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Alice Cooper Wins... Or Whatever Happened To Terry Knight & The Pack
(Scene, 1972-06-29)
Some people think Alice Cooper (plural) should be arrested. Some think Alice (singular) should be crowned....
Alice Film an Unforgettable Experience
(Scene, 1975-05-08)
Most people would probably agree that you don't go to an Alice Cooper concert to hear the music. The excitement and the entertainment, for the most part, is in the outlandish, and occasionally spectacular, Cooper visuals. ...
ALICE COOPER, THE BABYS
(Scene, 1979-02-00)
Alice Cooper provided one of the finest concerts the Coliseum has ever seen. The bizarre, electric performance by Cooper was a tour de force in every aspect: staging, direction, choreography and music....
ALICE COOPER, TRIUMPH, BILLY SQUIER
(Scene, 1980-07-31)
Last Friday's triple-bill at the Coliseum theatre offered variety: something old, something new and something recycled. The new kid in town was Billy Squier, making his first Cleveland appearance in support of his debut album, THE TALE OF THE TAPE. Although his show suffered from lack of original, arresting material and a mediocre back-up band, Squier's vocal delivery and onstage manner were professional enough to bring the scattered crowd still filtering into the Coliseum to attention....
Alice Cooper: Coop's back!!!
(Scene, 1987-11-12)
It's the afternoon of Alice Cooper's appearance on WMMS' "Classic Rock Saturday Night" show, and a sebdued looking Alice is sprawled out on his bed at the Sheraton Hopkins watching the Detroit Tigers play the Minnesota Twins in the third game of the American League Playoffs....
A Conversation With Alice
(Scene, 1990-03-15)
Vincent Damon Furnier was born in Detroit in 1948. He grew up in Phoenix, Arizona doing all the typical high school activities that a typical teenager does. ...
Cleveland Nautica August 16th 1997
(Scene, 1997-08-25)
On the one hand you had a successful hard rock icon which the majority of the audience came to see. On the other hand you had three good examples of why the fluffy, porous 80's music scene has faded away. Granted, each of the three bands sets were cut short due to the rain delay, but what they did have to offer didn't compare in any category to what Mr. Cooper delivered. But what was interesting was the number of people singing along to the title track from his 1978 release FROM THE INSIDE. These were the die-hard fans who, in essence, keep Cooper's career alive. And judging from his stage show, he knows this all too well....
Alice Cooper, Kidd Wicked, Nautica Stage
(Scene, 1998-09-09)
Welcome back, my friends, to the nightmare that never ends. That was the theme last week at Nautica, as Alice Cooper brought his world-famous rock and roll sideshow to Cleveland, treating a near-capacity crowd to an evening of musical entertainment like nothing you've ever seen under the big top. These days, Marilyn Manson is the one grabbing all of the headlines. But while Alice Cooper was once the Rodney Dangerfield of rock and roll, he's finally getting the credit (and the respect) that he so richly deserves. It isn't hard to see why, judging by this show....
Shock Rocer: Alice Cooper
(Scene, 2008-08-23)
The just-released Along Came a Spider is shock-rocker Alice Cooper's 25th album, and it harks back to his past in that the songs revolve around a concept. For Spider, Cooper takes on the persona of a serial killer who can't be stopped, boasting "They tried so hard to bury me, but I survived it every time" in "Vengeance Is Mine." Now 60 years old, Cooper recently spoke via phone about how he's been able to keep his rock 'n' roll alter ego going strong after all these years....