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Live In London
(Star Times, 1998-06-21)
WELCOME, once again, to the nightmare. Alice Cooper is back, and he's come for your sanity. And your sides. It's a physical impossibility to leave an Alice Cooper gig with anything less than a six-foot grin. The three decades-long godfather of glam rock is a survivor from the days way back when, before the LA poodle-rockers ruined everything with their makeup and their girls' haircuts. The Cooper horror-comedy stage shows were as theatrical as live rock has ever got (with none of the pretension of Pink Floyd et al), marrying dwarf-torture, executions and wriggling boa constrictors to the most cartoonish of the devil's tunes....