Article Database
1971 - 1972
Alice in Wonderland
(Beetle, 1971-03-06)
Toronto has once again seen the demise of a scheduled centre for rock shows that would have served to afford the city an outlet it ostensibly deserves. The Fillmore North was conceived by Archie Macdonell and Jan Launder, and was to run...
Love It To Death Review
(Billboard, 1971-03-13)
Alice Cooper is artfully absurd third-generation rock, and with improved musicianship and their big hit, "Eighteen," to keep them even more finely tuned into the times, Alice and the group have become the first stars of future-rock...
Concert Preview
(Great Speckled Bird, 1971-03-29)
The Detroit II concert on April 1 is finally going to give Atlanta a chance to hear the hard-driving rock and roll that is characteristic of that part of the planet. Detroit II features Alice Cooper, Brownsville Station and regretfully, the Amboy Dukes. ...
Readers' Reviews
(Hit Parader, 1971-04-00)
Alice Cooper is a five man group with their hair down to their elbows. They're the best acid rock group in the world. "Mr and Misdemeanor" is a great song if you're feeling angry and "Shoe Salesman" is a great song if you're feeling happy...
Alice Cooper: Love It To Death
(Ann Arbor Argus, 1971-04-01)
When I first saw the Alice Cooper band a couple of years ago they were the rage of the festival circuit, even though they didn't have any albums out. The reason was their total approach to the rock experience through their actions (which involved mainly...
Alice Cooper—Love It To Death
(Door, 1971-04-01)
Frank Zappa, a few years back, discovered the Alice Cooper group at Lenny Bruce's birthday party. The act was really obnoxious—2000 people walked out and by the end only 100 people were left and Zappa was standing there applauding....
Love It To Death
(Rolling Stone, 1971-04-15)
(It came on the radio in the late afternoon and from the first note it was right: Alice Cooper bringing it all back home again. God it's beautiful - it is the most reassuring thing that has happened in this year of the Taylor Family...) Ever since they ceased to be the Nazz, a fairly normal Yardbirds/Who derivation in the manner of Count V, and became instead Frank Zappa's vision of American youth's sexual uncertainties gone beserk, Alice Cooper have endured more than their fair share of abuse from such redoubtables as Rolling Stone in general and L. bangs in particular, this in spite of the fact that their stageshow, clumsy and heavy-handed though it usually has been, represents at least a modest oasis in the desert of dreary blue-jeaned aloofness served up in concert by most American rock and rollers....
Love It To Death
(Ann Arbor Sun, 1971-04-30)
A 15 year-old brother I know got caught by his parents "freaking out" on LSD and they sent him to a dull, cramped, dirty part of the University Hospital called the Neuro-Psychological Institute — that's where people who are supposed to be "mentally ill"...
Alice Cooper - Love Them To Death
(Circus, 1971-06-00)
"We're merely the end product of an affluent society," Alice Cooper is fond of saying. "We enjoy getting on stage and showing the public what their world has come to. Only usually they're shocked." Alice and the group are not shocked...
Alice Cooper Third Generation
(Frendz, 1971-06-00)
But like all myths, it ain't really that way at all. No chillun, Alice doesn't really kill chickens - or molest them even. Y'see the band did a concert in London Ontario - usual Alice Cooper type thing. ...
Alice Cooper's a Real Nice Guy But Jack Kerouac Was A Saint
(Changes, 1971-06-01)
B.B. King's on the radio playing his ass off and I'm sitting here late at night, banging away at my typewriter while the decent people of Yorkville are long asleep and an ash is burning white on the joint cradled in the nearby ashtray and wondering...
'I Used to Be Very Good With a Whip'
(HOOKA, 1971-06-04)
Six HOOKA staffers joined a relatively small — for Ft. Worth's Will Rogers Coliseum — crowd of very enthusiastic rock and blues fans gathered to hear Brownsville Station, Alice Cooper, and John Mayall. B.S. quaked the crowd into a maniacal...
Sex, rock and a boy called Alice
(New Musical Express, 1971-06-05)
ALICE COOPER. Now isn't that a real, cute, old fashioned apple pie and ice cream name for a healthy young All-American BOY? No, dear reader, it isn't a typographical error, for She just happens to be a He, and if that's not enough, the four other...
Alice Cooper of Freaky Rock Fame Is Just an All-America Boy-Girl
(Milwaukee Journal, 1971-06-15)
"It's actually not dirty, you know," said Alice Cooper. "it's just that the image is hard for a lot of people to take." Alice was leaning back on a couch with his feet up, sipping beer out of a can, explaining what he does for a living, which is being Alice Cooper, which is weird....
Alice Cooper
(International Times, 1971-06-16)
Alice, I got to apologise for getting drunk and stoned when I came to interview you, but it's all your fault for being so nice to me. Now I got to write this letter and hope you answer it so I won't lose my job. I'm ripping off a bunch of stuff from the Warner Bros publicity garbage for your latest album ""Love It To Death"...
Alice Cooper Really Is A Nice Guy
(Cream, 1971-07-00)
It was Marshall McLuhan, oft-quoted pundit of the television age, who said that 'Art is anything you can get away with.' Alice Cooper is putting it to the test. He's been getting away with an awful lot these days, if reports filtering across the Atlantic...
Alice Cooper: Are You a Boy, or Are You a Girl?
(Crawdaddy, 1971-07-04)
One after another, the props come barreling out -- Alice and the boa constrictor, Alice and the strait-jacket Alice and the electric chair -- and by the time it's over, after the features have nearly ceased fluttering gently from the ceiling, the only thing that's...
Alice Cooper
(Door, 1971-07-21)
An Alice Cooper concert is no ordinary affair. Even portions of the audience emit a freakish aura for a rock concert: males wearing eye liner and feminine jewelry; females clothed in the bizarrest garments imaginable....
Rock in the androgynous zone
(Life, 1971-07-30)
The advance publicity for Alice Cooper almost turned my stomach. The pictures showed a kohl-eyed queen, cadaver face framed in a rat's nest of teased black hair, camping it up a whole warehouse of lurid props, everything from a boa constrictor to an old-fashioned mission-oak-and-leather-strap electric chair. The advertising copy was the usual I-can't-see-anything-wrong-with-it palaver about "contemporary theater" and rock as "total experience" and the wonderous fact that we all have male and female traits. After surveying the whole hyped-up spiel, I concluded, "If that's where it's at, who need it?"...
Swing The Sword, Paint Your Face, and Electrify The Stage, It's Alice Cooper Time
(Rock On, 1971-08-13)
The stage was so dark, as everyone looked towards it, "what is it?" they said?. A cry from the audience came WE LOVE YOU ALICE COOPER. The it hit, and the stage lit up. Alice Cooper, the MC yelled. Dressed in blue like the night was Alice Cooper, as he turned with a hammer in his hand. He dropped to his knees and started to hit the floor. Music pierced the ears of every soul in the audience as Alice, the beautiful, started to sing. "LOOK, LOOK" the audience yelled, as Alice beat the stage to death. They ended the song and everyone screamed. Alice with his wild black hair and painted face, looked up, and said, in a voice that sounded like Mae West. "I Didn't Know You Cared."...
Alice Cooper's Nice Party
(Rolling Stone, 1971-08-19)
You and a guest are cordially invited to attend the summer season debut of Alice Cooper, to be held at the Venetian Room, Ambassador Hotel, 3400 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, the evening of Wednesday, July 14th, 8:30 PM to midnight. Formal dress or equivalent costume is requested, but hardly mandatory....
Alice Cooper
(Zig Zag, 1971-09-00)
How would you explain your theatre...or is it for real? It's definately theatre; just by its being there it's theatre. It's third generation rock theatre - shock rock, which is very valid. Sixteen, seventeen and eighteen year olds don't want to hear jazz...they want to hear rock. And they want a sex image - an anti-heroic image. Our music is energy, high energy...that's the main thing about it. That's what third generation rock is...look at us, the MC5, and the Stooges - it's all high energy music....
Young America
(Record Mirror, 1971-09-04)
Best LP so far by Alice, whose bulldozer music and clever lyrics have even resulted in an American hit for "I'm Eighteen" included here....
The AMA and Alice Cooper
(Circular, 1971-09-06)
The American Medical Assn. Journal devoted an article to Alice Cooper's "I'm Eighteen" (a single and a track from Alice's current Love It to Death LP) and its pertinence to mid-teen alienation. Meanwhile, two Michigan University students toured...
If Alice Cooper's Act Shocks Anyone, He's Happy
(Courier-Journal & Times, 1971-09-19)
Alice Cooper made the youth scene in Louisville last night, the theatricality of his rock and roll music and stage presence matching the mood and mode of an audience that displayed the commonality in clothes and talk and understanding that...
Alice Cooper Breaks the Rule
(Great Speckled Bird, 1971-09-20)
Not long ago there existed a glorious tradition referred to in song and story as show biz. It was something like this... ...
Alice Cooper to rock in Arena this evening
(Collegian, The, 1971-09-21)
Grove City's Student Government Association begins its series of concerts this evening when Alice Cooper and Holy Mackerel appear in the Arena. The concert begins at 8 p.m. and doors will open at 7:00. Admission at the door will be $4....
Exotic Alice and His Band
(San Francisco Examiner, 1971-09-25)
The exotic rock group Alice Cooper began as a put-on quintet of Phoenix high school athlete-musicians who satirized rock groups at assemblies....
Getting straight with Alice Cooper
(Collegian, The, 1971-09-28)
The canvas-protected arena floor was strewn with garbage. The bleachers reeked of dried vomit. The area nearest the stage was blanketed with pillow feathers. The entire site reminded one of the aftermath of a tornado. Alice Cooper was here....
News Report
(Rolling Stone, 1971-09-30)
They give good copy: Alice Cooper has arranged for construction of a life-sized working gallows, including a trap door that traps. The gallows will be part of the boys' stage act and is being built at Warners' movie lot....
Readers' Reviews
(Hit Parader, 1971-10-00)
I've waited a year for this album and it was well worth the wait. Alice Cooper is a group that is one of Frank Zappa's discoveries and isn't it funny that all the good groups are: unknown (Editor's note: At this writing Alice Cooper have...
Acts and Entertainments
(Playboy, 1971-10-00)
The Chicago Opera House, a vaulted baroque cavern with ornate gilded balconies reaching up like cyclopean steps, is not the likeliest place to hear rock 'n' roll. ...
Splendor in the Feathers
(Praxis, 1971-10-06)
Alice Cooper was recently seen in the vicinity of the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium accompanied by some wiley and seemingly hypnotized persons wearing sparkling silver jump suits armed with deadly weapons of musical nature. ...
New Singles
(Circular, 1971-10-25)
Alice has revved up in his singles mode again, and the result is a predictably powerhouse side dominated by largish guitar chords and a hoarsely forceful vocal. The instrumental track hums with energy derived from a flotilla of guitars, drums, saxes and...
What a Drag
(Melody Maker, 1971-10-30)
Alice Cooper, the rather unusual American "entertainer", flew into London last Thursday accompanied by his snake. The couple gave a visually zany, but otherwise straighter than straight press conference at Heathrow Airport, where Mr Alice...
Alice in Wonderland
(Sounds, 1971-10-30)
ALICE COOPER is a group. Alice Cooper is a performer who liks to turn press conferences at London airport into performances. Alice Cooper is also a man who sits in a hotel room, drinking Budweiser beer, and talking about the other two....
A Ball for Alice Cooper
(Cavalier, 1971-11-00)
Hairy chest and hairy legs in hotpants, rhinestones, and mesh stockings; drag queen and cigarette girls; a gorilla; fops in fancy finery; women, real women, in shapeless dresses and feathers — all had come to dance and dine at "Alice Cooper's ...
He Could Drive Them Nervous
(Circular, 1971-11-01)
Alice Cooper arrived in England, to the unmitigated delight/dismay of the populace, with, sure enough, an electric chair, a boa constrictor and a straitjacket. The English didn't believe Alice would really bring those things. Wait till they find...
Down with Alice
(International Times, 1971-11-04)
Gets me so hot I could scream, Alice Cooper, who has come here with a five foot boa constrictor and plans to be as big as Elvis....
Caught In The Act
(Melody Maker, 1971-11-13)
Alice Cooper gave a most moving performance at London's Rainbow Theatre on Sunday night. She made me want to move right out of the theatre; out of the rock business; out of the country....
Under My Wheels Review
(New Musical Express, 1971-11-13)
Another hard-hitting rocker, with a sizzling rave-up beat and reverberating guitars supporting the spirited gravel-voiced vocal. Like most rock numbers, it's based upon a simple repetitive riff, and is therefore quite catchy. Works up to quite a frenzy...
Alice Had Weird Parents
(Record Mirror, 1971-11-13)
IN minced Alice with his boa constrictor coiled around his shoulders, black-spider eye make-up and his jump suit zipped uninvitingly down to his navel to confront the Press which Kinney Records shanghaied down to London Airport for the reception...
Alice Cooper
(Circular, 1971-11-22)
I love you and your group. Everytime I play your album in the house my mother gets mad at me. When you were playing in Chicago at the Opera House in April, my parents forbid me to go, and my sister and I had to sneak out of the house so my...
Killer Album Review
(Billboard, 1971-11-27)
Alice Cooper has risen from relative obscruity to international prominence. They are the Peck's bad boys of rock; their onstage antics leave many cold but their music is powerful gut-level rock & roll. "Killer" is most likely the group's...
Alice Through the Looking Glass
(Cream, 1971-12-00)
A WET Sunday evening in early November. THe show at the Rainbow (nee Finsbury Park Astoria) is half over and the audience is getting restless, waiting for something to happen. So far we have had a very entertaining electronic music hall act from...
Detroit and the Politics of Rock
(Hit Parader, 1971-12-00)
"The alternative culture in the Detroit/Ann Arbor community is first and foremost a rock and roll culture," says Dave Marsh, editor of Creem Magazine. "It is around the music that the community has grown, and it is the music which...
Is this Boa the Killer?
(Record Mirror, 1971-12-18)
Machine gun rock & roll from a geniune wild-man of pop. Alice displays great capabilities as a harsh R&R singer with real grit in his voice and style in his delivery....
Do the Funky Chicken
(Circular, 1971-12-27)
Alice Cooper, the group unanimously blackballed from membership in the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Poultry (ASPCP), made it close to the top of the charts with the single "Eighteen" and entered the Hollywood social register...
Come Dressed As Raquel
(Express, 1972-00-00)
An unusual party has been given in Paris by the eccentric pop singer Alice Cooper. Mr Cooper had asked his 33 guests to come dressed as Raquel Welch. Says a spokesman for Mr Cooper, who has had two records in the Top Twenty recently: "There were masses of aristocrats and princesses. Bettina was there looking divine in a green wig. Jeanne Moreau, Omar Sharif and Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones, were also there. Many of the guests wore wigs - green ones, pink ones and violet ones." ...
Alice Cooper at the Ambassador
(Adam, 1972-01-00)
The highlights dance on his super long hair, and his lipstick changes color like a chameleon with each turn of the gels on the spotlight. It's Alice Cooper! It's doubtful that many of you would remember him/her/whatever...
All American
(Creem, 1972-01-00)
COOPERTOON #1: "Return of the Spiders" is playing, And here stand these two Stooges in the old sense, not like guitar hoodlumps cut from Ig-patterns, but just old time disgraced schmozoes...
Alice Cooper... Macabre Showmanship
(Ottawa Citizen, 1972-01-03)
He said his name was Alice. He appeared out of darkness as black and sinister as the leather he wore. Amidst an electric din, flashing coloured lights and a carnival-like wave of snap bubbles, more than 10,000 voices welcomed back this scraggy satan who immediately began to twitch and jitter across the platform above them....
Killer
(Rolling Stone, 1972-01-06)
Like all true rock superstars to rise from the Sixties, Alice Cooper is a consummate master of image manipulation. He continually sees to it that new configurations are born in his studiedly outrageous stage persona and the spirit-force of his sound, with the end in mind of putting both himself and his audience through a steeplechase of changes and keeping everybody alert at gut level. Whether the myth has much at all to do with Alice Cooper the man behind the role is highly debatable, but even if it's mostly fiction if doesn't matter that much anyway. ...
News Report
(Tech, The, 1972-01-19)
Last week, Alice Coper trooped into Boston for a day of festivities. They started with a press party at the Sheraton, where Alice revealed himself to be very friendly, a Budweiser freak, and a Burt Bacharach fan; carried through a typically insane gig...
Alice Cooper: Weird May Not Be Beautiful But It Sure Is Strange
(Circular, 1972-01-24)
I was there before it all began to happen big for the ACs, as I like to call them. Sometime before the Love It to Death album was released and before "Eighteen" became a teenage — what would you expect with a title like that — smash I saw Alice and...
What Makes Alice Run
(Circus, 1972-02-00)
Alice Cooper' new production, Killer, had its premiere performance here in New York recently and, just as expected, it went well beyond spectacular. Alice has always been more famous for his gaudy theatricality than, quite unjustly...
Alice Cooper
(William and John, 1972-02-00)
"We're the end product of an affluent society. We enjoy getting on stage to show the public what their world has come to." Alice Cooper believes in the simple art of outrage. ...
Alice Cooper
(UCLA Daily Bruin, 1972-02-10)
Crimson strobes casting horrendously gloomy shadows upon the wall. Green and yellow streams of light punctuating the flaming perversion. Alice Cooper strutting to and fro as her bespangled legions wail and glisten in crumpled masses. ...
Alice
(Good Times, 1972-02-11)
It was Sado-Mach Rock Night at the Berk Com Theater last Thursday, as Mother Alice Cooper and his Leather Acolytes brought their traveling religious carnivorous carnival to town. Combination of Living Theater and Rock and Roll Revival...
Alice Cooper: Five Men with a Mission —
(Courier-Journal & Times, 1972-02-13)
REACHING for my vomit bag, I watch a creature of puzzling gender hang himself from the top of a stage in Passaic, N.J., while the audience goes wild. A bulletin from the court of Henry the Eighth? Grand Guignol? No, just Alice Cooper, the...
Alice — Killer Off the Cuff
(Sounds, 1972-02-19)
"YEAH," SAYS Alice lounging in the back seat of a limo cruising towards Connecticut, "it's coming. We've always considered Alice Cooper to be the 1970's new thing. Suddenly we're coming in and drawing 10,000 people, mostly...
New Singles
(Circular, 1972-02-21)
This side is almost already a hit, thanks to concerted exposure from its parent Killer album. Its incarnation as a fast-spinning single should cement its hitdom. Alice belts out a semi-autobiographical song anent the dating possibilities...
Preacher Alice
(Circular, 1972-02-28)
From Atlanta, Georgia, comes the news that Alice Cooper performed a wedding ceremony. As a preacher. He joined in holy though probably illegal matrimony Smokey Frisch and Debbie Bost. Alice made up the vows as he went along...
News Report
(Rolling Stone, 1972-03-02)
Hollywood Notes: Alice Cooper wound up a triumphant national tour with a gold record presentation at Warner Bros. in Burbank. The whole group, including pet boa Cochina, gathered in the office of Executive VP Joe Smith for the official photo session, only to learn that the gold plaques for Killer hadn't arrived from the plant. So if you ever run across a picture of the presentation, look real hard and you'll see what they grabbed as the last minute, from a pile of gold plates in an adjoining room: Jimi Hendrix's Rainbow Bridge. . ....
Alice and the Cossacks
(Door, 1972-03-09)
The essential part of any great work of art is it's ability to cause a revelation in the mind of the viewer. Since often this results in the horror of seeing a part of oneself...
Gold Diggers of 1984
(Rolling Stone, 1972-03-30)
"We're going to feed Chichita now," Neal announced. "You shouldn't miss it." No, you never want to miss the sight of a boa constrictor having dinner. Two or three live mice. In the well-lit cage, a grey mouse nosed around the coiled snake - a ponderous ballet - (the mouse didn't even know it was coming) - the snake held fast - the mouse looked her in the eye - even went up and smelled her real close - kissed her!...
Readers' Reviews
(Hit Parader, 1972-04-00)
In my opinion, it's their best ever. Alice Cooper can't be categorized as just an everyday rock group. They are far out, just as their music is. This stuff is kind of what you would call "third generation music". It isn't about love or beauty...
Procol, Alice and Floyd
(Tech, The, 1972-05-09)
Then there is Alice Cooper. Whew! It comes down to the music being only a sidelight, a contrapuntal aspect of the theatre involved.Then there is Alice Cooper. Whew! It comes down to the music being only a sidelight, a contrapuntal aspect of the...
Alice's New Restaurant
(Harper's Magazine, 1972-06-00)
ON A WARM NIGHT in San Francisco, Alice Cooper was running his fingers through his hair and watching a Danny Kaye movie on television. Alice is a male rock and roll singer, enjoying for the moment the rewards of sudden...
Alice Cooper for Wembley
(New Musical Express, 1972-06-17)
ALICE COOPER, the American satiro-sexual band, are booked for the Wembley Empire Pool on June 30. It is the first British appearance by Cooper since his promotional tour earlier this year. The concert, promoted by Jumpin' Jack Promotions, is scheduled to take place...
What Makes Alice Run?
(Circular, 1972-06-26)
Every new record release is accompanied by its share of traumas and travails from a production stand point. It's no simple matter preparing and reproducing a multicolored jacket in massive quantities at the highest possible speed, and things get...
Alice Cooper Wins... Or Whatever Happened To Terry Knight & The Pack
(Scene, 1972-06-29)
Some people think Alice Cooper (plural) should be arrested. Some think Alice (singular) should be crowned....
Alice Cooper: Nightgowns & Poisonous Cobras...
(International Times, 1972-07-00)
It could only happen in the USA. A headlining rock group puts out an album and single in July. They are the hottest thing since hula-hoops and their audience consists almost entirely of young white kids. They call it, get this, School's Out. Yes, SCHOOL'S OUT. What style, what foresight, what merchandising!!!...
School's Out Album Review
(Billboard, 1972-07-01)
Alice Cooper has produced what can be easily considered the best dressed album of 1972. Alice and the rest of the boys in the band and the change charisma that surrounds them sometimes tends to overshadow the fact that theirs is one...
Alice Cooper First Lady of Rock
(Disc, 1972-07-01)
To find out if Alice was looking forward to the gig, I phoned him at the "Holiday Inn" (where else?) in Michigan, one of the stopovers in the band's current US tour. After untold explanations to international operators that Alice was indeed a "Mr.," we...
Interview
(Melody Maker, 1972-07-01)
The cannon has just arrived from Warner Bros, Burbank, and stood impressively in the large ballroom at Alice's surrealistic mansion. Alice fondled the barrel, and burst into a scared laughter....
All people want is sex and violence
(New Musical Express, 1972-07-01)
There maybe some truth in the expression "There's No Business Like Show Business", but in endeavouring to further shock his audience, that transexual singing snake charmer Alice Cooper almost over-excelled even his most bizarre on-stage antics...
Alice Cooper — Cool Ghoul
(Melody Maker, 1972-07-15)
Henry McCulloch of Wings was there, with a Paul and Linda tee-shirt and a blond child in his arms. So was Ian Wallace, who used to drum for King Crimson. Then there was Wiggy of the Who's set-up, Claude the famous roadie, and B.P. Fallon...
Alice Cooper — Making It As A Sadist Drag-Queen Singer
(National Star Chronicle, 1972-07-31)
Alice Cooper's definition of entertainment: Throwing a stuffed rabbit out into an audience, to the accompaniment of raucous rock music, and wildly urging fans to "kill it, kill it!" Dismembering a golden-haired baby doll before a packed...
Behind 'School's Out'
(Circus, 1972-08-00)
It's two o'clock on an exhilaratingly sunny Thursday afternoon when the sleek black Cadillac limousine turns off the main road, drives past a wrought iron gate that leans at a dilapidated angle, and rolls up the long, winding driveway through the trees...
Alice Cooper Rapes Bowl Audience
(Los Angeles Free Press, 1972-08-04)
Alice Cooper popularity has spread rapidly, like fresh blood on a clean mirror. They have planted seeds of affection in front of such unlikely groups of people as a total of two truck-drivers and a dog, all the way up to teeming, seething, multitudes of strung-out music addicts numbering in the tens of thousands at a time....
Alice Cooper Conquers London
(Ciao 2001, 1972-08-06)
Alice Cooper returned to London, for the last performance of "Killer", in which he appears on stage with a snake three and a half meters long, with a sadistic pleasure he cuts up a plastic doll and is finally hanged by two guitarists of the group....
Alice Cooper's Array of Rock Gimmicks
(Akron Beacon Journal, 1972-08-07)
The young man in the washroom at the Rubber Bowl had, by his own testimony, gulped down three tabs of yellow sunshine — which accounted for his preoccupation with the paper towel dispenser ("Oh, wow — this...
Record Review
(Fifth Estate, 1972-08-12)
Returning to the teenage punk theme of Love it To Death after a brief fling with killers and Hollywood style desperados, Alice Cooper have come up with their slickest, and undoubtably most commercial, product yet in this new album....
Alice Cooper's Panties Were Hot Stuff
(National Star Chronicle, 1972-08-14)
As previously reported in the STAR CHRONICLE, Alice Cooper is a far-out guy who heads a far-out rock group, also known as Alice Cooper. Well, these characters were all set to release their latest album, "School's Out." And the way Alice intended to market...
Alice Cooper, or Going To London To See The Queen
(Rock, 1972-08-28)
It's eleven on the first sunny morning London's had for weeks, and Alice Cooper appears on the balcony outside his hotel room, grinning, trusty can of Budweiser clasped in his hand. He's looking a lot better than when we was here last time...
Picturescope: Alice Cooper
(Beat Instrumental, 1972-09-00)
Alice Cooper thinks the best way to describe his music is 'psycho-rock'. 'It's what you might call "Shotgun theatre". We give the audience all the problems. But we don't give them the answers. He was talking specifically about...
Alice, the all-American boy, feeds them perversion, violence
(Globe & Mail, 1972-09-02)
Some of the 20,000 people expected to show up at Varsity Stadium tonight will be vying for front row positions so that a 24-year-old rock singer named Alice Cooper can shake up a can of beer, open it, and spray foam on their heads....
Alice Cooper exploits depravity
(Globe & Mail, 1972-09-04)
It was a rough night for a few members of the press, but a great night for nearly 24,000 howling fans as Alice Cooper, rock's gift to sado-masochism, vamped, crawled, kicked and screamed his way through through a 90-minute set Saturday night at Varsity Stadium. ...
Alice Cooper at Forum: a big boa
(Montreal Gazette, 1972-09-05)
Our story picks up sometime early Monday morning: The truck carrying all of the sound equipment for last night's Alice Cooper-Dr. John Rock Show at the Forum overturns on the highway near Rochester, New York. ...
Alice Cooper Plays to Large Crowd
(Elmhurst Advance, The, 1972-09-08)
Approximately 10,000 fans swarmed the Memorial Auditorium August 12, for one of the most electrifying stage shows in rock music today...
Alice Cooper? David Bowie? Ugh! And Ugh Again!
(New York Times, 1972-09-24)
UGH. Alice Cooper is ugly. His music is ugly. His boa constrictor is ugly. Why, then, is he the hottest rock act around? Because, my pets, ugly is in. Call it freak rock, transvestite rock or decadent rock, the uglies are the latest giggle...
School's Out
(Rolling Stone, 1972-09-28)
The question before us is whether Alice Cooper is a threat to civilization itself or merely to our beloved rock & roll. Both parents and kids commonly see Alice as eroding the former, which they respectively deplore and celebrate. Alice is...
Alice Cooper: The Boogie Merchants
(Disc, 1972-09-30)
WAY BACK in 1964 the Beatles helped to show five skinny athletic kids in Tucson, Arizona that they didn't have to become garage mechanics, that it would all be okay. Instead, they could wear dresses, pass out onstage, sing behind a fluorescent green net...
Alice Plans A Broadway Surprise
(Circus, 1972-10-00)
The summer's shenanigans prompted the London Sunday Times to growl about a star who looked "like a cross between Rasputin and Bela Lugosi, or Tiny Tim after tip-toe-ing through the deadly nightshade." But they were noting compared with what's...
Readers' Reviews
(Hit Parader, 1972-10-00)
Alice Cooper, the most glamorous group in the world, has released and uncaged a fantastically eery album. This unique audio portrait starts off "Under My Wheels", so to speak, in a rocking vehicle. Believe it or leave it, this song pulls...
ALICE COOPER — politics and bloodlust
(New Musical Express, 1972-10-14)
ALICE COOPER ENJOYS underlining the band's "all-American wholesomeness" — it's there beneath the stage depravity — and when we last met he backed up his claims by noting: "Me and Dennis were on the track team in school. Neal...
Who's afraid of Alice?
(Bravo, 1972-10-18)
Do you get shivers down your spine when Alice hugs his favourite snake 'Yvonne'??? Do you tremble all over when showman Alice dangles at the gallows???? Who would be scared of that should join the Alice Cooper Show by no means....
Vaudeville Rock
(Newsweek, 1972-10-30)
Whither rock? If the salad days of Dylan, the Beatles and their near peers constituted its high renaissance, rock music has evolved into a florid and self-conscious rococo period, which is also, sad to say, often decadent. Once the sound was what mattered most; rhapsodizing players would even turn their backs on the audience, and "performance" was almost a dirty word. Now the show is everything. A few rock groups share the evening with stand-up comedians or clowns and trapeze artists to liven their act up....
Alice Cooper for President
(Circus, 1972-11-00)
First they dressed him up as a girl. Then they hung him, now they're running him for president. Yup, Alice Cooper, symbol of everything that sets Tricia Nixon's teeth on edge, has abandoned his "Schools’ Out" idea of "blowing school to pieces" and...
Scotland Is Alice's Wonderland
(Disc, 1972-11-00)
Alice couldn't have got a better reception anywhere. He was knocked out afterwards -- so were the whole band. Where else in England would everybody be on their feet before you're onstage; dance on the very parapet of the balcony; sing along word...
Alice Cooper
(Music Scene, 1972-11-00)
The sado-sexual schizophrenia of Alice Cooper's grotesque public ribaldry and the alarming effect it is seen to have on both his audience and on those who choose to defame him as a perverted corruptor of teenage morality, would no doubt, have proved to be a suitable case for the eminent Dr. Sigmund Freud had he been alive to bear witness to such goings-on. ...
Sensational Events Around Alice Cooper!!
(Muziek Expres, 1972-11-00)
In June, they were in Europe for the last time. The group made a lightning visit to England to perform at the immense Wembley Pool, among other venues, but the actual fireworks began a few days earlier. The five appeared in front of the TV cameras...
Live: Alice Cooper
(Record Mirror, 1972-11-00)
It's been a long time since fans wrecked three rows of seats at Green's Playhouse in Glasgow, but they did on Friday when Alice Cooper took his show to the Highlands. When I entered the theatre I was told rather firmly that I stood no chance of getting to my seat as the place was in uproar so I was told to kneel behind the front circle and watch out for fan mania....
What is Alice Cooper?
(Teen, 1972-11-00)
Who is Alice Cooper??? "I think he's a bizarre freak!" "Visually, I really like them." "I don't know anything about Alice Cooper and I don't want to know anything about Alice Cooper. He's too weird!" "Alice is neat." "I've heard the name."...
Candles in Connecticut
(New Musical Express, 1972-11-11)
THE MOON WAS low over the forest of trees surrounding Alice Cooper's white mansion somewhere in Connecticut, and outside the outasight I could hear a million crickets making their presence heard as Alice lay prostate on a king-size bed in candle-lit...
Dada Weer All Krazee Now
(Cream, 1972-11-18)
Watching Top of the Pops the other night, like all good little 26 year old teenyboppers, I was somewhat surprised to see The Sweet wearing heavy eye make-up and generally camping it up. Of course, it shouldn't have surprised me that much....
Alice Is Still Swinging — By The Neck
(Melody Maker, 1972-11-18)
The kids at Green's Playhouse, Glasgow, were yelling "Alice, Alice, Alice" at the top of their voices in deafening unison as the object of their emotion stepped up to the gallows. But as the volume grew louder and the cries more disjointed...
Broken Ribs And Fake Blood
(New Musical Express, 1972-11-18)
D'You ever see a film called 'The Young Savages'? It starred Burt Lancester as some hokey white liberal politician and a bunch of film-star nonentities most of whom are totally forgettable. The real meat of the flick hung in the presence of three juvenile...
Return of the Bi-Sexual Sex Object
(Sounds, 1972-11-18)
They had the hanging, and the knife-fight, and everyone was getting pretty excited as Alice Cooper swung into "Elected". Some kids had made these white top hats, like Alice wears on Top of the Pops in election film, and a couple were thrown up on stage. Alice grabbed one, and looked inside it for a phone number; another fell at their feet....
Meet Alice and His Friendly Snake!
(Popswop, 1972-11-25)
Alice Cooper must be the most revolutionary pop star to emerge in years. What with his killing baby dolls on stage, hanging himself and twirling around with a boa constrictor, it's hard to fathom what sort of a background he must have come from....
School's Out Album Review
(Creem, 1972-12-00)
I've been trying to figure this one out for months. As usual, it's got some of the rawest and cleverest hard rock ever recorded — the title hit is a masterpiece. It's also got a lot of soundtrack, and this part of it is lifted — with attribution, yet — from "West...
In Defense of Alice Cooper
(Harvard Crimson, 1972-12-14)
Paranoia, Political paranoia, the kind you get when you see a fascist behind every rock. I know quite a few people who count themselves as politically active, and to a man (or woman) they're all a touch paranoid. But to call Alice Cooper and their ABC-WBCN simulcast a harbinger of creeping facism, as Andrew Kopkind did in last week's Phoenix, strikes me as so much hysterical over-reacting. ...
Cooper Meets Claus
(Sounds, 1972-12-23)
Alice Cooper had a store all to himself for his Christmas shopping in New York last week. Alice, with snake, Yvonne and members of his group, had the run of Alexander's Department store in Manhatten one evening for their Christmas shopping....
Alice Elected!
(Sounds, 1972-12-30)
Killer Alice they call him - and it's not surpring. Of ll the American bands to have emerged in the past few years it's Alice Cooper that have captured the imagination of British audiences - pulling in sell out signs from every appearance, and featuring in both the singles and albums charts....