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Alice Cooper: Return of the Trash Man
(Goldmine - March 9, 1990)
It has been more than 12 yeas since Alice Cooper had scored a Top 10 hit single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart when "Poison," from the Epic album Trash, peaked out at #7 just before last Christmas. The man known as the master of shock-rock has...
Talk Talk: Alice Cooper
(Goldmine - October 10, 1997)
Appearing recently on the Tonight Show, a typically bedraggled-looking Alice Cooper performed a blistering version of the angst-anthem, "I'm Eighteen," then took a seat next to Jay Leno. Smiling broadly, the talk show host quipped that it looked as if...
Alice Cooper Guitarist Glen Buxton: 1947-1997
(Goldmine - December 5, 1997)
Glen Buxton, the talented but troubled lead guitarist for the original Alice Cooper group died Oct. 19 from complications from pneumonia. He was 49. Buxton's triple-pickup white Gibson SG and psychotic six-stringing were as much a part of the...
Alice Cooper - From The Inside
(Goldmine - May 19, 2000)
Back in the early '70s when The Alice Cooper Group resided high atop the record charts, few would have predicted that the band's mascaraed lead singer would sustain on of rock 'n' rolls most successful careers. Thirty years later, however...
Way to go with Alice Cooper cover
(Goldmine - June 16, 2000)
Hats off to Russell Hall and Goldmine for the excellent Alice Cooper article (#517, May 19, 2000), a good follow-up to the earlier 1990 piece. Just don't wait to publish the next one for another 10 years! It's disappointing to read that despite...
Alice Cooper: The New (Wild) West
(Goldmine - May 12, 2006)
Alice Cooper - aka Vincent Damon Furnier and the son of a preacher man — has spent 35 years as a constant, relentless force of shock rock-ness. Ironic perhaps (the preacher bit), but Cooper has rarely played his card as a force for evil. It's a...
Backstage Pass: Alice Cooper spins another web
(Goldmine - July 24, 2008)
With its twisted lyrics, devastating sonic crunch and vicious hooks, many are calling Along Comes A Spider a return to the demented Alice Cooper of old. The new album from the shock-rocker — his 25th — tells the story of a serial killer who...
The Real Alice
(Goldmine - June 2019)
Alice Cooper can be considered the most schizophrenic moniker in the history of rock music. When you say, “Alice Cooper” you could be referring to the person, or you could be referring to the band. In fact, Alice Cooper is so closely...