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What is Alice Cooper?
(Teen, 1972-11-00)
Who is Alice Cooper??? "I think he's a bizarre freak!" "Visually, I really like them."...
Return of Alice Cooper
(Teen, 1975-07-00)
Alice Cooper was, in the beginning, simply the collective name of five musicians who, like children scrawling naughty words on a wall, took delight in shocking the grownups. Oh, they were so bad. What with their snakes, stage gallows, drinking and hints of sexual ambiguity. (A girl's name for an all-guy group? Do us a favor.) Then of course they also gave the world the all-time kids' anthem "School's Out." After a short time, though, the identity of Alice Cooper was firmly fixed on the person of the group's lead singer and principal bad boy Vincent Fournier, a performer with a penchant for stalking the stage pulling crazy faces. Again that childlike quality - some say infantile - so that Mr. Cooper reminded some not so much of the decadence of the last days of Rome as a kid making faces in the mirror to scare himself. ...