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(Hit Parader, 1971-04-00)
Alice Cooper is a five man group with their hair down to their elbows. They're the best acid rock group in the world. "Mr and Misdemeanor" is a great song if you're feeling angry and "Shoe Salesman" is a great song if you're feeling happy...
Readers' Reviews
(Hit Parader, 1971-10-00)
I've waited a year for this album and it was well worth the wait. Alice Cooper is a group that is one of Frank Zappa's discoveries and isn't it funny that all the good groups are: unknown (Editor's note: At this writing Alice Cooper have...
Detroit and the Politics of Rock
(Hit Parader, 1971-12-00)
"The alternative culture in the Detroit/Ann Arbor community is first and foremost a rock and roll culture," says Dave Marsh, editor of Creem Magazine. "It is around the music that the community has grown, and it is the music which...
Readers' Reviews
(Hit Parader, 1972-04-00)
In my opinion, it's their best ever. Alice Cooper can't be categorized as just an everyday rock group. They are far out, just as their music is. This stuff is kind of what you would call "third generation music". It isn't about love or beauty...
Readers' Reviews
(Hit Parader, 1972-10-00)
Alice Cooper, the most glamorous group in the world, has released and uncaged a fantastically eery album. This unique audio portrait starts off "Under My Wheels", so to speak, in a rocking vehicle. Believe it or leave it, this song pulls...
Pupil Power
(Hit Parader, 1973-01-00)
"You see, there's actually no point whatsoever to our act," confesses Alice Cooper. "Neither is there a solution or conclusion to what we do in front of an audience. All we do is throw out these ideas and then let people who are watching...
Visual Rock
(Hit Parader, 1973-02-00)
To many people, Alice Cooper has the ultimate in stage acts. But for all his outrageous make-up, theatrics and carrying on, Alice is really second in line because, for folks old enough to remember, Lord Sutch was the original mad man. As he...
Readers' Reviews
(Hit Parader, 1973-04-00)
It's here! It's finally here...! THE (new) PUNK ANTHEM!!! "Glory Hallelujah" used to do it for grammar school, hence "School's Out". "The Jets" used to do it for high school, hence "Gutter Cats vs. The Jets"....
Violence Bag
(Hit Parader, 1973-05-00)
"D'ya hear me, you swine? You're just like Jonie Mitchell!!! You're a DRIP!!" screamed the tousle-haired youth at the staggering, blood-splattered monster violently being beaten-up right before his glazed eyes....
Alice Cooper: "Off stage I'm Ozzie Nelson... a very nice guy!"
(Hit Parader, 1973-07-00)
After having witnessed the incredible Super Freak Alice Cooper onstage, this reporter jumped at the opportunity of interviewing him. I was informed that because of Alice's hectic recording schedule, we would do the interview over...
Alice Cooper Invents The Human Shock Absorber
(Hit Parader, 1975-07-00)
"I turned down Robert Young for you. I hope you know," says Alice Cooper. He sits in an over-stuffed chair and swings a scrawny arm toward the tv screen where Robert Young is squinting his way through a sitcom repeat. "I had a great...
I'm Just a Natural Villain
(Hit Parader, 1976-12-00)
Alice and Richard had the following conversation a couple of years ago. It was after a regular interview and was mainly the two of them talking about a common interest — magic and the theater — than an interview. We thought you would...
Alice Cooper Says He Knows Who He Is
(Hit Parader, 1979-00-00)
It should come as no surprise that Alice Cooper took his recent hospital experiences and used them as the basis for an album and his forthcoming stage production. And recently, Alice has been only too happy to talk all about it....
The All-American Boy
(Hit Parader, 1982-01-00)
The Alice who sits in his New York hotel room now is a changed man. Oh, he's as skinny and long-haired as ever, but his energy level is unstoppablee. He switches from his role of proud father (his and Sheryl's first child, daughter Calico...
Jokers Wild
(Hit Parader, 1983-03-00)
It's a quiet night in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Alice Cooper has returned to the land of his youth for a brief escape from California's craziness. Here we can imagine the perennial adolescent Alice — working out with boxing gear, playing...
Legends Of Rock
(Hit Parader, 1985-09-00)
"If Motley Crue is this generation's Kiss, than we are this generation's Alice Cooper"" once declared W.A.S.P.'s main demon, Blackie Lawless. If you thought outlandish bands like W.A.S.P., Motley Crue and Twisted Sister were originals...
Out to Lunch: Alice Cooper
(Hit Parader, 1985-12-00)
Each month Hit Parader takes a noted rock and roll celebrity out to lunch to find out if food really does make the man. This month's lunch muncher is rock's original master of the macabre, that ol' snake charmer himself, Alice Cooper. "My home life...
Alice Cooper
(Hit Parader, 1987-00-00)
Alice Cooper is a rock and roll original. During his 18-year career, he's called every name in the book — madman, martyr, genius, ghoul. But the bottom line may well be that Cooper remains one of the most inventive, if bizarre, forces in...
Heavy Metal Awards
(Hit Parader, 1987-00-00)
Ironically, just as Twisted Sister are preparing to regain their top form, the band's prime influence — Alice Cooper — is in the midst of resurrecting his own unique brand of metal mayhem. With the release of Constrictor, his first album...
The Master Returns
(Hit Parader, 1987-00-00)
Alice Cooper hasn't cozied up to a snake for quite a while. So he was understandably tentative about approaching the scaly extra in his first music video - He's back (The Man Behind the Mask) for the mad slasher film Friday The 13th Part VI...
Caught in the Act
(Hit Parader, 1987-05-00)
The ad appeared in a Detroit newspaper one morning. "For adoption," it read, "One 150 pound, 14 foot-long boa constrictor," which made even that old snake charmer himself, Alice Cooper, take notice. As it happened, Alice was in...
Screaming in the Night
(Hit Parader, 1988-00-00)
Alice Cooper is a rock and roll original. During his 18-year career, he's been called every name in the book — madman, martyr, genius, ghoul. But the bottom line may well be that Cooper remains one of the most inventive, if bizarre...
Caught In The Act
(Hit Parader, 1990-04-00)
Backstage there was a sea of humanity. Anyone who was anyone in the world of rock and roll - record executives, radio deejays, local press personalities and fellow musicians - crowded into the cramped party room to celebrate Alice...
Nothing Is Sacred
(Hit Parader, 1994-10-00)
In the light of what passes for 'entertainment' in rock circles these days, it's kind of hard to imagine that at one time Alice Cooper was unquestionably King Of Outrage. Back in the late '60's and early 70's, Cooper and his band of hard rockin'...
Hobby Shop
(Hit Parader, 1994-12-00)
Alice Cooper has only one real interest in his life. He may play around at golf, or fool around with acting, but when he gets right down to it, his hobby, his music and his life are all virtually one and the same. So when we approached...
The Story Behind The Song
(Hit Parader, 1998-01-00)
It's only the second time in the legendary Alice Coopers career that he's unleasehed a live album documenting his incredible stage show. His previous 1977 effort 'The Alice Cooper Show' isn't nearly as entertaining or noteworthy as the aptly...
Alice Cooper
(Hit Parader, 2000-11-00)
In the light of what passes for "entertainment" in music circles these days, it's kind of hard to imagine that at one time Alice Cooper was rock and roll's unquestioned King Of Outrage. Back in the late '60s and early '70s, Cooper and his ...
Alice Cooper Shock Rock Pioneer
(Hit Parader, 2008-06-00)
Alice Cooper was the Big Bang of shor rock outrage. Prior to the arrival of this androgynous, Detroit-based hard rock "monster", outrageous rock and roll behavior generally consisted of the Stones singing about spending the ...