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Alice Cooper's nightmare worth a million!
(Muziek Expres, 1975-11-00)
A nightmare of a million guilders. That’s how you could describe the show that Alice Cooper recently presented to his European fans. Because no less than 400,000 American dollars — or one million Dutch florins — the American superstar had to invest...
Alice Cooper: Master of Macabre
(Ithaca Journal, 1975-04-19)
The pathway leads past a manicured lawn, around an incline sheltered by blooming bougainvillea — to an attractive wood framed house on the edge of a Hollywood hilltop. This is the home of America's master of mayhem and the macabre...
Alice Cooper and Vincent Price create a fiendish fantasy
(Sentinel, 1975-04-19)
It is the continuing dream — or delicious nightmare — of those who find fiendish fantasy fascinating and horror tales titillating to awake to the discovery of a chilling successor Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon...
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...
Devil or Angel
(16 Magazine, 1973-02-00)
A Bizarre And Exciting New Personality Has Risen From The Rock Underground To Take The International Music Scene By Storm — And Alice Cooper Is His Name!! Who Is This Weird Wizard? Should You Fear Him Or Love Him? Delve...
Alice Cooper's Cash the Real Thing
(Los Angeles Times, 1973-01-27)
Alice Cooper, that rock 'n' roll lovely whose new "Billion Dollar Babies" album cover had been placed in peril by federal regulations covering color photographs of money, has been granted permission to use the original art work. So, the...
Metal Detector
(Metal Hammer, 2008-08-00)
ALICE COOPER has influenced all of shock rock's biggest names, from Marilyn Manson to Rob Zombie. And with a career spanning a spooktacular 40 years, he shows no signs of hanging up his boa. If you ask Alice Cooper about his secret to the longevity...
:60 Second Interview
(Metro, 2010-10-29)
Vincent Furnier, 62, found success with his panto-rock incarnation Alice Cooper in the '70s with hits including School's Out and a stage show involving snakes, fake blood and, during one infamous gig, chicken dismemberment. He is currently...
News Report
(Circus, 1975-00-00)
After years of playing with death, Alice Cooper nearly treated himself to the real thing recently when he fell 17 feet to the cement floor during a sell-out concert in Vancouver, B.C. Some 18,000 fans at the Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum...
Shock Rock 'n' Awe
(Vive Le Rock, 2017-00-00)
How are you doing Alice? "I'm great! I'm in St Louis tonight with Deep Purple and the Edgar Winter Band. It's show day today, then we're in Cleveland tomorrow and then Cincinnati the day after and then we get to go home for a week and then we're...
Punk and Ghoul Packs a Punch
(Evening Post, 1987-08-25)
HE'S every mother's bad dream. He plays with snakes, he talks about nasty things — he's Alice Cooper. Named after a witch allegedly contacted through a ouija board, Alice has been a shocker since 1969. He broke in Britain way back in 1972...
10 Questions with Alice Cooper
(Autograph Collector, 1997-11-00)
Since his 1970 debut on the rock 'n' roll scene, Alice Cooper has been a disturbing proposition. "We were into fun, sex, death and money when everybody else was into peace and love," laughs the macabre music maven. "We wanted to see...
Cooper Delivers a Performance
(Arbetarbladet, 2015-07-06)
For over 40 years, Swedes have had the chance to see Alice Cooper—both the band and the persona—on stage. The chance that there are people in the audience who haven’t seen him before is small but still reasonable. But everyone who has...
The Haunted Castle Had Competition When Alice Cooper Came to Furuvik
(Gefle Dagblad, 2015-07-07)
The amusement park Furuvik was transformed into a castle of horrors for one evening when the legendary Alice Cooper and his band returned to Gävle last Saturday with his full arsenal...
The Old Man is Better Than Ever
(Goteborgs-Tidningen, 1989-12-02)
And he is, without a doubt, a living legend. The question is, has the man ever been better than now? I don't think so. First out, however, was the American glam rock newcomers Britny Fox, who during half an hour gave their best from two albums...
Alice
(Good Times, 1972-02-11)
It was Sado-Mach Rock Night at the Berk Com Theater last Thursday, as Mother Alice Cooper and his Leather Acolytes brought their traveling religious carnivorous carnival to town. Combination of Living Theater and Rock and Roll Revival...
Album Review
(Rock & Folk, 1976-08-00)
As a true metal kid, Alice Cooper stopped interesting me after Killer. I can live without the rest of his discography (from School's Out to Muscle of Love) because the killer discovered the allure of musical theater, denied his roots and tried to...
Album Review
(Rock & Folk, 1979-02-00)
Alice is no longer here! "From The Inside" is the best Elton John album since he started calling himself Alice (and no, this isn’t a reference to Elton’s private life!). Coincidence? Bernie Taupin, Elton's muse, icon, and lyricist, has left Elton for the boa...
Alice Cooper, the Clown Worth a Billion Dollars
(Ciao 2001, 1973-05-06)
Having just completed the gigantic tour that has kept him busy in America, the singer will embark on a tour in the coming months that will also take him to Italy in early July. The show will be completely revamped in its spectacularity: Alice, as always...
Alice Cooper: Aggression and the Spectacle
(O Cruzeiro, 1974-04-10)
In the report by O CRUZEIRO, for an exclusive interview — in one of the 12 apartments and five suites at the San Raphael Hotel, where he stayed with his band and Cindy Lang, his companion of five years — is a slim figure with long hair...
Alice Cooper
(Muziek Expres, 1973-01-00)
The sky bursts open, thousands and thousands of soap bubbles fall onto the heads of the large crowd of innocents. The thundering sound surrounds them as if it were a huge mass of cotton. Right in front of us, the scenery changes colors...
Alice Cooper
(Music Connnection, 2023-10-00)
Seventy-five is an auspicious age for any rock star — especially if you're one who cavorts with snakes and gets your head chopped off every night on stage. Alice Cooper turned 75 in February, but the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame shock rock...
Tell 'Em, Sell 'Em Alice Cooper
(Bugle American, 1973-06-13)
The press conference took place at poolside on the top of the Holiday Inn at 26th and Wisconsin. Alice strolled out about a half an hour later, naked to the waist, and followed by his lead guitarist, Neal Smith, the drummer, and Volman and Kaylan...
Cooper's Union of Rock and Bad Fun
(New York Daily News, 1990-03-14)
THE MAN WHO TAUGHT 'rock 'n' roll to barf blood made his first New York appearance in nine years Monday night. Alice Cooper's sold out show at the Ritz was as grisly as ever, only this time he balanced his most ghoulish hits with material...
Alice doesn't do that anymore
(New York Daily News, 1990-03-08)
ALICE COOPER. YOU remember him from the '70s. Mr. Nice Guy. Dark black makeup. Snake around his shoulders. Used to show up on stage with a guillotine. Well, take Vincent Furnier's word for it. That Alice Cooper was soft. And Furnier should...
Alice Cooper's Panties Were Hot Stuff
(National Star Chronicle, 1972-08-14)
As previously reported in the STAR CHRONICLE, Alice Cooper is a far-out guy who heads a far-out rock group, also known as Alice Cooper. Well, these characters were all set to release their latest album, "School's Out." And the way Alice intended to...
Alice Cooper — Making It As A Sadist Drag-Queen Singer
(National Star Chronicle, 1972-07-31)
Alice Cooper's definition of entertainment: Throwing a stuffed rabbit out into an audience, to the accompaniment of raucous rock music, and wildly urging fans to "kill it, kill it!" Dismembering a golden-haired baby doll before a packed...
Cooper Solo Show Rocks Garden
(Daily Record, 1975-05-06)
For a long time, there have been rumors that Alice Cooper wants to shed some of his rock ghoul image and become more of a show-business personality. His stage show at Madison Square Garden last night lent a great deal of credence to...
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...
Alice Cooper does it old-school at UCF
(Orlando Sentinel, 2013-10-26)
Halloween arrived early at UCF on Friday, thanks to the utterly old-school shock tactics of Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Alice Cooper. Cooper, a guy who looks like he would celebrate All Hallow's Eve year-round, was the featured attraction at...
Alice Cooper's old-school showmanship still delivers
(Orlando Sentinel, 2011-12-15)
An Alice Cooper concert is a carnival spook-house in a theme-park world. Let other rock tours lean on the technological: Lasers, fireworks, videos. Cooper, who hasn't updated his stage props since the Carter administration, had the audacity to go utterly...
Ghoulish Alice Cooper to play date in Kissimmee
(Orlando Sentinel, 1990-02-02)
Good ol' Alice Cooper is still going strong. The schlock-rockmeister's new Trash isn't outselling albums by upstarts such as Skid Row and Whitesnake, but his latest video, "House of Fire," is getting plenty of play on MTV. And wasn't that a great jacket...
Alice Cooper Has Changed His Tune But Not His Music
(Orlando Sentinel, 1990-03-02)
There was a strange buzzing on the line when Alice Cooper called, so he said he would call back. On the second try, the line was clear. With mock regret, Cooper cracked: "It's the only buzz I get anymore." Not strictly true, of course. The 42-year-old...
The Ghoul Next Door
(Orlando Sentinel, 2001-11-06)
One guy who can always find work around Halloween is Alice Cooper. "October is always like that," rock's top ghoul says from Mount Pleasant, Mich., on the last week of a tour that brings him to Hard Rock Live on Wednesday, just a week after the...
The Nightmare Continues
(Record Collector, 2001-11-00)
Few artists can boast as turbulent a career as the 50-something Vincent Furnier, who has survived alcoholism, the wrath of the Christian right wing and the horror that was 80s hair-metal with equal aplomb. Decades have passed since his creepily...
Science Fiction Disc
(Record World, 1975-04-12)
"Flash Fearless Versus The Zorg Women, Parts 5 & 6" is the title of Chrysalis Records' unique all-star science fiction concept album, which features performances by Alice Cooper, John Entwistle of The Who, Jim Dandy...
Alice Cooper in Person Not All That Horrible
(Wichita Eagle, 1973-05-17)
"No I don't rape ostriches." With that comment Cooper took center stage for the Wichita press Wednesday afternoon. Armed with an open can of Budweiser and two unopened cans on an adjacent coffee table, Cooper said he was well prepared...
Single Review
(Record World, 1975-04-05)
Cooper's first solo outing, culled from the soundtrack of his upcoming ABC-TV "Welcome to My Nightmare" special, is a ballad with a surprisingly international flavor. Alice's new sound should prove a soft touch for reaching his widest...
Alice Cooper? David Bowie? Ugh! And Ugh Again!
(New York Times, 1972-09-24)
UGH. Alice Cooper is ugly. His music is ugly. His boa constrictor is ugly. Why, then, is he the hottest rock act around? Because, my pets, ugly is in. Call it freak rock, transvestite rock or decadent rock, the uglies are the latest giggle...
Preacher Alice
(Circular, 1972-02-28)
From Atlanta, Georgia, comes the news that Alice Cooper performed a wedding ceremony. As a preacher. He joined in holy though probably illegal matrimony Smokey Frisch and Debbie Bost. Alice made up the vows as he went along...