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Easy Action Review
(Record Mirror - June 6, 1970)

The boys sing like gravel mixers or a raw shave in rock major. Bouncy experiments in rhythm variety, yelling and instrumental virtuosity, but in part, carefully created. One might have to be a staunch fan of Alice for a few short years to groove over this...

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Young America
(Record Mirror - September 4, 1971)

Best LP so far by Alice, whose bulldozer music and clever lyrics have even resulted in an American hit for "I'm Eighteen" included here. It's all pretty much in the Young America bag, plenty of blatent kicking out of every possible jam and a few...

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Alice Had Weird Parents
(Record Mirror - November 13, 1971)

IN minced Alice with his boa constrictor coiled around his shoulders, black-spider eye make-up and his jump suit zipped uninvitingly down to his navel to confront the Press which Kinney Records shanghaied down to London Airport for the reception...

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Is this Boa the Killer?
(Record Mirror - December 18, 1971)

Machine gun rock & roll from a geniune wild-man of pop. Alice displays great capabilities as a harsh R&R singer with real grit in his voice and style in his delivery. The ban rely heavily on terrific beat guitar and some pounding drums. Musically, this is...

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Live: Alice Cooper
(Record Mirror - November 1972)

It's been a long time since fans wrecked three rows of seats at Green's Playhouse in Glasgow, but they did on Friday when Alice Cooper took his show to the Highlands. When I entered the theatre I was told rather firmly that I stood no chance of...

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'Alice Cooper is dead' hoax
(Record Mirror - March 24, 1973)

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...

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But Alice is a CLEAN liver Mr. Abse
(Record Mirror - June 2, 1973)

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...

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Alice's Nightmare Rolls In
(Record Mirror - February 1, 1975)

Alice Cooper, the Queen of bad taste, is bringing his lavish roadshow to Britain this summer for at least five major concert dates. The entire company from his acclaimed Alice Cooper Roadshow epic in the States is expected to tour with him...

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Alice For UK
(Record Mirror - March 1, 1975)

Alice Cooper's soundtrack album from his forthcoming TV film Welcome To My Nightmare will be out on Anchor, March 1. The following month Alice embarks on a world tour, which will, at some point, include British dates....

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Alice in doggyland
(Record Mirror - March 15, 1975)

No, don't worry, Alice ain't gonna twist the head off that little terrier, it's just that he's doing his bit to further the emergence of canine rock. Already out are a bevy of singles which pertain to man's best friend: Your Bulldog Drinks Champagne by Jim...

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Albums
(Record Mirror - March 29, 1975)

Even by his own standards, Cooper employs the very tackiest of shock tactics here to give us an X-certificate album of ultimate bad taste. It's trash for trash's sake and no one could do it better. Maybe it's the result of all those Budweiser...

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Nightmare
(Record Mirror - April 19, 1975)

DETROIT IS full of cocoa coloured shysters who will try their hand at almost anything — especially groping English girls' bums and other private no-go zones. Walking the boulevards is tantamount to proclaiming TAKE ME I'M ANYONES, so beware...

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Welcome to His Wembley
(Record Mirror - August 2, 1975)

SHOCK ROCKER Alice Cooper is to perform his new production Welcome To My Nightmare at London's Wembley Pool on September 11 and 12 and the Empire Theatre, Liverpool on September 14. It will be Alice's first British performance...

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Alice v. Coop
(Record Mirror - September 6, 1975)

Alice Cooper is the kind of star whose $350,000 house burns down before he's even moved in — and it's Elton John who phones the fire brigade. Coop was planning to live next door to Elton in Beverly Hills, when an electrical fault reduced...

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Now It's Alice On Film
(Record Mirror - September 20, 1975)

ALICE Cooper's Welcome To My Nigbtmare, is to be made into a feature film and shown in cinemas. His live show was filmed when he played London. Production is to be speeded up so that the film can be premiered in 17 Canadian cinemas on...

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