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No More Mr Nice Guy
(Fandom Catalog - 2000)

You'll feel 18 again, when the king of shock­rock, Alice Cooper, jumps into your home to scare your pansie-ass toys right off the shelves. Alice stands 5 1/4" tall and comes with a 10 1/2"" tall custom guillotine backdrop. Now that's something to lose...

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Alice Cooper
(Pit - 2000)

A legendary man with a female's name wrapped New York City up in a media frenzy, promoting his 80-track box set with spots on Late Night With Letterman, Q104-FM, and an in-store appearance at Coconuts Records in Manhattan. On Rhino...

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Metal Wire
(Metal Edge - January 2000)

Alice Cooper, who just recently wrapped up a tour, is teaming up with actors Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas to bring Maui Tacos, a Hawaii-based taco, burrito and wrap shop, to New York. The restaurant's theme is surfing and features...

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Alice Gets Brutal
(Metal Hammer - January 2000)

Alice Cooper will appear in upcoming psychological horror movie The Attic Expeditions. He will star alongside Jeffrey Combs, Ted Raimi, Seth Green, Beth Bates and Shannon Hart Clearly in the movie, which will be directed by Jeremy Kasten. ...

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New Years Eve 1999/2000
(Phoenix New Times - January 2000)

Friday night downtown, between the decades-old warehouses and America West Arena, Arrive at Alice Cooper'stown just as "No More Mr. Nice Guy" ends and "Be My Lover" begins. I look this crowd over. If this is supposed to be a masquerade ball, then...

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Shock Rocker says Gill could be nightmarish
(Tennessean - January 28, 2000)

A new Vince Gill album titled Welcome to My High Lonesome Nightmare? At least one person believes Gill, the country star with such hit albums as I Still Believe In You and High Lonesome Sound, could pull it off: his friend and golfing buddy Alice ...

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Book Of The Month
(Record Collector - February 2000)

Alice Cooper, God Bless him. The unlikely recipient of a book dedicated to his record releases, you'd be surprised at the amount of product that the former Vince Furnier has released over the last 30 years, and Dale Sherman is the man to write...

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Alice Cooper - from rebel musician to golfer
(San Jose Mercury News - February 5, 2000)

Alice Cooper lives to shock people. In the 1970s, during the height of his popularity, his rock-'n'-roll show was a circus. On one tour, he pretended to decapitate himself with a guillotine. On another, he strapped himself into a mock electric chair and...

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Latest Alice Shocker: He's pretty good golfer
(San Diege Union Tribune - February 6, 2000)

Pebble Beach — Alice Cooper lives to shock people. In the 1970s, during the height of his popularity, his rock 'n' roll show was a circus. On one tour, he pretended to decapitate himself with a guillotine. On another, he strapped himself into a mock...

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Symphony for old rockers
(Herald Sun - February 22, 2000)

How does a bunch of old rockers keep on rocking? A deadpan Alice Cooper says: "We died about eight years ago, but nobody told us." But as far as corpses go, the principals of the Ultimate Rock Symphony looked in good nick when they were unveiled...

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Interview
(Sun - February 23, 2000)

ALICE COOPER once matched Elvis and Hendrix drink for drink and babe for babe. He has survived alcoholism and outraged politicians on both sides of the pond. Yet nowadays, the self-styled "king of all rebels" is more likely to be found on a golf...

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Studio Report - Alice Cooper
(Classic Rock - May 2000)

Alice Cooper releases a new album, 'Brutal Planet' on June 5 (through Eagle). An apocalyptic vision that propels the godfather of rock theatre into a new millennium, as Alice told Classic Rock: "It's an absolutely Godless world, a place where it's just...

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At home, Cooper takes care of business
(Vindicator, The - May 2000)

PHOENIX - Alice Cooper has spent most of his adult life trying to look like a cadaver, and even without his ghoulish makeup he is hard to miss. Eggbeater hair, jet black to match his leather outfit. Rail-thin physique. In many places around the world, the...

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Future Shock: Down Home on Alice Cooper's Brutal Planet
(Aggro Active - May 12, 2000)

Over the past 30 years, Alice Cooper has evolved from a Ouija board figment into one of rock's most revered icons. Part of the reason for Cooper's longevity is the crafty charisma the singer cultivated — a kind of P.T. Barnum for the rock set...

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I Wanna Be Respected
(Independent - May 14, 2000)

In 1969, Alice Cooper was booked to fill time between the Door and John Lennon at the Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival. His band weren't much good at the time, but the singer was already making a name for himself, not least because he has adopted a...

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Live Daily Interview: Alice Cooper
(Live Daily - May 16, 2000)

"I'm probably the only father that bangs on his kid's door and says, 'Will you please turn that up?'" In 1975, he welcomed you to his nightmare. On June 6th, still Alice after all these years, Cooper will release his 24th album, "Brutal Planet" (Spitfire)....

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It's 50 candles for Cooper, 51 for Quayle
(Arizona Republic - May 18, 2000)

Alice Cooper has a few miles under his belt. So it was only appropriate that on Wednesday, his 50th birthday, locals suggested a freeway be named after him. Squaw Peak Parkway would become the Alice Cooper Parkway instead of the Ronald...

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Delivery From Evil
(Get Out - May 18, 2000)

Though he was once considered something of a dark prince himself, the Valley's rock 'n' roll legend Alice Cooper is sounding an unequivocal warning to the world about the source of its troubles on his new album, Brutal Planet. "It's really coming...

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Alice Cooper - From The Inside
(Goldmine - May 19, 2000)

Back in the early '70s when The Alice Cooper Group resided high atop the record charts, few would have predicted that the band's mascaraed lead singer would sustain on of rock 'n' rolls most successful careers. Thirty years later, however...

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ALICE COOPER - The Nightmare Returns!
(Braveradio Plus - May 23, 2000)

Alice is ready to unveil yet another chapter in his life of musical crimes, a stark and depressing view of his surroundings called Brutal Planet. With Bob Ezrin at the helm, Alice has created what he calls his heaviest record to date. And this past Thursday...

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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....

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Alice Cooper Brutal Planet
(Classic Rock Revisited - June 2000)

Only Alice Cooper could pull off this CD. I would imagine that the guitar sounds on Brutal Planet are the very sounds Cooper heard in his psyche over 25 years ago. He probably had to wait for technology to catch up to his vision. At the same time...

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Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet (4.5)
(Glass Eye - June 2000)

"After being throughly creeped out by my old man's Alice Cooper 8-tracks as a kid (you wonder how someone becomes a broke, dishevled, anti-social metal nerd in their adult life? Try a steady diet of Flush the Fashion, We sold our souls for Rock and Roll...

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Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet
(Music Street Journal - June 2000)

Quite probably Alice's strongest release in years, and possibly one of the best ever, this disc is a concept album that musically seems to take the classic Alice sound and bring it up to date with a hard (even brutal) edge. The album really seems to fully...

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Brutally Frank Cooper Stupor
(New York Times - June 2000)

After hearing master shock-rocker Alice Cooper's new "Brutal Planet," it's clear that Marilyn Manson and others of his ilk are pale by comparison. On this monument to Goth-metal headbanging fury, Cooper is the devil's cabana boy. He'll...

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Brutal Planet Review
(Rough Edge - June 2000)

If you want an unbiased, uninformed opinion of Alice Cooper's new release, "Brutal Planet," you wont get it here. If that's what you're looking for, go to the rags - like Entertainment Weekly or People. They'll probably trash "Brutal Planet" ('trash.' get it?...

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Rocker thrills the fans
(South Wales Argus - June 2000)

ALICE COOPER is one rock star for whom ageing looks are no problem. The older he gets the more sinister he appears. The more evil he is the more his fans love him. For 30 years he's creaked the boards of rock concerts world-wide, shocking...

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Three of rocks most venerable institutions Motorhead, Iron Maiden and Alice Cooper, all have new albums out.
(Neath and Port Talbot Courier - June 6, 2000)

Motorhead's latest offering is titled 'we are motorhead'. it is basically more of the same from lemmy and co, but hugely enjoyable never the less. Iron Maiden with bruce dickinson...

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Brutal Planet Review
(Entertainment Weekly - June 9, 2000)

Nowhere near as dire as you'd fear, the Coop's latest finds our hero spinning characteristically grim fables as his backing band gamely grinds out old-school hard rock melodies and cliches, There's nothing close to "Eighteen" or "School's Out" here...

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Alice Comment
(Melody Maker - June 14, 2000)

Prince Charles and Camila. Should they get married? "Oh, yeah! Of course they should — I think it's inevitable. They've been going out for 42 years or something. I think it's about time they did something about it. I don't think it would be a big...

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Way to go with Alice Cooper cover
(Goldmine - June 16, 2000)

Hats off to Russell Hall and Goldmine for the excellent Alice Cooper article (#517, May 19, 2000), a good follow-up to the earlier 1990 piece. Just don't wait to publish the next one for another 10 years! It's disappointing to read that despite...

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Brutal Planet Review
(South Wales Evening News - June 16, 2000)

After nearly 30 years in music alice cooper is still going strong and just refuses to go away. on his latest offering, brutal planet, the title track kicks things off in aggressive style with a heavy grunge-soaked guitar sound which pretty much sets the tone...

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Alice Cooper Is In Top Form
(Edmonton Sun - June 17, 2000)

Forget about Alice Cooper the golfer, the father, the restaurateur. That regular guy is nowhere to be found, probably bound and gagged in some dungeon. Alice Cooper, the living horror comic character, is back and takes centre stage on this morbid metal...

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Brutal Planet Review
(Kerrang! - June 17, 2000)

Another comeback from '70s shock rock legend. Although there would be no Marilyn Manson without his influence, Alice Cooper has wrongly interpreted this as an excuse for a comeback. 'Brutal Planet' is his first solo album in six years, and sadly serves...

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Singles
(Melody Maker - June 28, 2000)

Metallica — I Disappear (Hollywood): From the soundtrack of "Mission Impossible 2" comes the same blend of grunts and riffs that we've heard a hundred times before. If it's representative of the film, expect Tom Cruise to half-heartedly...

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Burn, Baby, Burn (and serve with potato salad)
(Arena - July 2000)

Step 1: Leave the cooking to the experts. Luckily for the restaurant, I don't do any of the cooking — even though we are famous for our barbecue. I'm famous for eating it, but not cooking it — I just get some meat and let it burn. There's...

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Brutal Planet Review
(Burrn! - July 2000)

Ever deeper goes Alice into the realm of Dante's inferno. Somewhere along the line, Alice stopped looking in the mirror and quit dancing with dead tongues in rotten cheeks and turned the looking glass back on the world that created him...

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Mr Nice Guy
(Classic Rock - July 2000)

Blood, dismembered dolls, guillotines, snakes — ALICE COOPER was the patomime dame of 70s rock. Now he's back with his first album for six years, Brutal Planet. "There are two great mysteries in rock 'n' roll," Alice Cooper pronounces. "One is the...

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Alice Cooper
(Maxim - July 2000)

'Alice'. That's a girls name. If you had a band with hair down to the waist and make-upon their face which was the loudest, most obnoxious thing in American nightmare music, and they were called 'Vincent Furnier', you'd say, 'That doesn't work.' So I...

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The Brutal Truth
(Metal Hammer - July 2000)

A legend on the rock scene for over 30 years, Alice Cooper ain't done yet. As he tell Daniel Oliveire, with new album 'Brutal Planet' he aims to prove he still has that essential hunger. "We're the true dinosaurs," says rock legend Alice Cooper, comparing...

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Brutal Planet Review
(Q Magazine - July 2000)

Godfather of schlock quits the golf course long enough to make first solo album in six years. Mixed feelings start when Alice Cooper's latest release opens with an uncharacteristically downbeat title track. However, even if his apocalyptic vision...

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Alice Cooper
(Record Buyer - July 2000)

Kiss, Twisted Sister, WASP, Marilyn Manson - all these acts and coutless more owe a debt to Alice Cooper. He's been mixing hard rock and theatrics for three decades now, influencing and entertaining sussessive generations with songs that stand up...

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Brutal Planet Review
(Rock Sound - July 2000)

The eternal return rears its ugly head again. Alice was once imitated, then came along nu-metal, and now Alice is copying those who might've listened to him when they were in high school. Plagiarism of Korn's seven-string assault, undermined...

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Shock Rock Superstar Alice Cooper
(Venue - July 7, 2000)

The son of a preacher, 52-year-old Vincent Furnier first transformed into transvestite sicko Alice Cooper back in the late '60s, promising to "single-handedly drive the stake through the love generation." But it wasn't until the brilliant triumvirate...

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Alice in bunkerland!
(South Wales Argus - July 11, 2000)

Rock star Alice Cooper has got the art of relaxation off to a tee during his stay in Gwent. The golf-mad US legend was on Newport's Celtic Manor course today to get a round in before his gig in the town tonight. And in an exclusive interview with the...

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Seminal hard rocker invades Germany
(Kerrang! - July 15, 2000)

Five modes of transport (underground and overground train, plane, coach and taxi!) your Kerrang! team went through to bring you this report from a German town that looks like it - gets sandblasted clean on a daily basis, takes recycling very...

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King Of The Guillotine Who Never Quite Lost His Head
(Express - July 16, 2000)

For a 52-year-old bloke who's just been guillotined and had his decapitated head kicked around a stage, Alice Cooper's looking remarkably cool. On the table there's a bottle of water and a few bananas, while next door the boys in the band - a gang...

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Strutting and Spitting To The Geriatrics
(Evening Standard - July 20, 2000)

He shocked middle-America by adopting the name of an old witch, wearing hideous makeup, cavorting with a snake and decapitating chickens onstage. Later on he took up golf, hung out with Bob Hope in Palm Springs, befriended Groucho Marx...

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A Clown Called Alice
(Independent - July 21, 2000)

THE YEARS pass slowly in heavy metal. Whereas most contemporary music is required to assimilate new ideas and modify its sound, this essentially conservative genre has remained locked in a timewarp for decades. It has the advantage of...

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Welcome to my nightmare
(Guardian - July 22, 2000)

The stage sweats under camouflage netting; a backdrop depicts a scorched earth in green and black. Suddenly, to an explosion of lights and sonic grinding, a metal box on a plinth opens to reveal a wild-haired Methuselah consisting only of head and upper...

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Brutal Planet Review
(Metal Edge - August 2000)

It's been five years since Alice Cooper's last studio effort, and it's certainly nice to hear that nasally, cynical whine once again. While the Coop will probably never match the utter brilliance of his early '70s heyday and albums like School's Out...

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Alice Cooper Ten Strokes Over Par
(Your Flesh - August 2000)

When the Alice Cooper group acrimoniously collapsed in early 1974, rock music lost the only band to successfully combine influential and masterfully conceived rock and roll with mind numbing theatrics. When the band tore through a...

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Alice Cooper just a regular guy at home
(This Week - August 2, 2000)

Alice Cooper has spent most of his adult life trying to look like a cadaver, and, even without his ghoulish makeup he is hard to miss. Eggbeater hair, jet black to match his leather outfit. Rail­thin physique. In many places around the world, the 52-year-old...

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Hangin' With Mr. Cooper
(Dayton Daily News - August 3, 2000)

Phoenix - Alice Cooper has spent most of his adult life trying to look like a cadaver, and even without his makeup he is hard to miss. Eggbeater hair, jet black to match his leather outfit, Rail-thin physique. In many places around the world, the 52-year-old...

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Alice Cooper Takes His Legendary Show Into The Future
(Electric Basement - September 2000)

In a Summer packed with classic hard rock and metal comeback tours, master player ALICE COOPER refuses to be left behind. Not only has he released one of the strongest veteran albums of the year, but he has also added a special spark to his stage...

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Brutal Planet Review
(Metal Sludge - September 2000)

Cover: 7 Billion Dollar Babies out of 10. The cover is dark and evil looking and you can see half of Alice's old ass face. By looking at thecover you can kind of tell this is going to be a heavy album. Works formy drunk ass. Booklet: 8 Cooperstown's out of...

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Alice Cooper
(Under the Volcano - September 2000)

Alice Cooper is Rock n' Roll royalty, but you'd never realize it by just speaking to him. Funny, smart, and down to earth, Cooper seems to really care about the whole interview dynamic and the world at large, the polar opposite of his dark stage persona....

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Cooper blends camp with killer rock
(Toledo Blade - September 6, 2000)

The guillotine is back. What more could anyone want from an Alice Cooper concert? After a couple of relatively low-key tours, the master of rock theater put everything - including his neck - in concert last night before 1,600 fans at the Stranahan...

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Alice Cooper Clarification
(Detroit News - September 8, 2000)

With the huge boa constrictors, chopped-up baby dolls, guillotines, electric chairs and fake blood that populated his stage shows during his early '70s heyday, Alice Cooper was the first to take shock rock to theatrical extremes. Today, controversy over issues generated by his well-orchestrated spectacle seem comparatively tame. ...

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Cooper keeps metal's kitsch at forefront
(Milwaukee Journal - September 8, 2000)

More than anyone, Alice Cooper has proven that anything can fit into a rock 'n' roll show if you: (a) smear it with blood; (b) cover it in face paint; (c) set it on fire; and (d) swaddle it in leather. That utterly silly, but immensely effective, modus operandi...

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News Report
(Kerrang! - September 9, 2000)

Alice will star as Satan in a new film entitled The Crossover which is being produced by Mike Myres. Described as an Irish black comedy, the film is about an over the hill rock band who sell their souls to Satan in return for fame and fortune. Cooper begins...

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Alice Cooper stages metal madness as art
(Houston Chronicle - September 26, 2000)

After seeing Alice Cooper at Aerial Theater on Monday night, it's hard to understand why censors are making such a big deal out of Eminem's hateful schtick. Like the real Slim Shady, Cooper has been exploiting misogyny and gratuitous violence for decades...

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Ol' Blue Eyes In Black
(Ashbury Park Press - September 29, 2000)

When he leaps onstage, his ice-blue eyes lined in black — with hair, gloves, leather jacket, trousers and boots to match &mdah; Alice Cooper is clearly someone who is not yet ready to rest on his laurels. It's a notion the seminal...

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A Tempting Trade Paperback
(Comic Shop News - October 2000)

Comic book stories can have some surprising inspirations. Bored guys draw costumed turtles on pizza boxes and history is made. High-school friends transform a fanzine villain into one the the world's best-known heroic icons. A concept album becomes...

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Brutally Honest
(Metal Edge - October 2000)

Phoenix, Arizona has its famous Suns: A great basketball team that made it to the semi-finals this year. And Phoenix also has its famous sons, one of them being a rock star by the name of Alice Cooper. Tonight especially, Cooper is indeed...

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Alice Cooper: Your Travel Agent to a Brutal Planet
(Midwest Beat - October 2000)

Alice Cooper, the Detroit-born son of a minister, is without a doubt one of the most all encompassing and important figures ever in the annals of rock 'n' roll. Rank him right alongside the likes of Elvis and Dylan in my book for the tremendous...

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Welcome to the Brutal Planet
(Rock n Roll Reporter - October 2000)

The planet is cold and filled with dismay and destruction, something Alice Cooper likes to call the Brutal Planet. His work makes Escape from New York look like a ride at Disneyland. As always, Alice finds himself in the depth...

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Real World Fuels Alice Cooper's Horror Tales
(Post Gazette - October 1, 2000)

More than 20 years after deciding his audience couldn't be shocked anymore, Alice Cooper was shocked to find the inspiration that would fuel his most frightening nightmare yet while watching CNN. "I asked myself, 'What scares me?...

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Cooper's still rockin', still theatrical and still contemporary
(Independent - October 3, 2000)

Alice Cooper presented a full, fantastic rock show Sunday night at the Murat Theatre. To show gratitude, every person in the sold-out audience of 2,450 should buy a copy of Cooper's current album. Without the songs of Brutal Planet — a criminally overlooked...

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Cooper takes Alice out to play
(Maine Today - October 5, 2000)

Alice Cooper is not always himself. On stage, he's the same snake-thin, leather-clad, mascara-wearing rock star he was 25 years ago. And he still belts out songs that were anthems to a generation of tough-talking high schoolers, including "I'm...

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School's Never Out For Vet Rocker Alice Cooper
(Boston Herald - October 8, 2000)

Rock trends may come and go, but one thing never changes: Alice Cooper still gets his head chopped off at the end of every show. "We had so many requests for the guillotine that I had to borrow it back from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame," he...

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Alice Cooper: Don't confuse shock with Satanism
(Knox News Sentinal - October 8, 2000)

Alice Cooper, the originator of '70s shock rock, is being rediscovered by a new generation. But Cooper is not so happy to be lumped in with the likes of Marilyn Manson and Slipknot. "Some of these bands that have professed Satanic cult things...

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Alice Cooper Still Basks In Mock Decadence
(Boston Globe - October 10, 2000)

No one protests or pickets Alice Cooper anymore. The angry hordes have moved on to the other concerns — death metal, hip-hop, violent Hollywood movies. This leaves old Alice right where he should be: at center stage, gleefully wallowing in mock...

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World Beater
(Hit Parader - November 2000)

In the light of what passes for "entertainment" in music circles these days, it's kind of hard to imagine that at one time Alice Cooper was rock and roll's unquestioned King Of Outrage. Back in the late '60s and early '70s, Cooper and his ...

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Speak With The Devil
(Rue Morgue - November 2000)

He's responsible for the death of countless babies. He's been romantically involved with a corpse. He's fought off black widows, he's hung with Vincent Price, he's survived attacks at the hands of Jason Voorhees, and every night he's had his head removed...

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Best in Show
(Arizona Republic - December 28, 2000)

He may not be Eighteen anymore, but the Valley's own Alice Cooper was on a roll when he invited the public to a Web Theatre dress rehearsal for his "Brutal Planet" tour May 18. With a scorching young backup band and several costume changes...

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Alice Cooper
(Classic Rock - 2001)

If there was a more entertaining stage show to hit these shores last year than Alice Cooper's 'Brutal Planet' tour, this reviewer must have missed it. Fortunately, someone thought to capture the whole thing for posperity on the new-fangled shiny disc format...

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The Axe Files
(Mojo - 2001)

They couldn't even fill a bar. So what did Alice Cooper sound like before he encouraged us to skip class? Ben Edmonds know. Back in late-'60s California, in the days before the 1972 summer holiday hit, School's Out, Alice Cooper wasn't a solo artist. It...

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Alice Cooper
(Toyfare - February 2001)

What's it like having your own action figure? There are three things that show you've made it: being an answer to a Jeopardy! question, being a joke on a Bob Hope TV Christmas Special, and having a comic book, toy or pez dispenser made after you. ...

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Vital Reissues
(Billboard - February 24, 2001)

Twenty years before Marilyn Manson bared his backside, Alice Cooper gave parents plenty to despise. And unlike many of today's wannabes, his band's darkness was spiced with humor, originality, and serious rock'n'roll chops. By 1973 and the...

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Billion Dollar Babies Re-issue Review
(Classic Rock - March 2001)

Fans of the Coopmeister are gonna love this expanded version of his 1973 masterpiece, 'Billion Dollar Babies'. Although the new double­CD edition doesn't come complete with the fake billion dollar bills that famously accompanied the original...

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Alice Cooper
(Connection - March 2001)

Rock star Alice Cooper shocked the world in the 1970s with an alcohol-fueled stage show that explored taboos raging from murder to necrophilia. Years later he shocked the rock world by quietly embracing Christianity. Cooper has rarely talked...

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Alice Cooper
(Metal Maniacs - March 2001)

Alice Cooper' Brutal Planet is up there (and maybe even a bit beyond) anything the man's ever recorded. It's brutal alright, a universe of rot and decay, eaten up from the inside out by sickening characters acting out their pathetic existences by...

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Alice Cooper: Sick thing had a message
(Orange County Register - March 6, 2001)

Partly that's his own fault-no sooner had his macabre clowning reached its pinnacle then it became true clowning, the sort that found him enrapt with his own celebrity and making lousy albums that were one slice away from Andrew Lloyd Webber. He has...

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Rock megastar speaks exclusively to your West Lothian Herald & Post!
(West Lothian Herald & Post - March 22, 2001)

He's the master of Shock Rock, certainly one of the world's greatest showmen, freely combining a mix of music, mayhem and the macabre. He's a rock star from the early Seventies who can...

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Rock's Horror Show
(Bulletin - March 29, 2001)

Pioneer shock rock maestro Alice Cooper says the best thing about being a rock 'n' roll dinosaur is that you get to eat smaller bands for breakfast. Yes kids, the Alice Cooper horror show is coming to town and the self-confessed prophet of doom is...

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Metal Wire
(Metal Edge - April 2001)

Alice Cooper's Paradise Valley, AZ home was robbed Nov. 25. Over $6,400 worth of clothes and shoes (beloning to one of Cooper's daughters) and video cameras were taken. Metal Edge Asks: Which Song Best Describes Your Love Life?...

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Alice Cooper
(Record Collector - April 2001)

Following the 4-CD box set come this single disc anthology, which attempts to cover the career of ol' Vince over the last 30 years or so. No easy task and, despite its inclusion of 22 tracks, not all fans will agree with the selection. Where are classics...

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Alice's Off Planet
(Mail - April 1, 2001)

At 53, shock-rocker Alice Cooper can no longer lay claim to the Department of Youth. But he's still telling brutal truths about our planet, writes Ritchie Yorke. The latest incarnation promises to be a pearler, even by Alice's extraordinary history of live...

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Alice shocks and rocks
(Bulletin - April 16, 2001)

It may have been ahard act to follow but Alice Cooper rocked the Carrara Stadium on Saturday as much as the farewell concert by Kiss the night before. Organisers said 7000 fans turned out on Saturday night to see Alice Cooper's Live From the Brutal...

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Once More, Mr. Nice Guy
(Phoenix New Times - April 19, 2001)

In other nickel-and-dime news, this year, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame short-changed Alice Cooper singularly and collectively when it again failed to nominate Vincent Furnier and friends into the old boys' club. Sure, getting into the R'n'R hall of fame is a...

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Monster with his best years behind him
(Aftonbladet - April 27, 2001)

Gothenburg. Monster of the Millennium is not a very modern concept. Both Alice Cooper, Dio and most of all Ratt, have already had their great eras. They are still worth seeing, but tonight neither of them were in top form....

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Alice Cooper Plays In Another League
(Expressen - April 27, 2001)

Three veteran bands on a "Monsters Of The Millenium"-tour around Sweden and the first is located at Frolundaborg, the big concert arena of the 80's. Talk about hard rock nostalgia. Ratt of today is a pretty sad story. The original singer Stephen Pearcy...

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Fairway to heaven
(Observer - April 29, 2001)

Vincent Furnier, who started performing as the megalomaniac rock god Alice Cooper three decades ago, still looks more or less the same - he is long-haired, big-nosed, Cuban-heeled, with thin, pipe-cleaner legs. He is 53. He's recorded 25 albums, spent...

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Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
(Mojo - May 2001)

In the late '60s, Alice Cooper sounded like snotty-nosed Zappa/Mothers wannabes playing at being The Beatles. They were probably the most ridiculed act in America. By 1973, the group's robust anthems and 'shock rock' stage shows had...

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Hot Shots
(Restaurant Hospitality - May 2001)

Rock Legend Alice Cooper in the restaurant business? You Bet. Not everybody is crazy about the idea, but his accountant isn't complaining and neither are the customers who pack his Phoenix-based restaurant. Twenty-seven years after his original band...

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Wembley Arena
(Times - May 23, 2001)

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...

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The Last Temptation
(Publishers Weekly - May 28, 2001)

A spooky collaboration between novelist and comics writer Gaiman (Sandman; and see review of American Gods, above) and creepy shock rocker Cooper, this is the story of Steven, a boy with many fears: girls, ghost stories and growing up among...

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Welcome To The Nightmare
(Metal Edge - June 2001)

The fact that Dope were able to tour with Alice Cooper for a short time was unbelievable for me. But even more unbelievable was having the opportunity to roll into my band's hometown of New York City and share the stage with Alice on the first Halloween...

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Alice Cooper har inga planer på att dra ner på tempot
(Sweden Rock Magazine - June 2001)

Alice Cooper är närmast ökäand för sin theatreliska scenshow, där smink, ormar och glijotineringar blivit vardagsmat för hans fans. Turnên "Live From The Brutal Planet" är hans största satning på många år, med en scenproduktion i klass med 1975...

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A Life In The Day
(Times - September 16, 2001)

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...

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News Report
(Rolling Stone - September 27, 2001)

Alice Cooper's new album, Dragontown, is due out October 9th...

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A Week In The Life Of Alice Cooper
(Classic Rock - October 2001)

"I get up at 6.30 every morning. I haven't had a drink in 19 years, and that changes your whole physiology and lifestyle. When I was a drinker I'd be getting up at two in the afternoon, and then I'd be up for half the night. It was a whole...

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Welcome to Dragontown!
(Midwest Beat - October 2001)

Before Kiss first powdered their noses, before Marilyn Manson reached puberty, before Slipknot and Mudvayne applied garish makeup — there was ALICE COOPER! This Detroit-born son of a preacher started it all as far as theatrical "shock rock" goes....

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Twice as Smart... And Twice as Sick
(Powerplay - October 2001)

Can there be anybody in the developed world that does not know the name and face of Alice Cooper? As living rock legends go, he's the nastiest, the most over the top, the originals cock-rocker. Currently riding on a wave of popularity created by the success...

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Loads More Mr Nice Guy
(A-List - October 19, 2001)

Alice Cooper is the son of a pastor, a devout Christian and devoted father of three. He boasts a golf handicap of seven and says he has never cheated on his wife in 25 years of marriage. Yet this is the same man who stabs mutant babies...

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Ask Alice: The shock rocker talks about God, golf and what it's like to be Alice
(Cleveland Plain Dealer - October 19, 2001)

Alice Cooper's vision of the future depends on which Alice you happen to ask. The on-stage Alice imagines a society without morals collapsing into a radioactive pit of violence and horror...

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Alice Cooper: Prince Of Darkness/Lord Of Light
(Knac - October 19, 2001)

"Alice is what all other shockers strive to be. Hands down... the champion of the world. His songs sang out like nursery rythms to a demented generation. He was the first to mix music and theater into a twisted cocktail that we drank down like there was no...

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Necronomicon Of Terror
(Satellite Times - October 19, 2001)

For over twenty years Alice Cooper has been hanged, guillotined, electrocuted, and possessed by devils. Craig Cabell met the legendary host of our most vivid nightmares. Like the ancient Necronomicon so often referred to by H.P. Lovecraft in his...

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The Lovable Goth
(Hartford Courant - October 25, 2001)

One guy who can always find work Halloween week is Alice Cooper. "October is always like that," rock's top ghoul says from Mount Pleasant, Mich., on a tour that brings him to Foxwoods Resort Casino the night before Halloween, on Tuesday....

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Cooper not afraid to have fun with his Image
(Whoot - October 25, 2001)

Alice Cooper still does his 1970s shock rock routine with full makeup and stage regalia - he just doesn't take himself as seriously. In a new TV commercial for Marriott's Residence Inn, for example, Cooper pokes fun at his hard-rock image. He tells...

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Chasing The Dragon
(Get Rhythm - November 2001)

So the phone rang, "Hi, it's Sharon, Alice Cooper's publicist. Hey, Brian do you fancy doing an interview with him?" Well never being one to turn down the opportunity to meet a genuine rock'n'roll legend I hastily agreed thinking I'd eventually end up...

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The Nightmare Continues
(Record Collector - November 2001)

Few artists can boast as turbulent a career as the 50-something Vincent Furnier, who has survived alcoholism, the wrath of the Christian right wing and the horror that was 80s hair-metal with equal aplomb. Decades have passed since his creepily...

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The Ghoul Next Door
(Orlando Sentinel - November 6, 2001)

One guy who can always find work around Halloween is Alice Cooper. "October is always like that," rock's top ghoul says from Mount Pleasant, Mich., on the last week of a tour that brings him to Hard Rock Live on Wednesday, just a week after the...

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House of Blues Concert Review
(Maximum-Rock - December 2001)

"Dragontown" being the third chapter in the trilogy which began back in 1994 with "The Last Temptation", the second chapter was the outrageous tour that we witnessed at the House of Blues in Las Vegas, NV back in Sept 22nd 2000 "Brutal Planet". Brutal...

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Nothing's Shocking
(Metal Edge - December 2001)

Burning pyres of flame burst upward, searching with blazing orange heat, as beaded sweat glistens with the illumination that sweeps across a sea of faces. Adorned in black darkness, they chant, dancing the celebratory ritual of rock 'n' roll. ...

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Alice Cooper cooks up Christmas Pudding show
(Get Out - December 13, 2001)

Alice Cooper, Paradise Valley's own rock'n'roll legend, has long been involved in charitable efforts through his Solid Rock Foundation and its annual celegrity golf tournament. Now he's added a Christmas show to raise funds for the organization...

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Alice Cooper - Dragon You Through Hell!
(BW&BK - 2002)

Call it Hell. Call it Dragontown. Call it Ozzfest in the early afternoon. Whatever your metaphor for eternal damnation, Alice Cooper has gathered a few lost souls from the hot side to tell you what it's like, why these colourful characters are there...

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'I have a dream...'
(Classic Rock - 2002)

THERE'S NO WAY OF KNOWING FROM THE cover of this record that the Alice Cooper who released 'Welcome To My Nightmare' in March 1975 had changed. But the fact was that Alice had gone solo....

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News Report
(Impact Weekly - January 3, 2002)

When performing at the Hard Rock Cafe in Cleveland, the members of Alice Cooper's band ask Bluekarma if they can use Bluekarma's equipment to jam, after having performed with Cooper earlier in the evening. Bluekarma declines, shocking...

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Saint Alice
(HM - March 2002)

One of God's greatest gifts to creation has to be the sense of humor. It gets us through hard times and lifts the heart when it slips into depression. I wonder if Jesus ever pulled pranks on His disciples. Having the Apostle Peter fetch a coin from a fish's...

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Rocker Cooper winning over fans on new restaurant's opening day
(Cleveland Plain Dealer - April 4, 2002)

Rocker-restaurateur Alice Cooper welcomed 500 guests — not to his nightmare, but to a pulled pork-smoked turkey dreams come true. Cooper autographed jeans, a $50 bill and a Kermit the Frog during the opening of his Cooper'stown Cleveland...

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New Goth god offends good Christian like Alice Cooper
(Express - September 27, 2002)

If rock music has taught us anything, then it's not to be judgmental. Just because a guy makes a living beating up cripples and dismembering babies before being ritually executed, it doesn't make him a bad person. Take, ooh, for a...

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Welcome to His Nightmare...
(Music Revue - October 2002)

For more than 30 years, Alice Cooper has been hitting the road, treating fans to his own unique type of rock and roll horror show. The man who's famous for stage props ranging from boa constrictors to straight jackets...

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Soundcheck: Alice Cooper, Shock Rocker
(Cleveland Free Times - October 2, 2002)

WHEN VINCENT DAMON Furnier decided to start calling himself Alice Cooper in the 1970s, he adopted a theatrical stage show and set a precedent of putting visuals to music. Thirty years on, he's still at it, on tour in support of a special edition of...

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When The Chickens Came Home To Roost
(Mail - November 9, 2002)

ALICE COOPER thrilled audiences with his anarchic lyrics, hard-drinking ways and notorious stage antics that infamously involved a live bird. Then he took up golf, found God - and discovered the joys of family life. MICHAEL HELLICAR found out what...

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American Psycho
(Kerrang! - November 16, 2002)

Long before Marilyn Manson became public enemy number one, a snake-loving, noose-wielding madman was happily enraging moralists everywhere. This is the story of how Alice Cooper became rock's original bogeyman... THE YEAR: 196...

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Alice isn't shocking us any more
(Sunday Post - November 17, 2002)

ALICE COOPER - the name sounds more like a clean-cut country singer than a dark monster of rock. And that's exactly why the man born as Vincent Furnier chose it. He wanted people who came to his concerts to be shocked - and he succeeded with...

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A Thrash through the rough with Alice
(Durham Journal - November 21, 2002)

Golf club in one hand, iced water in the other. Visor pulled low to cover tired eyes and designer clothes carefully fitted to confirm his lofty financial state. This affluent 54-year-old is like so many middle-class Americans looking forward to the finer things in...

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Alice Cooper
(Smålandsbygdens Tidning - November 22, 2002)

With the bad reviews horror rocker Alice Cooper garnered in the big newspapers during his recent visit to Sweden, it's doubtful if he will return in the future. Well, okay, there are a few flaws in this year's show. Partly I don't agree with his choice of songs. Why...

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Godfather of Metal Returns
(Metro - November 26, 2002)

The Monsters of Rock festival dates from a time before Rage Against The Machine and Slipknot, to a period when the likes of Def Leppard and the Scorpions bestrode the stage in unashamed Lycra with shaggy perms....

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The Odd Couple: Head-master Cooper
(Sheffield Star - November 27, 2002)

BEHEADING Britney Spears on stage? Now that's a hard act to follow. Countless would-be shock rockers have tried to follow Alice Cooper. But after 30 years he's still a king (queen?) of darkness, strutting his stuff long after good little pop idols...

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Concert Review
(Kerrang! - November 30, 2002)

The Monsters of Rock super-tour kicks off In London FROM 1980 to the mid-'80s, the Monsters Of Rock festival celebrated all that was great about the musk we love. With bands as diverse as Motley Crue, Iron Malden and Metallica all contributing...

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The Complexity Of Alice Cooper
(Metal Edge - December 2002)

"If you were a [traveling] band in the early '70s, people always mistook you for Alice Cooper," remembers New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain, recalling that very misconception once happening to him on a transcontinental flight...

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Who the **** is Alice?
(Record Collector - December 2002)

The first unofficial Alice Cooper convetion, Sickcon1, was held on 2nd Novemeber at Crewe's Limelight Club. Guest of honour were Bouchard, Dunaway, Smith -- comprising founder members of the Alice Cooper band, Neal Smith (drums) and Dennis Dunaway...

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Alice's elves
(Arizona Republic - December 9, 2002)

As Alice Cooper rocks Canada, Russia, Germany and Scandinavia on a three-month tour, the seemingly ageless performer has been relying on a few key people back home in the Valley to organize his second annual Christmas...

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Alice Cooper - Draggin' Through Your Town
(BW&BK - 2003)

Corpse-painted shockfather Alice Cooper has hit the road once again, bringing his heavy Dragontown record (recently reissued with a spate of bonus material) plus a bevy of old hits to cities all over the world, including a Toronto date in October. First thing...

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25 Awesome Arizonians
(Today's Arizona Woman - January 2003)

Legendary rock performer Alice Cooper is on an honorary roll. Last year, the dark prince of shock rock and native Phoenician was awarded the 2001 Living Legend Award by the International Horror Guild at Dragon*Con, an annual science fiction...

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Only Britney Bleeds: Alice Cooper in the UK
(Entertainment Design - January 1, 2003)

Who needs Ozzy Osbourne - or any of the Osbournes, for that matter? The real F***ing Prince of Darkness, Alice Cooper, is bloodying up the road right now with his usual array of heavy metal mayhem, and can currently be found devouring Europe...

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Thanks a Billion
(Discoveries - February 2003)

Once Upon a time in the '70s, there was an amazing band called Alice Cooper, which included vocalist Vincent Furnier, guitarists Michael Bruce and Glen Buxton, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith. Taking full advantage of a seminal period...

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Rocker Alice Cooper on roll
(Detroit Free Press - February 9, 2003)

Rocker Alice Cooper is keeping the pedal to the metal these days in more ways than one. Cooper has signed on as a NASCAR Busch Grand National series sponsor/owner. "I'm going to be in the pits," said Cooper, 54. "But you won't see me...

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Alice Cooper
(Metal Edge - March 2003)

The embossed plaque of Frank Sinatra handing in the lobby of the Fox Theatre commemorates its inaugural show. With a regally fabricated elegance borne of architectural modernism, the 1,400-seat theater reflects on opulence of discriminating taste ...

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Local Celebrity You'd Most Like To Dine With
(Scottsdale Life - June 2003)

Famed rocker Alice Cooper topped the list when it came to what celebrity residents most wanted to dine with. It could be his bad-boy image of days gone by, it could be his local nice-guy image; whatever the case, Scottsdale loves Alice Cooper....

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Alice Cooper
(Mail - September 6, 2003)

Alice says: I spent most of the 1990s recovering from my excesses of the previous three decades. But my head was clear enough to keep track of everything that was happening in the music business. For the first time since rock 'n' roll...

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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...

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Garagerock i Alice Coopers tappning
(Smålandsbygdens Tidning - September 19, 2003)

Strax efter halv sju på fredagskvällen är det dags för kvällens sista telefonintervju för Detroitättlingen Alice Cooper. Och det är med stor entusiasm som han berättar för mig om framtiden och hur nya skivan "The Eyes of Alice Cooper" kommit till. Efter...

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Alice Cooper: Goth star who found God
(Express - September 22, 2003)

Alice Cooper wants to make something very clear. He hates golf. Despite his handicap of seven and his killer swing Alice insists he wouldn't be seen dead on a golf course. "Listen," he says, an evil smirk creeping across his leathery face...

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Eyes of Alice Cooper Review
(Kerrang! - September 27, 2003)

The oldest shock rocker in town goes back to his garage roots Alice Cooper has always kept one heavily made-up eye on what's going down. When hair bands ruled he teamed up with pop-rock svengali Desmond Child and had a hit with 'Poison'. He...

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Last Night A Record Changed My Life
(Mojo - October 2003)

Back when he was dodging Phoenix rednecks as frontman of The Spiders, Alice Cooper's heart opened to a Broadway show soundtrack.. When we were known as The Spiders back in Phoenix, the West Side Story Soundtrack album had a big...

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Alice Cooper goes back to bare-bones rock
(Boston Herald - October 3, 2003)

Alice Cooper is fed up with rock 'n' roll. Well, that's not exactly true. He's fed up with the current state of rock 'n' roll and all its pretentiousness. "When I got into a rock band, it was so I didn't have to hear about my parents talking about tax cuts...

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I didn't get where I am today without...
(Times - October 11, 2003)

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...

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I'm Rock's Original Bad Boy
(Now - October 29, 2003)

Alice Cooper invented Ozzy Osbourne-style shock rock stage acts. But unlike Ozzy, you wouldn`t catch him cleaning up dog poo on TV . With all the attention - not to mention millions being lavished on rocker-turned-TV star Ozzy Osbourne, you'd forgive...

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Alice Cooper
(Powerplay - November 2003)

Talking to Alice Cooper in the cold light of day might be something of a reality check compared to hit outer persona, character and stage shows. And when Alice turns out to be the nice guy everyone always says he is, I can't help but feel he...

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Eyes of Alice Cooper Review
(Edmonton Journal - November 15, 2003)

Will the eyes have it? Or the nays? Alice schools his "long time" band members on every phase of his career (except the Clones bit), and they all write to fit the templates. They write pandering anthems for the grandkids (I'm So Angry), lunge for cred...

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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...

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Shopping with Alice
(FHM - December 2003)

Alice, who are you holiday shopping for today? The band, the family, my son, my two daughters, Uncle Axl Rose and Rob Zombie. Last year, I got Rob a Wicked Witch of the West cookie jar. He got me a cane with a removable skull on top. You can...

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Alice Cooper
(Beat - December 10, 2003)

There are names that are mentioned when the term rock'n' roll is brought up, but there are few that embody the actual phrase like Alice Cooper. After recording for close to 40 years, the king of horror Alice Cooper is an artist who is well...

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Public Animal #9
(Burn - January 2004)

Alice fell into my lap the very same year that I started school, 1979. For that I hold him responsible for the best and worst times in my life. The downside of loving Alice was that I was labelled an outsider...even by other metalheads. The upside is the...

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Alice Cooper on Rock
(Sain - January 2004)

One of rock music's more colourful characters, Alice Cooper is a legend whose career spans close to forty years. The king of horror is certainly one to keep fans guessing which direction he'll turn to next. ...

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Alice Cooper
(Stuff - January 2004)

It has to be weird having Alice Cooper for a father. Or for a personal trainer, a gardener, a milkman or an ESL teacher. For starters, this 55-year-old father of two wears black mascara. He travels around the world with boa constrictors to serenade...

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Alice Cooper, New York City, Beacon Theater
(Metal Edge - March 2004)

Twister Sister was my first concert ever. Maybe the first tape I ever bought. From Twisted Sister I got into Alice Cooper. From Alice Cooper, I got sent home from school. One of the lunch ladies didn't agree with the Alice Cooper t-shirt I was wearing...

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Chips off the old rock
(Mail - April 3, 2004)

Blonde, pretty and articulate, Calico Cooper, 22, is perhaps the antithesis of what you might expect of Alice Cooper's daughter. But according to Alice, Calico was 'virtually born backstage' and travels the world supporting him on his ghoulish stage tours....

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Alice Cooper Welcomes Canada To His Nightmare
(Chart Attack - May 28, 2004)

Alice Cooper seems to dig Canada. The veteran shock rocker has always been kind to our home and native land when it comes to touring and it was just back in April that he appeared at the Juno Awards to honour his old pal, producer Bob Ezrin...

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Do You Rock?
(Blender - June 2004)

Best rumor about yourself? Mr. Green Jeans is my father, and I set German shepherds on fire. Biggest celeb's home you've ever gotten drunk in? At Elvis's place at the Hilton Hotel in Vegas, they'd check you for guns. But once you got in, there were...

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Billion Dollar Babies
(Classic Rock - June 2004)

Alice Cooper who plays a one-off UK show at London's Hammersmith Apollo on June 27, is soon to begin a new album. The veteran shock-rock frontman released his previous album, the highly acclaimed and garage rock-flavoured 'The Eyes of...

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A genious that's stopped rockin'!
(Aftonbladet - June 20, 2004)

GOTHENBURG. Recently Alice Cooper was awarded a doctorate's degree in "performance art" by a university in the United States. On several occasions during the American’s 100 minute Gothenburg show, I was beginning to form bitter...

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Concert Review
(Smålandsbygdens Tidning - June 24, 2004)

Det är nu ett och ett halvt år sen senaste Sverigebesöket för Alice Cooper. Då turnerade rocklegenden med en blandning av det nya albumet "Dragontown" och den två år gamla scenshowen ifrån "Brutal Planet"-turnén, och inkasserade allmänt ljumma...

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Alice Cooper on Ojibway just the start for WHEELZ
(Saginaw News - July 1, 2004)

Michigan shock-rocker Alice Cooper is returning to Saginaw to headline an outdoor rock fest on Ojibway Island, promoters say. Jerry Tarrants, WHEELZ program director at WILZ-FM, 104.5, and WYLZ-FM, 100.9, sponsors of the Sunday, Aug. 15, concert...

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Two Faces of Alice Cooper
(Des Moines Register - July 8, 2004)

Alice Cooper is of two minds on most subjects. By day he is Alice Cooper the suburban dad, golfer and entrepreneur. But by night Cooper becomes the ringmaster of a rock 'n' roll circus that includes giant snakes, makeup and guillotines...

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Alice Cooper proud of his role as an original shock rocker
(Post Crescent - July 8, 2004)

Alice Cooper believes his role in musical history will be as "the Busby Berkeley of rock 'n' roll." Berkeley, you will remember, was the innovative film choreographer and director who brought kaleidoscopic effects into filmed dance routines....

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Alice Cooper
(Northwest Herald - July 9, 2004)

Before Ozzy ate the bat, Alice Cooper played with his snake, guillotine and electric chair. Scary. Now, I did interview Alice, but I interviewed Alice the golfer, family man, charity friend &mdsah; not the dungeons-and-dragons ROAR Alice. In fact, he even...

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Alice Cooper, other acts bring strong state ties to wrap up Common Ground
(Lansing State Journal - July 11, 2004)

Each summer, rock musicians whirl around the globe, playing to strange people in strange places. Alice Cooper - who rocks tonight's Common Ground finale - can tell you that. He's been...

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Cooper ad doesn't make the grade
(Chicago Sun-Times - July 12, 2004)

Shock value has its place in advertising. After all, what better way to break through all that clutter and grab viewers' attention than to present them with an image or a situation -- or both -- that they couldn't imagine ever seeing....

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Cooper explosive as Common Ground closes
(Lansing State Journal - July 12, 2004)

Well, he's still got it. Nearly 40 years after the Detroit-born rocker released his first single, Alice Cooper is still going strong. Cooper, along with the veteran rock group The Tubes, brought the 2004 Common Ground festival to an explosive end Sunday...

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Aged, but still hip rocker to appear tonight at Star Plaza
(Northwest Indiana Times - July 16, 2004)

The archetype for all theatrical rock artists, Alice Cooper long ago set the bar high for the likes of Marilyn Manson, Slipknot and other mask-wearing wannabes, even beating KISS into grease paint by nearly four years. And he still is going strong. Cooper...

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Snakes alive - Alice's pet is Scottish
(Edinburgh Evening News - July 19, 2004)

He is world renowned for the use of snakes in his wild stage act. Not so well known is the fact that the current reptile of choice for US rocker Alice Cooper’s live European show is a boa constrictor named Lady Macbeth, who lives in East Lothian....

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School's "IN" for Legendary Rocker Alice Cooper...
(Toronto News Wire - July 22, 2004)

Famed rocker Alice Cooper shopped the aisles of Staples Business Depot in Toronto today. Employees and customers were shocked when the Rock icon walked into the Staples store on University Avenue and began shopping for office and school...

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Lovin' Alice Cooper to death
(Canoe - July 23, 2004)

When I was young, the only episode of The Muppet Show I didn't particularly care for was the one featuring Alice Cooper. The reason was, well, he scared the hell out of me with his ghoulish looks and black eyeliner. Nearly 30 years later, he's still...

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Alice Cooper Slits Throats At The Amphitheatre
(Chart Attack - July 23, 2004)

Somehow, legendary shock-rocker Alice Cooper always manages to make even the cheesiest of rock ‘n’ roll clichés work in his favour. From transforming tired tricks into trademark elements to tongue-in-cheek self-deprecation, The Coop knows how...

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Ol' Alice goth cred with young crowd
(Toronto Star - July 23, 2004)

There was a time when a triple bill headlined by Alice Cooper and also featuring Edgar Winter and Foghat would have been hailed as one of the boffo rock events of the summer. That time was 1974. While it would be stretching things to suggest that...

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A real 'Mr. Nice Guy': Cooper in area for Gilford concert
(Citizen - July 29, 2004)

Alice Cooper paid a visit to some of his biggest fans Wednesday night, visiting the studios of a radio station that was the first in the nation to pick up his new radio show. Cooper is giving a concert at Meadowbrook in Gilford tonight. "I consider it a real...

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A look inside Alice Cooper's soul
(Express Times - July 30, 2004)

On stage he's simulated hangings and guillotine executions, carried a boa constrictor and flaunted dolls dripping with fake blood. Nervous city councils banned him from performing long before Ozzy Osbourne and Marilyn Manson. His one-time...

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Alice Cooper band to play charity slo-pitch match in Thunder
(Thunder Bays Source - July 30, 2004)

The Dougall Media No-Stars won't be playing Mr. Nice Guy on Aug. 19. Though it won't be a billion dollar bash, members of Alice Cooper's band have agreed to take on a team of Dougall Media employees in a five-inning slo-pitch match...

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Cooper rocks State Theatre
(Sandusky Register - August 12, 2004)

Outside the State Theatre on Wednesday night, grown men wearing golf shirts and khaki shorts mingled with dog-collar toting teens, all anxiously awaiting the same man — Alice Cooper. Cooper's show brought three generations of fans together...

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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...

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The Vincent Price of Rock'n'Roll
(View - September 30, 2004)

IT'S BEEN MORE THAN three decades since the name Alice Cooper began to infiltrate the grand arena of rock 'n' roll, signifying a corrupted mix of horrific theatrics and nasty attitude. In that time Alice has been public enemy number one and...

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Alice Cooper: The Icon of Rock Returns
(Circus - November 20, 2004)

"I really never had to compromise in any way" laughs Rock icon Alice Cooper aka Vincent Furnier, "And look how things turned out!" He was the public enemy #1 in the 70’s and shocked America and the rest of the world with alcohol-fueled stage...

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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...

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