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No Efforts to Ban Alice Cooper Here
(Dayton Daily News, 1974-01-28)

Could you please tell me whether there is any effort being made to ban Alice Cooper from every coming to Dayton?...

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Hangin' With Mr. Cooper
(Dayton Daily News, 2000-08-03)

Phoenix - Alice Cooper has spent most of his adult life trying to look like a cadaver, and even without his makeup he is hard to miss. Eggbeater hair, jet black to match his leather outfit, Rail-thin physique. In many places around the world, the 52-year-old shock rocker is mobbed by fans who bow and deliver the "We're not worthy" line from the Wayne's World movie....

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For Fans of Shock Rock's Grand Old Man, The Nightmare Continues
(Dayton Daily News, 2006-07-14)

KETTERING — Veteran rock showman Alice Cooper makes his first appearance at Fraze Pavillon on Thursday night. We can only begin to imagine what the theatrically minded shock-rocker has in mind for his certain assault on staid suburban sensibilities....

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Welcome To His Nightmare
(Dayton Daily News, 2006-07-19)

Bill White first heard about Alice Cooper during the early 1970s while attending class at Wright State University. A fellow student asked White if he was going to Cooper concert. "I was thinking of Joan Baez," White recalled. "I had no idea who this girl was." White, who will see Alice Cooper for the 16th time on Thursday at Fraze Pavilion in Kettering, soon changed his tune. ...

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Alice Isn't 18 Anymore, But We Still Like It
(Dayton Daily News, 2006-07-21)

Kettering - In a show that included a guillotine, a coffin, a Frankenstein monster, an S&M whip-cracking harpy and, of course, a severed head, one simple prop set Alice Cooper apart from the entire pack of tired old classic-rockers with whom he shares the summer concert trail....

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Alice Cooper: Master of the Musical Macabre at Fraze
(Dayton Daily News, 2010-07-16)

Guillotines, a hangman's noose and other implements of torture were not common rock 'n' roll stage props when Alice Cooper first pioneered the mixture of horror, theatrics and hard rock in the early 1970s. Four decades later, few artists still come close to the extreme of his live rock 'n' roll spectacular....

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Alice Cooper, Huey Lewis play on area golf courses
(Dayton Daily News, 2010-07-31)

Golfers at a couple of Dayton’'s country clubs were surprised in recent days to see headliners of Fraze Pavilion performances teeing it up in their midst. On the day he was scheduled to perform at The Fraze, rock star Alice Cooper warmed up by playing 18 holes in the morning at Dayton Country Club...

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