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Where are the Chickens?
(Rolling Stone - October 15, 1970)
New York — "You suck!" shouted the drunk kid. "Yes, I do," replied Alice Cooper, laughing. Alice proceeded to crouch down on the stage and began chanting softly into the mike, "Suck, Suck, Suck." But the kid really hated Alice, and like a...
Love It To Death
(Rolling Stone - April 15, 1971)
(It came on the radio in the late afternoon and from the first note it was right: Alice Cooper bringing it all back home again. God it's beautiful - it is the most reassuring thing that has happened in this year of the Taylor Family...) Ever since they ceased to be...
Alice Cooper's Nice Party
(Rolling Stone - August 19, 1971)
You and a guest are cordially invited to attend the summer season debut of Alice Cooper, to be held at the Venetian Room, Ambassador Hotel, 3400 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, the evening of Wednesday, July 14th, 8:30 PM to midnight...
News Report
(Rolling Stone - September 30, 1971)
They give good copy: Alice Cooper has arranged for construction of a life-sized working gallows, including a trap door that traps. The gallows will be part of the boys' stage act and is being built at Warners' movie lot....
Killer
(Rolling Stone - January 6, 1972)
Like all true rock superstars to rise from the Sixties, Alice Cooper is a consummate master of image manipulation. He continually sees to it that new configurations are born in his studiedly outrageous stage persona and the spirit-force of his sound...
News Report
(Rolling Stone - March 2, 1972)
Hollywood Notes: Alice Cooper wound up a triumphant national tour with a gold record presentation at Warner Bros. in Burbank. The whole group, including pet boa Cochina, gathered in the office of Executive VP Joe Smith for the official photo session...
Gold Diggers of 1984
(Rolling Stone - March 30, 1972)
"We're going to feed Chichita now," Neal announced. "You shouldn't miss it." No, you never want to miss the sight of a boa constrictor having dinner. Two or three live mice. In the well-lit cage, a grey mouse nosed around the coiled snake...
School's Out
(Rolling Stone - September 28, 1972)
The question before us is whether Alice Cooper is a threat to civilization itself or merely to our beloved rock & roll. Both parents and kids commonly see Alice as eroding the former, which they respectively deplore and celebrate. Alice is...
Alice Cooper's Beer Bottle Polka
(Rolling Stone - January 4, 1973)
The director of operations on the Alice Cooper tour, a native of Los Angeles, walked the streets of Paris in a bright blue felt jacket with fancy white piping, trying to decide where to have lunch in the world's premier city of food. He settled on...
70 Years After: George Burns Taps Cigar, Discovers R&R
(Rolling Stone - March 29, 1973)
New York - At a press conference two days before his Philharmonic Hall singing debut, George Burns was asked about rumors that Alice Cooper would also be taking part in the program that already boasted Jack Benny as MC....
Check Your Guillotine, Sir?
(Rolling Stone - April 12, 1973)
Philadelphia - Extravagantly colored in shades of the Rolling Stones, Three Dog Night and Neil Diamond, the 1973 Alice Cooper tour burst forth from Rochester, New York, early in March for a three-moth, 56-city assault on North America....
Inside Alice
(Rolling Stone - May 10, 1973)
"Alice is such an American name. I love the idea that when we first started, people used to think Alice Cooper was a blonde folk singer. "The name started simply as a spit in the face of society. We decided on it in about 1968: With a name like Alice...
Billion Dollar Babies
(Rolling Stone - May 24, 1973)
Concerning Alice Cooper, it is by now axiomatic that any new album is intended only as the soundtrack of the latest extravaganza. But even considered as a soundtrack, Billion Dollar Babies seems an abortion. The extended numbers (one around...
News Report
(Rolling Stone - June 21, 1973)
20/20 News: Alice Cooper told a press conference at the Cocoanut Grove in L.A. that the group spent $32,000 on beer last year. And he said he's planning to market his own line of men's makeup, called Whiplash...
Tolling the Take
(Rolling Stone - July 5, 1973)
New York - "All I have for you now is approximations. The office is overrun by bald little guys in blue suits who are going over the books. They say they'll have the exact figure in about a week." Speaking was Shep Gordon, manager of Alice Cooper, two...
Liza with a Z Meets Alice With a C
(Rolling Stone - November 8, 1973)
New York — The sounds of a thousand strings, one mother of a synthesizer and (in there somewhere) a four-piece hard rock band engulf the solitary figure of Liza Minnelli standing in the emptiness of Studio A at the Record Plant, half a block from...
News Report
(Rolling Stone - January 3, 1974)
Modeling prisoners: Glen Buxton, Neal Smith, Dennis Dunaway, Mike Bruce and Alice staged a jail break at an abandoned New York police station for a film to promote Muscle Of Love on BBC. Also included in the mini-drama: Alice Playten, who did an...
Alice Cooper: The Motor Cools Down
(Rolling Stone - January 17, 1974)
The Alice Cooper phenomenon, which began with the chart entry of "I'm Eighteen," rose to diabolical heights with Killer and School's Out and extravaganzaed in the show surrounding the Billion Dollar Babies, has now cooled itself down with Muscle...
Alice Bombed in Toledo
(Rolling Stone - January 31, 1974)
Toledo — Pelted by fireworks and debris, Alice Cooper recently walked off their "Holiday Show" at the Toledo Sports Arena. According to Ashley Pandel, Cooper's publicist, "Alice felt if they continued, there could be another Altamont."...
Alice Cooper: Death on TV
(Rolling Stone - July 4, 1974)
Calgary, Alberta - Hanging parties, along with vigilante mobs and saloon shoot outs, belong to the raunchy, rugged frontier past of this city. It took Alice and his traveling execution show to teach the local kids a few rope tricks. Details of what...
News Report
(Rolling Stone - January 2, 1975)
Revised Alice Cooper bulletin: We reported last issue that Alice's band was not splitting. In fact, the band has at least temporarily disintegrated for Alice's next album, Welcome To My Nightmare. Internecine rumblings sprouted from Chicago columnist...
News Report
(Rolling Stone - February 27, 1975)
A huge worldwide tour will carry Alice Cooper and his new sidemen, Steve Hunter, Dick Wagner, Prakash John, Penti ("Whitey") Glan and Jozef Chirowsky to Australia, Japan, Brazil, Canada and across the United States beginning April 1st...
News Report
(Rolling Stone - March 27, 1975)
When are the dead babies and flayed chickens of yesteryear? Down on the unemploment line like everybody else. Alice Cooper's Welcome to My Nightmare tour/show will feature six-foot black widow spiders instead of the aforementioned meat...
No More Mr. Horror Show Droog
(Rolling Stone - July 31, 1975)
It was April Fool's Day in Chicago and the interpreter for the Soviet Olympic Wrestling team had just managed to get a spontaneous round of applause from Alice Cooper's entourage for his very spirited impersonation of an America rock...
Alice Cooper in Tahoeland: Welcome to a Tired Nightmare
(Rolling Stone - January 29, 1976)
Lake Tahoe, Nevada — As Alice Cooper pulled into the Sahara Tahoe, it was clear that he had finally hit the big leagues. Instead of the usual bare-tiled dressing room, the casino handed over its entire 15th floor, plus guards, a Lear jet and a mansion...
Billon Dollar Babies Concert Review
(Rolling Stone - September 8, 1977)
ALICE DOESN'T LIVE here anymore; the Billion Dollar Babies do!" read the sign in the white tile dressing room below Pontiac Stadium. By 2:30 in the morning, the band — Alice Cooper's former rhythm section and two additions — was beginning...
Alice Cooper's bad Joke
(Rolling Stone - May 3, 1979)
The main problem with Mad House Rock, Alice Cooper's latest heavy-metal/vaudeville extravaganza, is that there isn't anything slightly mad about it. The new show, which jokes about Cooper's much-publicized stay in a psychiatric ward for treatment of...
Random Notes
(Rolling Stone - 1989)
"I love the old Hollywood stunt," says shock rocker Alice Cooper of his decision to promote his album Trash by storming through various American cities aboard a garbage truck. A poetic idea, perhaps, but the plan hit a snag in one Texas town ...
Alice Cooper: Healthy, Wealthy and Dry
(Rolling Stone - July 13, 1989)
Alice Cooper can't figure out why his pals Steven Tyler, Joe Perry and Jon Bon Jovi — all of whom worked on the shock rocker's forthcoming album Trash — continue to live in the chilly Northeast. ""I kept saying, 'Guys, you don't understand...
News Report
(Rolling Stone - 1991)
Being rock's reigning ghoul guru has its perks. For the title track of his new release, Hey Stoopid, ALICE COOPER enlisted the guitar-slinging support of SLASH and the vocal wail of OZZY OSBOURNE. "I wanted Slash on it for a real nasty feel," says...
Last Temptation Album Review
(Rolling Stone - July 14, 1994)
If you went to high school in the '70s, Alice Cooper's "I'm Eighteen" and "School's Out" became part of your life. Cooper dirges like "Desperado" and "Muscle Of Love" used dense Black Sabbath rumbling to rock in ways no '80s or '90s art-metal...
Greatest Summer Songs Of All Time
(Rolling Stone - July 9, 1998)
"Between May and June, 'School's out' is the national anthem," Alice Cooper says proudly of his enduring hard-rock classic, which hit Number Seven on the Billboard charts in the summer of 1972 and still racks up serious seasonal airplay. Back when...
News Report
(Rolling Stone - May 25, 2000)
Alice Cooper's first studio album in six years, Brutal Planet is out on June 6th. Cooper will hit the road for a tour from August through October, during which he'll be bringing his infamous guillotine out from a ten year retirement....
News Report
(Rolling Stone - September 27, 2001)
Alice Cooper's new album, Dragontown, is due out October 9th...
100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time
(Rolling Stone - September 18, 2003)
Buxton was a gifted mimic whose ability to unlock the guitar secrets of his Stones and Yardbirds 45s gave a Phoenix garage band the breathing room to develop into Alice Cooper, His dirty, elemental leads wrapped around Michael Bruce's meaty riffs...
The Singles
(Rolling Stone - November 27, 2003)
OutKast, "Hey Ya!" Rolling Stone says: Andre 3000 leaves hip-hop behind with a weird funk-rock shout-out. Cooper: My favorite record out of all of 'em. I think it's so unique that a black act can sound like Cheap Trick with a little bit of Frank Zappa. Every...
Alice Cooper: Photographed by Annie Leibovitz
(Rolling Stone - September 30, 2004)
"That was our snake, not Annie's," says Alice Cooper. "Her name was Kachina. I was actually afraid of snakes, but I figured that Alice should have one. We were about looking at your fears." The four-foot boa constrictor lived with Cooper and the band in a...
500 Greatest Songs of All Time
(Rolling Stone - December 9, 2004)
Before "I'm Eighteen" Cooper was just another hairy rock oddball. But this proto-punk smash defined the age when, in Cooper's words, you're "old enough to be drafted but not old enough to vote." Years later, Johnny Rotten sang this at his...
Alice's Wonderland
(Rolling Stone - May 18, 2006)
"What an ugly cover." Such was the overwhelming reaction among Rolling Stone staff to Annie Leibovitz's 1972 image of Alice Cooper lasciviously canoodling with pet boa constrictor Kachina. "Back then, everybody was peace and love, and we...
[Alice on Syd Barrett]
(Rolling Stone - August 10, 2006)
In Los Angeles, during an engagement at the Cheetah, the Floyd were befriended by the club's house band: the future Alice Cooper, then called the Nazz. "Pink Floyd basically ran out of money - they didn't have any place to stay," says singer...
Alice Cooper: Pete Townshend
(Rolling Stone - December 9, 2010)
"The Who were almost like a dominatrix who inflicted the show on the audience — that definitely influenced me," says Alice Cooper, describing his admiration for the London rockers. "Pete's the best stage guitarist I've ever seen — the best...
Welcome 2 My Nightmare Review
(Rolling Stone - September 29, 2011)
On 1975's Welcome to My Nightmare, Alice Cooper largely traded in high school parking-lot hard rock for fright-show theater; it had bruising moments, but also self-parodying schmaltz. Welcome 2 My Nightmare is its sequel, so we get...
High Times with Alice Cooper
(Rolling Stone - July 16, 2015)
Dennis Dunaway — bassist for the Alice Cooper band from 1968 until Cooper became a solo act in 1975 — has collected his wildest tales for a new memoir, Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group...