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Welcome To His Nightmare!
(Boston Herald - 1975)

Who is Vincent Furnier and why did he turn into Alice Cooper? Vincent, a minister's son from Tuscon, Arizona, left home to make his way in the world as a rock n' roll singer. Like most aspiring, but never-to-be-heard-from rock stars, Mr. Furnier was...

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Is Your Living Room Ready For Alice's Latest Nightmare?
(Chicago Tribune - 1975)

This poor kid wakes up and ugly demons are coming out of his toybox, a bevy of black widows are waiting to turn him into a succulent stew, and Cold Ethyl -- a most seductive, but wholly stone cold stiff lady (necrophilia, anybody?) — languishes...

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News Report
(Circus - 1975)

After years of playing with death, Alice Cooper nearly treated himself to the real thing recently when he fell 17 feet to the cement floor during a sell-out concert in Vancouver, B.C. Some 18,000 fans at the Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum...

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Alice Cooper: Superstar Of Rock With 2 Personalities!
(National Insider - 1975)

Vincent Furnier legally changed his name to become rock superstar "Alice Cooper" long ago, but the two distinct personalities still occupy the same body. At one time, Furnier's alter ego used to scare him "half to death." ...

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News Report
(Penthouse - 1975)

Alice Cooper's new "Welcome To My Nightmare" rock show will feature a bevy of six-foot female dancers dressed up like black widow spiders? Cooper's manager happily sighs, "It's just like a cheap Japanese horror movie"...

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Department of Youth Review
(Sounds - 1975)

FROM THE LP 'Welcome To My Nightmare'. I was out of sympathy with this until just about the last moment of the fade. The raspy vocals, the teenage rebellion theme seemed too old chapeau and contrived. Mind you, the former Lou Reed-ers...

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Alice Cooper: Super Ghoul
(Story of Pop - 1975)

Without warning, an empty beer bottle comes hurtling out of the darkness, slashes through the glaring beam of the spotlight, and begins its rapid descent. With a resounding crash, the bottle misses its target, smashes into the battery of flickering...

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[Several Unknown Articles]
(Unknown Australian - 1975)

Alice Cooper, America's most macbre entertainer, has called off his Australian tour scheduled for November. His "Welcome To My Nightmare" concert tour has been postponed because facilities in Australia do not allow him to make full use of his...

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Alice, The Tears Behind His Smile
(16 Magazine - January 1975)

Once, there was a boy named Alice Cooper who was known the world over as one of the funniest people of his time. As a rock singer, TV personality, and international celebrity, Alice made people laugh whatever he did. In fact, the mere mention...

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The Story of My Life, Such As It Is Part IV
(Spec - January 1975)

Well boys and girls, here we are again with the continuing saga and my life and art. When we with left the off, in the last issue of SPEC, Cindy Lang and I had just become sweethearts, and she had decided to leave her home to go on the road...

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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...

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'Farewell' Tour for Alice?
(Sounds - January 4, 1975)

Alice Cooper may be doing two American tours in '75. The first due for early in the New Year looks like being a 'Farewell Tour' with the original Cooper crew. This is expected to be followed in March by a "Solo Alice" tour. Perhaps that's why Alice has...

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Alice solo tour!
(Melody Maker - January 11, 1975)

Concert dates are being finalised for a massive Alice Cooper tour, in which the master of macabre and gore goes solo for the first time. Alice's new album, to be released this spring, is called "Welcome To My Nightmare," and presents...

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News Report
(Melody Maker - January 18, 1975)

Alice Cooper made his first appearance on a TV talk show this week on CBS's Mike Douglas show. Cooper appeared with actor Ryan O'Neal and Peter Falk. Falk plays Columbo, the seedy police Detective, in the hugely successful TV show...

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Remember Alice Cooper?
(New Musical Express - January 18, 1975)

When Alice Cooper starts his U.S. tour on April 1, he'll have already filmed an NBC-TV special based on his forthcoming solo LP "Welcome To My Nightmare" — which will be used as the soundtrack. The plot of the programme with be loosely...

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Cooper Signs Secret Deal
(Melody Maker - January 25, 1975)

Alice Cooper has signed with Atlantic Records after five years on the Warner label. As yet the details of the deal are being kept secret, but Alice was due to sign contracts on Monday afternoon. All that's being said at the moment is that Atlantic...

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Alice Unleashes Killer Autobiography
(Circus Raves - February 1975)

Alice Cooper is telling it all in an autobiography that will reveal his life and times from his first taste of copulation in a coffin through his salad-and-Budweiser days, when cracked actors like Troy Donahue occassionally fell out of his closet....

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Alice's Nightmare
(Melody Maker - February 1975)

Alice Cooper was eating canned octopus, pulling the pieces out of the can and popping them into his mouth with his fingers. He stuck a livid chunk, complete with tiny suckers, under my nostrils, which flared with disgust. I tried to get him back...

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News Report
(Melody Maker - February 1, 1975)

Alice Cooper officially signed with Atlantic Records last week and 800 cases of Budweiser beer were shipped into Atlantic's Rockefeller Plaza offices to celebrate the occasion. The formed a back-drop for a photo session ...

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Alice for July gigs
(New Musical Express - February 1, 1975)

Alice Cooper is to tour Britain this summer, it was officially announced this week. He will play at least five venues in this country, as part of a full European tour. It will be his first British visit for over 18 months, and the first to feature him as...

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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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Welcome To Alice's Nightmare
(Sounds - February 1, 1975)

Alice Cooper's new album will definately appear on Atlantic Records. Called 'Welcome To My Nightmare' it will be the soundtrack to his TV special to be screen in April. Alice is set to go on the road for a 65 date tour beginning in March...

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News Report
(Melody Maker - February 8, 1975)

Kirshner introduced In Concert. The first show that was something of milestone in TV rock. It featured Alice Cooper and was taped at Madison Square Gardens instead of at a normal TV studio. Because it was Alice at his grossest...

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News Report
(Sounds - February 8, 1975)

The stage show of Alice Cooper's television show/solo album 'Welcome To My Nightmare' going out in the States for sixty dates from April 1 will be a multimedia re-creation of the album. Says Cooper, it will include "mirrors, elaborate props and...

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Sometimes He's Happy
(Akron Beacon Journal - February 11, 1975)

People are cautious when knocking on the door of this star's dressing room because they never quite know what's going to happen when it opens. If Vincent Furnier answers, everything is fine - becuase he's a friendly, likable and intelligent chap...

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News Report
(Melody Maker - February 15, 1975)

It could only happen in New York department. A five-year-old beagle was presented with a gold record last week for her contribution to the title song Alice Cooper's "Muscle Of Love" album. The dog, one Dolly Leibert...

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The Man Who Ate Alice Cooper
(New Musical Express - February 15, 1975)

Yes, once again CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY, Regius Professor of Logic, Rhetoric, Trash Aesthetics, and Hohner Super Vamper, leaps forth with a mouthful of scintillating verbosity aimed, with all the abandon of the truly crazed, straight at your frontal...

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Welcome To My Nightmare Review
(Record & Popswop Mirror - February 15, 1975)

No it's not Alice's opinion of his own work, the nightmare here belongs to a film for which this album is the soundtrack. The film is based on an extraordinary series of night fantasies that involve Cooper in a number of imaginative dream scenes....

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Alice in Nightmare Land
(Record & Popswop Mirror - February 22, 1975)

I seems that even today poor old Alice can't get it right. There he is in America, hobnobbing with all the right people, desperately trying to repair his bad-man image and convince everybody that biting the heads off chickens and being executed on stage is...

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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...

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Department of Youth Single Review
(Melody Maker - March 1, 1975)

A. Cooper, snake-lover, golfer, and rock singer, makes singles which despite varying degrees of camping up, are pretty basic. This is typical, a heavy metal Marc Bolan, that sticks closely to the formula of "School's Out" and "Elected." It's gritty ...

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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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Necrophiliac Nightmare Boogie
(Sounds - March 1, 1975)

This is Alice's soundtrack album... when you come to think of it, weren't all his others? Mr. Cooper has finally left the golf course to make a very welcome comeback to horrorock and rollsville. It's strange, I wasn't particularly enamoured by Cooper's efforts...

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Department of Youth Single Review
(New Musical Express - March 8, 1975)

"Department Of Youth" finds Alice Cooper re-running "'School's Out", but this one lacks even the illusion of spontaneity and commitment; and besides, it just ain't as good...

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Quatro Touring With Alice Cooper
(Record World - March 8, 1975)

NEW YORK — Suzi Quatro will be a special guest on the upcoming 60 city Alice Cooper solo tour April 1 — July 12, according to Leo Fenn, president of Prevue Management. Fenn added that Arista Records is rush-releasing...

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Single Review
(Sounds - March 8, 1975)

From the LP 'Welcome To My Nightmare'. I was out of sympathy, with this until just about the last moment of the fade. The raspy vocals, the teenage rebellion theme seemed too old chapeau and contrived. Mind you, the former Lou Reed-ers who make...

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Welcome To My Nightmare Album Review
(Billboard - March 15, 1975)

Solo set from Alice is by far the best musical project he has yet undertaken. LP is soundtrack to upcoming TV special, and is vastly different in parts from his group efforts, but similar enough to retain old fans. Fine use of horns and...

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Welcome To My Nightmare Album Review
(Melody Maker - March 15, 1975)

Well, here's another Alice Cooper album which will crawl off into the pile and take up a secluded residence besides rarely played copies of "Muscle Of Love", "Billion Dollar Babies" and so on back to "Love It To Death". I can't be bothered...

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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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News Reports
(Record World - March 15, 1975)

This eventful album marking the ever-so-lovely Alice's April 25 television special whirls the Cooper charisma through the grooves. The vision stirred are fancifully varied: infectiously pop on "Some Folks," openly moving on "Only Women Bleed"...

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Pop Notes: Here Come the King of Shock Rock
(New York Times - March 16, 1975)

Bace yourself: After 20 months out of the public eye, Alice Cooper is bringing a new dose of madness and mayhem to the nation's giant-sized arenas. Commencing on April Fool's Day in Chicago, the 27-year-old, snaggle-toothed, stringy-haired...

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Alice Cooper's Nightmare Show Goes On TV
(National Star - March 22, 1975)

Los Angeles &mdsh; Alice Cooper, the bizarre bad boy of rock, will unveil his gruesome new stage act to millions of TV viewers next month. The pop star, who won fame by smashing dolls and drinking fake blood on stage, claims the show has one aim...

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News Report
(Sounds - March 22, 1975)

Alice Cooper's 'Welcome To My Nightmare' TV Special goes out in the States on April 25 featuring Vincent Price on the 'In Concert' programme. Alice will tape the show in Toronto this month. He takes his show to Madison Square Gardens in May...

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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...

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Welcome To My Nightmare Album Review
(Ann Arbor Sun - March 28, 1975)

It's solo this time around for enormously popular Alice after going over a year without a new album (save the excellent Greatest Hits Collection). And this time out he's taking extra precautions to put his act in the proper showbiz context...

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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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Cooper's 'Nightmare' — A Rock & Roll Dream
(Record World - March 29, 1975)

LOS ANGELES — "Everybody decided that they wanted to do something on their own. Doing essentially the same thing for 10 years was starting to get boring to the guys in the band. The decision was made a year ago that everybody was going...

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His Satanic Majesty Requests
(Sounds - March 29, 1975)

HIS SATANIC Majesty lay quietly on the couch, head propped up on the arm-rest, a can of dire elixir in hand. Ture to folk-lore of old, the being I watched exists by deceit and deception. It's apparent that his current incarnation as a rock and ...

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The Coop Comes Home To Roost
(Art Beat - April 1975)

Detroit's invited to a nightmare on April 5 and 8 when Alice Cooper returns to town, this time backed by a new band including Detroit musicians. The billion dollar baby, who at one time was eighteen, caught in a dream, and had a long way...

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Alice Cooper Meets The Press - It's Serious?
(Chicago Tribune - April 1, 1975)

The signs are unmistakable: a major press conference is about to begin. A press conference, that 20th century bacchanal of truth, that hasty summoning of many newsmen, planned and designed to bugle someone's fugue of good deed and-or innocence...

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Single Review
(Record World - April 5, 1975)

Cooper's first solo outing, culled from the soundtrack of his upcoming ABC-TV "Welcome to My Nightmare" special, is a ballad with a surprisingly international flavor. Alice's new sound should prove a soft touch for reaching his widest...

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News Report
(Sounds - April 5, 1975)

Neal Smith, drummer with Alice Cooper's band, will have a solo single out shortly....

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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's tasteful Nightmare
(Melody Maker - April 12, 1975)

Detroit: The new Alice Cooper Revue, which opened in Chicago last week and moved on to Detroit and Cincinnati, is yet another step forward in the growing close relationship between theatrical choreography and what was once called rock 'n' roll...

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Science Fiction Disc
(Record World - April 12, 1975)

"Flash Fearless Versus The Zorg Women, Parts 5 & 6" is the title of Chrysalis Records' unique all-star science fiction concept album, which features performances by Alice Cooper, John Entwistle of The Who, Jim Dandy...

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News Report
(Sounds - April 12, 1975)

Alice Cooper stars in his first television spectacular 'Welcome To My Nightmare', in America this week. The presentation, which is said to be 'a visual interpretation of Alice's dreams, nightmares and fantasies', features Vincent Price as guest star, will be...

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Alice Cooper: Master of Macabre
(Ithaca Journal - April 19, 1975)

The pathway leads past a manicured lawn, around an incline sheltered by blooming bougainvillea — to an attractive wood framed house on the edge of a Hollywood hilltop. This is the home of America's master of mayhem and the macabre...

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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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Alice Cooper and Vincent Price create a fiendish fantasy
(Sentinel - April 19, 1975)

It is the continuing dream — or delicious nightmare — of those who find fiendish fantasy fascinating and horror tales titillating to awake to the discovery of a chilling successor Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon...

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News Report
(Sounds - April 19, 1975)

Alice Cooper has been prevented from including Australia on his world tour because the immigration people won't let him in; they've been upset by Alice's mutilation of birds, dolls and animals on stage. Don't forget that Labour M.P. Loe Abse tried...

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News Report
(Melody Maker - April 21, 1975)

Alice Cooper stars in his first television spectacular Welsome To My Nightmare with a special presentation of Wide World: In concert on April 25 on American TV Guest star on the show is Vincent Price who will lead Cooper on a visit...

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Alice Cooper & Suzi Ouatro at Olympia
(Ann Arbor Sun - April 25, 1975)

My first reaction to the 1975 Alice Cooper Show was, I don't need to view any more nightmares, thanks but no thanks. But the experience actually turned out to be quite enjoyable. Alice apparently tired of his old image and has been working...

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Sounds A-Z of Heavy Metal
(Sounds - April 26, 1975)

Shockrock. The name was enough to confuse people. When Alice Cooper (alias Vincent Furnier) and his Detroit croones (Glen Buxton, guitar, Michael Bruce, guitar, Dennis Dunaway, bass and Neal Smith, drums) appeared on the scene, no one...

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Alice Cooper
(Bravo - April 30, 1975)

Alice took a rest for two years. Now America's shock rocker is back with his new show called: "Welcome To My Nightmare" which takes him on a worldwide tour. BRAVO watched Alice's tour-rehearsal and gives you a preview of what is going to...

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Alice Cooper: Groucho Of The 21st Century
(Circus - May 1975)

Alice Cooper has been away so long they thought he was finished. Following the uneventful Muscle Of Love campaign in the winter of 1973-74, the shock troops from Phoenix fragmented, and many predicted the king Coop himself was...

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Alice Cooper - The Ghoul of Rock Goes Solo
(Gig - May 1975)

An exuberant bystander contributed the words above at a Hollywood rehearsal hall in preparation for Alice Cooper's forthcoming blitzkrieg 57-city tour but the Mr. Ghoul of Rock is contributing the show. Starting on April Fool's Day, Alice...

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News Report
(Melody Maker - May 3, 1975)

The much-heralded Alice Cooper TV special which was due to be aired on Friday, but which was previewed with press screenings earlier in the week proved something of a disappointment after the current live tour....

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Cooper Solo Show Rocks Garden
(Daily Record - May 6, 1975)

For a long time, there have been rumors that Alice Cooper wants to shed some of his rock ghoul image and become more of a show-business personality. His stage show at Madison Square Garden last night lent a great deal of credence to...

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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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News Report
(Melody Maker - May 15, 1975)

It could only happen in New York department. A five-year-old beagle was presented with a gold record last week for her contributions to the title song on Alice Cooper's "Muscle Of Love" album. The dog, one Dolly Leibert...

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Superstars on sci-fi album
(Melody Maker - May 17, 1975)

John Entwistle, Alice Cooper, Jim Dandy, Frankie Miller, Jim Dewar, Maddy Prior, Nicky Hopkins, Keith Moon, Bill Burford and Justin Hayward are among the rock superstars who have made contributions to a new rock concept album...

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Superstar 'Sci-fi' Album
(Sounds - May 17, 1975)

This Week Chrysalis release 'Flash Fearless Vs The Zorg Women Parts 5 and 6' an album featuring Alice Cooper, Elkie Brooks, Jim Dandy, James Dewar, John Entwistle and Maddy Prior among many others. The album, which was recorded in London, New...

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Alice Cooper's Monster Mash
(Creem - June 1975)

Alice Cooper hasn't forgone the music biz for the putting-green and daytime TV, he just took an extended station break, but now he's back peddling his Hollywood hjinks, so don't touch that dial! A ticket to Alice's new traveling show is actually an...

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'I'm Not Lewd,' Swears Alice
(Circus - July 1975)

"There's nothing lewd in this show," Alice Cooper told a reporter before one of the warm-up dates on his 68 show "Welcome To My Nightmare" tour. "I believe in suggestion. I don't do it. I suggest it." But Alice's reputation for the violently bizarre...

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Alice Toys with Nightmare Images
(Circus Raves - July 1975)

"It's suggesting images. It's just suggesting images and then letting the audience fantasize on that." Alice Cooper was relaxing after a day on the golf course and talking about the show which would appear as both a 90-minute TV special...

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Welcome To My Nightmare Review
(Crawdaddy - July 1975)

Soundtrack process job with great arrangements and Cooper camping an odd stage voice. Alice on Broadway? Another notch in the '70s rock comedy of manners. Welcome To My Nightmare is the product of many hands. The literary dimension is...

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Punch & Judy Play The Toilets
(Creem - July 1975)

I'm riding with Alice Cooper in the limousine which will take us to his plane, when a blues song by Howlin' Wolf comes on the radio. "Oh, shit," he groans. "Get that crap off! God, I hate the blues." I suggest that he do a blues album someday...

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Alice Cooper Invents The Human Shock Absorber
(Hit Parader - July 1975)

"I turned down Robert Young for you. I hope you know," says Alice Cooper. He sits in an over-stuffed chair and swings a scrawny arm toward the tv screen where Robert Young is squinting his way through a sitcom repeat. "I had a great...

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Unmasking Alice
(Mandate - July 1975)

"I think I've created a monster" says Vincent Furnier with a sigh. Vincent, or "Vinnie the Boss" as he is called on his present tour through the United States, is much better known as his alter-ego-creation: Alice Cooper....

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Return of Alice Cooper
(Teen - July 1975)

Alice Cooper was, in the beginning, simply the collective name of five musicians who, like children scrawling naughty words on a wall, took delight in shocking the grownups. Oh, they were so bad. What with their snakes, stage gallows, drinking and hints...

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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...

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Cooper Backup to Go It Alone?
(Circus - August 1975)

"We've been kicking around the idea of maybe this band recording on its own" says guitarist Steve Hunter. He's talking about the group that has supported Lou Reed in concert and most recently backed Alice Cooper on his 'Welcome To My ...

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Alice Cooper: A Nightmare On Tour
(Overrock - August 1975)

Suzi Quatro is supposed to warm all of us 20,000 people inside Madison Square Garden, who are really just waiting for Alice Cooper. She is a tiny girl, and I almost get worried for her. What if we can't hear her well enough!...

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Alice: gigs set
(New Musical Express - August 2, 1975)

After much speculation concerning a September visit but Alice Cooper, he was this week officially confirmed for three British dates — they are Wembley Empire Pool (September 11 and 12) and Liverpool Empire (14). Alice will be starring in his brand...

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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 Cooper or the Wonderful Nightmare of a Star!
(Photo Vedettes - August 16, 1975)

"If show business knew how to benefit from the lesson of Alice Cooper, it would evolve with a more colorful context, inspired by the concept of the 'Broadway Show!!!!'" This is what an American journalist once said after seeing Alice perform...

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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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It's Only Rake and Roll....
(Sounds - August 30, 1975)

A mousached Alice Cooper, looking like a Mexican bandit buzzed into New York last week with his 'Depertment Of Youth' clean up crew. They plan to clean up various parks in the Autumn. Alice, Die to play some British dates in a few weeks, is seen...

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Alice Celebrates 200 Years Of Song
(Circus - September 1975)

Alice Cooper pulled out all the plugs recently in a Bicentennial tribute to the 200-year history of the American music industry. Although Francis Scott Key might have felt out of place at the extranaganza Alice co-hosted with the Los Angeles...

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Welcome To My Nightmare Album Review
(Penthouse - September 1975)

Making his debut as a solo artist (without the rest of the group), the master of shockrock expands his musical direction towards more innovation and precision, blending fantasies and pathos with several thousand volts of electro-rock therapy. Producer...

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Ladies 'n Gennelmen: Welcome To MY Rationale...
(New Musical Express - September 6, 1975)

"PEOPLE WANT artists to have messages - which is dumb. Your average wino in the street's got more of a message than any artist." Alice — the new, cleancut, lovable, inoffensive ol' Alice - continues his policy of Owning Up... He's over in England for...

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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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A Teddy Bear's Picnic with Alice
(Sounds - September 6, 1975)

If we looked at Alice Cooper as a latter-day Mr Bojangles he would probably be flattered. Fred Astaire would certainly be puzzled and the thousands of Cooper fiends would look askance at the connection: what sort of snake is Ginger Rogers?...

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Empire Pool, Wembley
(Times - September 12, 1975)

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...

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Alice Cooper
(Melody Maker - September 20, 1975)

Alice Cooper's "Welcome To My Nightmare" extravaganza which was given its English premiere last Thursday at London's Wembley Empire Pool, threatened occasionally, to submerge itself beneath the weight of it devious, if spectacular...

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Concert Review
(New Musical Express - September 20, 1975)

You missed it? You missed Alice's new show? Better let me tell you all about it, kid, else ain't no one in school gonna talk to you. Well for starters nearly missed it myself, waiting for my girlfriend to turn up, and when I arrive there's this really...

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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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Alice's Nightmare Filmed Live
(Circus - October 1975)

Alice Cooper's Welcome To My Nightmare show was filmed in London recently for conversion to a movie and soundtrack LP. The producers hope to have the film premier in 17 Canadian cinemas on November 28. The film is being directed and...

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Reflections in a Cyclops Eye or Alice Off the Road
(Creem - October 1975)

"I'm watching Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? right now," says Alice Cooper's voice on the telephone. "Bette Davis is taking the rat up. Remember the rat she gave her for dinner? What a treat!" Alice is calling from Minneapolis to tell me...

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The Selling of Alice Cooper, 1965-1975
(Modern Hi-Fi & Music - October 1975)

Alice Cooper is on tour. He's making an exhaustive series of appearances at America's major halls, well over two months in duration, shows that will sell out. Shows that will always attract attention, though Alice has long renounced the baby-killer...

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Pop Star of the Month
(Song Hits - October 1975)

Some people wake up screaming. Alice Cooper spends his days that way. If nightmares were nice, they would be dreamed by Alice. And they would look and sound like "Welcome To My Nightmare," a television special and the lastest LP by the King...

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Alice Through the Looking Glass
(Club - November 1975)

The lobby of the Boston Sheraton Hotel looks, smells and feels like Grand Central Station. In the midst of it stands a tall, skinny man with curly dark hair. David Libert, road manager of the Alice Cooper tour, 1975, is tossing room keys to his band...

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Alice Cooper's nightmare worth a million!
(Muziek Expres - November 1975)

A nightmare of a million guilders. That’s how you could describe the show that Alice Cooper recently presented to his European fans. Because no less than 400,000 American dollars — or one million Dutch florins — the American superstar had to invest...

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Fear and Languor at Lake Tahoe
(Village Voice - December 22, 1975)

In the case of Alice, you can't help but not that even as his act gets slicker'n shit there's still plenty of counter-neatness involved, stuff thrown in for the sake of making it all somehow aesthetically tolerable by older...

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Is Alice Going to Hell? Two Views
(Circus - 1976)

It's genius. Sheer genius. I mean, what do you do for a follow-up to an album about a nightmare? of course! You do Alice Cooper Goes to Hell, another album about a nightmare. It's so simple. One of those ideas that is only visible to the truly enlightened...

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News Report
(Creem - 1976)

Speaking of Alice, to avoid complications should he and his new bride, Cheryl, decide to split up in the future, she signed an agreement that in case of divorce she would not expect or demand any financial settlement. But you'll recall that Alice...

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Our Son's Name Is Alice
(Phoenix Gazette - 1976)

Alice Cooper just missed making an appearance at his 10-year class reunion at Cortez High School. Too bad. It would have been a sight to see. Cooper was going to arrive on a chrome motorcycle with his friend Henry "Fonzie" Winkler. "It would...

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Alice Cooper: Immer der Sonne hinterherfliegen
(Pop Magazin - 1976)

Grinsen tut er, als könnte er kein Wässerchen trüben. Aber Alice Cooper hat es faustdick hinter den Ohren - zumindest musikalisch. Kein Wunder, daß seine neue LP "Alice Cooper Goes to Hell" heißt. Und da zieht er höllisch heißen Rock ab...

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A Tired Nightmare Show Revitalized for Casino Gig
(Toronto Star - 1976)

ALICE COOPER could tell right away that he had hit the big leagues. For, instead of the usual tiled dressing room with all the personality of a meat locker, he had the entire 15th floor of the hotel at his disposal. Plus guards, a Lear jet, and a mansion...

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Hippies in the Lounge
(Phonographic Record - January 1976)

Ah, home at last — after six non-stop weeks on the road, the Flo & Eddie group returns home, to our families and Los Angeles. And not a moment too soon! (Did you see us when we played in your town?) Still at the airport — in baggage claim — and a...

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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...

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Alice in Cabaret
(New Musical Express - February 21, 1976)

Nestled in the scenic High Sierras (made famous by the Humphrey Bogart epic of the same name), Stateline, Nevada, on the equally scenic Lake Tahoe is the home of four resort hotels housing both gambling casinos and music showrooms...

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Book Review
(Publishers Weekly - March 22, 1976)

This book read like a faithful reflection of its rock star subject — mindless, energetic, vulgar and probably honest. Ghostwriter Steven Gaines, author of "Marjo." tells the raunchy story of how an undersized minister's son named Vincen ...

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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
(Circus - July 6, 1976)

Alice Cooper: The King (or Queen?) of Menace brought new depths of raunch to the already sex-filled pits of rock and roll. The whipflipper was the first to put snarling sado-masochism to music. Alice passed the bump and grind musical test when he...

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Goes To Hell Album Review
(Billboard - July 10, 1976)

Very similar in overall concept to Alice's highly successful 1975 "Welcome To My Nightmare" LP, even down to the sequencing of hard rock and ballad cuts. "Hell" is at least the equal of its predecessor, with an even more ambitious storyline...

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Satan on top of the world
(Sounds - July 10, 1976)

This album has already received an almost unamimous thumbs down form the staff which really suprises as it's no better or worse than 'Welcome To My Nightmare'. In fact I would say this one is musically much more interesting. ...

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Alice In Hades: Welcome To My Ego
(Crawdaddy - August 1976)

Mr. Everett Dirksen, the late great Old Fart who greased the Senate with a grandiloquence found only in hypocrites of keen perception, died a few years before he could play golf with Alice Cooper. That's too bad, because they...

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Album Review
(Rock & Folk - August 1976)

As a true metal kid, Alice Cooper stopped interesting me after Killer. I can live without the rest of his discography (from School's Out to Muscle of Love) because the killer discovered the allure of musical theater, denied his roots and tried to...

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Alice Cooper Dances in Hell
(Circus - August 10, 1976)

Alice Cooper is about to return to the public eye with a new album, a cross-country tour and a possible major film role which would mark his first departure from the character that began overtaking his life in the late 60's. Cooper's new album...

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Creature Feature
(Circus - August 24, 1976)

"Beware of the dog," the sign says on the door of Alice Cooper's house and automatically visions of gruesome canines conjure themselves up. Fierce, with bulldog teeth and the personality of a German Shepard on patrol. Visions of snakes...

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Alice Cooper: Colonel Sanders' Revenge
(Creem - September 1976)

"Oh yeah, I'm getting restless. I want to play again." Alice Cooper, enhancing his already deep tan with the early-June afternoon sunrays slanting into the patio of his rented Hollywood Hills abode (where he waits for them to finish rebuilding...

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I'm Just a Natural Villain
(Hit Parader - December 1976)

Alice and Richard had the following conversation a couple of years ago. It was after a regular interview and was mainly the two of them talking about a common interest — magic and the theater — than an interview. We thought you would...

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Battle Axe Review
(Circus - 1977)

"I'm not talking to anyone or making a move until I receive advice from my lawyer, Frank Sinatra." So said a dead-pan Alice Cooper after finishing a highly successful Australian tour which included a SRO audience of 40,000 in Sydney...

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St. Alice Day Massacre
(Crawdaddy - 1977)

Could this shape up as the hottest showdown in recent memory? It's Vincent Furnier, alias Alice Cooper the performer, pitted against Billion Dollar Babies, formerly alias Alice Cooper the band. Will the "real" Alice Cooper — or at least l'essence...

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From the days when Alice was straight
(Sounds - 1977)

"I'm caught in a dream — so what?" I loved it to death. In 1972 a bunch of ex-bikers in drag wearing kohl stiletto-spiking round their eyes, wasn't the terminal snooze it proved to be by '74. Sitting huddled around a little gas heater in Earlsdon, a...

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Alice Cooper show a dud
(Times - 1977)

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...

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Cock Rock
(Nymphet - January 1977)

Glitter Rock or Cock Rock — call it what you will. Normalcy is out and decadence is in. Many rock stars today can't expect to make it on talent alone, so they offer sex and insanity instead. Painted, glittery, rhinestoned musicians are now hallucinating...

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Alice Cooper Goes To Sunday School
(Circus - January 13, 1977)

Having just completed his third solo album, 'Lace And Whiskey' (Warner Brothers) Alice Cooper is venturing into serious acting on both screen and stage. His latest project is the lead role in the stage drama, "Billy Sunday." The story is based...

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Cooper makes it cut and dried
(Mail - March 20, 1977)

It follows him around and has a nerve-racking effect on everything he does, or tries to do. Yesterday it followed him to the ABC studios at Collinswood where taking of tonight's "Countdown" show was scheduled to take place....

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RAM Collection No. 50: The Alice Cooper Dreem Nightmare
(RAM - April 8, 1977)

It's all a charade. All these strident street punk writers verbalising revolution, castigating wimps, boasting drug scores (on paper) that would put Hunter S. Thompson under the table. Tell the truth O'Grady, you — like all the verbal amphetamine generation...

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Everything you wanted to know about Alice Cooper but wouldn't believe if he told you
(Motion Picture - May 1977)

He began a concert by carrying onstage a doll — and taking it apart limb by limb. He climaxed a television appearance by throwing a can of garbage at the camera. He wears more...

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The Transformation Of Alice
(Circus - May 12, 1977)

"You know I lie all the way through these things doncha?" Alice Cooper asks as he walks up to his silver and green Rolls Royce outside his Benedict Canyon home. In bright, sunny California blue and yellow, the license plate read: A CLUE. "Yeah?...

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Lace and Whiskey Album Review
(Billboard - May 14, 1977)

Alice serves up a heaping plate of thumping, but well-thought-out rock here. In some ways the LP looks back to the days when Alice Cooper was a group, not a soloist. But today's Alice is a master of mixing smoothness with shock effects...

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Billion Dollar Babies
(Circus - May 26, 1977)

This is not another "whatever became of" story. This is the story of three former members of the original Alice Cooper Group. Three-fifths of the original Alice Cooper Group, as a matter of fraction. Mike Bruce, Dennis Dunaway and Neal Smith...

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Comic Alice
(Best - June 1977)

I'm an Alice Cooper fan and I can't help it. As soon as someone introduces a bit of humor in his rock, I completely fall for it. I love the winks, the references, the self-criticism, the second degree as we call it....

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Coopermania in Australia
(Circus - June 23, 1977)

"I'm not talking to anyone or making a move until I receive advice from my lawyer, Frank Sinatra." So said a dead-pan Alice Cooper after finishing a highly successful Australian tour which included a SRO audience of 40,000 in Sydney...

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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 Cooper, Million Dollar Rock Star
(Albuquerque Magazine - July 1977)

Snakes, dancing teeth, giant spiders, chickens with machine guns — could that mean anything but Alice Cooper? It's all part of his new American tour, and to say that he's been working hard to get the show ready would easily qualify as understatement...

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Lace and Whiskey Review
(Circus - July 21, 1977)

What's green, red, and moaning in the corner? Alice Cooper eating razor blades. That's, of course, a reworking of a dead-baby joke, once the source of Alice Cooper's joyfully repellent visions. Yeah, Alice was a guy you really could relate to. ...

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Theatrics Overwhelm Show by Alice Cooper
(New York Times - July 23, 1977)

The show Alice Cooper brought to Nassau Coliseum on Thursday night, his first touring show in more than two years, was a case of the tail wagging the dog. The theatrical elements that Mr. Cooper introduced into arena rock — and theatrical...

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All Right, Son...
(Creem - August 1977)

Alice Cooper is waiting for the man. He's even got a Coca-Cola in his hand. But where's the burgers? Alice Cooper is waiting. He's waiting for a Big Boy with extra sauce and he's getting edgy. Just ten minutes before he had arrived at a Los Angeles...

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Play It Again Alice
(Music Express - August 1977)

Alice Cooper's image had changed considerably since the days when he used to chop up chickens on stage, now he machines machine guns them to death. But seriously, there's a new depth to the image of Alice Cooper. That mascara-faced living...

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The Rock Monster Rages Like in Old Times: Alice Cooper
(Bravo - August 11, 1977)

It has been quiet around Alice Cooper for two years. He had a total break: "I had to recover from myself first. I played golf. Met friends, got married and developed new ideas." He has been back on stage for a few weeks now....

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Snake Warms Alice's Heart
(Circus - August 18, 1977)

The rigors of life on the road claimed another casualty some five years ago when Yvonee, the 'Killer' cover girl and a featured performer in the Alice Cooper show, slithered into obscurity somewhere in the Nashville Holiday Inn...

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Alice cries 'fowl' and chickens get revenge
(Chicago Tribune - August 21, 1977)

"I'd say that 90 per cent of the things people hear about me," Alice Cooper said, "are rumors. Totally. Like a lot of people still think I chopped up a chicken onstage once as part of my act, right? Well, that never happened. What did happen...

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News Report
(Toronto Star - August 31, 1977)

ALICE COOPER'S 30-foot boa constrictor, Angel, is pregnant. Cooper, now halfway into this three month tour of the United States and Canada, places the time of conception at a rest break his entourage took at the end of July. "Obviously Angel did...

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Return of the Bizarre — Alice Cooper's New Show
(Circus - September 8, 1977)

With television cameras film­ing the proceedings for a projected 90 minute net­work special, Alice Cooper returned to the American stage for the first time in two years before a slightly less than capacity crowd at Anaheim Stadium. ...

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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...

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Cooper in sanitarium, has drinking problem
(Arizona Republic - November 1, 1977)

Alice Cooper, lead singer in the rock band of the same name, is in a New York sanitarium recovering from a bout of alcoholism, a spokeswoman for the entertainer said Monday. A newspaper report here had Cooper, who once boasted he drank...

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The Alice Cooper Show Album Review
(Berkeley Barb - December 2, 1977)

Ol' Black-Eyes is back. It's hard to believe that his band, which includes Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner on guitars, is so awful. Their studio work with Alice was uniformly inspired. Their previous live recording with Lou Reed, the N.Y. performance...

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Alice Cooper Show Album Review
(Billboard - December 3, 1977)

This is a pastiche of Cooper's more well-known tunes culled from his recent tour. The live versions are filled with the same excitement and emotion as the studio-cuts and are representative of the various Cooper theatrical...

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At Home With The 'New' Alice Cooper
(Modern People - 1978)

The insane king of shock rock, Alice Cooper, 40, has transformed from a snake loving, chicken blood drinking, alcoholic vermin into a human being. "I feel as though it's just great to be alive again," confides the "new" Alice as he...

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A show man
(Best - January 1978)

Alice Cooper is no longer eighteen and he knows what he wants. You have to take it that way. Vincent Furnier is a star, he likes to put on shows, he likes to tell stories, he likes to draw up defensible images in little musical soap operas...

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Alice Comes Alive
(Circus - January 19, 1978)

In Autumn of 1974 Alice Cooper was sitting in a Toronto bar getting plastered, after he finished a recording session for Welcome To My Nightmare. He had some good reasons: his old band was contemplating suing him and ending his solo career...

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News Report
(Creem - February 1978)

Alice Cooper, who took leave of the N.Y. hospital where he committed himself for alcoholic rehabilitation to fly back to L.A. to play his part in the Sgt. Pepper movie, returned promptly upon its completion. How does he look? Fifteen pounds...

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Billion Dollar Baby
(Rock & Folk - April 1978)

And tragedy struck... when Alice decided to break off a long union with brunette Cindy Lang to marry... a blonde dancer! Sheryl Goddard, Alice met her on a bed. Remember: the Coop sang "Only Women Bleed" and Sheryl sprawled out on a big...

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Alice Cooper Doesn't Live Like That Anymore
(St. Paul Dispatch - April 27, 1978)

Who drinks a case of ginger ale a day, gets up at 8 in the morning to play golf, and love going grocery shopping? If you answered Alice Cooper, you're right. Unlikely as it seems, legendary shock-rock star Alice Cooper is just an average guy...

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Alice Cooper's Rock Theatre Not Too Tacky
(Des Moines Register - April 28, 1978)

As rock theater, Alice Cooper's show at Veterans Memorial Auditorium here Thursday was, as they say, not too tacky. A music purist would, however, have been disappointed. And that is surprising, considering Cooper's quintet, which...

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A Rusty Alice Cooper Oils Up
(Minneapolis Star - April 28, 1978)

Alice Cooper is rusty. The rock star, who became a household name by taking his outrageous, controversial stage production on perhaps the most extensive touring schedules undertaken by any band, has not performed for about eight months....

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Gas Disrupts Cooper Concert
(Minneapolis Tribune - April 29, 1978)

A canister, apparently of tear gas or ammonia, routed a crowd of 13,500 attending a concert by rock star Alice Cooper Friday night at the St. Paul Civic Center. The concert was stopped. Eleven people were treated at St. Paul Ramsey Hospital for eye...

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The indestructible Alice
(Cleveland Plain Dealer - May 1978)

If you were over 30 and had already been guillotined, electrocuted and attacked by three black widow spiders onstage, you might hang it up. But not Alice Cooper. The superstar was not only hammered into a graveyard coffin ...

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Cooper: 'Shock rock' master makes triumphant return
(Times Weekender - May 6, 1978)

The Coop is back. After a year's layoff that saw the inventor of shock rock hospitalized for alcoholism treatments, Alice Cooper has re-emerged and his new energy is enabling him to present one of the most entertaining and best staged rock shows...

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That Good Boy Alice Cooper
(Ciao 2001 - June 11, 1978)

After being hospitalized for four months, Alice Cooper is back home. Of course, for a very short time, because his commitments have overlapped and now, while we will be resting on the seaside or in the mountains in the summer...

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Alice Is Alive And Well... And Doing Vaudeville
(Aquarian - July 12, 1978)

Alice Cooper's current tour is something of a comeback for him, both personally and professionally. He's spent the past year fighting and beating his reported long-time drinking problem (his forthcoming album, From The Inside, reportedly...

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Couples
(People - September 4, 1978)

By November of last year Alice Cooper's decade of drinking had caught up with him. The perversely flamboyant vaude-rocker had taken root in front of a TV set and was alternating between two cases of Bud per day and two bottles of booze....

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From The Inside Album Reivew
(Billboard - December 2, 1978)

This concept album that chronicles Cooper's self-imposed stay in a rehabilitation center to cure his alcohol addiction, is without a doubt his most ambitious statement to date. The subject is not an easy thing to publicize, yet Cooper...

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Alice Cooper is Back From Hell
(BAM - December 15, 1978)

First the reality — huge smokestacks are belching soot and grime into the cramped grayish sky. It looks like a job for the Environmental Protection Agency, or at least Nader's Raiders. Instead, for as far as the eye can see, are...

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Alice sucks a big one
(Sounds - December 16, 1978)

Alice was staying in The Hilton. Room 152 to be precise. The man at reception said that Mr.Cooper was expecting me. Excellent! I was flattered by the tought. "Hi! You must be Eric! Come right in. My name's Kenny! I'm Alice's tour manager!"...

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Alice Cooper Goes Straight
(Circus - December 19, 1978)

"Keith Moon was probably the greatest life-lover I've ever known. He didn't want to go to sleep, he loved life so much. The thing is, he didn't use any wisdom with it. He could've been just as crazy and had just as good a time if he'd taken a look...

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News Report
(Cash Box - December 23, 1978)

The recent release of Alice Cooper's album "From The Inside" on Warner Bros. Records marked a major departure from the rock star's past — not so much musically, though, as mentally and physically. The album, which teamed Cooper's...

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Alice Cooper Says He Knows Who He Is
(Hit Parader - 1979)

It should come as no surprise that Alice Cooper took his recent hospital experiences and used them as the basis for an album and his forthcoming stage production. And recently, Alice has been only too happy to talk all about it....

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Alice Cooper
(Ritz - 1979)

ALICE COOPER and his friend BERNIE TAUPIN are sitting side by side on a rose-covered sofa in the Savoy Hotel just like LAUREL and HARDY or ABBOTT and COSTELLO, maybe even RAOUL DUKE and DR. GOZO... Occasionally one or the other...

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Album Review
(Rock & Folk - February 1979)

Alice is no longer here! "From The Inside" is the best Elton John album since he started calling himself Alice (and no, this isn’t a reference to Elton’s private life!). Coincidence? Bernie Taupin, Elton's muse, icon, and lyricist, has left Elton for the boa...

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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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The Rebirth Of Alice Cooper
(Hitkrant - February 22, 1979)

Even though there are plenty of Hitkrant readers who still know ALICE COOPER from 'the past', I thought it would be advisable to go back to the beginning. Alice Cooper has changed a lot over the years. His first LP and his last, there is a world...

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The Alice Cooper Diary
(Grooves - March 1979)

For a man who managed to turn America's musical tide away from the balladeers and back to hard rock, blend music and theatre in a style more elaborate than any previous rocker, and influence a whole generation of teenagers while horrifying...

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Show Depicts Rockstars Agonies
(Ann Arbor Argus - April 6, 1979)

One of the most elaborate rock productions to come to the Bay Area was recently staged at the Oakland Coliseum when Alice Cooper and an entourage of 33 people appeared in a theatrical rock show entitled "The Strange case of Patient #1111...

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Alice Doesn't Flop Here Anymore
(Creem - May 1979)

"Hey, wanna see some great moments in TV?" Alice Cooper whispered conspiratorially, like a fat guy with a two-day beard hustling dirty pictures. Without waiting for a reply, the skinny singer turns on a videotape machine and begins to narrate...

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Alice
(Punk - May 1979)

The Alice Cooper Group was, at one time, the most successful punk-rock group in the world. They were so disgusting that a teenage girl wrote a protest letter to Ann Landers after she threw up at one of their concerts....

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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...

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Alice And Groovies: UK Trips Postponed
(New Musical Express - May 19, 1979)

PLANS FOR Alice Cooper to visit Britain at the end of this month have now finally been abandoned. As previously reported, promoter Harvey Goldsmith has been holding three nights for him at London's Wembley Arena, but Alice's management...

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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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Ann Landers
(Daily Record - December 5, 1979)

Dear Ann Landers: I'm really sorry you found that old song of mine crude and offensive. Actually, "Cold Ethyl" is just a harmless number about necrophilia. The point I want to make is that the kids are not bothered by this — their parents are...

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