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Welcome To My Mightmare
(Classic Rock, 1999-09-00)
It's hard to believe that Alice Cooper's story has now spanned an incredible three decades — as Alice himself is only too keen to agree. The schizophrenic singer has gone through peaks and drink-addled troughs, but although the music sometimes...
Studio Report - Alice Cooper
(Classic Rock, 2000-05-00)
Alice Cooper releases a new album, 'Brutal Planet' on June 5 (through Eagle). An apocalyptic vision that propels the godfather of rock theatre into a new millennium, as Alice told Classic Rock: "It's an absolutely Godless world, a place where it's just...
Mr Nice Guy
(Classic Rock, 2000-07-00)
Blood, dismembered dolls, guillotines, snakes — ALICE COOPER was the patomime dame of 70s rock. Now he's back with his first album for six years, Brutal Planet. "There are two great mysteries in rock 'n' roll," Alice Cooper pronounces. "One is the...
Alice Cooper
(Classic Rock, 2001-00-00)
If there was a more entertaining stage show to hit these shores last year than Alice Cooper's 'Brutal Planet' tour, this reviewer must have missed it. Fortunately, someone thought to capture the whole thing for posperity on the new-fangled shiny disc format...
Billion Dollar Babies Re-issue Review
(Classic Rock, 2001-03-00)
Fans of the Coopmeister are gonna love this expanded version of his 1973 masterpiece, 'Billion Dollar Babies'. Although the new doubleCD edition doesn't come complete with the fake billion dollar bills that famously accompanied the original...
A Week In The Life Of Alice Cooper
(Classic Rock, 2001-10-00)
"I get up at 6.30 every morning. I haven't had a drink in 19 years, and that changes your whole physiology and lifestyle. When I was a drinker I'd be getting up at two in the afternoon, and then I'd be up for half the night. It was a whole...
'I have a dream...'
(Classic Rock, 2002-00-00)
THERE'S NO WAY OF KNOWING FROM THE cover of this record that the Alice Cooper who released 'Welcome To My Nightmare' in March 1975 had changed. But the fact was that Alice had gone solo....
Billion Dollar Babies
(Classic Rock, 2004-06-00)
Alice Cooper who plays a one-off UK show at London's Hammersmith Apollo on June 27, is soon to begin a new album. The veteran shock-rock frontman released his previous album, the highly acclaimed and garage rock-flavoured 'The Eyes of...
The Greatest Showman on Earth
(Classic Rock, 2006-11-00)
If thesaurus people Roget's ever get it together to produce a Rockathaurus, Alice Cooper will surely be one of the names in the definition of 'rock legend'. Alongside Keith Richards and, obviously, Lemmy, Cooper is without a doubt one of the...
Inside Out
(Classic Rock, 2011-10-00)
In October 1977, one of the world's most famous rock stars found himself in a place where his status and wealth counted for nothing. Alice Cooper was a patient at the Cornell Medical Center, a sanitarium located near the city of White Plains...
The Vampire Diaries
(Classic Rock, 2015-11-00)
Alice Cooper picks up a glass of beer, walks to the mic, then pauses momentarily while the packed audience takes his cue and attempt a respectful hush. "Alcohol and drugs killed a whole lot of Hollywood Vampires," he warns, before making a toast....
Detroit Leaning
(Classic Rock, 2021-04-00)
Detroit, Michigan's Motown, shaped both Vincent Furnier and Alice Cooper. Evangelist's son Vince was born and raised in the city. Asthmatic from birth, he suffered with ill-health. Yet, while active in his father's Christian Restorationist church, his soul...