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Empire Pool, Wembley
(Times, The, 1975-09-12)
Alice Cooper started last week by releasing an inflated effigy of unnatural countenance over a portion of the River Thames. The reported cost of the balloon may give comfort to anyone who believes pop music to be affected by the economic blizzard...
Alice Cooper show a dud
(Times, The, 1977-00-00)
He's probably popped in front of a television set right now, ever-present Budweiser in hand while he waits for the people who run his life to tell him where he's going next. Alice Cooper, the fading king of shock rock, spends by all accounts, most of his waking...
Concert Review
(Times, The, 1987-00-00)
Before the excesses of W.A.S.P., Iron Maiden, The Damned, The Tubes, Kiss and even The Rocky Horror Show there was Alice Cooper, the man most singularly responsible for the catalogue of miscreant entertainment that has become so pronounced...
Concert Review
(Times, The, 1991-00-00)
Alice Cooper was once banned from playing Binghamton, New York. The city council deemed the Cooper stage act, which featured a live snake and a simulated guillotine, an incitement to violence. Eighteen years later Cooper's performances have...
The Trashcan Sinatra tees off
(Times, The, 1997-07-27)
Rest assured, Alice Cooper, rock's favourite cartoon monster, is still a guy who likes to play a round. When a man's drinking buddies have included Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendix, Elvis Presley, Keith Moon and Harry Nilsson, it is only polite...
Wembley Arena
(Times, The, 2001-05-23)
ALICE COOPER likes to have something in his hands when he is singing, and during the course of his show at Wembley, last Friday, he made various threatening gestures with a riding crop, a whip, a sword, a cane and even a pair of maracas...
A Life In The Day
(Times, The, 2001-09-16)
Alice Cooper, 53, releases his 28th album, Dragontown, on October 8. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife, Sheryl, and children, Calico, Dashiell and Sonora. I know this isn't going to sound very rock 'n' roll, but I'm always up early...
I didn't get where I am today without...
(Times, The, 2003-10-11)
Giving the Establishment a kick up the backside Rock should function as society's conscience. The more people squeal, "Ooh, but you can't say that!", the more we're going to say it. Of course, a lot of self-appointed moral guardians get their knickers...
Along came Alice
(Times, The, 2008-07-20)
Alice Cooper has two laughs. One of them is a mirthless husk, and punctuates his conversation when he is sounding every one of his 60 years, embarking on a protracted "It wasn't like that in my day" moan. The other, though, is fascinating...
Golf: My Saviour
(Times, The, 2009-11-20)
Typical, isn't it? You fly to Las Vegas to have a nice quiet chat with Alice Cooper, but by the end of the night you're dressed in a zombie costume, splattered with blood, and trying to kill him in front of thousands of shrieking fans....
Alice Cooper's Hallowe'en Night of Fear
(Times, The, 2010-10-30)
It's a question of how you like your Hallowe'en thrills. Do you prefer bobbing apples or gawplng at sideshow freaks? Do you take ghoulish fascination in watching a man drive a long nail into his nostril? Hey, do you want the most legendary shock-rocker...
Hiss-Story Repeating Itself
(Times, The, 2011-06-28)
Removed from the big stages and relieved of nearly all his theatrical props, Alice Cooper still had plenty of cards up his sleeve when he played a one-off gig in London's most celebrated basement dive....
My Hols: Alice Cooper
(Times, The, 2015-06-21)
"I was born in Detroit and I always consider myself a city boy, but I had asthma so bad as a kid that my parents decided to move to Phoenix. My dad was a pastor and we made a lot of new friends through the church. One of our first holidays was a camping...
'We're just guys playing our favourite songs'
(Times, The, 2015-09-26)
The Roxy on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles is one of those legendary rock venues every big city has: steeped in myth, surprisingly small and grimy. Next door is the insalubrious Rainbow Bar & Grill, which in the early 1970s was home...
Who Do You Think You Are? A Rock Star?
(Times, The, 2018-06-16)
In the centre of Copenhagen on a balmy Saturday night, 20,000 people have crammed into the Tivoli Gardens for a concert by the Hollywood Vampires. The young crowd in this toffee-apple-bright, 19th-century amusement park...
A Life in the Day
(Times, The, 2022-04-17)
Cooper was born Vincent Damon Furnier in Detroit. He formed his first band, the Earwigs, aged 17 before renaming the band Alice Cooper and being signed by Frank Zappa in 1969. After some success, including the UK No 1 single School's Out...