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Publishers Weekly
March 22, 1976

Book Review

ME, ALICE: The Autobiography of Alice Cooper. Alice Cooper with Steven Gaines. Putnam, $7.95 ISBN 0-399-11535-8

This book read like a faithful reflection of its rock star subject — mindless, energetic, vulgar and probably honest. Ghostwriter Steven Gaines, author of "Marjo." tells the raunchy story of how an undersized minister's son named Vincent Furnier became the bizarre Alice Cooper, dressed in freaky drag and catering on stage to sado­sexual desire of his young audiences. Hetero sexual Alice swears he never really tore a live chicken apart during his act: it was his audience that did it. Offstage Alice nearly drank "itself" to death, had sex galore with groupies, briefly found love and ultimately became filthy rich. Obviously not a book to everyone's taste, it may be of passing interest to rock fans and to readers who enjoy a one-dimensional account of the seamy side of show biz success. Photos. Major advertising and promotion. [April 26]

(Kindly submitted by Hunter Goatley)

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