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2020 - 2021
The Night John Lennon Died
(AARP, 2020-12-00)
I remember painting a house when I was 15 years old and the radio was always on. We were used to the Four Seasons and the Beach Boys, and all of a sudden we hear, "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah!" and, "I wanna hold your ha-a-a-and...
'This guitar-driven sound: it's in my DNA'
(Guardian, 2021-02-26)
Rock music in Detroit in the 1960s was hard, fast and loud. Alice Cooper recalls the scene in his hometown that produced Iggy Pop, Suzi Quatro and the MC5, and tells Michael Mann why it has inspired his new album. In the beginning there was...
Cooper Gets His Motor Running
(Mail, 2021-02-26)
HE BECAME famous for a stage show that features live snakes and guillotines dripping with fake blood. But underneath the theatrical horror, Alice Cooper has always been an old fashioned rock and roller. He cut his musical teeth...
Alice Cooper brings it home with 'Detroit Stories'
(Detroit Free Press, 2021-02-28)
Alice Cooper was itching to rock hard. So he came home. The Detroit native — who also made the city his early-'70s music base after rejection in L.A. — is all about his old stomping grounds on "Detroit Stories," a rollicking album...
Got Any Make-Up Tips?
(Metal Hammer, 2021-03-00)
FOR THE BUSIEST man in rock, the past year has been a testing time. Forced to stay at home away from the touring cycles he's spent 50 years in, Alice Cooper has used COVID quarantine to craft his new album, Detroit Stories...
Alice Cooper
(Stack, 2021-03-00)
Detroit Stories, Cooper's latest album celebrates the city that welcomed his band of misfits with open arms when they were coming up on the scene. According to Cooper, Detroit is "the birthplace of angry hard rock," but Detroit Stories also tips its (top)hat at blues, punk and Motown. "We just couldn't just do hard rock," Cooper explains. ...
"Dark, Dangerous, More Blood..."
(Uncut, 2021-03-00)
YOU'LL find the little town of Saugatuck on the shores of Lake Michigan. These days it is home to a thriving tourist industry, with visitors drawn by its historic downtown, full of galleries, boutique stores and chic restaurants. But on July 4, 1969 — Independence Day — a different kind of incomer descended on the town: 20,000 hippies and bikers, there for the second Saugatuck Pop Festival....
Angels and Demons
(Detroit Metro Times, 2021-03-03)
As planned, Alice Cooper looks absolutely insane during a 1973 performance at the Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston, Texas. He's wearing a thin, tattered, and mostly disgusting white cotton leotard with thigh-high platform leopard print boots, his signature dead clown eye makeup, and something clipped to his bulge, which is unapologetically displayed with no discernable support from the sagging and frayed one-piece. ...
Alice Cooper: The Big Interview
(Sun, 2021-03-05)
HE was born Vincent Furnier but the world knows and loves him as Alice Cooper. "The only person who calls me Vince is Keith Richards," admits the American shock rock icon. ...
Never Can Say Goodbye
(Vancouver Sun, 2021-03-06)
In 1970, 22-year-old Alice Cooper decided to leave Los Angeles. Frustrated with his band's lack of success after two years of gigging, the theatrical rocker had to admit he had caught the ear of almost no one. (Frank Zappa was an idiosyncratic exception, telling Cooper...
Detroit Leaning
(Classic Rock, 2021-04-00)
Detroit, Michigan's Motown, shaped both Vincent Furnier and Alice Cooper. Evangelist's son Vince was born and raised in the city. Asthmatic from birth, he suffered with ill-health. Yet, while active in his father's Christian Restorationist church, his soul...
Alice Cooper Interview
(Powerplay, 2021-04-00)
At 73 years old, you would think the lure of the Arizona sunshine and the opportunity to spend more time on the golf course would be the biggest draw in Alice Cooper's life. Yet the man who over the last five decades had brought us a plethora of hit singles and classic albums, and has been the inspiration for multiple artists dipping their toes into the shock horror...
Burn It Down
(Vive Le Rock, 2021-04-00)
Detroit's musical pedigree is as diverse as it is impressive; in addition to producing the likes of Bob Seger, Alice Cooper, Suzi Quatro, Ted Nugent and Scott Morgan, the city provided the setting for the growth of Motown, the revolutionary rock of the MC5, and the drug-fuelled hedonism of the Stooges....