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Alice Cooper First Lady of Rock
(Disc, 1972-07-01)
To find out if Alice was looking forward to the gig, I phoned him at the "Holiday Inn" (where else?) in Michigan, one of the stopovers in the band's current US tour. After untold explanations to international operators that Alice was indeed a "Mr.," we were finally connected and Alice's friendly voice came through loud and clear....
Alice Cooper: The Boogie Merchants
(Disc, 1972-09-30)
WAY BACK in 1964 the Beatles helped to show five skinny athletic kids in Tucson, Arizona that they didn't have to become garage mechanics, that it would all be okay....
Scotland Is Alice's Wonderland
(Disc, 1972-11-00)
Alice couldn't have got a better reception anywhere. He was knocked out afterwards -- so were the whole band. Where else in England would everybody be on their feet before you're onstage; dance on the very parapet of the balcony; sing along word perfect; chuck lighted cigarettes from the balcony on to people below so the air smelt of singed hair....
Alice — no nice guy, but a winner!
(Disc, 1973-03-02)
There are a number of reasons why Alice Cooper, group and man, are such a huge worldwide success. One of them is a permanent air of menace about words and music that make you look and listen with the same sort of deadly fascination...
Alice's magical mystery tour gets under way
(Disc, 1973-03-10)
Alice Cooper previewed his new show at the old Capitol Theatre in Portchester, New York this week. It was a dress rehearsal of sorts - Alice is about to kick off the mammoth tour next week in Philadelphia. The production, which will travel to sixty cities in the next 56 days, features many new visual props. Among the most spectacular is a guillotine - a guillotine where Alice's head is chopped off....
Some mothers do have 'em
(Disc, 1973-04-21)
About 300 people were at the Roostertail Nightclub in Detroit after Alice Cooper's concert at Cobo Hall, celebrating their boys return to his hometown. Actually Detroit really isn't Alice's home town, but it's where the band lived for about a year - in Pontiac, Michigan, where they got together with producer Bob Ezrin and had their first big hit, "18" and so they've always had a soft spot in their hearts for the Motor City....
Alice's $32,000 booze bill
(Disc, 1973-06-02)
Two different superstars gave two different Press conferences - they both feel flat, with thuds. Alice Cooper has been holding Press conferences in almost every city. Alice, he talks long and well and wittily, but his conference (at the "Coconut Grove" in the afternoon) was more like a party that didn't quite go far enough....
Mad Alice
(Disc, 1974-02-16)
Despite our plea for free beer for Alice a few months back, Budweiser are still turning a deaf ear, and Alice is buying his own. When he rang last week, he was just packing up five crates to take down to Mexico with him. Alice was also suffering from virulent food poisoning, contracted in Mexico on a recent golf sojourn. Undeterred, he was returning for more golf. ...