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News Reports 1991-1992

Amongst the guest artists playing on the new Alice Cooper track Hey Stoopid is one Zachary Nevel. Zachary who? Well, it seems that Alice offered listeners to L.A.'s KNAC-FM the opportunity to join the ranks of Slash, Joe Satriani and Ozzy Osbourne at the radio station's annual rock and roll auction to raise funds for the 'Children Of The Night' charity, which help's L.A.'s homeless children. Long-time Cooper fan Nevel made the winnign bid of $2,600, which enabled him to meet Alice and sing backing vocals on Hey Stoopid. The Alice fans in the office agree he got a bargain...

Alice Cooper has a cameo appearance in the fifth Nightmare On Elm Street movie, entitled Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, due out in the States in September. Alice plays Freddy's abusive father in a flashback sequence...

Also on the publicity trail is Alice Cooper, who capped his Nightmare On Your Street promotional tour (plugging his role in the film Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare) with an impromptu 25 minute midday performance in New York's seedy Times Square. Your faithful corresponent was there, and it was a real spectacle to see hundreds of fans, passersby, and businessmen on their lunch hour crowding the streets and blocking traffic to cheer Alice on. It was a change of pace for Alice, who says, "Normally our audience is 15-25 years old, but I know that there are older fans out there... It was great to look out there and see the guys in the white shirts and ties, going, 'I'm 18'!... Alice was recently honoured with his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley proclaimed August 27, 1991 to be Alice Cooper Night. Alice joins Aerosmith and Eddie Van Halen on the famed sidewalk...

Alice Cooper
Fictional male/female persona assumed in 1967 by then Earwigs vocalist Vincent Furnier.