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Is Your Living Room Ready For Alice's Latest Nightmare?
(Chicago Tribune, 1975-00-00)

This poor kid wakes up and ugly demons are coming out of his toybox, a bevy of black widows are waiting to turn him into a succulent stew, and Cold Ethyl -- a most seductive, but wholly stone cold stiff lady (necrophilia, anybody?) — languishes...

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Alice Cooper Meets The Press - It's Serious?
(Chicago Tribune, 1975-04-01)

The signs are unmistakable: a major press conference is about to begin. A press conference, that 20th century bacchanal of truth, that hasty summoning of many newsmen, planned and designed to bugle someone's fugue of good deed and-or innocence...

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Alice cries 'fowl' and chickens get revenge
(Chicago Tribune, 1977-08-21)

"I'd say that 90 per cent of the things people hear about me," Alice Cooper said, "are rumors. Totally. Like a lot of people still think I chopped up a chicken onstage once as part of my act, right? Well, that never happened. What did happen...

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School's out; Cooper's still in
(Chicago Tribune, 1998-07-24)

Most old rockers either die, fade away or flog their hits like so many dead horses. But a few, like Alice Cooper, have managed to keep going while somehow avoiding the ignominy of self-parody. On Wednesday night Alice Cooper's Rock 'n' Roll...

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Package Deals: The Best Offerings In A Box Set
(Chicago Tribune, 1999-12-03)

Becoming the "most hated band in Los Angeles" in the late '60s wasn't enough for Alice Cooper. So he returned to his hometown of Detroit and transformed his art-rock combo into middlebrow America's worst nightmare with a string of terrific albums...

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