Article Database

1991 - 1993

Various Unknown Circus Articles
(Circus, 1991-00-00)

Call it the career that won't die. Just when you're ready to count 43-year-old Alice Cooper out of the runing, the outrageous patron saint of shock rock and vaudeville-metal releases a vital album, Hey Stoopid, his 21st, and turns in a back-to-form...

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News Reports 1991-1992
(Hot Metal, 1991-00-00)

Alice Cooper's live shows don't stop at the light and sound production of the average rock concert; they are the enactment of a modern morality play, in which Alice's evil alter ego is allowed to run riot all over the stage. But after the murderous...

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Alice Cooper
(Live Wire, 1991-00-00)

Being the big ALICE COOPER fan I am, I couldn't wait to receive a copy of the new HEY STOOPID album. After the success of his TRASH LP, Alice had a whole new legacy to live up to. Restoring The Coop to platinum selling levels and spawning MTV...

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Alice Cooper: Hey Stoopid!
(Metal Hammer, 1991-00-00)

"HEY STOOPID!" If you hear that aggressive shout echoing down the streets for the next few months, don't go looking for a fight. It's only Alice Cooper, hitting back with a provocative new anthem that threatens to re-enact the glories of past hits like...

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Shooting Off
(People, 1991-00-00)

Rock and roll ghoul Alice Cooper is amused by the elevated status of younger glam bands. —I love the high heels,— says Cooper, 43, whose new album in Hey Stoopid. "I know how difficult it is to wear those things. L.A.'s got a very healthy crop...

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Interview
(RAW, 1991-00-00)

Films. "Suspiria, which was directed by Dario Argento, 'cos to me it was his best movie. Hellzapoppin, would have to be the second one, 'cos it's a good comedy. West Side Story as the third. Why? Because that film really inspired Alice Cooper...

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Hail to the Coop!
(Rock Beat, 1991-00-00)

Alice Cooper — 20 albums and countless nightmares late, the quintessential King of Shock-Rock, is alive, well, happy and sober. Née Vincent Damon Furnier, the man terminally in black leather and blacker eye makeup has carved out a niche for his...

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News Report
(Rolling Stone, 1991-00-00)

Being rock's reigning ghoul guru has its perks. For the title track of his new release, Hey Stoopid, ALICE COOPER enlisted the guitar-slinging support of SLASH and the vocal wail of OZZY OSBOURNE. "I wanted Slash on it for a real nasty feel," says...

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Concert Review
(Times, The, 1991-00-00)

Alice Cooper was once banned from playing Binghamton, New York. The city council deemed the Cooper stage act, which featured a live snake and a simulated guillotine, an incitement to violence. Eighteen years later Cooper's performances have...

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Alice Goes Stupid
(RAW, 1991-05-01)

Alice Cooper is now in the final mixing stages for his new LP, the follow-up to the highly successful 'Trash'. The LP is likely to be called 'Hey Stoopid' and is said to rock harder than his last album. The LP is being produced by Peter Collins ...

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Alice Cooper: The Rollers
(BAM, 1991-05-17)

"Living Legend" is probably one of the most overused cliches in all of rock 'n' roll, but no one deserves the title more than the one nd only Alice Cooper. Call him the "Master of Shock Rock," "Black Humorist Supreme," or, simply, "Rock's...

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Alice Gets 'Stoopid'
(Kerrang!, 1991-05-25)

King shocker Alice Cooper returns with a new album 'Hey Stoopid' through Epic on July 1. It's been produced by Peter 'Queensryche' Collins and features 12 new songs by a variety of guest writers and an all-star cast of thousands (almost). Present...

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Hey Stupid!
(Hot Metal, 1991-06-00)

Alice Cooper is currently puzzling over which tracks to include on his forthcoming album, Hey Stoopid. So far 15 have been recorded at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock and The Complex in Los Angeles, but only 11 will make it on to the finished record...

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News Report
(Metal Forces, 1991-06-00)

Alice Cooper will release his new album, 'Hey Stoopid' through Epic Records on June 17th. Containing such tracks as 'Snakebite', 'Feed My Frankenstein', 'Love's A Loaded Gun', 'Hey Stoopid' and 'Die For You', it features contributions from the likes of Axl ...

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Alice Cooper on Censorship and Politics
(Metal Hammer, 1991-06-00)

When my sensational and gory shows first appeared in the seventies, they featured me hanging, being decapitated, and hacking up baby dolls! But I never really ran into strong opposition or the kind of censorship that now threatens...

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News Report
(Kerrang!, 1991-06-14)

Shock rocker Alice Cooper releases a new single 'Hey Stoopid'. Through Epic this week. The track, which features contributions from Slash, Joe Satriani, and Ozzy Osbourne, is backed with 'Wind-Up Toy'....

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Don't Knock The Shock
(RAW, 1991-06-26)

Jet black hair, wiry frame and startling sapphire-blue eyes. Alice Cooper, at fortysomething, is no stranger to holding court, telling the world about his latest exploits. In LA studio, his latest album 'Hey Stoopid', booms from the speakers, while he watches...

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Stoopid Time To Release An Album
(Kerrang!, 1991-06-29)

Legendary shock rocker Alice Cooper releases his new album, 'Hey Stoopid', through Epic on July 1. It features the following tracks: Side One: 'Hey Stoopid', 'Love's A Loaded Gun', 'Snakebite', 'Burning Our Bed', 'Dangerous Tonight', 'Might...

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In The Studio With Alice
(Hot Metal, 1991-07-00)

Recording a new Alice Cooper album has always involved a few "Keep Out" signs being nailed up around the studio. But for his latest, Hey Stoopid, Alice dusted down the welcome mat and invited contributions from fellow metallers Nikki Sixx, Slash...

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Choice Cut Of The Month
(M.E.A.T., 1991-07-00)

What a difference a year makes. Last year, we boldly "trashed" the Alice Cooper album Trash is "pop fluff", and in retaliation we were denied an interview with the God of Ghoul himself. Of course, Trash went on to sell three million albums worldwide...

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The Godfather
(Metal Forces, 1991-07-00)

After the at times insipid and comercial 'Trash', it is with much glee that I find old Alice re-taking his throne as King of Splatter-rock. Yes, that's right folks, old make-up arond the eyes is back with what sounds like his strongest album since the heady days...

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Alice Cooper: My Early Years
(Rock Power, 1991-07-00)

Just like the Queen Alice Cooper speaks of himself in a rather ambiguous third person. "This is our twenty-first album, counting the live album. I think we're getting the knack of this. We may stay around for a while!" The album in question is called ‘Hey...

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When is Cooper not Alice?
(Toronto Star, 1991-07-00)

Philadelphia - Veteran rocker Alice Cooper, who claims "everybody I know in rock 'n' roll's a schizo," has always managed to live by that credo. Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; the son of a minister) refers to his stage alter ego...

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Hey Stoopid Album Review
(Billboard, 1991-07-06)

It must be the '90s if Alice Cooper is singing an anti-drug anthem -- and he's joined by Ozzy Osborne and Slash. Well it is, and the good news is that Cooper is aging beautifully. Several notches above 1989's platinum "Trash,"...

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A smarter Alice Cooper's 'Stoopid' tour
(USA Today, 1991-07-16)

"I would never hang out with him," says Alice Cooper, on the subject of himself. Shock rock's snake charmer refers to his stage character in the third person, claiming the alter ego has a distinct posture, mannerisms and volatile personality....

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Hey Stoopid Album Review
(Entertainment Weekly, 1991-07-19)

At this point, the thought of a new Alice Cooper album is both admirable and pathetic, just like the idea of a 45-year-old man playing the role of decadent, mascara-streaked rock star. But give Alice credit: He knows that it's ridiculous too and that rather...

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Prime Cuts
(RAW, 1991-07-24)

There was a time when Alice still had malice and a proper band around him. A time when young Vincent Furnier and his sicko friends were tagged as Public Ememy Number One and 'Prime Cuts' pretty much catalogues the man and the band's career ...

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Cooperman Returns!
(Hot Metal, 1991-08-00)

It was no surprise that Alice Cooper should slide easily into metal territory. As opposed to sticking to his former rough and ready rock from earlier days. Metal meant that Cooperman could play out his schlock horror fantasies to an extent that the likes of...

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Hey Stoopid
(Metal Hammer, 1991-08-00)

Welcome to my nightmare. I naively hoped that Alice would have forgotten about the Child-ish choruses of 'Trash' and gone back to being the nasty Alice we all knew and revered. But of course he wasn't going to turn down the chance of emulating the massive...

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A Matter Of Attitude
(Music Express, 1991-08-00)

Alice Cooper is one aging shock-rocker, but he still knows how to stop traffic and turn curious heads. In an ambitious publicity stunt to launch his new album Hey Stoopid and the Operation Rock 'N' Roll stadium tour, Alice blitzed Toronto with a guerilla action...

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Welcome To My Remodel
(Phoenix Home and Garden, 1991-08-00)

Okay, so there is that pair of rattlesnake-shaped pulls on the front door, and inside, the master bedroom fabric is a touch Gothic in tone. Perhaps the art display throughout the house is tinged with macabre humour, and then there is that den closet filled with...

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Stoopid Coopid
(Vox, 1991-08-00)

"I'm just on one of those antibiotic buzzes right now, where everything's just a little off, a little bit queasy..." Vincent Furnier has a toothache. In 1973, his alter ego Alice Cooper had a tooth wrenched out, slowly and bloodily, on the nauseating...

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Operation Rock 'N' Roll
(Kerrang!, 1991-08-03)

Although Motorhead raised the stakes significantly, Alice Cooper was capable of matching them. While this tour's stageshow is mild and tame compared to past antics, the music is incredible. Packing in 18 or so songs, Vincent and friends tore through...

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Hey Stoopid
(Rock Power, 1991-08-03)

Twenty one albums down the trail of the cartoon macabre and for a handful of tracks on 'Hey Stoopid', Alice might as well be talking to himself. Having reinvented himself all over again on 'Trash', this is a consolidating exercise. Dig in, and dig deep...

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Shock-rock Star Leads Two Lives
(Winnipeg Free Press, 1991-08-03)

Alice Cooper has learned the secret of sanity through double identity. One is Alice, rock 'n' roll's long-lasting monster man, the guy who wears sneers, black mascara and blood-stained, ripped leotards while he sings about dead babies, evil reptiles and...

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Go Ask Alice
(Central New Jersey Home News, 1991-08-04)

Alice Cooper has learned the secret of sanity through double identity. One is Alice, rock 'n' roll's long-lasting monster man, the guy who wears sneers, black mascara and blood-stained, ripped leotards while he sings about dead babies, evil reptiles...

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Concert Review
(RAW, 1991-08-07)

As the venue lights dim then slowly rally to penetrate the dry ice, we notice the stage is fittingly decorated by a huge skull with gnarled hands. The Master of macabre humour and onstage illusion, Alice Cooper, is here! Even the influence of Desmond...

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Alice's 'Bad Boys' make room for daddy
(Toronto Star, 1991-08-16)

Alice Cooper is living proof that you can't judge a kook by looking at its cover. Who'd have been dumb enough 20 yers ago this summer to be that the booze-soaked. Who'd have been dumb enough 20 yers ago this summer to be that the booze-soaked...

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News Report
(Kerrang!, 1991-08-17)

Veteran gore God Alice Cooper has lined up a comprehensive UK tour in support of his current 'Hey Stoopid' album. Alice play the following shows: Dublin Point September 28, Wembley Arena 30, and October 1, Bournemouth Center 4, Sheffield...

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Alice Loses Feathers but Keeps his Plume
(Journal De Montréal, Le, 1991-08-18)

Of the 5,000 or so people present at the Forum last night to attend the “Operation Rock 'N Roll” mega-concert, the vast majority had come to see and hear Alice Cooper, the grand guignol of rock. Although he teamed up with Judas Priest...

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Up On The Roof, It's Alice Cooper
(Post Dispatch, 1991-08-30)

ATTENTION HEAVY METALLURGISTS: You can greet heavy metal rocker Alice Cooper at 7 p.m. Tuesday at 3801 Hampton Avenue. That's where Sound Warehouse is situated, and Cooper has been booked for its rooftop. Rooftop? Yep. Cooper is appearing...

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News Report
(Hot Metal, 1991-09-00)

Guitar god Joe Satriani joined Alice Cooper on stage in Mountain View, Ca. in July for an impromptu jam. The show was part of the Operation Rock'n'Roll summer tour, which gave American metalheads a real bang for their buck: the lineup featured...

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Prime Cuts
(Metal Forces, 1991-09-00)

The prospect of The Alice Cooper Story untold on video screen before your very eyes is an exciting prospect without a doubt, and 'Prime Cuts' does go a long way to telling that story. Boasting choice cuts such as 'Ballad Of Dwight Fry', 'Elected', 'Billion...

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Operation Rock 'n' Roll
(Metal Hammer, 1991-09-00)

The stormtroopers of the Rock world marched into Salt Lake City carrying enough equipment to make any army nervous quartermaster proud. Metal Hammer was there in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles when the first shots were fired on 'Operation...

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Hard Hearted Alice
(Music Collector, 1991-09-00)

Alice Cooper is, in many ways, a collector's dream: he has a long back catalogue of interesting material with novelty covers, is still active today and has generated enough support products from comics to knickers to fill anybody's loft. But he still remains...

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Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts
(Music, 1991-09-00)

"I want Alice to be a creature, I don't want him to be too human, I want him to be the All-American Frankenstein out of your nightmares. He's like every cheap horror movie I've ever seen. He's a real media creature."...

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News Report
(Kerrang!, 1991-09-07)

Gore king Alice Cooper has been inducted into Hollywood's Rock Walk, leaving his handprints and signature in the Hollywood Boulevard pavement alongside the likes of Eddie Van Halen, Elvis Presley and Aerosmith! In honour of the occasion, Los Angeles...

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Rocker Is A Hit On Highway Here
(Post Dispatch, 1991-09-07)

SIGHTEMS: That was Alice Cooper at the Walgreen's at Tesson Ferry and Kennerly roads Tuesday afternoon, sipping a Coke and munching on Cheetos with KSHE-FM's John Ulett. The break came after an auto accident in which Ulett's car was struck...

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Alice Cooper: The man behind the mask
(CAMM, 1991-10-00)

It's February 12, 1987. I'm watching Alice Cooper at U.I.C. Pavilion, sitting among a surprising number of teenagers. One girl takes out a cassette of Constrictor that she has conveniently brought with her, commenting that the song Cooper...

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Alice Cooper Metal Master Returns With Hey Stoopid
(Metal Edge, 1991-10-00)

In fine physical, vocal, and creative form, veteran rocker Alice Cooper is still going strong after 21 albums, the latest of which, Hey Stoopid, hits stores this month as Alice embarks on a co-headlining tour with Judas Priest. I got caught up...

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Love's A Loaded Gun
(Metal Forces, 1991-10-00)

Ol' Alice suffers at the hands of a record company desperate for money! Some have moaned, but I maintain that 'Hey Stoopid' is a much better album than 'Trash' and 'Love's A Loaded Gun' is the most commercial track on the album. One must assume that...

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Alice Cooper Live Loaded
(Metal Hammer, 1991-10-00)

Alice Cooper issued a warning to Death Metal bands, analysed his own power to shock and talked about jamming with Heavy Metal heroes in a revealing interview with Tom Russel just before another 'Operation Rock'n'Roll' show with Judas Priest and...

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The Silence of the Coop
(RIP, 1991-10-00)

In the ever-changing, here-today, gone-later-today world of rock and roll, it's refreshing to know that there will always be at least one constant: Alice Cooper. For 21, yes, 21 records, Alice has been delivering his own personal brand of psycho rock...

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Cooper Scooper
(Kerrang!, 1991-10-12)

It was the moment of truth for Ray Zell. After nigh on 20 years of being a billion dollar baby, he was about to step out of the lift and meet his idol, Alice Cooper. Would Alice lasso him with a live python while dangling from the chandelier guzzling...

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Wembley '91
(RAW, 1991-10-16)

Back at his favourite hunting ground, Alice is happy. The lights have faded to reveal a basic (by Alice standards) stage set featuring a huge 'Hey Stoopid' skull. Skeletal hands contain Keyboardist Derek Sherinian and ex-Black Sabbath/Badlands...

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Love's A Loaded Gun
(Kerrang!, 1991-10-19)

More sub-Desmond Child poop from the Coop, once the planets most dangerous rockstar. Jeff: "Alice Cooper hasn't done anything of any worth since the '70s, but you respect him just for having done that stuff." Jase: "I like 'Poison'..." Jeff: "When you hear...

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Rogues Gallery
(RAW, 1991-10-30)

Onstage he's possessed! He's got lot's of TV's and his own pinball machine! He's got snakes in his backyard! And he sometimes can't remember the words to 'School's Out'! He's Alice Cooper. Full name and nicknames. Alice Cooper Mellencamp, and...

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Alice Cooper: The Phantom Returns
(Circus, 1991-10-31)

"Role model?" The question bounces off Alice Cooper like a rubber bullet as his eyes bulge in mock disbelief. In a career that´s stretched from the late-60′s, Alice has been called many things; "the King of Shock Rock" the most durable...

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Welcome To My Nightmare
(Ottawa Sun, 1991-10-31)

HELLO, HURRAH - IT'S HALLOWEEN! And when it comes to real rock 'n' roll monsters, Alice Cooper is numero uno on the list of haunted Halloween horrors. In fact, many radio stations have taken to playing Welcome To My Nightmare in its entirety...

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The Master of Monster Rock is back with a killer album rooted in his finest tradition!
(Columbia House, 1991-11-00)

True Alice Cooper fans are rocking in the street with the release of "Hey Stoopid," a collection of new tunes that brings us back to the quintessential Alice of yesterday. It's been almost twenty...

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Tricks of the Trade
(Hot Metal, 1991-11-00)

Alice Cooper's live shows don't stop at the light and sound production of the average rock concert; they are the enactment of a modern morality play, in which Alice's evil alter ego is allowed to run riot all over the stage. But after the murderous...

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Quote
(Metal Hammer, 1991-11-00)

ALICE COOPER "I used to think that the banning years were over. I don't really get any more and I kinda miss it. I wish we would get banned! Parents still hide their children in airports, which I'm proud of. Being notorious is great. I'd much rather be a villian...

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Alice Cooper 'School's Out'
(RAW, 1991-11-13)

"I was watching TV and there was this old '40s show on there called The Bowery Boys where all of the characters talked to each other in a real street way. One of them turned to the other and said, 'Hey, Satch, school's out!'. What he meant was 'Wise Up'...

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Wembley '91
(Metal Forces, 1991-12-00)

When Alice Cooper becomes so old that he's wheelchair bound, he'll still be ready to take to the boards and try to wow a crowd. Cooper is the old guard, and I don't mean that disrespectfully. The eternal trooper with a burning desire to put on a show...

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News Report
(Metal Hammer, 1991-12-00)

Alice Cooper kept himself busy on his recent visit to the UK shores we understand. Apart from attending various fashion shows on the look-out for interesting lines in leather jackets, he apparently insisted on going to visit the Cadbury's chocolate...

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News Report
(Hot Metal, 1992-00-00)

The biggest film in the States right now is Wayne's World, a comedy about two metalheads similar to the two Bill and Ted movies. Wayne's World features the acting talents of Alice Cooper, who plays himself and also appears on the...

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Worthy Tribute
(People, 1992-00-00)

A funny thing keeps happening to Alice Cooper since his cameo in the hit movie Wayne's World. Cooper, 44, who lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., says now when he goes to movies or a 7-Eleven, fans make like Wayne and Garth, going overboard on paying...

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Operation Rock & Roll
(Metal Edge, 1992-01-00)

"Tonight was a breeze. I could have done three more songs easily. I felt really good up there," enthused Alice Cooper on his tour bus post-show. "I noticed a few rough edges, but I didn't think the audience noticed at all. The energy was there."...

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The Six Card Hammer
(Metal Hammer, 1992-01-00)

Alice Cooper is the godfather of rock, but is he the baby killing danger to mankind of legend? He's certainly a mean poker player, as Metal Hammer's Peter Burtz found out - on the road in Germany with Alice. 22 October. In the late afternoon the...

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Concert Review
(Metal Hammer, 1992-02-00)

After riding the long Jubilee Line tube to Wembley Park and running the gauntlet of ticket touts and fans desperate to buy our tickets, we got to Wembley Arena in time for a good position, a couple of rows away from the stage. The Almight ripped into...

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News Rport
(Kerrang!, 1992-05-16)

Vetran Rocker Alice Cooper releases a new single, 'Feed My Frankenstein', through Epic on June 1. The track is performed by Alice in the hit movie 'Waynes World' and is backed with 'Burning Our Bed'. '12" and CD versions add 'Poison' and...

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Feed My Frankenstein
(Kerrang!, 1992-05-23)

Written and latter recorded by Zodiac Mindwarp, 'Frankenstein' is typical latter-day Cooper no-shock rock, as seen in the movie 'Waynes World'. John: "I have a lotta respect for Alice Cooper, but this is nothing special. He did quite a good job in...

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Blasts from past unearth early Alice, $125 Stones
(Toronto Star, 1992-05-23)

Lost treasures and greatest hits packages are under the microscope this week: Alice Cooper Live At The Whisky A-Go-Go 1969 (Bizarre/Straight Records): Before Killer, before Love It To Death, before there even was the Alice Cooper we are all...

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Alice's Warped Mind
(Kerrang!, 1992-05-30)

Legendary metal goremeister Alice Cooper, currently enjoying huge sucess as guest star in the mega-hit movie 'Wayne's World', returns to the studio in September to begin work on a new album. Cooper is currently collaborating on material with Zodiac...

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News Report
(Metal Edge, 1992-06-00)

Alice Cooper helped unemployed fan Patrick Kelly stave off foreclosure on his house by staging a rock 'n' roll yard sale at Patrick's jeopardized home in Riverside, CA, which had been spray-painted with Alice's name and likeness by devotee...

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Album Review
(Record Collector, 1992-06-00)

"Testing... another fun night". Those awkward pre-performance moments are punctuated by several anticipatory flourishes from the guitarist and the drummer, before the latter counts in his colleagues with several rim shots. An awakward bass riff...

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Feed My Frankenstein Single Review
(Rock Power, 1992-06-00)

Pedestrian Alice-by-numbers with rude lyrics by Zodiac Mindwarp. Decidedly not the highlight of the Wayne's World movie or soundtrack ...

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News Report
(Metal Edge, 1992-07-00)

Alice Cooper will be seen and heard in the movie Wayne's World, due in February, in which Alice will be seen as himself in backstage sequences and performing "Feed My Frankenstein" with the band. At press time, he planned to make another...

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Meaning Of Life
(RAW, 1992-07-08)

He loves sweat-splattered Mexican food, he's married with children but still a virgin and he's still legally drunk 10 years after drying out! He's Alice Cooper and he's telling Paul Rees about... You know, the nice thing about Arizona is that you can get the...

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Feature
(Contemporary Musicians, 1992-09-00)

Began career during high school as member of the Earwigs; group relocated to Los Angeles, 1968, and changed name to the Spiders, then the Nazz, then Alice Cooper; released first two records on Frank Zappa's Straight Records label...

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Occasional Movie Star
(Empire, 1992-11-00)

His real name is Vincent Damon Furnier. He is the son of a preacher-man. His daddy is his biggest fan. His first rock group was called The Earwigs, his second The Spiders. His third, so legend has it, was inspired by a spirit calling through a Ouija...

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Rock 'n' Rescue
(Phoenix Gazette, 1992-11-12)

There was Live Aid. Then Farm Aid. Then Patrick Kelly Aid. Patrick Kelly Aid? Riverside Calif., homeowner Kelly recieved a mortgage saving $13,044.52 check from rocker Alice Cooper Thursday at The Roxy. Cooper raised the money with an autograph session...

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News Report
(People, 1992-11-19)

Portrait Puts Rocker in Picture Alice Cooper may come to the rescue of a man who included the rocker's face in a psychedelic paint job on his foreclosed home in Riverside, Calif. "I'm not sure what we're going to do," Toby Mamis, Cooper's agent, said...

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A Little Help For His Fans
(Orlando Sentinel, 1992-11-24)

Alice Cooper helps out Patrick Kelly — a fan whose house is painted in a rainbow of colors with likenesses of Alice Cooper — by selling T-shirts, compact discs and poster to raise money for Kelly's house payments. Kelly faces foreclosure...

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Perhaps Cooper will name her Alice
(Arizona Republic, 1992-12-15)

Rocker Alice Cooper is a daddy again. His wife, Sheryl, gave birth to a 9-pound girl at 10:39 a.m. Monday at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center. The girl reportedly hadn't been named by Monday afternoon. The couple, who have another...

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Comic Book Hero
(Metal CD, 1993-00-00)

Continuing to show an unerring ability to home in on what's currently happening, without ever actually being seen to jump on any bandwagon, ALICE COOPER has recruited many of Seattle's finest to help him put together his forthcoming album. Two...

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News Report
(Kerrang!, 1993-01-02)

Alice Cooper is working on a new album. Cooper selected the tracks for inclusion over the Summer, and the album is due out late this year....

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Classic of the Week
(Los Angeles Times, 1993-01-14)

Although not Alice Cooper's debut, "Love It to Death" was the first album to establish the group (named after its tarted-up singer) as a troublesome noise to be reckoned with. The peace, love and patchouli oil sentiment of the '60s lingered into...

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News Report
(Kerrang!, 1993-01-30)

Alice Cooper begins recording a new album at the end of this month. Writing for the album has been protracted, but a release date has been slated for July or August. The album is to have a general concept, and features what Alice's management ...

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News Report
(RAW, 1993-02-03)

Elsewhere on the Seattle front, reports suggest that Hard Rock legend Alice Cooper has begun work on the sequel to his successful '70s concept album 'Welcome To My Nightmare'. Cooper has been working with Soundgarden frontman Chris...

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This is Sequal Tap
(Entertainment Weekly, 1993-03-12)

It has always been Spinal Tap's destiny to seize the throne of rock & roll while, as only they could put it, "Stinkin' Up the Great Outdoors." Directionless, rock has stumbled from heavy-metal thunder to gangsta rap, a huge musical pizza with a number...

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Encyclopaedia Kerrang!-asaurus
(Kerrang!, 1993-08-07)

Alice was biting the heads off live chickens well before Ozzy got peckish onstage. He had guillotines and hatchets, did unspeakably gory things to baby dolls long before W.A.S.P. Ripped him off, and before David Coverdale had his...

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Alice Cooper Puts Shock Back Into Rock:
(Circus, 1993-10-00)

What do boa constrictors, electric chairs, hypnotism, guillotines, severed heads and dead chickens have to do with rock & roll? Everything, if your band's called Alice Cooper. As rock becomes an accepted part of the mainstream, L.A.-cum-Detroit hard...

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News Report
(Spin, 1993-12-00)

In early April of 1973, a mind-melding of sorts took place in New York City. Over the course of about two weeks, shock-rocker Alice Cooper and Salvador Dali, fabled Surrealist, ate together, drank together, and basked in the glow of each other's exceptional...

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