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Alice changes props in theater of absurd
(Detroit Free Press, 1980-08-10)
There is still room in the '80s for Alice Cooper's rock theatrics, or at least 22,000-plus fans at Joe Louis Arena Friday seemed to think so. Gone were the props that made Cooper's '70s act such an elevated form of shock rock — no more blood-filled rubber...
Cooper's Pretend Terror Goes Past Limits of Taste
(Detroit Free Press, 1987-10-30)
Alice Cooper's most famous quote from the '70s is probably: "The sicker (the audience) gets, the sicker we'll get." On Wednesday night at Wendler Arena here, the Detroit-born shock rocker showed he's sticking to that credo...
Hanging With Mr. Cooper
(Detroit Free Press, 1999-04-18)
A few years before punk, a good decade before mascara metal, nearly 30 years before Eminem, there was Alice Cooper. Indeed, in this age of Eminem - the shock-minded Detroit rapper no lodged near the top of the charts — it's a fine time to check...
Rocker Alice Cooper on roll
(Detroit Free Press, 2003-02-09)
Rocker Alice Cooper is keeping the pedal to the metal these days in more ways than one. Cooper has signed on as a NASCAR Busch Grand National series sponsor/owner. "I'm going to be in the pits," said Cooper, 54. "But you won't see me...
Alice Cooper could have packed away the makeup long ago
(Detroit Free Press, 2008-07-27)
But the Detroit-born shock-rocker didn't just keep chugging along — he actually emerged from middle age recharged and inspired, and has settled into the most consistent stretch of his career since the mid-1970s....
Alice sets the record straight
(Detroit Free Press, 2014-05-01)
Vincent Furnier is the Detroit native who grew up the son of a preacher and got hooked on golf. Alice Cooper is the L.A.-groomed horror-rock pioneer who scared parents in the '70s and got himself addicted to beer and cocaine....
Alice Cooper brings it home with 'Detroit Stories'
(Detroit Free Press, 2021-02-28)
Alice Cooper was itching to rock hard. So he came home. The Detroit native — who also made the city his early-'70s music base after rejection in L.A. — is all about his old stomping grounds on "Detroit Stories," a rollicking album...