrics about topics such as dead babies and necrophilia, coupled with his stage persona and antics (including fake hangings and decapitations), have continued to raise the hackles of many self-appointed guardians of public morality....