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Alice Cooper Works All the Angles
(Wall of Sound, 1998-09-00)
It's been four years since Alice Cooper's last studio album, The Last Temptation, but the original shock-rocker is planning for a busy 1999. First off, there will be an album of new material, written by Cooper and his band, with, he says, no outside contributions. "We've got tons of stuff written; I told the band to go out and bring me tapes, and I heard about 12 or 13 different songs that were really good," he says, adding that the album likely won't be the next installment of the planned Last Temptation trilogy. "I've got at least three concepts that are basically written right now, but the next album won't be one of them. It will be a straight-ahead rock and roll album." ...
Interview
(Wall of Sound, 1999-05-00)
School may be almost out for summer, but it's definitely in for those wishing to learn a little more about Alice Cooper, the original shock-rocker and forebear to the likes of KISS, Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, Rob Zombie, and Marilyn Manson. With a new episode of VH1's Behind the Music airing footage of his assorted beheadings, electrocutions, hangings, and baby doll demolitions, The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper has entered stores, a four-CD, 91-song treasure crypt of hits, misses, and rarities that makes a case that the ghoul once known as Vincent Furnier - the son of a Detroit minister - can do more than just put on black mascara and cavort with boa constrictors....