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Alice Cooper Wins... Or Whatever Happened To Terry Knight & The Pack
(Scene - June 29, 1972)

Some people think Alice Cooper (plural) should be arrested. Some think Alice (singular) should be crowned....

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Alice Film an Unforgettable Experience
(Scene - May 8, 1975)

Most people would probably agree that you don't go to an Alice Cooper concert to hear the music. The excitement and the entertainment, for the most part, is in the outlandish, and occasionally spectacular, Cooper visuals. ...

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ALICE COOPER, THE BABYS
(Scene - February 1979)

Alice Cooper provided one of the finest concerts the Coliseum has ever seen. The bizarre, electric performance by Cooper was a tour de force in every aspect: staging, direction, choreography and music. "Madhouse Rock," also known as "The Strange...

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ALICE COOPER, TRIUMPH, BILLY SQUIER
(Scene - July 31, 1980)

Last Friday's triple-bill at the Coliseum theatre offered variety: something old, something new and something recycled. The new kid in town was Billy Squier, making his first Cleveland appearance in support of his debut album, THE TALE OF THE...

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Coop's back!!!
(Scene - November 12, 1987)

It's the afternoon of Alice Cooper's appearance on WMMS' "Classic Rock Saturday Night" show, and a sebdued looking Alice is sprawled out on his bed at the Sheraton Hopkins watching the Detroit Tigers play the Minnesota Twins in the...

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A Conversation With Alice
(Scene - March 15, 1990)

Vincent Damon Furnier was born in Detroit in 1948. He grew up in Phoenix, Arizona doing all the typical high school activities that a typical teenager does. Funny how things changed. Shedding his image as the class clown, Furnier became known...

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Cleveland Nautica August 16th 1997
(Scene - August 25, 1997)

On the one hand you had a successful hard rock icon which the majority of the audience came to see. On the other hand you had three good examples of why the fluffy, porous 80's music scene has faded away. Granted, each of the three bands sets...

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Alice Cooper, Kidd Wicked, Nautica Stage
(Scene - September 9, 1998)

Welcome back, my friends, to the nightmare that never ends. That was the theme last week at Nautica, as Alice Cooper brought his world-famous rock and roll sideshow to Cleveland, treating a near-capacity crowd to an evening of musical...

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Shock Rocer: Alice Cooper
(Scene - August 23, 2008)

The just-released Along Came a Spider is shock-rocker Alice Cooper's 25th album, and it harks back to his past in that the songs revolve around a concept. For Spider, Cooper takes on the persona of a serial killer who can't be stopped, boasting...

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