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Around with Alice
(Guardian - June 28, 1997)
Alice Cooper has inspired everyone from The Sex Pistols and Slayer through to Kiss and Ice T. One of his songs, Only Women Bleed, has even been covered by Andrew Lloyd Webber protegee Julie Covington. In his 30-year career in rock'n'roll...
Welcome to my nightmare
(Guardian - July 22, 2000)
The stage sweats under camouflage netting; a backdrop depicts a scorched earth in green and black. Suddenly, to an explosion of lights and sonic grinding, a metal box on a plinth opens to reveal a wild-haired Methuselah consisting only of head and upper...
Alice Cooper, Along Came A Spider
(Guardian - July 25, 2008)
Golf addict Alice Cooper has dragged himself away from the fairway just long enough to make his 25th album and re-establish his shock rock roots. Revolving around the comic book crimes of a serial killer called Spider, who cuts off one leg from each of...
School's out, and so is Alice
(Guardian - July 27, 2008)
It is said that the most lasting themes in pop music are cars and girls. What better place for a concert, then, than at a motor show, which celebrates at least 50 per cent of the equation? Any. Any place at all. Formerly known as Dock Rock, the...
'We Upset the Whole World'
(Guardian - June 13, 2014)
Alice Cooper is reminiscing about the days when he killed himself for a living. "Any time you have moving parts on stage, you are asking for Spinal Tap," he says of the gallows and the guillotine that were climactic fixtures of his live shows in the...
'This guitar-driven sound: it's in my DNA'
(Guardian - February 26, 2021)
Rock music in Detroit in the 1960s was hard, fast and loud. Alice Cooper recalls the scene in his hometown that produced Iggy Pop, Suzi Quatro and the MC5, and tells Michael Mann why it has inspired his new album. In the beginning there was...