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News Report: Alice & Salvador Dali
(Time - April 16, 1973)

Singer Alice Cooper is the head ghoul of Grand Guignol rock. Painter Salvador Dali is the grand Dada of shock work art. What could be more fitting than that Salvador should paint Alice? Or that Alice should pose wearing a million dollars' worth...

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Schlock Rock's Godzilla
(Time - May 28, 1973)

By any musical standard, the Alice Cooper rock group is more shouting than something to shout about. Yet the teeny-boppers cannot seem to get enough these days of Alice Cooper (the name of both the leader and the group). The group's current...

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Cooper In A Reflective Moment
(Time - April 7, 1975)

"I am not going to allow a degenerate who could powerfully influence the young and weak-minded to enter this country and stage this sort of exhibition here." declared Australian Labor and Immigration Minister Clyde Cameron after banning a tour...

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Alice Cooper Cleans Up His Act
(Time - August 25, 1975)

Sometimes there's more to Vaude-Rocker Alice Cooper than meets the eye shadow. After a three-week Hawaiian vacation. Cooper came to New York last week and was . . . well, swept up in a city cleanup campaign. Joining some 300 volunteers...

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News Report
(Time - March 29, 1976)

MARRIED: Alice Cooper, 28, decadent rock's man with a woman's name, and Sheryl Goddard, 19, singer and dancer who appeared in Cooper's "Welcome To My Nightmare" show; in a civil ceremony in Acapulco, Mexicon, March 20. It was a...

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News Report
(Time - June 27, 1977)

Some might consider Rock Star Alice Cooper to be oral rot personified. Little do they know. Having dabbled with pythons and hanging by the neck, the hairy exponent of amplified Grand Guignol is rooting for pearly whiteness v. yucky blackness...

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Alice With Muppets: More shock rock
(Time - September 1979)

Fit and well after three months in a New York sanitarium drying out his thirst for beer, Alice Cooper set out to prove that he was still the grand Dada of shock rock. When Cooper's appearance on TV's "Muppet Show" is broadcast next season, his fans ...

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