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Alice has his own hang-up
(Vancouver Sun - January 11, 1972)
CHICAGO — The last time I had seen Alice Cooper, he was recording an album called Killer at the RCA studios in Chicago. Alice, who is a male rock and roll singer, was very excited at that time about the possibilities presented by one of the song...
Alice: face of a very hungry ferret
(Vancouver Sun - February 14, 1972)
I'll try to describe Alice Cooper for you. The hair. Well, if he ever washed it, you could deep-fry fish in the rinse water. Long fingernails you could punch open beer cans with. The shoulders, well, if he wore suspenders, they'd slip off...
Alice is coming with his goriest show yet
(Vancouver Sun - February 10, 1987)
HALIFAX - Nothing terrifies shock rocker Alice Cooper more than decor at the Holiday Inn. "How could you live with those colors? Turquoise and coral. Anybody who would think of that is scary." This is from the man who regularly wraps a 3 1/2-metre...
Time's unkind to Alice
(Vancouver Sun - January 19, 1990)
Alice Cooper Grandmaster of Shock Rock is dead, long live the Sultan of Schlock. Cooper, ghoulish pioneer and practitioner of nightmare rock, is now sadly just another middle aged wanna be wallowing in a sea of...
Shock Rock Purist
(Vancouver Sun - September 9, 1999)
There is a very good reason you will never see Alice Cooper brandish tattoos or incorporate a coffin into his theatrical performance. They scare him. "I have a couple of phobias," he admits. "I'm pretty claustrophobic...
Alice Cooper back with nightmarish Paris Hilton salvo
(Vancouver Sun - October 13, 2005)
There are, generally, two types of show biz folk. There are the rock stars who take their craft terribly seriously and disdain the mundane parts, such as answering the same interview questions over and over again. And then there are the rock stars who...
Alice Cooper's Nightmare Lives On
(Vancouver Sun - November 14, 2013)
If Alice Cooper was one of the first true shock rockers, he is now one of the last remaining few. Speaking to a crowd of recording arts students at the Vancity Theatre last year, Cooper and longtime friend and producer Bob...
Never Can Say Goodbye
(Vancouver Sun - March 6, 2021)
In 1970, 22-year-old Alice Cooper decided to leave Los Angeles. Frustrated with his band's lack of success after two years of gigging, the theatrical rocker had to admit he had caught the ear of almost no one. (Frank Zappa was an idiosyncratic exception...