Article Database
1973 - 1974
What's the best thing about being a celebrity?
(Cosmo, 1973-00-00)
Alice Cooper: "Money. The bread I get from records and concert appearances, goes along with the glory of being a celebrity. And I like money."...
How to Transmute Theater Into Gold
(Plug, 1973-00-00)
In 1965, when the British were invading the American air waves with the likes of the Beatles, the Stones, the Yardbirds, the Who, the Kinks, Herman's Hermits, and Freddie and the Dreamers, Alice Cooper and his bad boys were running track together at their Phoenix, Arizona, high school, and were urged to produce a skit for the team's year-end dinner. ...
Alice Cooper: Super Ghoul
(Story of Pop, 1973-00-00)
Without warning, an empty beer bottle comes hurtling out of the darkness, slashes through the glaring beam of the spotlight, and begins its rapid descent. With a resounding crash, the bottle misses its target, smashes into the battery of flickering footlights, and shatters into a million lethal splinters to indicate that all is not well. ...
Out of School with Alice Cooper
(After Dark, 1973-01-00)
When Alice Cooper stands on his doorstep in the morning, he can look down the road and wave to his neighbor, Bette Davis. He can look up the road and wave to his neighbor Bert Parks. He can look across the road and wave to neighbor Jack Werner...
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...
Alice Cooper's Beer Bottle Polka
(Rolling Stone, 1973-01-04)
The director of operations on the Alice Cooper tour, a native of Los Angeles, walked the streets of Paris in a bright blue felt jacket with fancy white piping, trying to decide where to have lunch in the world's premier city of food. He settled on McDonald's - there is a McDonald's hamburger installation in Paris. He ordered a Big Mac....
Eva Will Kill Me One Evening
(Oggi, 1973-01-18)
We meet Alice Cooper, the most bewildering and popular person in pop music. Perversion, sex and violence are in his incredible shows. On stage, chairs, bottles and real knives fly....
Alice Cooper — A Dream Come True
(Record World, 1973-01-27)
Alice Cooper is rock's own American Dream Machine. Almost an impossible joke only four years ago, when they signed with Straight Records along with such short-lived wunderkind as the Girls Together Outrageously, Alice and the band, under...
Hurricane Alice Takes Europe By Storm
(Circus, 1973-02-00)
In a matter of moments, Alice's grin of excitement turned to open-mouthed terror as three thousand of Glasgow's screaming meanies gave the band its wildest reception ever. "Alice, Alice, Alice," screamed three hundred frenzied fans as the red...
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...
Alice's Wonder Land
(Modern Hi-Fi & Stereo Guide, 1973-02-00)
The sleek black limousine was streaking down the highway and Alice Cooper was running down one of his more macabre recent experiences as a rock 'n' roll star. "I was on a flight from somewhere to somewhere a couple of weeks back and they sat me next to this old lady....
Alice Through The Looking Glass - Darkly
(Show, 1973-02-00)
"Art is anything you can get away with," said Marshall McLuhan in his startling re-definition. If so, it follows that Alice Cooper is one of the most striking artists of our times - for he "gets away with" rape, murder, suicide, sexual perversion, self-flagellation and infanticide... just about literally in one of the most grisly enactments of human behavior since the Marquis de Sade first performed for the French royalty. All, of course, in the name of Art....
Alice's Free Single For Britain
(New Musical Express, 1973-02-03)
Alice Cooper - voted The World's Top Band in the NME Poll - is giving a complete 4 min. 20 sec FREE SINGLE as a Thank You to British reader of NME...
Trouble with Alice Cooper
(Bravo, 1973-02-08)
I already told you about the recordings for Alice Cooper's new LP "Billion Dollar Babies". I just got news about Alice by telex from the USA. Alice is in trouble again — this time with the US Treasury. For his new album cover he had himself...
And more news on THAT ALICE SINGLE
(New Musical Express, 1973-02-10)
A BONUS SELECTION of five excepts from their new "Billion Dollar Babies" album has been added to the world exclusive Alice Cooper single available ONLY with copies of next week's NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS (week ending February 17)...
Free Alice
(New Musical Express, 1973-02-17)
This free single "Slick Black Limousine" is a world exclusive and was specially recorded by Alice for New Musical Express as a tribute to readers who voted the band World's Top in the recent NME Poll...
Hollywood — Alice's Super-Tour
(Cash Box, 1973-02-24)
When the Alice Cooper Show sets out on tour next month (Cash Box, Feb. 3), they won't exactly be sneaking out of town. Not with the kind of preparation going on out here right now, and later in the East, under Joe Gannon's direction. ...
The Development Of The Mini-Cooper
(New Musical Express, 1973-02-24)
Alice Cooper calls a temporary halt to rehearing his new show in the ballroom of the band's Connecticut country mansion. Pausing just long enough to re-arm himself with cans of Budweiser, he hops into the backseat of is chrome speed-wagon and maked...
Who Put the Freak in Rock?
(Whisper, 1973-03-00)
A close examination of the contemporary music scene reveals one unadulterated fact. Talent aside, if you're a freak going in — you've got an odds-on chance at making it. And big! You don't have to be a freak, realize...
Alice — no nice guy, but a winner!
(Disc, 1973-03-02)
There are a number of reasons why Alice Cooper, group and man, are such a huge worldwide success. One of them is a permanent air of menace about words and music that make you look and listen with the same sort of deadly fascination...
Cooper a Violent Tiny Tim with Limited Musical Talent
(Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 1973-03-02)
It was suggested to me during the Alice Cooper concert at the Kitchener Auditorium Thursday night that Cooper himself was a kind of Tiny Tim turned violent....
Billion Dollar Babies Album Review
(New Musical Express, 1973-03-03)
Superficially, Alice Cooper's appeal is to the man who shoves his way to the front from the back of a crowd inquiring tersley: "What's going on!" Nothing has interested the gent up to the present time, but, some geezer's messing about with a snake...
Ringling Bros., Barnum and Bailey and Alice Cooper
(Circular, 1973-03-05)
You haven't seen the biggest, you haven't heard the greatest, you haven't experienced the most fantastic rock & roll show on earth until you've been to The Alice Cooper Show, 1973. It will entertain more people (8,000,000 in 56 cities of the North...
I flew to Alice's Wonderland
(Bravo, 1973-03-08)
The new year began sensationally for BRAVO reader Alexander Krauss (17) from Stetten! On January 26, he was allowed to present his favorite star, Alice Cooper, with the Bronze Otto in New York. On these two pages, he tells you what Alex...
Billion Dollar Babies Album Review
(Billboard, 1973-03-10)
One of the best solid rock groups recording today have produced another set of unpretentious, straight rock. Cooper is a top vocalist and the band backs him ably, with this entire LP a bit tighter than previous efforts. Key to the group's success...
Alice's magical mystery tour gets under way
(Disc, 1973-03-10)
Alice Cooper previewed his new show at the old Capitol Theatre in Portchester, New York this week. It was a dress rehearsal of sorts - Alice is about to kick off the mammoth tour next week in Philadelphia. The production, which will travel to sixty cities in the next 56 days, features many new visual props. Among the most spectacular is a guillotine - a guillotine where Alice's head is chopped off....
Alice Cooper's Weird Wonderland
(Look-In, 1973-03-17)
"Curiouser and curiouser!" That, you'll probably remember, was what Lewis Carroll's 'Alice' said about the strange 'Wonderland' in which she found herself. But nothing in Carroll's famous book is quite as strange as the Alice Cooper story. And like all good stories it begin......
Alice: an obituary
(Melody Maker, 1973-03-17)
The rock world today mourns the death of Alice Cooper who was accidently killed last night when the safety screws failed on the guillotine he uses in his act. Cooper was appearing here at the Spectrum Theatre at the start of his 56-city tour...
News Report
(Sounds, 1973-03-17)
Alice tells us his latest snake died a few weeks ago. The way Alice explained, he arose one morning, sniffed the air and was greeted by a foul odour. Looking about for the source of the odour, Alice had found the snake had expired in its sleep - three days earlier, hence the smell . . ....
Alice Lives!
(Melody Maker, 1973-03-24)
RUMOURS of Alice Cooper's death have been greatly exaggerated. A fierce onslaught of phone calls - more than Osmondrama or Cassidymania produced - struck the MM office following last week's "obituary" story which was a satrical review of Alice's American concert...
'Alice Cooper is dead' hoax
(Record Mirror, 1973-03-24)
The great Alice Cooper mystery - was he killed by an accident with the guillotine which forms the climax of his current mammoth American show or did he die in a car crash? - was solved this week when his record company announced that it was all a hoax, and Alice was indeed alive and well. It all started last Thursday when RM received a phone call from a "reader" who said that he'd heard the news on the radio, of Alice's untimely end driving to a concert. ...
Alice Cooper
(Veronica, 1973-03-24)
There are three essential things in life: sex, violence and money. Whatever you do, if it has something to do with one of these three things, you will have success with it......
70 Years After: George Burns Taps Cigar, Discovers R&R
(Rolling Stone, 1973-03-29)
New York - At a press conference two days before his Philharmonic Hall singing debut, George Burns was asked about rumors that Alice Cooper would also be taking part in the program that already boasted Jack Benny as MC....
Alice On Boredom
(Melody Maker, 1973-03-31)
The unlit Marquee of the Capitol Theatre, situated on the corner of a cold, dark, windswept street in the New York suburbs of Porchester, advertises: "This Theatre Available For Rent For Rock Concerts." "I'm not sure," says my driver...
Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies on the road
(New Musical Express, 1973-03-31)
The Alice Cooper Show - America 1973 Philadelphia Itinerary - reads thisaway: "You are residing at the Penn Centre Inn, 20th and Market Philadelphia, Penn, If you lose this - You're LOST!! Now that we've got you captive for several hours...
On A Strange Trip With Alice Cooper
(Sounds, 1973-03-31)
A monkey on roller skates? Sounds man in New York, Chuck Pulin, had the memory of a live monkey, dressed in formal clothes, roller skating past his very eyes from Alice Cooper's lavish arrangements to entertain the jaded gentlemen of the American Press last summer in New Jersey. Sure, Alice Cooper sets his PR stunts in style. Chuck joined the boozers' caravan again for the start of Alice's new tour in Philadelphia, and reports yet more extravagent hospitality - booze, a private 'plane with Alice logos and dollar signs painted on the fuselage, hostesses in jeans and Alice T-shirts, booze, buttons, passes, itineraries, parties, booze, misbehaving guests, backstage frolics, booze, a riverboat party that won't sail, booze, breakfast with Alice . . . oh yeah, and the concert....
Magic Alice On The Road
(Circus, 1973-04-00)
While Billion Dollar Babies (Warner Bros.) was racing up the charts, New York's Alice Cooper office was in a flurry of active preparations for his newest venture, a three month extended tour of the U.S. The Amazing Randi stood colorfully...
Transylvania to Las Vegas by Stealth
(Cream, 1973-04-00)
After mutilated chickens, mock lynchings and stabbings, foreplay with boa constrictors, bombardment of audiences with paper panties, what next onstage from Alice Cooper, the teen pervert's answer to Busby Berkeley?...
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"....
Alice Cooper
(Phonographic Record, 1973-04-00)
Didn't it strike you as strange, even back then before Peter and Gordon or the color series of Beatle cards, that they could call a monstrously ubiquitous single, Can't Buy Me Love? I mean, did you really think that there was anything the Beatles couldn't buy?...
Alice Cooper Reveals Other Self: An Interview
(Words & Music, 1973-04-00)
Up the steps and through the portal of an impressive three-floor, 40-room mansion (formerly owned by Ann Margaret), in ultra-conservative Greenwich, Connecticut, we entered Alice Cooper's house. Two dogs - a St. Bernard and a beagle - greeted us. Alice's group was rehearsing, with Stephanie Smith (Michael Bruce's pretty lady) prepared dinner for Alice....
Alice's Show
(Courier-Journal & Times, 1973-04-03)
"Anybody here like Richard Speck?" asks Alice Cooper of a roomful of newsmen. "Man, I'd lick his knife for you guys." The news guys act amused. They've heard all about Alice, the malevolent androgyne rock singer rumored to have sucked...
Feel like cutting up a doll? Try a slice of Alice Cooper
(Louisville Times, 1973-04-03)
Act One — Alice as Jekyll. Time: Yesterday afternoon. Scene: A conference room in a downtown motel. Enter Alice Cooper, big rock star, stage right. He wears a very hiply tailored suit in a loud green-and-red plaid. Beautiful suit of clothes...
Curiouser and curiouser - that's poor, rich Alice
(Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1973-04-06)
Alice Cooper bounces out on stage in see-through white. He spears a baby doll, chops off its arm and legs and gleefully tosses it to the audience. He's way out. He's way beyond. He's sadistic. He's unisex gone berserk....
Check Your Guillotine, Sir?
(Rolling Stone, 1973-04-12)
Philadelphia - Extravagantly colored in shades of the Rolling Stones, Three Dog Night and Neil Diamond, the 1973 Alice Cooper tour burst forth from Rochester, New York, early in March for a three-moth, 56-city assault on North America....
Concert Review: Billion Dollar Babies
(Fifth Estate, 1973-04-14)
Scene: A pre-concert press conference at the Downtown Howard Johnson’s motor lodge. The conference is held in a medium sized room with a bar and snack table in the back (Budweiser beer is available) and a table facing rows of chairs in the front....
Killer comes home!
(Melody Maker, 1973-04-14)
Alice Cooper and Howard Kaylan are grappling with each other on the floor of the Roostertail, a Detroit night club whose wall of windows looks across the Detroit River to Canada. It's 2 a.m. and they're laughing and clowning around with each other...
Alice's Coup
(Music Star, 1973-04-14)
Alice Cooper's tour of the USA is the greatest thing yet! The grand finale will be a concert at New York's Madison Square Gardens on June 3rd. All in all he'll have covered fifty-six venues and 800,000 people will have seen him! We reckon Alice is doing just okay!...
Freaks In New York, Bad taste in Detroit
(New Musical Express, 1973-04-14)
The man was balding, podgy, 50, finely-suited and standing on the steps outside the Knoedler Art Gallery. He looked like an art critic and was leaving in digust, talking volubly. "I tell ya, I don't know what things are coming to. Nothing's done right...
The Master Of Fantasy
(Sounds, 1973-04-14)
It's been said before, but until you go to America, it's difficult to realise just how much Alice Cooper's show is a reflection of America itself. If the show leaves a bad taste, the kids are used to it, roll it happily around the tongue. They live with it and love it. It's chilling, O.K., but ultimately as safe as slightly curdled milk. ...
The Rockers Are Rolling in It
(Forbes, 1973-04-15)
WE HAVE NO IDEA what Margaret Mead may make of this. It may represent the greening of America. It may represent the creaming of America. But the fact is this: The fastest way to become a millionaire these days in these United States is to become a big rock 'n' roll star....
News Report: Alice & Salvador Dali
(Time, 1973-04-16)
Singer Alice Cooper is the head ghoul of Grand Guignol rock. Painter Salvador Dali is the grand Dada of shock work art. What could be more fitting than that Salvador should paint Alice? Or that Alice should pose wearing a million dollars' worth...
Some mothers do have 'em
(Disc, 1973-04-21)
About 300 people were at the Roostertail Nightclub in Detroit after Alice Cooper's concert at Cobo Hall, celebrating their boys return to his hometown. Actually Detroit really isn't Alice's home town, but it's where the band lived for about a year - in Pontiac, Michigan, where they got together with producer Bob Ezrin and had their first big hit, "18" and so they've always had a soft spot in their hearts for the Motor City....
Really Weird
(Fab, 1973-04-21)
Now hear this all ALICE COOPER fans. Our beloved weirdo has posed for another unusual gentleman, SALVADOR DALI. The object was not a painting, but a laser photography, and the subject was Alice wearing a million dollar diamond tiara, surrounded by various Daliesque goodies such as watches and ants and a chocolate eclair. Don't you think that when the folks in the white coats come for me, we should stop and pick up Alice?...
No More Mr Nice Guy Single Review
(Melody Maker, 1973-04-21)
A breezy tune that lacks some of the impact ("How dare you," reader Susan Catsmeat, Harrow), of previous hits, and as it is readily available on the latest album, will not sell sufficent quantities to make serious inroads in the MM chart...
Alice Tours With Monster Tooth
(Circus, 1973-05-00)
"And now, America's own Billion Dollar Baby... the legendary Alice Cooper," screamed the intro tape as the curtain lifted on the most amazing show in the history of rock 'n roll wizardry. From the moment Alice's eighty passanger Electra jet...
Billion Dollar Babies: Alice Spends Himself All Over The Place
(Creem, 1973-05-00)
Just look at what they've got to occupy themselves with: that slick imitation snakeskin cover, the oversized Alice Cooper dollar bill that'll be on more teenage bedroom walls than Bobby Orr and Rod McKuen posters combined, and a whole section of...
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: The "Queen" of Rock 'n' Roll
(Sir!, 1973-05-00)
Eight months ago, a young Pennsylvania rock evangelist named Rod Gilkeson launched his one-man crusade against "perversion and violence in the recording industry." His chief target? A rock group named Alice Cooper, whom he labeled "in bad taste and offensive." Less than one month later, a church in a small Pennsylvania town advertised a sermon entitled, "Can The Church Compete With Alice Cooper?"...
The Alice Cooper Machine
(Whisper, 1973-05-00)
What is an Alice Cooper? If you're not into the Kook Kulture that is contemporary rock music today, it's doubtful that you'd know. Surely you would remember if you'd ever seen or experienced him/her/whatever...
Cover Star
(Words Record Song Book, 1973-05-01)
Not many of us took ALICE COOPER seriously at first. The girl's name, the snake, the outrageous toys and visual effects on stage-all these combined to heap a certain amount of criticism upon the man and the group. Until the intrinsic talent began to show, that is....
The Girl I love — By Alice
(Mirror, 1973-05-02)
WHEN the most outrageous, ghoulish, horror-rocker of them all tell you he is in love, it is apt to knock you sideways. But that's what the amazing Alice Cooper says, and in an odd — a very odd — sort of way, I believe him....
Inside Alice
(Rolling Stone, 1973-05-10)
"Alice is such an American name. I love the idea that when we first started, people used to think Alice Cooper was a blonde folk singer. "The name started simply as a spit in the face of society. We decided on it in about 1968: With a name like Alice Cooper we could make 'em suffer....
Alice without Malice
(Staff, 1973-05-18)
Alice Cooper's traveling show hit town after destroying about 36 other villages on this tour. The show went on at the Forum Friday night, April 11...
A Devil's Advocate Slicks Up His Act
(Los Angeles Times, 1973-05-20)
"You know what?" Alice Cooper asked the capacity audience that paid nearly $100,000 to see his rock 'n' roll sideshow at the Inglewood Forum "I think you're crazier than I am."" To prove his point, Alice sauntered to the edge of the stage...
Late Late Rock: TV's New Sound and Fury
(World, 1973-05-22)
All across the placid plains and deserts of America on the night of November 24, 1972, a generation of adults sat down for their evening's ration of Dick Cavett only to be confronted instead with the vision of rock star Alice Cooper, resplendent in torn T-shirt, shoulder-length hair, and glittery jeans, his body apparently smeared with red lipstick. ...
Billion Dollar Babies
(Rolling Stone, 1973-05-24)
Concerning Alice Cooper, it is by now axiomatic that any new album is intended only as the soundtrack of the latest extravaganza. But even considered as a soundtrack, Billion Dollar Babies seems an abortion. The extended numbers (one around which the stage skits revolve) are the most abrasive. Rather than following Cream's formula of presenting a tight skeleton on vinyl that can be expanded on stage, the Cooper troupers insist upon acting this soundtrack concept out to the bitter end....
Mr. America
(Newsweek, 1973-05-28)
Little Vince (nobody knows his real name last name) grew up in Phoenix, Ariz., where his daddy was a minister. He spent his childhood watching TV, and his image of himself and America came right off the tube. Today, Little Vince thinks he's 100 per cent in the American tradition, a blend of Marjoe, Ozzie Nelson, Hell's Angels and P.T. Barnum - with bits from Dali and Bela Lugosi. He voted for Nixon and thinks "Madison Avenue men are the smartest in the world." Little Vince has become Alice Cooper, the fabulous Queen of Rock 'n' Rouge....
Schlock Rock's Godzilla
(Time, 1973-05-28)
By any musical standard, the Alice Cooper rock group is more shouting than something to shout about. Yet the teeny-boppers cannot seem to get enough these days of Alice Cooper (the name of both the leader and the group). The group's current...
Bid to Ban Alice Cooper
(Lancashire, UK, 1973-05-29)
AMERICAN pop star Alice Cooper was accused by an MP today of "peddling the culture of the concentration camp." Labour’s MP Leo Abse is to ask Hom Secretary Robert Carr to ban the entry of the male musician, who was reported...
Alice Cooper's Alcohol Cookbook
(Creem, 1973-06-00)
Thank god the age of drug sickies is over. Those bread 'n' butter boys, Alice Cooper, have proved exemplary leadership into the genial asskicking renaissance of alkiedom. They stand for booze almost as much as great music, and though they may total...
Billion Dollar Babies Album Review
(Gallery, 1973-06-00)
They're perverse, they're boisterous, they're grotesque and they're insolent and disrespectful brats, and they are talented musicians who are sometimes terribly funny. They are Alice Cooper, purveyors of horror amd mascara rock, and their new LP, Billion Dollar Babies (Warner Bros.), is a masterpiece of mischief and the macabre. Hello Hurray begins the album with controlled, mild instrumentation and stirring vocal echoes; but no sooner does the group establish a sympathetic bond than they test it with one of their jokes, suddenly sucking the listener into their whirpool of good-natured sacrilege and demonic joy. ...
Alice's $32,000 booze bill
(Disc, 1973-06-02)
Two different superstars gave two different Press conferences - they both feel flat, with thuds. Alice Cooper has been holding Press conferences in almost every city. Alice, he talks long and well and wittily, but his conference (at the "Coconut Grove" in the afternoon) was more like a party that didn't quite go far enough....
Mr. Nice Guy!
(Melody Maker, 1973-06-02)
In a week when Britain was rocked and rolled by the sexual confessions of leading members of Her Majesty's government, another scandal shook the very foundations of our society: Member of Parliament Leo Abse grumbled...
Abse V. Alice - Hypocrisy?
(New Musical Express, 1973-06-02)
LEO ABSE, the M.P. for Pontypool, is another of those individuals clearly bent on restricting the public's freedom of choice. He announced last week plans to revoke Alice Cooper's entry permit for his forthcoming Britsh tour. Not to be outdone, Mary...
But Alice is a CLEAN liver Mr. Abse
(Record Mirror, 1973-06-02)
AS MEMBERS of Parliament and their offspring get into the Ban-Alice-Cooper act, the Cooper eyebrows hurtle skywards in surprise that there should be so much fuss. His mum loves him.... "He's always been unusual", she says with massive understatement. Salvador Dali votes for Alice.... "A chocolate eclair is the symbol which represents Alice's music", he said as he unveiled that portrait of Alice in a New York art gallery....
MP Abse aims to ban Alice's Wonderland
(Sounds, 1973-06-02)
THERE'S SOMETHING faintly ridiculous about the sight of 56-year-old Labour MP from Pontypool - a man with a record of kindly if rather fashionable ideas - getting hot under the collar about dear ol' Alice Cooper and his conjurer's guillotine. The spectacle moves into the realms of farce when we're told that his attempt to get the Home Secretary to refuse Alice an entry permit for his planned Autumn tour was inspired by the revulsion of his teenage children....
Teenage Fetish as American Dream
(Rock, 1973-06-04)
Alice Cooper did not play at Woodstock. Considering that Ten Years After is still playin' "Goin' Home," Joe Cocker is dead and Sly can't ever seem to make it to work on time, Alice should be thankful. It would've been a good one, tho. ...
The Sicker You Are The Sicker We'll Get
(Zoo World, 1973-06-07)
Terror-rock. Torture-rock. All that is true. Grand Guignol as staged by Roger Corman with an assist from Gahan Wilson. A rock star who will be the subject of at least 10 college psychology majors' thesis. But there is something else to Alice Cooper too. The Zoo World staff had a chance recently to observe Alice. In Philadelphia, at the start of his tour; in Miami Beach at a raucous press conference; in Dania at a maddeningly tacky concert; and in Ft. Lauderdale at a party for a star who was just to exhausted to enjoy it....
Alice Cooper debags Nixon
(Melody Maker, 1973-06-09)
Alice Cooper, in the final week of their giant American tour, came up with another great gimmick at the end of their Sunday show at New York's Madison Square Gardens. On came this dark suited gentleman who is the spit of Richard Nixon...
Paul Simon and Alice Cooper, So Differently the Same
(New York News, 1973-06-10)
Carnegie Hall, it was just a boy and his guitar, more or less. At Madison Square Garden, it was a boy and his rhinestone G-string and his executioner, not to mention his dentist, his snake and his almost run-proof mascara. I doubt if there's a wider gap in music than the one between Paul Simon and Alice Cooper. The very thought of Alice coming out in a well cut tan suit and doing an acoustic act or Paul Simon zipping out on stage in torn tights and a diabolic expression to scream out that school's out is beyond even my wildest imaginings....
The Good, The Bad, Ugly Alice
(Sounds, 1973-06-16)
It was a Vile, Evil, Ugly, Disgusting Alice Cooper last Sunday night at Madison Square Garden. The Alice Cooper Show "America 1973" finally made it to New York, show number 53 if you're counting in a tour that started off in March. If you love the absurd, to be spat on, to be crushed, to see evil and violence and blood, well that's what Alice gave New York (or 20,000 at least) last Sunday....
News Report
(Rolling Stone, 1973-06-21)
20/20 News: Alice Cooper told a press conference at the Cocoanut Grove in L.A. that the group spent $32,000 on beer last year. And he said he's planning to market his own line of men's makeup, called Whiplash . . ....
Hype Hype Hurray
(New Musical Express, 1973-06-30)
Let's assume, just for the purpose of arguement, that you're a sensitive soul filled with love for your fellow humans, and that you really get off on beauty and loveliness. Let us further assume that you believe that rockanroll is the key to the solution of all...
Alice Quits The Stage
(Circus, 1973-07-00)
Alice's confidantes have leaked word of a Cooper game plan that could hit fans harder than a blast of billion dollar blood. The F 27 Elektra jet with the blackjack table planted in its cushion-strewn interior and the dollar sign painted on its towering tail...
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 - Pop Star circa 1973
(Music Scene, 1973-07-00)
Alice Cooper spends every evening being half strangled by a huge boa constrictor, being chased by a giant tooth and being executed on the guillotine... In the middle of all this he also manages to sing. All these events are part of the latest Cooper extravaganza currently touring the states and reputedly earning the star in excess of 4 million dollars. No wonder that Cooper's private jet bears a dollar sign on it's tail....
Alice Cooper In New York
(Rock Scene, 1973-07-00)
Alice has been living in New York for several months now, high above the city in a sumptuous East Side penthouse apartment, but he's still not totally used to urban living. "I'm just learning about New York," says the man who has lived in Hollywood, Detroit, and, most recently, Connecticut. "The rest of the band still lives in that big house in Connecticut, but I found that I was coming into the city every night....
Tolling the Take
(Rolling Stone, 1973-07-05)
New York - "All I have for you now is approximations. The office is overrun by bald little guys in blue suits who are going over the books. They say they'll have the exact figure in about a week." Speaking was Shep Gordon, manager of Alice Cooper, two days after the Madison Square Gardens concert which was supposed to be the last stop on the 56-city tour which, it was predicted, would gross $4.5 million....
Prince of Weird
(Escapade, 1973-08-00)
Alice Cooper is the prince of the weird, everyone knows. And when you are invited to this man's court, it's necessary to be a little . . . odd. Alice Cooper has just launched his 1973 American tour, which involves 56 cities, 60 concerts, and a total gross of 4.6 million. ...
He Continues His Madness
(Hey, 1973-08-00)
The madness continues. Music is stepping up side by side with the added show. And Alice Cooper gives the best example of such attempts. Alice Cooper has been at the forefront of the "Pop" scene for years. Although he is a man, he introduced himself under a woman's name, then he started to act as a "homosexual"...
The 'Billion Dollar babies' Show Rock's Answer To Boris Karloff
(Music Scene, 1973-08-00)
When a rock star starts spitting at the audience as part of his act you might feel he has gone a little further then is wise or decent. But the people who received the treatment from Mr. Alice Cooper when I flew to Detroit to see his new show appeared more flabbergasted than outraged.....
Alice Cooper Wants Your Reaction
(Los Angeles Star, 1973-08-14)
The press conference took place at poolside on the top of the Holiday Inn at 26th and Wisconsin. Alice strolled out about a half an hour later, naked to the waist, and followed by the lead guitarist, Neal Smith, the drummer, and Volman and Kaylan from Flo and Eddie....
Bob Ezrin
(New Musical Express, 1973-08-18)
Bob Ezrin currently packs a fair credibility among those-who-know (the presence of a striking array of musicians — Jack Bruce, Aynsley Dunbar,Steve Winwood et al — now working on Reed's album has not a little to do with Ezrin's exceptional reputation...
What a drag!!
(Beat Instrumental, 1973-09-00)
Alice Cooper: musician, showman, drag artist, drunkard, and executioner — both of plastic dolls and remaining taboos of the Western world. At each of these stages in Alice's career, he's been denounced by the appropriate critics and...
Why Britain Wants To Ban Alice
(Circus, 1973-09-00)
"Alice Cooper is peddling the culture of the concentration camp," sputtered the outraged English government official. The British have blackballed Mott The Hoople from the Albert Hall. They have forbidden David Bowie, Led Zeppelin and Slade to play at...
What do they expect for 70 grand a night?
(Gallery, 1973-09-00)
He comes staggering out of the fog, lurching through the light and darkness, humped over, drinking some king-hell-evil-rotgut fluid, probably some straight Benzedrine solution to warm up his stomach, and he staggers, twisting violently once in a while like a moving body tic toward the microphone that is five precariously negotiated steps away....
Alice Through The Looking Glass!
(Jackie, 1973-09-00)
Alice Cooper was a third of the way through his recent 56 city tour of America when I spoke to him in Detroit. Relaxing in the top-floor suite in the luxurious oak-beamed St Regis Hotel, a few hours before he was due to appear at a 20,000 seater stadium. Alice was in high spirits. As I came in, the phone rang and he bounded across the room and answered: "Alice Cooper, pop star" and then he burst out laughing. ...
It's Super Man. It's Super Woman. It's Super Cooper
(New Ingenue, 1973-09-00)
Love him or hate him, it's hard to escape Alice Cooper these days. If he's not staring down from a Times Square billboard, or being banned by TV stations across the country, or giying awards to Jack Benny and George Burns, or being immortalized by Salvador Dali, he's probably just appeared in your town and is blaring out of the nearest AM radio. ...
The two best shows in town ALICE & BOWIE
(Rock Scene, 1973-09-00)
New York - Rock and roll has gone through some weird changes during the past ten years or so. When the Beatles first invaded the airwaves across America, rock was something you listened to and looked at - no one ever closed their eyes at a Beatles concert, except, maybe in ecstasy. But during the latter part of the Sixties a lot of people did close their eyes. Audiences and groups alike got so wrapped up in the music they were making that the visual element of rock got lost. ...
Alice in his Wonderland
(Music Star, 1973-09-01)
Over the last couple of months he's been touring America on an exhausting schedule. He's played 56 dates and after each show held an enormous party late into the night. It's one of the longest tours undertaken by any artist and for this reason Alice devised a new show which he hopes to bring to Britain later in the year....
Million Dollar Baby!
(Jackie, 1973-09-08)
Alice Cooper was a third of the way through his recent 56 city tour of America when I spoke to him in Detroit....
Book Review
(Publishers Weekly, 1973-09-23)
Young Chicago Sun Times columnist Greene has fulfilled the fantasies of many of his contemporaries by going on tour and performing with the Alice Cooper band. Alice Cooper (né Vincent Furnier) specializes in what Greene calls...
Alice Cooper: Patron Saint of Trash
(Melody Maker, 1973-09-29)
At age seven Vincent Furnier was playing in his back garden, down in Phoenix, Arizona, when he found a baby King Snake. He took it home and watched it grow, day be day. He even caught small mice to feed it...
New Alice LP Due
(New Musical Express, 1973-09-29)
Alice Cooper's new album "Muscle Of Love" will be issued simultaneously throughout the world by Warner Brothers on November 15. Tracks comprise "Big Apple Dreamin", "Teenage Lament", "Woman Machine", "Working Up A Sweat"...
Alice to release 'Muscle'
(Sounds, 1973-09-29)
"Muscle Of Love" is the title of Alice Cooper's next album, being released world wide on November 15. The track titles emerging from a week in Los Angeles recording were "Big Apple Dream", "Teenage Lament", "Woman Machine", "Working Up A Sweat", "Never Been Sold Before", "Hard Hearted Alice", "Crazy Little Child" and the title track....
Alice Freaks Out!
(16 Magazine, 1973-10-00)
No, he's not "Eddie Haskell" of Leave It To Beaver! Sure, he freaks out on stage, but he's definitely not the "freak" that you see on stage or in photos! In face - now that the truth is known - he's not even Alice Cooper!! Read on and find out...
Alice Cooper's Muscle Of Love
(Beetle, 1973-10-00)
Alice Cooper has managed to go from being one of the most neglected, laughed at bands in history to one of the richest, laughed at bands in history. Always willing to tell little white lies for sensationalism, Alice is a journalists nightmare...
Neal Smith Tells Terrifying Tales About The Band
(Circus, 1973-10-00)
Sexy blond Neal Smith reclined a little deeper into his chaise lounge, his slim tan legs tossed casually over the side of the chair as he chatted with a reporter in New York over the phone. A cool, frosty drink stood on the table only yards away from Neal's...
Alice Cooper's School Daze
(Creem, 1973-10-00)
Remember, O brudders, those good old days in high school when you dreamed that someday you'd be in a longhaired rock 'n' roll band just like the Beatles and the girls'd be drooling all over you? Or maybe you're in high school right now, and...
Down The Garden Path With 'Alice'
(Akron Beacon Journal, 1973-10-21)
Last year, Alice Cooper grossed $11 million. As rock and roll's favorite vaudevillian, he undertook the most ambitious concert tour ever conceived - 60 cities in 56 days - and played to sold out auditoriums filled with 800,000 worshipping fans....
Liza with a Z Meets Alice With a C
(Rolling Stone, 1973-11-08)
New York - The sounds of a thousand strings, one mother of a synthesizer and (in there somewhere) a four-piece hard rock band engulf the solitary figure of Liza Minnelli standing in the emptiness of Studio A at the Record Plant, half a block from the heart of the Broadway theater district....
Alice: Death of a Killer, Birth of a Lover
(Sounds, 1973-11-17)
Take heart, Mr. Leo Abse, Alice Cooper really likes you - even if you don't like him and you don't want him to come and play for us. It's true Mr. Abse - he said so. ...
Cindy Lang
(Andy Warhol's Interview, 1973-12-00)
Cindy Lang met Alice Cooper in Detroit in 1967 ("the Summer of Love") before Alice was known even locally, and has been the woman in his life ever since. S: What is your relationship with Alice like? C: We're best friends... and we're in love...
The Double Life of Alice Cooper
(Circus, 1973-12-00)
The Eastman "Valley Faucet" rolled thirty feet across the green and into the cup like a homing pigeon returning to its nest. It was an amazing putt, and no less amazing is that the golfer was Alice Cooper, attired in an orange Ban-Ion shirt, plaid pants...
My Weird, Wonderful Affair with Alice Cooper
(Fun Time, 1973-12-00)
I HAVE ALWAYS FELT that I was "different." It was never easy for me to get along with other people. I never had any real friends at school. I was looking for something, but I didn't know what. ...
Dracula in Drag
(Man's Magazine, 1973-12-00)
ALICE COOPER WAS DRUNK and looking for trouble. As usual. Staggering to the entrance of a smoky, dimly-lit topless bar on Baltimore's sin strip, rock music's new "queen" decided this was the place and signaled to the Cadillac limousine that had been coasting alongside him down the gaudy, neon street....
Alice Cooper Due in February
(New Musical Express, 1973-12-00)
After month of rumour and speculation, it is now officially confirmed that Alice Cooper will be undertaking a full European tour in the New Year. Promoter Harvey Goldsmith, for John and Tony Smith, revealed to the NME that he is in the process...
Alice and the Monsters
(Playmen, 1973-12-00)
The "tranvestment" can be the symptom of a disease, the schizoid necessity of doubling the personality, the violent assertion of a right to disputed homosexuality, even an indirect but demystifying form of social revolt....
A Clown Like Alice
(Melody Maker, 1973-12-01)
One covets his cash, another makes a deal with a midget pimp, the other three monkey around. After some 40 minutes of thick rock, the guys, bleeding and bedraggled, are turfed out by a gorilla with blond locks. Special Police drag 'em...
Hard Hearted Alice
(Sounds, 1973-12-01)
Alice Cooper's Muscle Of Love was released last week and it's another fine LP. The album is packaged in a plain record mailing box which says on one side "Attention This Carton Contains One (1) Alice Cooper Muscle Of Love". Inside there's a school book cover (to use with your "School's Out" LP) and a picture of the lads going into well... look at the LP and it'll tell you 'bout what the Muscle Of Love is. ...
Government threat to Stones, Alice
(Melody Maker, 1973-12-08)
An anti-censorship committee has been set up to fight the new pornography bill which, they claim, threatens the freedom of rock musicians. They fear the bill will be used against rock groups with the result that companies producing album covers...
ZZ gigs with Alice
(Sounds, 1973-12-08)
Z.Z.Top will do venues this month with Alice Cooper which we think is a great way for the music fans to see this killer band....
Alice: A Christmas Chiller
(Melody Maker, 1973-12-22)
The great Sherlock Holmes, cleverly disguised as MM investigator Chris Charlesworth, pulls his deerstalker over his eyes and sets forth on his most dangerous adventure. Red herrings and chopped up babies abound, but the devious Holmes...
Alice Gang Beats Business Kings to Moneybags
(Circus, 1974-00-00)
Who's the biggest money-making couple in show-biz? Liz and Dick? Nope. It's Carly and James, who stands to clear a cool four million while the merry Burtons sob over a paltry three. What entertainment industry makes more money than television...
Alice Cooper
(Circus Raves, 1974-00-00)
Album covers have always been a sticky and expensive thorn in the side of record companies, and lately costs and competition for better covers have hurtled upwards faster than a pole vaulter on the end of a fiberglass pole. ...
Alice Cooper At The Movies
(Penthouse, 1974-00-00)
When it comes to mayhem and madness, Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper is in a league all by itself. in his first feature-length movie, Alice Cooper thrusts into sharp focus teenage America's fantasies and nightmare - bombarding the viewer with everything from horror-movie sensationalism to Daliesque surrealism. ...
Alice act is not too sweet
(Unknown Australian, 1974-00-00)
New York, Saturday – Alice Cooper, (pictured), the rock star whose shows feature gory simulated murders and rape, is terrified of death at the hands of parents of his teeny-bopper fans....
Alice Cooper's 'Muscle of Love' - A Shocking Course in Pop Sex
(Circus, 1974-01-00)
"As long as nobody gets pregnant or hurt," Alice told Circus, "Sex is healthy." 'Muscle of Love' will tell millions of people all about it! Alice Cooper was sitting in the living room of his Malibu beach house surrounded by empty beer cans and five press...
Milking the Nozzle of Love
(Creem, 1974-01-00)
Which brings us to Alice, of course. Everybody knew what big business he'd turned into, and it was only a matter of time till somebody whipped themselves onto figuring out how to milk the Alice tidal wave. Billion Dollar Babies featured bubblegum...
Muscle Of Love Album Review
(Phonographic Record, 1974-01-00)
Alice Cooper is an international movie 10 years later set to music. But where is the director, Bob Ezrin? He directed such wow scenes as "I'm Eighteen", "School's Out" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy" and is nowhere to be found on this LP. When the Coasters lost Lieber and Stoller, they failed; when the Beatles lost Epstein, they failed; and when the Rolling Stones lost Keith Richards (think about it) they failed! "Big Apple Dreamin' " (Hippo) is a "Lost in New York City" song. So is "Up On the Roof" as performed by the Drifters. ...
News Report
(Rolling Stone, 1974-01-03)
Modeling prisoners: Glen Buxton, Neal Smith, Dennis Dunaway, Mike Bruce and Alice staged a jail break at an abandoned New York police station for a film to promote Muscle Of Love on BBC. Also included in the mini-drama: Alice Playten, who did an impression of Mick Jagger in the National Lampoon's Lemmings show, playing the part of Tatum O'Neal....
Alice Cooper / ZZ Top at Crisler Arena
(Ann Arbor Sun, 1974-01-11)
Alice Cooper, the man who molded music and theatrics into a million dollar success (at least), along with "that little ole' band from Texas", ZZ Top, recently left the residents of Ann Arbor and others who attended their Crisler Arena show with...
Alice, and the babes roar back
(Sounds, 1974-01-12)
Vince Furnier and company made their long-awaited return to Toronto in front of about 16,000 people at Maple Leaf Gardens. Dry ice, snakes and beheadings - yes, Alice Cooper and his Billion Dollar Babies are back on the road for a short tour, bringing the spirit of Christmas and New Year to one and all. ...
Alice Cooper: The Motor Cools Down
(Rolling Stone, 1974-01-17)
The Alice Cooper phenomenon, which began with the chart entry of "I'm Eighteen," rose to diabolical heights with Killer and School's Out and extravaganzaed in the show surrounding the Billion Dollar Babies, has now cooled itself down with Muscle Of Love. While the album contains several highlights and wild-card experiments, its mood reveals that both the group and Alice are uncertain of what new directions they might turn to their own uses. This isn't necessarily bad; it was only a matter of time before they fully eroded the twin themes of horror-movie outrage and teenage rebellion/identification. B...
TV Warlock Role for Alice
(Melody Maker, 1974-01-19)
Alice Cooper will be making his first non-singing appearance on American television mid - way through March in a TV movie entitled 'The Snoop Sisters'. Shooting starts in Los Angeles next week. Alice will be playing a bar owner...
Return of the vomit-stained sailor
(New Musical Express, 1974-01-19)
WOWEE, that Ailce Cooper is certainly a funny fellow an no mistake. Consider, if you will, the extraordinary range of poses that he and his partners in crime have effortlessly assumed since Bob Ezrin first rescued them from the mouldering vaults...
Alice Cooper, Helen Hayes?
(Arizona Republic, 1974-01-23)
In our New Year's "put-on" column (about show business situations guaranteed not to happen in the year ahead — and probably won't) we itemed as follows: Perplexingly, the "Beverly Sills Sings Alice Cooper" program fails to draw in its...
No Efforts to Ban Alice Cooper Here
(Dayton Daily News, 1974-01-28)
Could you please tell me whether there is any effort being made to ban Alice Cooper from every coming to Dayton?...
Alice Bombed in Toledo
(Rolling Stone, 1974-01-31)
Toledo - Pelted by fireworks and debris, Alice Cooper recently walked off their "Holiday Show" at the Toledo Sports Arena. According to Ashley Pandel, Cooper's publicist, "Alice felt if they continued, there could be another Altamont."...
Alice - Which Way Do You Want Him?
(16 Magazine, 1974-02-00)
As every 16 reader knows there are two (at least!) Alice Coopers! Which Alice do you dig? Do you prefer the far out, freaky, ferocious fella shown here? Or do you like Alice sweet 'n charming, a regular guy surrounded by pets and plants...
Rock Theatre
(Music Scene, 1974-02-00)
What would Elvis have been if he'd looked like Harry Secombe. It wasn't only the growl in his southern voice that enthroned the King; his snake hips and revolving pelvis must be taken into account as well. From its beginning there has been a strong visual element in rock music, and this aspect is particularly prominent now. Last year was the Year of Glitter, of Rock Spectacular, of the paramount performance and secondary music. ...
Alice on Fire!
(Spec, 1974-02-00)
Hi — and welcome to Fire Island! It's a lazy Sunday afternoon, and there's nothing I like better than just sitting on my terrace overlooking the Great South Bay and watching movies on TV...
Alice flexes his muscle
(New Musical Express, 1974-02-02)
Alice Cooper has become a living legend. And despite the tales of his physical decay, it looks like he's gonna keep on living. Could it be that Cooper is a liar? At any rate, far from having burned himself out, Cooper was sitting in the back room...
Carlos, Alice score hits
(Berwyn Life, 1974-02-06)
Alice Cooper's music has changed a little, too, although the degree of change is nowhere near that of Santana. On Muscle of Love one can detect subtle musical changes from such vintage Cooper LP's as Love It To Death and Killer. The most...
Despite our plea for free beer for Alice a few months back, Budweiser are still turning a deaf ear, and Alice is buying his own. When he rang last week, he was just packing up five crates to take down to Mexico with him. Alice was also suffering from virulent food poisoning, contracted in Mexico on a recent golf sojourn. Undeterred, he was returning for more golf. ...
Muscle Of Love Album Review
(Creem, 1974-03-00)
At this point everything Alice Cooper puts out sounds very similar. Muscle Of Love sounds a great deal like Billion Dollar Babies which sounded a great deal like School's Out which sounded like the album before that, etc. This is to say, a...
Miss Hayes — Meet Alice Cooper
(TV Guide, 1974-03-02)
It could have happened only on television. The medium that gave the world Rowan and Martin, Huntley and Brinkley, Ozzie and Harriet, Batman and Robin, and Dandy Don and Humble Howard, now has come up with a truly inspired new pairing: Helen Hayes and Alice Cooper. ...
Mr Alice In Wonderland
(Express, 1974-03-19)
Late night sittings, party talk, people of widely different backgrounds and interests don't have to be acrimonious or divisive. Not when the party is made up of the beautiful people whose social wonderland - not far from Westminster in distance but a world away in style - remains apparently indestructible. A world when meaningful discussions on the economy means for many inhabitants whether or not to serve non-vintage champagne....
Fangs ain't what they used to be
(Melody Maker, 1974-03-23)
At the end of the second evening of his three-day trip to London, after a gruelling schedule of interviews for the press, radio and TV, Alice Cooper was turning out another great performance. Stretched along a sofa in the Habitat atmosphere...
Two-hour Alice Film - But No Gigs
(New Musical Express, 1974-03-23)
Alice Cooper flew into London last weekend — "just to say hello", he commented, though he also spent some time negotiating a deal for the British distribution of his upcoming feature. The movie, which has the working title of "Hard Hearted Alice"...
Actor Alice
(Sounds, 1974-03-23)
Alice Cooper made his much talked about acting debut recently on the TV show "The Snoop Sisters". Helen Hayes, who plays one of the elderly detectives in the programme, was set the task of cheeking out a case of witchcraft. Alice played the part of Prince, a young singing witch (can you get that one together!). Although Alice's part in the show was a very short one, we found it a little clumsy, but you'll be able to judge for yourselves when it's screened in England. British Premiere For Alice Film. The Alice Cooper Band film, tentatively titled "Hard Hearted Alice", should be premiered here in May. This will partly compensate for the cancelled British tour caused by the energy crisis and the difficulty of fitting all the equipment on to British stages. ...
Las vegas night club eager for rock audience revenues
(Anderson Daily Bullet, 1974-03-26)
Alice Cooper dropped in to see Liza Minnelli perform as the Riviera in Las Vegas and while he was there he discussed the possibility of bringing his group and his snake to do a gig there. Alice Cooper was backstage following Liza's opening...
Bronzed Bomber
(Sounds, 1974-03-30)
Two ice-hockey teams are silently battling away for supremacy, but the man with the Michelob bottle is more engrossed in the morning's silly papers....
Alice Cooper Retires Rock Career!
(Circus, 1974-04-00)
In what may turn out to be the career move of the century, the world's favorite ghoul may give up a career of rock for TV and films. Why? The answer lies in a club and a golf ball. Highly reliable sources reported to Circus Magazine that Alice's rock...
Alice Cooper Jail House Rock
(Circus Raves, 1974-04-00)
The concrete walls seemed to stretch for miles, the pungent smell of disinfectant permeating the air. Each footstep, every movement, caused tiny echoes to reverberate through the gloomy passageways. It might have easily been the bowels of a huge...
The Preachers Son Who Became Alice Cooper
(People, 1974-04-01)
It was about a year before his astonishing visage would become an inescapable fixture of pop culture. The rock star-to-be had arrived at a nobby New York restaurant for a luncheon interview, caparisoned in full regalia and thorough anonymity....
Alice Cooper's Test
(Manchete, 1974-04-13)
"I just want the audience to have fun with my show. I dislike violence and do not want anyone to get hurt." When he made this statement to the press before his debut show at the Anhembi monumental pavilion in Sao Paulo, Alice Cooper seemed to be predicting what would happen. ...
Alice Cooper In Brazil - It's a Rio Thing
(New York News, 1974-04-28)
Brazil is only 10 hours away by plane, but it's 10 years away in time. Although the lovely white beaches of Rio de Janeiro are lined with magnificent modern apartment buildings and the gross national product of the country has quintupled in a few years, Brazil is still in the rock-and-roll stone age....
Can You Pass My Love Exam?
(16 Magazine, 1974-05-00)
Does your temperature go rising, you pulse go racing and your basal metabolism go roaring at the mere thought of that adorable archifiend, Alice Cooper? Well, here's a clinical and super-scientific test devised by the divine...
Liza & Alice Cooper: Is It A Love Song?
(Motion Picture, 1974-05-00)
Any Liza Minnelli opening is a happening. Ringsiding celebrities converge to pay homage. The Beautiful People are out in force. There's an electric excitement that only Liza can generate, and the promise of a memorable night of entertainment that only she can fulfill. But when the clatter of dinner dishes subsided, the curtains parted, and the lights went up for the premiere performance of Liza's latest engagement at the Riviera in Las Vegas, it was, even for Liza, a superhappening....
October U.K. Gigs By Alice
(New Musical Express, 1974-05-04)
PLANS ARE NOW being finalised for Alice Cooper to bring his new roadshow to Britain this autumn, cables our U.S. correspondent. He will be coming here as part of a major European tour, though it is not yet known how many dates...
Another Hit For Alice
(Jackie, 1974-05-18)
The long black limousine slid to a halt outside my New York hotel. Inside an ordinary-looking young man sat up front beside the driver. I returned to reading my newspaper. After all, I was waiting for Alice and who would ever describe Alice as average? But then I heard a shout . . . "C'mon man, you wanna be late for the golf game?"...
Alice's house burns down
(Melody Maker, 1974-06-24)
The Alice Cooper Mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut, was razed to the ground by fire last week. At the time Alice was in Los Angeles, but damage to the house and surrounding buildings is in the region of $350,000. Cooper and his band...
Alice Assaults Brazil!
(Circus, 1974-07-00)
The Voodoo religion Makumaba is even bigger than Catholicism in the steaming land of the Amazon, and when 'The Devil with a Snake' jetted in from North America he caused the most profound social paroxysm since the landing of the...
Alice in the Raw!
(Spec, 1974-07-00)
Alice's next - a documentary of his group's last concert tour with mad, made, mad Marx-Bros.-type films (featuring Alice and the group) interspersed!...
Alice Cooper: Death on TV
(Rolling Stone, 1974-07-04)
Calgary, Alberta - Hanging parties, along with vigilante mobs and saloon shoot outs, belong to the raunchy, rugged frontier past of this city. It took Alice and his traveling execution show to teach the local kids a few rope tricks. Details of what apparently were Cooper-inspired hanging parties surfaced last month at a coroner's inquest into the death of a 13-year-old boy who was found swinging from a sturdy length of hemp in his bedroom closet. ...
News Report
(New Musical Express, 1974-07-06)
"Alice Cooper asked for two midgets, 12 monkeys and a Marachi player. I managed to get everything except the Marachi player as he was doing a recording session. But with people like Alice Cooper I don't really mind. It's a challenge...
Alice Sounds Off!
(Spec, 1974-08-00)
"So What's The Story, Alice? Are You Gay? Are You Straight? Are You Bisexial? Which?!" At Last, SPEC Lays It On The Line (As It Were) And Hits Alice With The Big Question! A Very Intimate, Very Sensational, VERY Incredible Interview With Alice Cooper! People say all kinds of things about you.I know, I know. So what's the story, Alice? Are you gay? Are you straight? Are you bisexial? Which?! Oh, I'm straight. I'm attracted only to members of the opposite sex - girls, that is....
Solo Alice
(Melody Maker, 1974-08-03)
Alice Cooper plus two members of his band - drummer Neal Smith and guitarist Michael Bruce - are planning seperate solo albums. But reports of a split in the band are, according to a spokesman, "hotly denied."; Alice is also...
On Tour with Alice Cooper
(Publishers Weekly, 1974-08-05)
"I have always been attracted by the fantasy of being a wealthy superstar, of performing on a stage before 20,000 adoring fans," says Bob Greene, the 27-year-old Chicago Sun-Times columnist and author of Atheneum's "Billion Dollar Baby"...
Going Too Far
(Quad-City Times, 1974-08-11)
Rock star Alice Cooper is one of the new breed of shock-entertainers. One of Alice's weird, way-out routines is a mock hanging....
Greatest Hits Album Review
(Billboard, 1974-08-24)
Alice Cooper has long been known primarily as a stage act, but when one sits and listens it is evident they are fine musicians, singers and writers and have a track record of hits. This is one greatest hits set that truly is a greatest hits...
Led Zep vs Alice: The Battle Of The Bucks
(Circus, 1974-09-00)
Like Godzilla locked in combat with King Kong, two of the heaviest rock monsters are slugging it out for first place in the big buck sweep-stakes. While Alice Cooper counts the attendance records he smashed and the millions his concerts grossed...
Hype's Greatest Hit
(Oui, 1974-09-00)
Here's Alice with his boa constrictor. That one got no end of publicity. It's a shame he isn't pictured here with Salvador Dali and the hologram they did together, because that one got even more publicity. In case you didn't know it, publicity is what it's all about. It's a shame he doesn't have his manager, Shep Gordon, with him either. Shep had a lot to do with it all. He's the one who took a moderately offensive Midwestern lad and his mates in the band and made a monster of them. Turning Alice into Alice was no easy task. Oh, no. Seven years it took - seven years of hype....
Alice Cooper
(Penthouse, 1974-09-00)
Teeing off on a posh Los Angeles golf course, crowned by a crimson knit golf cap offset with the facing of eight 14-karat aluminum Budweiser cans, twenty-six-year-old Vincent Furnier hardly looks the part of satanic rock star Alice Cooper, the gangly succubus known to flirt openly with writhing boa constrictors. And as his well-placed shot zings across the fairway, few of his suburban fellow golfers could guess that this timid-looking fellow has sold millions of records, including four successive gold albums, and captured the hearts and minds of teenage America with the macabre monomania he projects in jam-packed arenas from coast to coast. ...
Alice Comes Clean or The Story of My Life, such as it is
(Spec, 1974-09-00)
It all began when I was born a month too soon - My ma was frightened by a runaway saloon! Well, that's not exactly true, but it sure is an eye-grabbing opener, isn't it? Actually, those are the first lines of a song by Danny Kaye called Anatole Of Paris - it's about a madman who designs women's hats, and I've always felt sort of close to other madmen, no matter what they did. ...
Alice is Ozzie when off stage
(Arizona Republic, 1974-09-04)
The Wednesday Wash: What better way to begin the st-Labor Day entertainment scene than with some quotes from an unusual performing Phoenix native you'd never believe considers himself an Ozzie Nelson offstage? Well, if you care to accept...
Alice's Crazy Daydream
(Melody Maker, 1974-09-07)
Spin off into the endgame, skydivers, with ol' snake-eyes and the gang's Greatest hits, a real hotchpotch hoola of the most deranged rock 'n' roll to ever slice across your head. Step into your last goodbye, cuz the shots are deadly...
Alice's absurd achievements
(New Musical Express, 1974-09-07)
Music was never much more than a peripheral interest for this bunch of theatrical con-artists - after all, the early seventies' audience was disillusioned to the extent that cynical opportunism had no need to masquerade as anything saleable. It was a...
Alice: Teen Anthem
(Sounds, 1974-09-07)
The band are as significant to seventies rock era as The Who were in the sixties. The overgrown teenage rebel from Detroit who could identify with the generation of that era. Their music was aggressive, filled with violent innuendoes, maybe overstated in places, but definitely shit hot rock and roll. Alice presented something people like Iggy Stooge and other attempted but miserably failed. While Iggy had the violent performance and outrageousness he lacked in vocals, material and competent musicians. ...
Question & Answer
(Hattiesburg American Sun, 1974-09-15)
I have several questions about Alice Cooper. Where are Alice and the band living now? Is it true that Neal Smith is married and has a kid?...
Alice Hits The Rock Pile With 'Greatest Hits'!
(Circus, 1974-10-00)
Up in the Hollywood Hills, where show business mansions pepper the steep slopes like million dollar mushrooms, a long-haired, familiar looking construction worker was busy tearing apart and rebuilding a house. Far across the country, on a flat...
Sex With The Rock Stars
(Motion Picture, 1974-10-00)
Behind the glittering kaleidoscope that is the world of rock music there exists an ever-changing myriad of life-styles, cultures, and counter cultures....
The Story Of My Life, Such As It Is - Or The True Horror Story I Could Never Tell!
(Spec, 1974-10-00)
I can't remember all my girl friends' names - not that there were all that many of them. My first little girl friend was Dawn Dubrowski - that was back in Detroit. Then there was Karen Love, and when I was 12 I liked Melanie Mapes. She was gorgeous - she used to be a child model, and then I liked another girl named Leslie Emmons, who was Melanie's best friend....
Alice Cooper: solo album with Lou Reed's musicians
(Melody Maker, 1974-10-05)
Alice Cooper was back in New York this week playing golf with his biographer, New York author Steven Gaines. Gaines is writing Alice's story with full co-operation from Alive Enterprises, the Cooper company. Recently Alice has been in Toronto...
Tee with Alice
(Melody Maker, 1974-10-12)
Chris Charlesworth has a round — of golf, that is — with Alice Cooper in New York and finds the ghoul of rock is a little concerned about his image... "You won't believe this," said Alice Cooper emerging from some bushes...
Alice Cooper Sees Self as Two Personalities
(Ashbury Park Press, 1974-10-13)
DETROIT (AP) — When Alice Cooper is not on stage beheading dummies and entwining himself with snakes while singing rock songs, he says he likes to "play golf, drink beer and be quiet." Offstage, Alice Cooper is Vincent Furnier, who was born...
Greatest Hits Review
(Ashbury Park Press, 1974-10-20)
Like most greatest hits, anthologies and best of's, "Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits" lacks the freshness, continuity, and spontaneous drive the original albums presented. The motivation for the album is trite. Keeping in mind that Alice Cooper and friends...
Alice Wants You For His Victim
(16 Magazine, 1974-11-00)
Everybody has a "secret garden" — a place where their weirdest and wildest dreams come true. And these unfulfilled fantasies are often quite sensual, sexy, exotic and even scary! Alice Cooper is no different from the rest of us — so listen in while...
Book Review
(Publishers Weekly, 1974-11-04)
For those who really want to know, the reason that Vincent Furnier, once a musician with a group called the Nazz (also the Spiders, also the Earwigs), changed his name to Alice Cooper is that the real Alice Cooper, an English girl living several...
'Alice' in Wonderland
(Arizona Republic, 1974-12-08)
It's a long way from a letterman's banquet at Cortez High to the biggest concert halls in the country. Alice Cooper has made that journey, quite successfully, and now has a Boswell to tell us all about it. ...
Two Insiders View the Wild World or Rock
(New York News, 1974-12-08)
A ROCK-AND-ROLL tour is an event that's unlike any other kind of rock show. When 40 or 50 young people assemble to zig-zag across America with a million-dollar caravan of equipment...
Alice shoots Santa Claus
(Sounds, 1974-12-14)
Alice Cooper's Christmas card is a photo by New York photographer Bob Gruen. It's a shot of Alice shooting Santa Claus in the arse with a toy rifle....
The sick world of Alice Cooper
(Boston Globe, 1974-12-19)
"Sure, people keep getting sicker, so do we," Alice candidly admits to the press. That sickness — on the rock stage, in the audience and in America at large & is what Bob Greene diagnoses in "Billion Dollar Baby" as he tours across...
News Report
(Melody Maker, 1974-12-21)
Alice Cooper's tour manager, Dave Liebert, is the only roadie to have two gold albums — he got them when he was a member of The Happenings. Alice Cooper has a golf handicap of 12....
Alice buys a rock dream
(Sounds, 1974-12-21)
Both Alice Cooper and Paul Simon have bought some of the original Guy Peellaert paintings from "Rock Dreams," and other rock stars are saving up to do the same....
Alice Cooper's Image, Reality Are The Same
(Arizona Daily Star, 1974-12-22)
At first it's intriguing. Here's the Alice Cooper rock 'n' roll group — proud to claim the title of "the sickest, most degenerate band in America" — starring a young man from Arizona who turns his teenage audiences on by chopping up blood-spilling...
On Tour With Alice Cooper: The Book That Has It All
(Cincinnati Enquirer, 1974-12-28)
How about a peek behind the scenes in the rock and roll world? A look at life on the road with one of the hottest rock and roll bands, through the backstage corridors, the endless series of hotels, the planes, the groupies, the squabbles, the planning...
Quotes
(Melody Maker, 1974-12-28)
IF Bela Lugosi did an interview and said that everybody should suck blood, then I would say he'd be adding to violence. If Alice said in an interview that he wanted all his fans to pick up a hatchet and chop a baby's head off...
Greatest Hits Review
(Albuquerque Journal, 1974-12-30)
Looking at the songs that this album contains shows one that the title, "Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits," is a misnomer. A more apt name would be, "The Best of Alice Cooper." After all, the group hasn't had 12 top 40 hits....