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Alice Cooper Drives Its Message Home
(Billboard, 1969-06-28)
New York - Alice Cooper, a musically driving and visually exciting act, had a strong first set at Steve Paul's Scene on June 12. The Straight Records artists, performing in gaudy outfits to a psychedelic light show, overpowered their materials...
Easy Action Review
(Billboard, 1970-04-11)
One of the most unusual live groups, Alice Cooper, in their second straight album, convey much of the power they possess. The extended "Lay Down and Die, Goodbye" with its many changes is among the many interesting cuts as is...
Love It To Death Review
(Billboard, 1971-03-13)
Alice Cooper is artfully absurd third-generation rock, and with improved musicianship and their big hit, "Eighteen," to keep them even more finely tuned into the times, Alice and the group have become the first stars of future-rock...
Killer Album Review
(Billboard, 1971-11-27)
Alice Cooper has risen from relative obscruity to international prominence. They are the Peck's bad boys of rock; their onstage antics leave many cold but their music is powerful gut-level rock & roll. "Killer" is most likely the group's...
School's Out Album Review
(Billboard, 1972-07-01)
Alice Cooper has produced what can be easily considered the best dressed album of 1972. Alice and the rest of the boys in the band and the change charisma that surrounds them sometimes tends to overshadow the fact that theirs is one...
Billion Dollar Babies Album Review
(Billboard, 1973-03-10)
One of the best solid rock groups recording today have produced another set of unpretentious, straight rock. Cooper is a top vocalist and the band backs him ably, with this entire LP a bit tighter than previous efforts. Key to the group's success...
Greatest Hits Album Review
(Billboard, 1974-08-24)
Alice Cooper has long been known primarily as a stage act, but when one sits and listens it is evident they are fine musicians, singers and writers and have a track record of hits. This is one greatest hits set that truly is a greatest hits...
Welcome To My Nightmare Album Review
(Billboard, 1975-03-15)
Solo set from Alice is by far the best musical project he has yet undertaken. LP is soundtrack to upcoming TV special, and is vastly different in parts from his group efforts, but similar enough to retain old fans. Fine use of horns and...
Goes To Hell Album Review
(Billboard, 1976-07-10)
Very similar in overall concept to Alice's highly successful 1975 "Welcome To My Nightmare" LP, even down to the sequencing of hard rock and ballad cuts. "Hell" is at least the equal of its predecessor, with an even more ambitious storyline...
Lace and Whiskey Album Review
(Billboard, 1977-05-14)
Alice serves up a heaping plate of thumping, but well-thought-out rock here. In some ways the LP looks back to the days when Alice Cooper was a group, not a soloist. But today's Alice is a master of mixing smoothness with shock effects...
Alice Cooper Show Album Review
(Billboard, 1977-12-03)
This is a pastiche of Cooper's more well-known tunes culled from his recent tour. The live versions are filled with the same excitement and emotion as the studio-cuts and are representative of the various Cooper theatrical...
From The Inside Album Reivew
(Billboard, 1978-12-02)
This concept album that chronicles Cooper's self-imposed stay in a rehabilitation center to cure his alcohol addiction, is without a doubt his most ambitious statement to date. The subject is not an easy thing to publicize, yet Cooper...
Flush The Fashion Album Review
(Billboard, 1980-05-17)
Cooper is out to prove he was shocking parents long before any of the punk/new wave bands even thought of going into music. No ballads are present this time as all songs are uptempo rockers with typical new wave lyrics about world...
Special Forces Album Review
(Billboard, 1981-09-12)
"Special Forces" is an appropriate followup to "Flush The Fashion" in that Cooper continues his exploration of sparser sounding audio techniques. His vocal delivery is cool and distant while the instrumentation is minimal...
Constrictor Album Review
(Billboard, 1986-10-04)
After series of disappointing releases in recent years, master of rock horror returns with highly refreshing debut MCA set. With Beau (Ratt) Hill producing, Cooper has gone for harder edge and delivered rock solid package that should hold strong...
Raise Your Fist and Yell Album Review
(Billboard, 1987-11-07)
Heavy metal pioneer returns-bedecked in horror-show imagery-to prove once again that he can be just as snotty as the young 'uns-such raw-knuckled rockers as "Step On You" and "Prince Of Darkness" and solid heavy metal pop tunes like...
Hey Stoopid Album Review
(Billboard, 1991-07-06)
It must be the '90s if Alice Cooper is singing an anti-drug anthem -- and he's joined by Ozzy Osborne and Slash. Well it is, and the good news is that Cooper is aging beautifully. Several notches above 1989's platinum "Trash,"...
Last Temptation Album Review
(Billboard, 1994-07-16)
Fear not the concept-album specter: Cooper has spun a dark, comic-book story of temptation in its various manifestations that is also, at bottom, just a fine spin. "The Last Temptation," which boasts a Marvel comic-book retail companion, mixes...
It's Me Single Review
(Billboard, 1994-08-20)
Cooper shows a softer, more romantic side on this acoustic-pop moment from the new album, "The Last Temptation." He conjures up earnest, appealing imagery with lyrics that are sugary and quasi-poetic. Album rock radio will find the crisp...
Rhino Commemorates Alice Cooper's 'Life And Crimes'
(Billboard, 1999-04-10)
Welcome to his nightmare: Talk about a perfect way to head into the millennium. On April 20, Rhino releases "The Life And Crimes Of Alice Cooper," a four CD set devoted to the original musical shockmeister. The 84-song collection, which features...
Vital Reissues
(Billboard, 2001-02-24)
Twenty years before Marilyn Manson bared his backside, Alice Cooper gave parents plenty to despise. And unlike many of today's wannabes, his band's darkness was spiced with humor, originality, and serious rock'n'roll chops. By 1973 and the...
Alice Cooper Receives MusiCares MAP Fund Award
(Billboard, 2008-04-18)
After 26 years of sobriety, rocker Alice Cooper has some advice to pass along to the younger generation: "I don't think you need to die for your art." And for his support of the MusiCares MAP Fund and devotion to helping other...
Alice Cooper Unleashing 'Killer' New Album
(Billboard, 2008-07-24)
For his new concept album, "Along Came a Spider," Alice Cooper wanted to create a serial killer people could, well, like. "It's very easy to pull for a fictitious serial killer, a Hannibal Lecter or a Jason Voorhees," says Cooper...
Alice Cooper Lifts The Curtain On 'Theatre Of Death' Tour
(Billboard, 2009-08-07)
With a revamped set list and four onstage "deaths," Alice Cooper is shaking things up a bit with his just-launched Theatre of Death North American tour. "It's Alice all the way, but the formula is totally upside down and backwards...