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Alice isn't shocking us any more
(Sunday Post, 2002-11-17)

ALICE COOPER - the name sounds more like a clean-cut country singer than a dark monster of rock. And that's exactly why the man born as Vincent Furnier chose it. He wanted people who came to his concerts to be shocked - and he succeeded with his macabre and unsettling stage show ' and songs. Alice first shook Britain in 1972 when his single School's Out and LP Billion Dollar Babies both went to No. 1. After a successful solo career in the mid-70s, Vincent/Alice endured a long battle against alcohol and a self-imposed stay in a mental asylum....

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