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Rock Joy Fully Revived
(Globe & Mail - September 15, 1969)

The Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival, Saturday at Varsity Stadium was the most exciting, most smoothly produced, most beautiful event to have hit Toronto since the Pop Festival. Probably the wildest part of the day was Alice Cooper's freaked out performance...

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Alice, the all-American boy, feeds them perversion, violence
(Globe & Mail - September 2, 1972)

Some of the 20,000 people expected to show up at Varsity Stadium tonight will be vying for front row positions so that a 24-year-old rock singer named Alice Cooper can shake up a can of beer, open it, and spray foam on their heads. The act is...

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Alice Cooper exploits depravity
(Globe & Mail - September 4, 1972)

It was a rough night for a few members of the press, but a great night for nearly 24,000 howling fans as Alice Cooper, rock's gift to sado-masochism, vamped, crawled, kicked and screamed his way through through a 90-minute set Saturday night at Varsity...

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Apocalypse Alice: the flash and trash can't hide the rock
(Globe & Mail - November 25, 1981)

Out of the rising smoke came two men in camouflage outfits, rushing onto the Maple Leaf Gardens' stage carrying flashlights and looking fearfully up into the bleachers. (Drum rolls; shriek of guitars. Enter Alice Cooper, hair pulled back, carrying a whip...

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