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Let's Get Trashed
(RAW, 1989-00-00)
The Alice Cooper phenomenon is about to hit Britain once again. Only this time it's different. This time Alice Cooper is riding atop a hit album ('Trash'), his first for over a decade, and these days that tends to make the world a better and brighter place....
Alice's Child Connection
(RAW, 1989-02-08)
Alice Cooper is back!! Yes the master of mayhem, the mercurial merchant of gratuitous gore will be unleashed another maliciously molten meisterwerk this summer. The as-yet-untitled album will be ready for worldwide release in May and Alice has engaged the superlative talents of Desmond Child as co-writer and producer. Child is the man responsible for mega-hits enjoyed by such acts as Kiss, Joan Jett and Bon Jovi. Indeed, members of the Bon Jovi band actually guested on a couple of the new Alice tracks, laid down at Bearsville Studios in Upstate New York. However, whether these will eventually emerge on the album is yet to be determined....
Alice Prepares to Trash The World
(RAW, 1989-05-05)
Alice Cooper is presently putting the finishing touches to his 20th album through release through the Epic label during late May in the US. This will be the first release from the maestro since switching from MCA (where he put out two records, 'Constrictor' and 'Raise Your Fist And Yell') to Epic. "Being on a new label is unbelievable. MCA didn't have any idea about me" says Alice. "Epic is great, though." The album is being produced by Desmond Child (most renowned for his songwriting work with the likes of Kiss, Bon Jovi and Aerosmith) and is expected to feature the following 10 tracks: 'Spark In The Dark', 'This Maniac's In Love With You', 'I'm Your Gun', 'House Of Fire', 'Poison', 'Why Trust You', 'Bed Of Nails', 'Trash', 'Only My Heart Talkin' ' and 'Hell Is Living Without You'. All of these numbers were co-penned by Child and Cooper, mostly in association with one or two others. ...
News Report
(RAW, 1989-06-14)
Alice Cooper releases his first album since switching labels from MCA to Epic during August in the UK, with a US released scheduled for July. The LP is titled 'Trash' and full details are to be found in issue 16. A number of guests appear on the record including Jon Bon Jovi. He features on the title cut, and also helped to pen 'Hell Is Living Without You', alongside Alice, BJ guitarist Richie Sanbora and producer Desmond Child. ...
Sex And The Single Maniac
(RAW, 1989-07-26)
Alice Cooper's legendary status within the world of Hard Rock owes much to his dark and infernal dabblings. But now, with a new record deal secured and a new album 'Trash', poised for release in the UK, the man has changed tack slightly, giving his songs a more commercial slant and exploring (in the musical sense at least) an assortment of bizarre sexual experiences. Frank Sinatra. Few men in the history of the music business have attained such near-universal respect, admiration and, yes, fear. Frank Sinatra must rank in the upper echelons of The-Coolest-Man-In-The-Cosmos league. Not, perhaps, as cool as Clint Eastwood, nor Rolling Stone Keith Richards, but somewhere up there. ...
Trash City Rocker
(RAW, 1989-08-09)
Alice Cooper fell foul of his fans back in the '70s when he was thought to have 'sold-out', gone 'Hollywood' or, worse yet, gone 'Las Vegas'. He was seen playing golf with presidents and appearing on TV game shows like 'Celebrity Squares'. Alice Cooper, the man who for years had represented everything that appalled and horrified parents all over the western world, had been tamed. At least that's the way it seemed. It took Cooper some years to recover from this shunning by his fans and to re-establish his credentials as a hard rock artist of extraordinary merit, the pariah of respectable society and the doyen of a million teenage fantasies of gore, horror and lust. But he did it....
Chart News
(RAW, 1989-08-23)
Yikes! Alice Cooper's back! The veteran gorester's latest 45, 'Poison', slips neatly to the top slot of our singles chart (it had reached the astounding level of No. 5 in the gallup chart as used by the BBC at the time of writing), climbing from last issues placing of No. 8. The 'Poison' single represents the first time that Cooper has broken through the UK Top Five barrier since 'Elected' reached No. 4 back in October 1972! Should the single have the good fortune to climb all the way, it would be Alice's first No.1 since the classic 'School's Out' song topped the singles chart in June of the very same year! In the early '80s his success in this country was considerably less prolific - with both the 'Special Forces' and 'Dada' albums ('81 and '83, respectively) just denting the Top 100. However, his last pair of albums for MCA (Alice was previously signed to Warner Bros.) - 1986's 'Constrictor' and '87's 'Raise Your Fist And Yell' - marked the beginning of an upward spiral. ...
Bed Of Nails
(RAW, 1989-09-20)
SORRY, I don't like the new Alice LP, 'Trash', at all!. It's just too contrived for my tastes. And 'Bed Of Nails' (the followup to Top Five smash 'Poison') is one of the worst offenders on the record. Bland, spiritless and utterly lame. Tragic. ...
Alice Trashes UK
(RAW, 1989-10-04)
Alice Cooper returns to the UK during December to play a series of five major dates. These are as follows: Glasgow SE&CC December 5, Whitley Bay Ice Rink 7, London Wembley Arena 10/11, Birmingham NEC 14. Tickets are priced for the Wembley and Birmigham shows and for the remaining gigs at Glasgow and Whitley Bay. To date, not support act has been confirmed....
News Report
(RAW, 1989-11-15)
Alice Cooper has just had a retrospective compilation album issued through the MCA label in America. It's titled 'Prince Of Darkness'. As yet there are no plans for a UK release for this record....
News Report
(RAW, 1989-11-29)
Alice Cooper is to have a compilation album issued shortly through the Warner Brothers label. Titled 'The Beast Of Alice Cooper' it features the following track listing: Side One: 'School's Out', 'Under My Wheels', 'Billion Dollar Babies', 'Be My Lover', 'Desperado', 'Is It My Body' and 'Only Women Bleed'. Side Two: 'Elected', 'I'm Eighteen', 'Hello Hurray', 'No More Mr. Nice Guy', 'Teenage Lament '74', 'Muscle Of Love' and 'Department Of Youth'. The sleeve notes have been penned by none other than RAW's very own Dave Dickson. ...
Vince The Prince
(RAW, 1989-12-13)
Alice Cooper is a worried man. Actually, no Vincent Furnier is a worried man. And the duality of Alice Cooper's on and off stage existance is important, particularly in this context. Alice escapes from the charming, civilised shell Furnier entraps him with and wreaks havoc before an audience. Last night, however, in Brussels, the opening date, more havoc was wreaked on the set than on the audience. They screwed it up and now the human face of Alice Cooper is worried. ...
House Of Fire
(RAW, 1990-01-24)
Method-acting Cooper in the style of Trash-Godfather meets commercially-aimed radio rock. Taken from last years 'Trash' LP it also features a live rendition of 'Poison' on the flipside. Loud and rousing but little more than sleeze as a fashion item rather than real life. Designer poverty, anyone. ...
Alice Cooper Trashes The World
(RAW, 1990-08-08)
Shot on Alice's last UK tour in Birmingham, this is a well filmed representation of what the Alice show was all about. The sad thing is that, while I admire the man enormously for his gore attire and general attitude, the last time around everything was so limited by the airplay-safe, condomed music of songs like 'Poison' and 'House Of Fire'. Still, director Nigel Dick's brief was to capture what was there and make it as exciting as possible, and he's succeeded to the point of turning a generally drab affair (save for the 'Nightmare' sequence) into something quite watchable, which says more about Dick than Alice! One for aficionados. ...
Interview
(RAW, 1991-00-00)
Films. "Susperia, which was directed by Dario Argento, 'cos to rne it was his best movie. Hellzapoppin, would have to be the second one, 'cos it's a good comedy. West Side Story as the third. Why? Because that film really inspired Alice Cooper early on. There's a lot of Alice in there. " Guests."The Marx Brothers, Salvador Dali, Elvis Presley would have to be in there, and the entire Monty Python cast. Jerry Lewis would make it too. Oh yeah, and Stiv Bator would've loved to have been invited."...
Alice Goes Stupid
(RAW, 1991-05-01)
Alice Cooper is now in the final mixing stages for his new LP, the follow-up to the highly successful 'Trash'. The LP is likely to be called 'Hey Stoopid' and is said to rock harder than his last album. The LP is being produced by Peter Collins (Queensryche, Gary Moore) with basic recording having been done at Bearsville Studios in Upstate New York, with the remaining work taking place at studios in Los Angeles - the same travel routine as was followed for 'Trash'. A number of guest musicians are featured on the project, but thus far their names are being kept under wraps, although Slash's name has been mentioned, alongside fellow guitarist Vinnie Moore. And among those people who collaborated with AC on material for the record are: Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx and guitarist Mick Mars (both of whom also appear on the record), Desmond Child (with whom Alice worked on the 'Trash' project), Dick Wagner (a member of the Alice Cooper band during the halcyon days of the early-to-mid-'70's), Jack Ponti (top songwriter/producer from New York) and Jim Vallance (Canadian songwriting partner of Bryan Adams). ...
Don't Knock The Shock
(RAW, 1991-06-26)
Jet black hair, wiry frame and startling sapphire-blue eyes. Alice Cooper, at fortysomething, is no stranger to holding court, telling the world about his latest exploits. In LA studio, his latest album 'Hey Stoopid', booms from the speakers, while he watches TV, seemingly giving his undivided attention to a flood of prying questions. Nearly 20 years since he first depraved schoolgirls and boys all over the globe, Alice Cooper - real name Vincent Furnier - laughs at the thought of being perceived as a new act who merely debuted last year with his chart-friendly 'Trash' album....
Prime Cuts
(RAW, 1991-07-24)
There was a time when Alice still had malice and a proper band around him. A time when young Vincent Furnier and his sicko friends were tagged as Public Ememy Number One and 'Prime Cuts' pretty much catalogues the man and the band's career of excess from the late '60s throughout the halcyon '70s-era freak outs right up until the modern day where you get Gn'R man Slash laying down the solo to Cooperman's latest offering 'Hey Stoopid'. Thankfully, we're spared the man's down period (early '80s albums such as 'Special Forces' spring to mind) and what you tend to get is material that's genuinely rivetting (check out the video for 'Elected' f'rinstance - now, that's totally classic!) and in places hysterical, coupled with Alice's modern day reminiscences. The closing 'Trash'-and-beyond material is a little lightweight but early Alice fans will find more than their fair share of priceless, camp moments on offer here. Prime cuts indeed. ...
Concert Review
(RAW, 1991-08-07)
.....As the venue lights dim then slowly rally to penetrate the dry ice, we notice the stage is fittingly decorated by a huge skull with gnarled hands. The Master of macabre humour and onstage illusion, Alice Cooper, is here! Even the influence of Desmond Child has failed to turn Alice into a clone of every other band he's worked with - thank God! With a new LP 'Hey Stoopid' just released, Cooper played a very acceptable Greatest Hits package, with 'Under My Wheels', 'Trash', the original 'No More Mr. Nice Guy' (recent redone by Megadeth), 'Billion Dollar Babies', a gory 'Feed My Frankenstein', 'Only Women Bleed' and 'Hey Stoopid' itself all delighted the crowd. Ever a favourite, 'Go To Hell' allowed us all to join Cooper on his journey. ...
Wembley '91
(RAW, 1991-10-16)
Back at his favourite hunting ground, Alice is happy. The lights have faded to reveal a basic (by Alice standards) stage set featuring a huge 'Hey Stoopid' skull. Skeletal hands contain Keyboardist Derek Sherinian and ex-Black Sabbath/Badlands drummer Eric Singer. Meanwhile, Alice finally bursts through the skull's face for 'Under My Wheels' before dragging us screaming back into the '90s with 'Trash'. ...
Rogues Gallery
(RAW, 1991-10-30)
Onstage he's possessed! He's got lot's of TV's and his own pinball machine! He's got snakes in his backyard! And he sometimes can't remember the words to 'School's Out'! He's Alice Cooper. Full name and nicknames. Alice Cooper Mellencamp, and the band call me Melons! No, seriously, Alice Cooper is now legally my full name since I ad it changed in about 1970. Now when people say Vince it gets no reaction whatsoever. Nicknames? Everyone calls me Coop. Or maybe Your Majesty. Either will do. Date and place of birth....
Alice Cooper 'School's Out'
(RAW, 1991-11-13)
"I was watching TV and there was this old '40s show on there called The Bowery Boys where all of the characters talked to each other in a real street way. One of them turned to the other and said, 'Hey, Satch, school's out!'. What he meant was 'Wise Up' but to me it just meant something else. It fitted the time perfectly and it applied to a whole generation. What we wanted was an anthem and that was it. When I ay it now it's mandatory 'cos it's like the National Anthem. Occasionally band's are allowed to write a theme song. With The Who it was 'My Generation' and with the Stones it was 'Satisfaction'. With Alice Cooper it's 'School's Out' ." - Alice Cooper ...
Meaning Of Life
(RAW, 1992-07-08)
He loves sweat-splattered Mexican food, he's married with children but still a virgin and he's still legally drunk 10 years after drying out! He's Alice Cooper and he's telling Paul Rees about... You know, the nice thing about Arizona is that you can get the best Mexican food here. The Mexicans actually take the tortillas, and they're sweating, and they slap it on their sweat and that's how they salt it. I know, it sounds disgusting but that's how they do it in Mexico, and you get all that natural salt. I think that all those years on the road gave me a real appetite for pizza and pasta. I have cut down on red meat, I only eat it now about once a week. I eat a lot of chicken and fish, and I eat a lot of high protein things. That's how I keep my youthful figure....
News Report
(RAW, 1993-02-03)
Elsewhere on the Seattle front, reports suggest that Hard Rock legend Alice Cooper has begun work on the sequel to his successful '70s concept album 'Welcome To My Nightmare'. Cooper has been working with Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell at his home in Phoenix. Arizona. The duo recently completed writing and arranging two tracks, 'Unholy War' and 'Stolen Prayer', although it is unclear whether these will be their only collaborations. Cooper will begin recording the as-yet-untitled album later this month in Los Angeles, with a release date tentatively set for early summer. ...
The Dark Knight Returns....
(RAW, 1994-05-11)
Heavy Metal's original bad guy, Alice Cooper, is about to launch a multi-media album-comic book-video blitz for 'The Last Temptation Of Alice Cooper', his latest, maddest project! And Soundgarden's Chris Cornell is in tow! Chris Smith feels the heat! One of Rock's original darkmen is back. Having lain low for three years since he toured with his last album, 1991's 'Hey Stoopid', Alice Cooper has returned with his strongest platter in years, 'The Last Temptation Of Alice'. ...
Alice, You Still Matter!
(RAW, 1994-05-25)
Yet another major album release reviewed bigger and better than anywhere else! Mick Wall is sucked into 'The Last Temptation', Alice Cooper's brand new platter!...
In The Dock
(RAW, 1994-07-06)
Alice Cooper - You have been accused of the following. That it is a blatant gimmick to give away a comic with your new album, 'The Last Temptation'. Absolutely guilty! I love blatant gimmicks! There's nothing worse than a subtle gimmick. We've given away panties, calanders, and billion dollar bills. Blatant self-promotion is a wonderful thing! That you have been threatening to make a 'classic Alice' album for the last five years, but you always end up returning to production hitmaker Desmond Child....
Alice And Sammy Get Cookin'!
(RAW, 1994-10-26)
Sammy Hagar and Alice Cooper are among the celebrity chefs who will be lending their culinary expertise to Miami's Big Feast On The Beach charity feed on November 4-6. All proceeds raised will go to charities such as the March Of Dimes and the United Foundation For Aids. Other celebrity chefs include actors Sharon Stone and Jim Belushi, but it seems as if either the Coop or Sammy would do well to pitc ...