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A smarter Alice Cooper's 'Stoopid' tour
(USA Today, 1991-07-16)
"I would never hang out with him," says Alice Cooper, on the subject of himself. Shock rock's snake charmer refers to his stage character in the third person, claiming the alter ego has a distinct posture, mannerisms and volatile personality....
Stars give public a voice for Kosovo
(USA Today, 1999-05-07)
Alice Cooper, Wyclef Jean, Daniel Baldwin, Duncan Sheik, Sam Moore and Keanu Reeves' Dogstar band are among early volunteers slated to record Message to the World, a benefit song for Kosovo refugees co-written by former teen idol David Cassidy. But this is no elite all-star charity project. The public is invited to lend voices to the chorus by visiting the mobile studio in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest bus, a separate educational program joining the Message effort. (Stopping in cities between the East Coast and Las Vegas, the bus stops at New York's Central Park May 14.) ...
'X-Files' sparks musical visions
(USA Today, 1999-11-05)
Connection to the conspiracy: The 51-year-old shock rocker recorded the duet Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn) with fellow horror-meister Rob Zombie for Songs in the Key of X. In 1997, the track was Grammy-nominated for best heavy metal performance. Do you believe: "We would be pretty conceited to think we're the only intelligent life around," Cooper says. "If they were bad, they would have killed us by now. If there really were aliens on Earth, it was probably The Beatles, Groucho Marx and Salvador Dali. Those would be my suspects." ...
Rock Hall to Induct Mr. Nice Guy
(USA Today, 2011-03-08)
Alice Cooper tried not to let a little thing like being overlooked for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame get to him. After all, he had built his reputation with horror-show stage antics and dead-end-kid anthems like School's Out and No More Mr. Nice Guy. He had fashioned a persona of a pop-culture Professor Moriarty, a psychotic Captain Hook for rock 'n' roll's Peter Pan syndrome....