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Three Names That Mean Business
(Herald Sun, 1994-07-29)

It was a unique gathering, but, with all respect, not of the minds. This was a meeting of the oddly named....

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A Clown Like Alice
(Herald Sun, 1994-08-07)

A five-minute cameo in the movie Wayne's World brought Alice Cooper to a whole new generation of fans. Scarcely a day goes by without someone flinging themselves at his feet and chanting "We are not worthy, we are not worthy!" as did the stars of the movie. ...

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Alice Malice
(Herald Sun, 1999-06-20)

With the release of an in-depth career retrospective, Alice Cooper remains the unrepentant king of over-the-top rock. And he tells Paul Stewart, '90s rockers such as Marilyn Manson are nothing but show ponies...

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Rock back in time
(Herald Sun, 1999-07-28)

The millennium may be looming, but one rock tour promises to take music fans back in time....

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Symphony for old rockers
(Herald Sun, 2000-02-22)

How does a bunch of old rockers keep on rocking? A deadpan Alice Cooper says: "We died about eight years ago, but nobody told us." ...

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Phantom of Rock Opera
(Herald Sun, 2005-04-17)

He fell to his knees to hack at dolls with a hatchet, repeatedly lost his head on the guillotine and was strung, nightly, from the gallows. He splattered the stage with fake blood, sand one song in a straitjacket and in another revealed a hankering for necrophilia. ...

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Rock Beats Shock
(Herald Sun, 2005-06-16)

Alice Cooper has always had the power to shock. But nobody was more dumbfounded than the Baron of Blood himself when he opened a newspaper while in Australia and read he'd been arrested....

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Old School
(Herald Sun, 2005-06-18)

It was not all that long ago that rock monster Alice Cooper was the single worst nightmare of every right-minded, clear-thinking parent. But then, the fantasy of Alice was never quite aligned with the reality of the bloke behind the schlock-horror make-up. ...

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Rattling up a hell of a rock show
(Herald Sun, 2005-07-01)

ALICE Cooper, shock rock inventor, revived his dark theatrics in a commanding Palais show last night. Cooper, 57, predates Ozzy Osbourne, Marilyn Manson and Gene Simmons....

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Wonder of Alice
(Herald Sun, 2007-07-08)

When Alice Cooper checked into a treatment center for alcoholism, it had no revolving door for celebrities. "It wasn't classy. It wasn't 'in'," Cooper said. ...

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