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Alice Cooper...I Was A Teenage Video Nasty!
(Samhain, 1987-05-00)

THE parallels between rock music and horror imagery are many and varied, and getting ever closer with videos now standard practice for a song - witness Michael Jackson's "Thriller", ZZ Top ' s "TV Dinner" or anything by Ozzy Osbourne. The man who has seen it, done it and been it all is Alice Cooper. His marriage of music and theatrics was, and remains, unequalled. ...

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News Report
(Samhain, 1988-03-00)

"ALICE Cooper, a troubled man for troubled times." That's the slogan that's going around Arizona at the moment where SAMHAIN's favourite rock star is running for governor. I kid you not and what's more Cooper, who is currently touring the UK ...

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News Report
(Samhain, 1988-06-00)

SHEFFIELD'S blind labour MP David Blunkett called for a ban on Alice Cooper after the first date of his 1988 British tour had 'em fainting in the aisles. The show included a hanging sequence, throat-slittings, disembowellments and baby mutilation - all simulated we hasten to add. At the climax of the 90 minute show, fans in the front row were soaked by gallons of theatrical blood. "I'm horrified by this man's behaviour" raged Blunkett."It's an indication of the sick society we're moving into." Sounds to us more like the same act Alice has been peddling for over 15 years now....

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