Article Database
1989 - 1990
A Little Help From Alice's Friends
(Circus, 1989-00-00)
Crediting Alice Cooper for the success of Trash is a little like thanking Lee Lacocca for a good Chrysler. Both guys get lots of help. Just check out the thank-you's gracing Cooper's Desmond Child-helmed latest album. Save for Brad Whitford, every...
By Popular Demand
(In Seasons, 1989-00-00)
Those eerie, spooky things that go bump in the night will 'shake, rattle, and roll' as one of the greatest showmen, the ghoulish Alice Cooper comes to haunt an Irish audience for the first time at Belfast's King's Hall next Wednesday. ...
School's In!
(Juke, 1989-00-00)
After years in the wilderness, ALICE COOPER learned to take the trash out and become a Billion Dollar Baby again. Anita Winslow spoke to him about returning to find a sea of imposters and imitators. LAST YEAR SAW several cartoon characters...
Trash Steet Kid
(Kerrang!, 1989-00-00)
Walking into this place during the Front's third song is tike stepping into their first MTV video: the stained glass is glowing, the band are gyrating, and there's no audience in sight. Okay, I'm exaggerating: there are people in the building, but everyone's butts are firmly packed on their comfy chairs. Vocalist Michael Franano is not happy with this state of affairs. 'Make some f**king NOISE, people!" he exclaims at regular intervals. And it's a show worth making some noise for. ...
Alice Cooper
(Kid Zone, 1989-00-00)
In 1967, while peace, love and flower-power were ruling, an American high school band called Alice Cooper made horror a fashion. The band's image was deviant, their songs anti authority and their live act bizarre....
Revealing Quotes
(Metal Edge, 1989-00-00)
The idea of marrying splatter and music and theatre is a great thing to do, but the song has to stand on its own. If it can't, without all the effects, don't do it. It's the music itself that makes it come alive....
All American
(Newsweek, 1989-00-00)
Alice Cooper once tried, and failed, to borrow those snappy Nixon-era White House guard uniforms. His patriotism hasn't flagged, as his new duds evince. Cooper also has a new album, "Trash," with high-toned guests, Jon Bon Jovi and two members of Aerosmith. For old fans: vintage discs "Pretties For You" and "Easy Action" are available again. ...
Blood, Sweat and Oldies In New Alice Cooper Show
(New York Times, 1989-00-00)
Alice Cooper was, unfortunately, a pop-culture prophet in the mid-1970's. Long before MTV, he realized that rock could be treated as a theatrical spectacle, and he anticipated slasher movies by putting his hard-rock songs behind blood-splattered, Grand Guignol vignettes. For audiences that wanted jokey titillation, Mr. Cooper became the tasteless entertainment of choice, and every so often he'd come up with a well-made hit single. At his best, songs like "School's Out" and "Eighteen," he could probe taboos and summon a spirit of nihilistic anarchy, though he was usually better on concept than on follow-through. But he couldn't keep topping himself, and by the end of the 1970's, while Mr. Cooper had become a regular on the game show "Hollywood Squares," punk-rock and heavy metal had stolen his thunder....
News Report
(Q Magazine, 1989-00-00)
In addition to the six quid entrance fee, Alice Cooper fans seeking admission to his Thanksgiving Night (November 24) Marquee show had to bring along a bin liner-sized bag of freshly gathered London litter, to be deposited in a Westminster Council dustcart parked up outside the venue. ...
Let's Get Trashed
(RAW, 1989-00-00)
The Alice Cooper phenomenon is about to hit Britain once again. Only this time it's different. This time Alice Cooper is riding atop a hit album ('Trash'), his first for over a decade, and these days that tends to make the world a better and brighter place....
Random Notes
(Rolling Stone, 1989-00-00)
"I love the old Hollywood stunt," says shock rocker Alice Cooper of his decision to promote his album Trash by storming through various American cities aboard a garbage truck. A poetic idea, perhaps, but the plan hit a snag in one Texas town ...
The Greatest Heavy Metal Albums Of All Time: No.74
(Kerrang!, 1989-01-14)
Alice Cooper (vocals), Glen Buxton and Michael Bruce (guitars), Dennis Dunaway (bass), Neal Smith (drums). Maybe not every 'classic' Cooper fanatic's favorite, yet the definitive Cooper album in terms of money, acclaim and most important of all ..... er ..... Money. In a bulgin' snakeskin sleeve, the American dream in the shape of a decayin' apple pie is force-fed to the greedy. The horror is the reality, as the lyrics on the title-track splinter bone more effectively than any model guillotine. ...
Alice's Child Connection
(RAW, 1989-02-08)
Alice Cooper is back!! Yes the master of mayhem, the mercurial merchant of gratuitous gore will be unleashed another maliciously molten meisterwerk this summer. The as-yet-untitled album will be ready for worldwide release in May and Alice has engaged the superlative talents of Desmond Child as co-writer and producer. Child is the man responsible for mega-hits enjoyed by such acts as Kiss, Joan Jett and Bon Jovi. Indeed, members of the Bon Jovi band actually guested on a couple of the new Alice tracks, laid down at Bearsville Studios in Upstate New York. However, whether these will eventually emerge on the album is yet to be determined....
News Report
(Circus, 1989-03-00)
Alice Cooper, shocking and rocking since the '60s, is having the last laugh on everyone in the music business who though he was gone for good. With his strong new entry in the Top 20 (Trash), Top 10 hit single ("Poison"), and major tour on tap, the now...
Alice Cooper in 'no gore' shock
(Kerrang!, 1989-04-08)
Godfather of gore Alice Cooper is currently mixing his new album. Entitled 'Trash', with producer Desmond Childs in New York. The album will be released on the Epic label, and although no release date has been lined up yet, late May or early June looks likely. Alice has personally chosen the albums ten songs from 40 that were available. This means that only one of the three songs Bon Jovi penned for him will be used, and similarly only one of three by Kane Roberts. A spokesman for Alice's management told Mayhem: "Alice has picked the songs purely by how good they sounded. The direction is less gore, more MOR!" ...
The Week In Metal
(Kerrang!, 1989-04-15)
The number one US album is 'Billion Dollar Babies' from Alice Cooper, born Vincent Furnier, the son of a Mitchigan preacher. Alice has built his reputation to fever pitch with this record - the American tour becomes one of the biggest money-making jaunts in the history of rock, employing all aspects of the bizarre including the chopping up of dolls, electric chairs, boa constrictors and gallows. ...
Alice Prepares to Trash The World
(RAW, 1989-05-05)
Alice Cooper is presently putting the finishing touches to his 20th album through release through the Epic label during late May in the US. This will be the first release from the maestro since switching from MCA (where he put out two records, 'Constrictor' and 'Raise Your Fist And Yell') to Epic. "Being on a new label is unbelievable. MCA didn't have any idea about me" says Alice. "Epic is great, though." The album is being produced by Desmond Child (most renowned for his songwriting work with the likes of Kiss, Bon Jovi and Aerosmith) and is expected to feature the following 10 tracks: 'Spark In The Dark', 'This Maniac's In Love With You', 'I'm Your Gun', 'House Of Fire', 'Poison', 'Why Trust You', 'Bed Of Nails', 'Trash', 'Only My Heart Talkin' ' and 'Hell Is Living Without You'. All of these numbers were co-penned by Child and Cooper, mostly in association with one or two others. ...
Alice takes out the Trash
(Metal Hammer, 1989-05-29)
Alice Cooper's new record, entitled 'Trash', will be released by Epic records on July 3. Most of the album was written in the second half of last year by Cooper and Desmond Child (who also produced the record), but other co-writers included Jon Bon...
The Week In Metal
(Kerrang!, 1989-06-03)
Alice Cooper, preparing for his first American concert appearances in two years (kicking off on June 19 in Anaheim, California) suffers a setback when his boa constrictor, for many years a feature of his stage act - is mortally bitten on June 5 by the live rat at was fed for breakfast. A public audition for a new performing snake is scheduled for June 13 at the ABC Entertainment Centre in Century City, California, where a panel of judges consisting of Cooper and some musician friends will chose a boa named Angel from a field of 40 slithering herpetoids. ...
The Week In Metal
(Kerrang!, 1989-06-10)
'Roadie', a rock comedy film about the trials and tribulations of a typical rock band equipment handler (a roadie), opens in theatres across America on June 13. It stars Meatloaf and features a live in concert performance from Alice Cooper. ...
News Report
(RAW, 1989-06-14)
Alice Cooper releases his first album since switching labels from MCA to Epic during August in the UK, with a US released scheduled for July. The LP is titled 'Trash' and full details are to be found in issue 16. A number of guests appear on the record including Jon Bon Jovi. He features on the title cut, and also helped to pen 'Hell Is Living Without You', alongside Alice, BJ guitarist Richie Sanbora and producer Desmond Child. ...
The week In Metal
(Kerrang!, 1989-06-24)
Alice Cooper falls off the set of his 'Welcome To My Nightmare' tour in Vancover on June 23 and breaks six ribs, forcing the cancellation of a few subsequent dates. 1988. Alice Cooper is hit by calls for censorship regarding the content of his European stageshow. Following reports in the English gutter press about girls fainting in horror at Alice's antics, he was forced to drop sections of the German show that involved spearing baby dolls on his sword, axing and disemboweling females and splattering fake blood. Elsewhere in Europe, the full show was performed without incident and, ironically, the storm created in England leading to the ban was begun by a blind member of Parliament! ...
The Week In Metal
(Kerrang!, 1989-07-08)
Alice Cooper's fifth album 'School's Out' is certified gold. The album's title track will peak at number seven in the singles chart and solidify Cooper as one of the fathers of metal, or at least metal's image. Cooper's hard rock sound, however, is just part of the story. A stage act that includes live boa constrictors, macabre make-up, tattered costumes, a simulated decapitation, and the mutilation of dolls, will earn Cooper the title King Of Shock Rock. Within three years Cooper's show will be deemed so unrevolutionary that he will star in a prime American television special 'Alice Cooper - The Nightmare' and have a hit ballad, 'Only Women Bleed'. ...
Alice On His Way To Sexyland
(Metal Hammer, 1989-07-10)
And so Alice had finally escaped the twilight world of the demons, no longer followed by the dusky shadows, he was cleansed of blood and wine, and had laid down for a deep sleep underneath the tree of wisdom that stands in country called...
Alice Cooper: Healthy, Wealthy and Dry
(Rolling Stone, 1989-07-13)
Alice Cooper can't figure out why his pals Steven Tyler, Joe Perry and Jon Bon Jovi — all of whom worked on the shock rocker's forthcoming album Trash — continue to live in the chilly Northeast. ""I kept saying, 'Guys, you don't understand...
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1989-07-15)
The legendary Alice Cooper releases a new single, 'Poison', through Epic on July 17. Co-written by Alice, John McCurry and Desmond Child, it's backed with 'Trash'. 12" and CD versions add a live version of 'The Ballad Of Dwight Fry', while a second 12" version includes 'Cold Ethyl' (live) and 'I Got A Line On You'. Alice's new Desmond Child produced album, 'Trash', is due in August. ...
Poison Single Review
(Kerrang!, 1989-07-22)
The intro belongs to something called 'Sweet Child Of Mine'. Desmond child helped write it and it shows; slowly picked guitar verses and a big, big chorus with heaps of backing vocals. I think he's singing about kissing his snake, though I could be wrong. Actually, his words save a little, but not enough, 'I want to hurt you/Just to hear you scream my name.' He's still got it, shame about the rest of the song. ...
Sex And The Single Maniac
(RAW, 1989-07-26)
Alice Cooper's legendary status within the world of Hard Rock owes much to his dark and infernal dabblings. But now, with a new record deal secured and a new album 'Trash', poised for release in the UK, the man has changed tack slightly, giving his songs a more commercial slant and exploring (in the musical sense at least) an assortment of bizarre sexual experiences. Frank Sinatra. Few men in the history of the music business have attained such near-universal respect, admiration and, yes, fear. Frank Sinatra must rank in the upper echelons of The-Coolest-Man-In-The-Cosmos league. Not, perhaps, as cool as Clint Eastwood, nor Rolling Stone Keith Richards, but somewhere up there. ...
The Week In Metal
(Kerrang!, 1989-07-29)
An Indian art store in Scottsdale, Arizona owned by shock-horror rocker Alice Cooper is hit by a fire bomb thrown through a rear window by an unknown vandel on July 27. Over $200,000 worth of native American artefacts are destroyed, as are some of Cooper's gold records, stored at the rear of the emporium. Cooper declares the biggest loss to be $75,000 worth of Hopi Indian dolls, and tries to explain the attack by saying: "Maybe it was some disco-music freak. I've been making some positive anti-disco remarks lately."...
Alice Cooper: Trash (Epic)
(Circus, 1989-08-00)
Alice Cooper's comeback seemed to be on solid artistic ground with '87's Raise Your Fist And Yell, a passionate aural horror story that bristled with intricate musicianship and wonderfully sick gothic lyrics. But - perhaps disheartened by that LP's...
Less Gore, More Whore
(Kerrang!, 1989-08-05)
The last time I saw Alice Cooper, back in April 1988, he was still working alongside Vincent Furnier, as opposed to with him. The two had an understanding of course - much like they've had for their entire 17-odd year career....
Alice Cooper - Trash
(Baker & Taylor Spotlight, 1989-08-09)
Trash oozes with sexuality and overt songs about love relationships in the nineties with the twisted attitude only Alice Cooper can project. It's not always pretty, it's not always nasty, but it's always unmistakably Alice....
Trash City Rocker
(RAW, 1989-08-09)
Alice Cooper fell foul of his fans back in the '70s when he was thought to have 'sold-out', gone 'Hollywood' or, worse yet, gone 'Las Vegas'. He was seen playing golf with presidents and appearing on TV game shows like 'Celebrity Squares'. Alice Cooper, the man who for years had represented everything that appalled and horrified parents all over the western world, had been tamed. At least that's the way it seemed. It took Cooper some years to recover from this shunning by his fans and to re-establish his credentials as a hard rock artist of extraordinary merit, the pariah of respectable society and the doyen of a million teenage fantasies of gore, horror and lust. But he did it....
What Do You Think Of It So Far?
(Kerrang!, 1989-08-12)
"Rubbish!" choruses the beleaguered Kerrang! sub-editor, the memory of wading through Alice Cooper feature part one (last week) still looming large in his mind. "Trash!" exclaims Steffan Chirazi in response, slipping in the title of the new AC album along the way. "Who writes this garbage?" asks the entire big K! Readership. (And well they might, as this sleazy saga draws inexorably to a close...) In many ways, "Trash" is an extremely appropriate title for Alice Cooper's new album. Smacking of good ol' glorious Hollywood sleaze, 'Trash' - with it's blatant hit-machine formula - could be considered to be the vinyl equivalent of a highly talented whore....
Trash Sicky Rocker
(New Musical Express, 1989-08-12)
They don't write them like that anymore... and that's a shame. They don't write them like that because, owing to a law passed in secret around the middle of this decade, all chart singles are prevented by stringent regulations from containing...
All trashed up and nowhere to go
(Sounds, 1989-08-19)
Woodstock, bloody woodstock. Not that Alice Cooper was there of course. On the contrary, nigh on two decades back, Alice Cooper represented a genuinely threatening, subversive alternative to all that hippy detritus (and at Woodstock most of the acts were, and still are, unmitigated drivel)....
Alice Cooper's White Knuckle Ride
(Metal Hammer, 1989-08-21)
"I want to take the fans on a roller coaster ride&auot;... Mr. Rock Horror show entertainer extraordinaire Alice Cooper told us some fascinating stories recently. He filled us in on some of the myths that follow him around and talked about his new LP 'Trash'...
Chart News
(RAW, 1989-08-23)
Yikes! Alice Cooper's back! The veteran gorester's latest 45, 'Poison', slips neatly to the top slot of our singles chart (it had reached the astounding level of No. 5 in the gallup chart as used by the BBC at the time of writing), climbing from last issues placing of No. 8. The 'Poison' single represents the first time that Cooper has broken through the UK Top Five barrier since 'Elected' reached No. 4 back in October 1972! Should the single have the good fortune to climb all the way, it would be Alice's first No.1 since the classic 'School's Out' song topped the singles chart in June of the very same year! In the early '80s his success in this country was considerably less prolific - with both the 'Special Forces' and 'Dada' albums ('81 and '83, respectively) just denting the Top 100. However, his last pair of albums for MCA (Alice was previously signed to Warner Bros.) - 1986's 'Constrictor' and '87's 'Raise Your Fist And Yell' - marked the beginning of an upward spiral. ...
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1989-08-26)
Former Kiss and White Tiger guitarist Mark St. John is rumoured to be part of Alice Cooper's touring band which takes to the road in America this autumn....
Trash
(Metal Forces, 1989-09-00)
I have to admit that it has only been in the last two albums, the classy 'Constrictor' and the rebel-rousing 'Raise Your Fist And Yell' that have turned me into a complete COOPER-ite, and, you'll be pleased to hear, 'Trash' keeps me more than happy with the man's progress. Now, despite yells of 'sell-out' from certain quarters of the rock press,, I can steadfastly deny such allegations, arguing that Alice just like everyone else has progressed into the 90's with a deft nod of the head towards techno-hard rock. That ain't selling out - it's just being realistic....
Alice/Britney package line up Euro-tour
(Kerrang!, 1989-09-16)
Gore/whore merchant Alice Cooper is said to be planning a European tour for November with Philadelphia Glam quartet Britny Fox in support, although this is unconfirmed as yet. Alice has just released his 'Trash' album through Epic and the first single from it, 'Poison', has done well in both the UK and US charts. ...
Trash Album Reivew
(People, 1989-09-18)
C'mon, Alice, look us in eye. Your head is hanging down on your chest on the album cover, and after listening to this failed comeback attempt we know why. Recruiting Desmond (Bon Jovi) Child to produce the record and co-write most of the tracks showed good instinct but, alas, most of your collaborations are just shameless Bon Jovi knockoffs. To your credit, you got sober, so chalk one up in the personal growth category. And nobody is expecting anything as big as 1972's School's Out these days....
Bed Of Nails
(RAW, 1989-09-20)
SORRY, I don't like the new Alice LP, 'Trash', at all!. It's just too contrived for my tastes. And 'Bed Of Nails' (the followup to Top Five smash 'Poison') is one of the worst offenders on the record. Bland, spiritless and utterly lame. Tragic. ...
Hey! Alice! It's time to take out the Trash
(Kerrang!, 1989-09-23)
America's king of gore Alice Cooper will hit the UK with a full British tour in December! The 'Alice Cooper Trashes The World' tour will run as follows: Glasgow SECC December 5, Whitley Bay Ice Rink 7, Wembley Arena 10 and 11, Birmingham NEC 14. Tickets are priced for Glasgow and Whitley Bay, Birmingham and Wembly. On the hotline from Toronto, Alice told Mayhem: "I'm real excited about this tour. It's gonna be a whole new show, more like a 'Billion Dollar Babies' type show. More bed, less red!" ...
Bed of Nails Single Review
(Kerrang!, 1989-09-30)
Oh, lots better than that last mush of pithy harmonies. This is 'Livin' On A Prayer' in overdrive. Desmond Child, have you no shame? So, anyway, in the (paraphrased) words of Big Black, it's more songs about f**king. Alice is going to, uh, drive into her or something and, apparently, he gets deeper inside than anyone else. I suppose we can be reassured that he'll never grow up, and that the flip, 'I'm Your gun', is close to superb....
The Trashman Cometh
(RIP, 1989-10-00)
Vincent Furnier, better known to the world as Alice Cooper, has had one illustrious, history makin', trailblazin', rockin', rollin' career....
Album Reviews
(Spin, 1989-10-00)
The people who dig groups like Ten Years After now are going to be washed up in two years. They're just going to be like old married couples....
Alice Trashes UK
(RAW, 1989-10-04)
Alice Cooper returns to the UK during December to play a series of five major dates. These are as follows: Glasgow SE&CC December 5, Whitley Bay Ice Rink 7, London Wembley Arena 10/11, Birmingham NEC 14. Tickets are priced for the Wembley and Birmigham shows and for the remaining gigs at Glasgow and Whitley Bay. To date, not support act has been confirmed....
The Killing Of D. Mustaine
(Metal Hammer, 1989-10-16)
Musicians pour into this celebrated abode, as do actors when they arrive in Hollywood to find work in the city of the lost Angels. If they're working on records or films, they tend to stay here. Joey Tempest and Europe hung out here once! It was hot...
The Week In Metal: 1974
(Kerrang!, 1989-10-21)
Alice Cooper comes forth in the Nashville Pro-Am golf tournament....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1989-10-28)
Alice Cooper has recruited former Lita Ford bassist Tommy Caradonna to his touring line-up. No details of the rest of the band are available as yet....
Alice Auditions
(Metal Hammer, 1989-10-30)
Alice Cooper, master of gore, is touring the U.K. In December. The tour originally planned for the New Year has been brought forward in response to public demand. We spoke to Alice about his plans for the tour and why it had been brought forward...
He's B-a-a-a-c-k
(Metal Shop, 1989-11-00)
He lounges in his suite at New York's fancy Regency hotel. He looks good: handsome, hard, lean and 41. He has videos on the box with no sound. He's thumbing through Metalshop. Trash, his 20th LP, contains none of the horror storysongs he's famous for. Instead, it's about sex. Who is this man named Alice and why is he, all of a sudden, singing about sex? He's thought of as a legend by those in the know. For the uninitiated, a quick lesson is in order. In the early '70s, a shock-rock'n'roll band named Alice Cooper recorded a string of classic hardrock albums with the intent, according to its scary lead singer of the same name, of "driving the stake throught the heart of the peace and love generation." Records like Love It To Death, Killer, School's Out, Muscle Of Love and Billion Dollar Babies set the standards. Tours of that era featured gross splatter effects designed not only to enhance the music but to shock the viewer. They succeeded. In spades. Hit singles like "I'm 18," "Elected," "School's Out" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy filled the airwaves. ...
Can Alice Still Shock You?
(Music Paper, The, 1989-11-00)
Sitting across from one of America's truly great rock 'n' roll originals, it's hard to imagine exactly what separates myth from reality. ...
The Three Faces Of Alice
(Spin, 1989-11-00)
Alice was on a cross-country promotional tour to push his new album, "Trash", Alice Cooper's 20th release since "Pretties For You" debuted in 1969 on Frank Zappa's Straight Label. He was back doing what he does best - shameless self-promotion. But for the past ten years, no one but the most die-hard fans have cared to greet him because the Alice albums had lost the madness. With "Trash", though, the buzz is back and now his fans, half of whom weren't even born when "Pretties For You" was released, were threatening to devour him....
The Week In Metal
(Kerrang!, 1989-11-04)
Alice Cooper makes his TV acting debut playing Archie Bunkers neighbour in US TV's 'All In The Family' (the US version of 'Till Death Do Us Part')...
The Trashman Cometh
(Hits, 1989-11-13)
He's wearing skin-tight black jeans, boots, and a sleeveless red T-shirt. It's the quintessential street level rock look, the garb that literally screams licks and riffs....
News Report
(RAW, 1989-11-15)
Alice Cooper has just had a retrospective compilation album issued through the MCA label in America. It's titled 'Prince Of Darkness'. As yet there are no plans for a UK release for this record....
What A Load Of Rubbish!
(Kerrang!, 1989-11-18)
US goremaster Alice Cooper will precede his December UK tour with a one-off show at London's legendary Marquee club! The show is on November 23 - Thanksgiving Day in the US! There will be no advance tickets for the show. Instead, in order to buy tickets, priced Alice fans will have to come to the Marquee on the day of the show with a bag full of trash collected on the streets of London! Alice will then collect all of the trash in his customized Trash Truck, which he'll bring to the gig as part of his 'Keep Trash Off The Streets And On Your Stereo' campaign!...
House of Fire Single Review
(Kerrang!, 1989-11-25)
Ooops, after all I've said in the past I actually like this one. Damn. This posiitively thunders along, sort of, and I think it's probably something to do with sex again. I remember when he used to just kill women. Now all he wants from them is a warm face. Think about it, please. ...
Alice Trashes The Cathouse
(Metal Hammer, 1989-11-27)
Alice Cooper celebrated Halloween with style playing to a packed Cathouse in Los Angeles. It was something of a double celebration for the master of gore, Epic records had earlier in the day announced that his album 'Trash' had gone gold...
News Report
(RAW, 1989-11-29)
Alice Cooper is to have a compilation album issued shortly through the Warner Brothers label. Titled 'The Beast Of Alice Cooper' it features the following track listing: Side One: 'School's Out', 'Under My Wheels', 'Billion Dollar Babies', 'Be My Lover', 'Desperado', 'Is It My Body' and 'Only Women Bleed'. Side Two: 'Elected', 'I'm Eighteen', 'Hello Hurray', 'No More Mr. Nice Guy', 'Teenage Lament '74', 'Muscle Of Love' and 'Department Of Youth'. The sleeve notes have been penned by none other than RAW's very own Dave Dickson. ...
Alice Cooper roars back to the top with 'Trash'
(Circus, 1989-12-00)
The third times seems to be the charm for Alice Cooper comebacks. After his legendary stint as the shock-rocker of the '70s, Cooper took a detour into the land of chemical excess and sluggish record sales. His first sober re-entry into the rock...
The King of Shock Rock returns to rule the hard rock scene!
(Columbia House, 1989-12-00)
Alice Cooper has left his mark on hard rock that won't soon be erased. In the early seventies he out-shocked everyone with his radical approach to performing, which basically introduced rock to gory make-up and costumes, elaborate, exploding sets...
Trash Can City
(Metal Forces, 1989-12-00)
He's back, the man behind the mask etc... Yes, as anyone with one eye on the charts over the past month or so will be able to tell you, the latter half of 1989 has seen the triumphant return of one Vincent Furnier (aka Alice Cooper). Not since the heady days of the early Seventies has the man had so much profile, back when the man (or the band that was originally named Alice Cooper, young Vince adopting the name personally later on in his career) was topping the charts with classic singles such as 'School's Out', 'Elected' and 'No More Mr Nice Guy'. But this you should know. For indeed Alice Cooper was at the forefront of utilising the use of make-up, rock theatre and indeed some see the man as the instigator of the Glam Rock period in the early seventies, and there's no doubt that he was a major influence on some of today's seminal bands. ...
Live Trash!
(Riff Raff, 1989-12-00)
Living Legend ALICE COOPER hot on the heels of his recent hit album and single will be hitting the UK streets this month in a big way. The tour, originally planned for the new year, was brought forward due to public demand!...
Trash 'n' Carry
(Kerrang!, 1989-12-02)
Alice Cooper has been open all hours for longer than most in the rock biz. Now, with his latest album 'Trash' he's come up with a few special offers that look set to keep him clear of the bargain bins and instead make him a chart-topping best seller. But with the news that, to get into last week's Marquee show, fans would have to first clear London streets of a sackful of garbage, we feel it's time to ask the question: in the Great Supermarket Of Life, is this man completely off his trolley? Elianne Halbersberg wanders round with a shopping list....
Concert Review
(Dagens Nyheter, 1989-12-03)
At the Ice Stadium, where Alice Cooper would mislead our wholesome Swedish youth to devil worship and sadism. Once in a while our moral banner holders wake up and roar against one monster or another. This time a middle age hard...
Vince The Prince
(RAW, 1989-12-13)
Alice Cooper is a worried man. Actually, no Vincent Furnier is a worried man. And the duality of Alice Cooper's on and off stage existance is important, particularly in this context. Alice escapes from the charming, civilised shell Furnier entraps him with and wreaks havoc before an audience. Last night, however, in Brussels, the opening date, more havoc was wreaked on the set than on the audience. They screwed it up and now the human face of Alice Cooper is worried. ...
Heavy Bevvy
(Kerrang!, 1989-12-16)
Openers Britney Fox came on at 6.30 so I unfortunately missed them, but fear not you oglers of the semi-detached wig! There'll be a full live report from elsewhere in the next ish. I can go halfway to understand the buzz around Great White at the moment. Live they're a tight unit, every last move perfectly executed. However, they lack any real raw anergy. They didn't set my nerves tinglin', or even any bells ringin' with their rockier material, which tended after a while, to sound standard, and plodded too much to make any real impression....
Alice Cooper Heavy Metal Bag Lady!
(Metal Hammer, 1989-12-27)
I'd expected to have to fight through writhing masses of Alice fans to get anywhere near the Marquee tonight. Instead, Charing Cross Road still seemed surprisingly unceremonial, if somewhat cleaner than usual — apparently some kind of trash-collecting...
The Life of Brian
(Countdown, 1990-00-00)
Brian Nelson is crazy. It's OK, though, because he knows he is. Brian isn't just an Alice Cooper fan. He is the biggest Alice Cooper fan in the world. And that doesn't mean he weighs a lot! When I meet him during Alice's Australian leg of the Trash tour...
Angel of Death?
(Seconds, 1990-00-00)
As far as rock history goes, few have been as important and influential as ALICE COOPER. For almost two decades, he's been belting out blood-curdling tales of mystery and mayhem, all the while defying critics of his eerie style. ...
Beast of Alice Cooper Album Review
(Metal Forces, 1990-01-00)
With ALICE riding high in the charts again along with his new Desmond Child inspired material, Warner Brothers have seen fit to put out what clearly represents the best of the mans output from his early years with the label, and what an enjoyable nostalgia trip it is, I can tell you. All those teen anthems are here from the Seventies, and whilst they may sound dated in these days of perfect production, but they've retained all the gutter like charm that was so predominant when they first appeared....
Cooper 'trashes' Canada
(Chronicle Herald, 1990-01-05)
Shock rocker Alice Cooper will present the first concert of the '90s at Halifax Metro Centre. Twenty years down the road from his debut, Cooper has seen more imitators than you can shake a snake at....
Thrills, Shocks And Scars
(New Musical Express, 1990-01-06)
EVERYONE'S UPTIGHT. Just because '70's surviver and Rocky Horror rocker ALICE COOPER is doing live TV link-up with an Australian night club from The London Dungeon, tempers are fraying. Bossy PR women (invariably clipboard-carrying...
Shlock Rock Master
(Calgary Herald, 1990-01-11)
It could be the title of an Alice Cooper spectacle, but it's just one of 200 shlocky horror videos ol' Alice has brought along to fill the leisure hours during his "Trashes Canada" tour. "I don't rent them unless they're like, C-grade movies," says a genial...
Wembley '89
(Metal Hammer, 1990-01-15)
Alice is Alice is Alice is Alice. I have never seen Alice give a bad show and tonight is no exception. Complete with new band including shit hot guitarist Al Pitrelli (who worked with new Purple man Joe Lynn Turner earlier this year), the years seem not to...
Time's unkind to Alice
(Vancouver Sun, 1990-01-19)
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...
House Of Fire
(RAW, 1990-01-24)
Method-acting Cooper in the style of Trash-Godfather meets commercially-aimed radio rock. Taken from last years 'Trash' LP it also features a live rendition of 'Poison' on the flipside. Loud and rousing but little more than sleeze as a fashion item rather than real life. Designer poverty, anyone. ...
Live on Stage
(Metal Hammer, 1990-01-29)
The famous 'trash collective' from Arizona arrived on stage straight from his tour bus and was welcomed with a storm of applause and the large number of American Gi's in the crowd stood up to cheer him. Alice Cooper played one of the most...
The Recurring Nightmare
(Guitar, 1990-02-00)
"Alice Cooper doesn't give interviews," says the musician who's taken on the name but not the identity of rock's most flamboyant gothic performer. Luckily, however, as the newly reconstituted Alice Cooper band goes through its final rehearsals at their San Fernando Valley studio, for a world tour starting in November, Alice's alter ego, the once and future Vince Furnier, does consent to a chat, over a quickly grabbed breakfast burrito in the televsion lounge of a borrowed office....
Ghoulish Alice Cooper to play date in Kissimmee
(Orlando Sentinel, 1990-02-02)
Good ol' Alice Cooper is still going strong. The schlock-rockmeister's new Trash isn't outselling albums by upstarts such as Skid Row and Whitesnake, but his latest video, "House of Fire," is getting plenty of play on MTV. And wasn't that a great jacket...
Alice Cooper
(Screamer, 1990-03-00)
From violence to sex - meet the all-new and improved Alice Cooper. It's a change in direction that reflects a fresh approach to the '90s....
Alice Cooper Has Changed His Tune But Not His Music
(Orlando Sentinel, 1990-03-02)
There was a strange buzzing on the line when Alice Cooper called, so he said he would call back. On the second try, the line was clear. With mock regret, Cooper cracked: "It's the only buzz I get anymore." Not strictly true, of course. The 42-year-old...
This Week In Metal
(Kerrang!, 1990-03-03)
Alice Cooper releases 'Billion Dollar Babies', but the UK tour is almost cancelled as guitarist Glenn Buxton is taken ill with a stomach ailment, and hospitalised....
Cooper Resurgent
(New York Times, 1990-03-07)
"One thing I've noticed is that you can't really shock an audience anymore," Alice Cooper said the other day. "When I started in 1970, it was before movies like 'Friday The 13th' and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and the new generation of horror characters...
Alice doesn't do that anymore
(New York Daily News, 1990-03-08)
ALICE COOPER. YOU remember him from the '70s. Mr. Nice Guy. Dark black makeup. Snake around his shoulders. Used to show up on stage with a guillotine. Well, take Vincent Furnier's word for it. That Alice Cooper was soft. And Furnier should...
Alice Cooper: Return of the Trash Man
(Goldmine, 1990-03-09)
It has been more than 12 yeas since Alice Cooper had scored a Top 10 hit single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart when "Poison," from the Epic album Trash, peaked out at #7 just before last Christmas. ...
Cooper's Union of Rock and Bad Fun
(New York Daily News, 1990-03-14)
THE MAN WHO TAUGHT 'rock 'n' roll to barf blood made his first New York appearance in nine years Monday night. Alice Cooper's sold out show at the Ritz was as grisly as ever, only this time he balanced his most ghoulish hits with material...
A Conversation With Alice
(Scene, 1990-03-15)
Vincent Damon Furnier was born in Detroit in 1948. He grew up in Phoenix, Arizona doing all the typical high school activities that a typical teenager does. ...
Welcome to his nightmare
(Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1990-03-16)
For two generations now Alice Cooper has been specializing in being parents' worst nightmare, while his rolling circus of rock, blood and guts keeps finding a new and younger audience. Call him what you want, but Cooper, nee Vincent Furnier...
San Antonio, Texas '90
(Kerrang!, 1990-03-31)
...when the lights go down and the opening bars of 'Hello Hurray' reach our ears, there's no doubt this crowd came to party. A huge garbage can gives birth to our Alice, and the visuals are great - he's got tight red trousers, black leather jacket, Sacred Heart T-shirt (the good religious symbol, not the bad Dio album) and, oh baby, a riding crop. Even nasty feedback and too-low vocals don't bring the fans down. They're with him all the way - grabbing paper money off a sword during 'Billion Dollar Babies', belting out 'Eighteen' during you-know-which-song, a generally treating Alice like (ye gods!) a sex symbol....
Caught In The Act
(Hit Parader, 1990-04-00)
Backstage there was a sea of humanity. Anyone who was anyone in the world of rock and roll - record executives, radio deejays, local press personalities and fellow musicians - crowded into the cramped party room to celebrate Alice...
Trash with Intention
(In Press, 1990-04-18)
This week the Alice Cooper show hit Melbourne for the first time in over a decade and it promises to be one of the concert highlights of the year. Cooper will be bringing with him all the staging that has been developed over many years of shock-rockin' audiences. He's also bearing the badge of confidence worn by one who came close to career extinction and recovered to be back on top....
Alice Cooper Updates His Naughty Nightmare
(Circus, 1990-04-30)
When you think of the pioneers who helped shape American rock & roll, you'd be hard-pressed to find one who's had a bigger impact than Alice Cooper. Do you think Poison invented face makeup? Guess again. Do you consider Kiss the founding...
Trash, Sex, AIDS And Rock Among The Kangaroos
(Metal Hammer, 1990-05-21)
"I can't reach the guys anywhere, I've tried both the office and his home." Then came a crackle in the line followed by an atmospheric hissing. It was about 8.30 a.m. European time. In Australia it was already 4.30 p.m. late afternoon. Alice...
Alice Cooper starts video landslide
(Kerrang!, 1990-06-30)
Legendary bad guy Alice Cooper releases a full length concert video from his last tour, 'Alice Cooper Trashes The World', through CMV on July 9. Filmed at the Birmingham Exhibition Centre last year, it features the following tracks: 'Billion Dollar Babies', 'I'm Your Gun', 'Desperado', 'House Of Fire', 'No More Mr. Nice Buy', 'This Maniac's In Love With You', 'Steven', 'Welcome To My Nigjhtmare', 'Ballad Of Dwight Fry', 'Gutter Cats Vs. The Jets', 'Only Women Bleed', 'I Love The Dead', 'Poison', 'Muscle Of Love', 'Spark In The Dark', 'Bed Of Nails', 'School's Out', 'Under My Wheels'....
Slack Alice
(Kerrang!, 1990-07-14)
Mr nice guy is 95 minutes of leather and black eyeliner at the Birmingham International Arena....
Trashes The World
(Metal Forces, 1990-08-00)
Although there are already two Alice Cooper videos to my knowledge I haven't had the chance to see either of them, but I can tell you that as far as a good representation of the man live goes, 'Trashes The World' is more than competant. Filmed at Birmingham NEC on the man's recent visit to these shores you get about an hour and a half of Cooper at his modern best. Maybe it's not as macabre as earlier shows from the 'Welcome To My Nightmare' era, but the whole thing is full of sleazy atmosphere. Kicking off with 'Trash', 'Billion Dollar Babies' and 'I'm Eighteen', the first twenty minutes or so are standard rock performance before 'This Maniacs In Love With You' drifts into the eerie 'Steven' and suddenly it's 'Welcome To My Nightmare' and the theatrics take over big-time. ...
Alice Cooper Trashes The World
(RAW, 1990-08-08)
Shot on Alice's last UK tour in Birmingham, this is a well filmed representation of what the Alice show was all about. The sad thing is that, while I admire the man enormously for his gore attire and general attitude, the last time around everything was so limited by the airplay-safe, condomed music of songs like 'Poison' and 'House Of Fire'. Still, director Nigel Dick's brief was to capture what was there and make it as exciting as possible, and he's succeeded to the point of turning a generally drab affair (save for the 'Nightmare' sequence) into something quite watchable, which says more about Dick than Alice! One for aficionados. ...
Alice Cooperman To The Rescue!!
(Metal Hammer, 1990-08-13)
It was a boiling hot day and the skies looked like something from a picture post card. Ahhh but these were the best conditions for an Alice Cooper open ir festival in the South German town Neunkirchen near the French border. Although there were...
Alice Cooper, Nice Guy with a Guillotine
(RIP, 1990-09-00)
Alice Cooper is an American rock legend. When he first erupted on the world some 20 years ago, the critics scoffed, the world was appalled, and his legacy grew. Cooper has beaten everyone and everything - including his long-term bout with alcoholism - by doing things in his own inimitable manner. ...
Alice Cooper
(Unique, 1990-09-00)
In October 1970, a song entitled I'm Eighteen was released and slowly snaked its way up the top forty. Combining a raw edged sound with lyrics that reflected the confusion and angst felt by teenagers everywhere, it soon transcended from rock'n'roll song to rock'n'roll anthem. It became the breakthrough song that the Alice Cooper band so badly needed, and it created Alice Cooper's role as a hero to millions of teenagers worldwide....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1990-10-13)
US gormeister Alice Cooper has begun writing material for the follow up to his successful 'Trash' album. Quireboys' Spike and Guy are set to pen a tune or two with alice, folling 'I Like It', a track they wrote for inclusion on 'Trash' but that arrived too late to be recorded. The album is due next year. ...
Alice Cooper
(Rock Scene, 1990-11-00)
Alice Cooper. The stage shows. The anthems. The name itself. There ain't a high schooler out there that hasn't been heard to exclaim "SCHOOL'S OUT FOREVER!" 'round the time graduation day rolls around....
Detroit Trash
(Inside Out, 1990-11-05)
For the last few years, you've always done your Halloween show here in Detroit — but not this time. Why the change? Actually, the tour was over in Japan and we had just done Detroit. We did 4 shows at the Fox... we had just saturated Detroit for a while, and I thought it was a little too soon to go back in with everything....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1990-11-24)
Alice Cooper releases a two video box set through Hendring this week. It features his 1975 Wembley performance 'Welcome To My Nightmare' and 'The Nightmare Returns', filmed in Detroit in 1976. ...