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Mojo
Ten Quesions for Alice Cooper
(Mojo - July 1997)
Theatrics have always played a major part in your shows, yet you've abandoned them for your forthcoming tour; won't you feel vulnerable without all the paraphernalia? Well, when you play Alice there's no such thing as a straight show. Alice is so...
Glen Buxton
(Mojo - December 1997)
Glen Buxton, the Alice Cooper hroup's original guitarist and co-writer of School's Out, has died aged 50 in Clarion, Iowa, from complications arising from pneumonia. Buxton, who had survived drink and drug problems and a suicide attempt, made...
Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper Album Review
(Mojo - June 1999)
All the hits plus rareties - 12 previously unreleased - including pre-Alice singles, outtakes and demos, on four CD`s in a nifty jail-cell box, 80-page colour book features intro by Johnny Rotten. When John Lydon was a nipper he joined Alice's fan...
The Axe Files
(Mojo - 2001)
They couldn't even fill a bar. So what did Alice Cooper sound like before he encouraged us to skip class? Ben Edmonds know. Back in late-'60s California, in the days before the 1972 summer holiday hit, School's Out, Alice Cooper wasn't a solo artist. It...
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
(Mojo - May 2001)
In the late '60s, Alice Cooper sounded like snotty-nosed Zappa/Mothers wannabes playing at being The Beatles. They were probably the most ridiculed act in America. By 1973, the group's robust anthems and 'shock rock' stage shows had...
Last Night A Record Changed My Life
(Mojo - October 2003)
Back when he was dodging Phoenix rednecks as frontman of The Spiders, Alice Cooper's heart opened to a Broadway show soundtrack.. When we were known as The Spiders back in Phoenix, the West Side Story Soundtrack album had a big...
"Basic. Dumb. Sex-charged!"
(Mojo - April 2007)
"The first Stooges album was true street Detroit music. We played the Grande Ballroom with Ted Nugent, The Amboy Dukes, the MC5 and The Stooges, with The Who headlining. That's not a bad show! But the only band I didn't want to go...
Hologram Slam!
(Mojo - July 2011)
There was an unnerving return from the dead on April 21 at a Los Angeles sound stage. But this was no horror flick in production; instead it was Alice Cooper playing live with original bandmates Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith and Michael Bruce...