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The Secret Side of Alice!

Just who is Alice Cooper?

Can he possibly be the demon who leers at you from behind a grotesquely painted mask, gyrating his way around the stage accompanied by his pet boa constrictor?

Does he frighten his next door neighbours (not that he has any!) walking his dog at night in gleaming black leather?

Not at all!

Off-stage, Alice is another person altogether. His schizophrenic nature is completely under control, or so he told us!

"I adopt Alice whenever I do a gig... then after it's all over, I become myself again. It's difficult to explain, though. I feel at home with both personalities, but I support the real me is the without make-up, slopping around at home in t-shirt and jeans.

"My personal tastes in music aren't really weird — I like Burt Bacharach and Bette Milder.

"I enjoy looking around for jewellery and more or less relaxing in my free time. I'm living in a huge house in Connecticut at the moment. It's got 40 rooms and is built in four and a half acres of land! So I get my privacy too, if I want it!

"Extroverts on-stage are sometimes a little shy off-stage.

"People say I'm mysterious — I suppose my stage act is a bit weird and wonderful and the fact that no one knows my real name really gets people's curiosity going!

"But I need to have a private life too... you can imagine how good it is after you've been on tour, or something, playing different towns night after night, just to get home and shut the rest of the world out.

"See this photography?" Alice produced a photo of himself and one was tempted to fall off the seat in amazement! The real Alice was unrecognisable and definitely fanciable!

"But lots of chicks like me when I'm dressed up, painted and decorated. So no matter how people my moan and groan about us, we know we're pleasing someone!"

So next time you see Alice freaking out on your screen, just spare a thought for the angel that lines underneath the eyeliner!