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Alice Cooper
(Gothic Beauty - 2008)

Of course, the phenomenal Alice Cooper needs no introduction, especially to the Gothic world. In a career spanning 5 decades, he has spearheaded individuality in image, as well as being the father of Horror-Rock, blending the best of Theatre and Music...

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Babies on Fire
(Guitar World - 2008)

In the history of rock and roll, 1973 is an exceptionally impressive year. Its 12 months saw the release of such gems as Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy, the Who's Quadrophenia, Stevie Wonder's...

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Alice Cooper
(Shure - 2008)

When Alice Cooper takes the stage at the Sears Centre in West Suburban Chicago, you have to wonder -- does he still have it? By every measure -- from his larger-than-death stage antics that feature blood-drenched baby dolls and life-sized hangman's...

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Daddy's Little Nightmare
(Sirens of Cinema - 2008)

She is the daughter of the ultimate rock 'n' roll nightmare. The eldest of the infamous and influential rocker Alice Cooper's three children, twenty-seven-year-old Calico Cooper is surprisingly well-adjusted to be the offspring of a man whose decadent...

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Alice Cooper: The shock rock pioneer speaks about his Christian faith
(Cross Rhythms - January 3, 2008)

Sitting opposite Alice Cooper is an unnerving experience. It takes me back to my childhood. Top Of The Pops. Summer of '72. Back then, Top Of The Pops seemed very innocent. We...

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Alice Cooper Receives MusiCares MAP Fund Award
(Billboard - April 18, 2008)

After 26 years of sobriety, rocker Alice Cooper has some advice to pass along to the younger generation: "I don't think you need to die for your art." And for his support of the MusiCares MAP Fund and devotion to helping other...

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Alice Cooper Shock Rock Pioneer
(Hit Parader - June 2008)

Alice Cooper was the Big Bang of shor rock outrage. Prior to the arrival of this androgynous, Detroit-based hard rock "monster", outrageous rock and roll behavior generally consisted of the Stones singing about spending the ...

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News Report
(Uncut - June 4, 2008)

Ozzy Osbourne and Slash will make guest appearances on Alice Cooper’s new album, Along Came A Spider. Ozzy Osbourne plays harmonica on a track he co-wrote with Alice and ex-member of Guns 'n' Roses, Slash plays guitar. He revealed...

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ALICE-NCE TO KILL
(People - July 20, 2008)

Shock Rock legend Alice Cooper has been terrifying his fans for more than 40 years - and now he wants to scare the living daylights out of James Bond. The mascara-loving singer may have racked up millions of album sales and landed a string of...

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Along came Alice
(Times - July 20, 2008)

Alice Cooper has two laughs. One of them is a mirthless husk, and punctuates his conversation when he is sounding every one of his 60 years, embarking on a protracted "It wasn't like that in my day" moan. The other, though, is fascinating...

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Alice Cooper Unleashing 'Killer' New Album
(Billboard - July 24, 2008)

For his new concept album, "Along Came a Spider," Alice Cooper wanted to create a serial killer people could, well, like. "It's very easy to pull for a fictitious serial killer, a Hannibal Lecter or a Jason Voorhees," says Cooper...

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Backstage Pass: Alice Cooper spins another web
(Goldmine - July 24, 2008)

With its twisted lyrics, devastating sonic crunch and vicious hooks, many are calling Along Comes A Spider a return to the demented Alice Cooper of old. The new album from the shock-rocker — his 25th — tells the story of a serial killer who...

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New Alice Cooper a tad tame
(Chicago Daily Herald - July 25, 2008)

Let's take a minute to idolize Alice Cooper, shall we? After 25 albums, almost 40 years on the rock scene and six decades on the planet (not to mention one heck of a memorable "Wayne's World" appearance), Cooper maintains his "Feed My...

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Alice Cooper, Along Came A Spider
(Guardian - July 25, 2008)

Golf addict Alice Cooper has dragged himself away from the fairway just long enough to make his 25th album and re-establish his shock rock roots. Revolving around the comic book crimes of a serial killer called Spider, who cuts off one leg from each of...

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Alice Cooper could have packed away the makeup long ago
(Detroit Free Press - July 27, 2008)

But the Detroit-born shock-rocker didn't just keep chugging along — he actually emerged from middle age recharged and inspired, and has settled into the most consistent stretch of his career since the mid-1970s....

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School's out, and so is Alice
(Guardian - July 27, 2008)

It is said that the most lasting themes in pop music are cars and girls. What better place for a concert, then, than at a motor show, which celebrates at least 50 per cent of the equation? Any. Any place at all. Formerly known as Dock Rock, the...

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Album Review: Along Came A Spider
(National Post - July 28, 2008)

For his 25th album, Cooper’s alter ego, Schizo Steven, is a serial killer who wraps his victims in silk and removes a leg from each of them until he can collect eight and build his own super spider....

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Rock singer Cooper resuscitates his favorite psycho
(Columbus Dispatch - July 29, 2008)

Longtime Cooper fans will recognize "Steven," the psycho who had a thing for necrophilia, violence and spiders on Cooper's classic concept album Welcome to My Nightmare (1975). Steven has popped up on subsequent albums and slithers back...

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Alice Cooper - Along Came a Spider (SPV)
(Courant - July 29, 2008)

A July album release by Alice Cooper is as comparably early as a mall's hanging wreaths and tinsel before trees shed their leaves, but at least in Cooper's case there is a reasonable justification for issuing greetings out of season....

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Album Review: Along Came A Spider
(Daily Iowan - July 29, 2008)

From the man who brought 1970's rock 'n' roll with School's Out (For Summer) and "No More Mr. Nice Guy," comes Alice Cooper's 25th and newest album, Along Came A Spider. Dark, cool, and featuring the tale of a serial killer, the old rocker's...

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SOUNDBITE: Alice Cooper
(Daily Texan - July 29, 2008)

Aging gracefully does not come easy for rock bands. Many fall into the trap of putting out low-quality "modern" records to have an excuse to play biker rallies. Alice Cooper is another casualty of this phenomenon as shown with his latest album, Along...

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Metal Detector
(Metal Hammer - August 2008)

ALICE COOPER has influenced all of shock rock's biggest names, from Marilyn Manson to Rob Zombie. And with a career spanning a spooktacular 40 years, he shows no signs of hanging up his boa. If you ask Alice Cooper about his secret to the...

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Alice Cooper claims he is addicted to his wife
(Arizona Central - August 1, 2008)

The 60-year-old rocker — who has just released his latest album 'Along Came a Spider' — says he has loves spouse Sheryl Goddard so much that he has never been unfaithful to her. Alice said: "I’ve been married for 32 years and never...

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Alice Cooper: 'Along Came A Spider'
(Arizona Republic - August 5, 2008)

The Valley's favorite rock star has recorded plenty of albums with concepts woven in, celebrating everything from school letting out to the excesses of America to the apocalypse. For his 25th studio release, the 60-year-old singer and his band ...

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Prepare for great, dark haunting 'Nightmare'
(Argus Leader - August 7, 2008)

With Alice Cooper, you never really know what he'll be doing next. And really, what hasn't he done? The inventor of shock-rock and theater on the rock stage has spawned a generation of rockers from Motley Crue to KISS. Cooper recently finished...

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Alice Cooper: Still scary
(Cincinnati Enquirer - August 22, 2008)

It's pretty hard to scare Alice Cooper. The grease-painted hard rocker, who almost single-handedly invented the concept of theatrical rock extravaganzas has been kissing snakes, singing hymns to darkness and dropping the blade on his onstage...

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"I'm the oldest vampire around"
(Ashbury Park Press - August 23, 2008)

With Alice Cooper, you never really know what he'll be doing next. And really, what hasn't he done? The inventor of shock-rock and theater on the rock stage has spawned a generation of rockers from Motley Crue to KISS. Cooper recently finished...

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25 albums later, rocker not punch-line material
(Columbus Dispatch - August 23, 2008)

Rock critics love to make fun of old rock acts — the geezers in, say, Journey, Kansas and REO Speedwagon or even in the Rolling Stones, Van Halen and the Who. Few make fun of Alice Cooper, though. Cooper, also known as Vincent Furnier...

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

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

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Cooper still going strong
(Canoe - August 26, 2008)

Settling in nicely to his role as one of rock's elder shock rockers, Alice Cooper isn't resting on his laurels. In fact, although this current Psycho Drama tour is well underway, Cooper is already thinking of next summer's tour behind the recently released...

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Beware the Twizzler people....
(Hails & Horns - September 2008)

"There are two types of people in this world; be vary wary of the Twizzler people. You're either a Red Vines person or a Twizzler person, and I'm a Red Vines guy. I'm never going to go the other way!"...

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Vengeance Is Mine
(Metal Edge - September 2008)

Without Alice Cooper, there might never have been the New York Dolls, KISS, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Motley Crue, Slipknow or Rob Zombie... maybe not even David Bowie. The iconic hard rocker, who literally invented the concept...

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Tales from the Pit Lives
(Metal Hammer - September 2008)

TONIGHT could have been a disaster. Aside from being less than sold out — a consequence of Cooper's over-exposure in the UK these past few years — the ExCel Arena, a temporary alfresco courtyard in the car park of the Motor Show...

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Return of the Spider
(Rue Morgue - September 2008)

Alice Cooper is perhaps the world's highest functioning schizophrenic. He's one the the world's most recognizable rock personalities, a target of family-friendly music watchdogs (the PMRC), golf celebrity, radio show host, ...

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Loud & Opinionated
(Metal Edge - October 2008)

Alice Cooper — once a band, now a living legend. After nearly 40 years, Alice Cooper the man is still one of the mostrevered and respected figures in metal and hard rock. His bloody, theatrical stage shows inspired everyone from Marilyn...

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Along Came A Spider...
(Black - November 2008)

In many ways, Along Came A Spider is both a return to Alice's theatrical best and a legacy of his first (and legendary) solo album released in 1975, Welcome to my Nightmare. In fact, a thread could almost be drawn to Alice's first band name...

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Alice Cooper's Christmas Pudding lineup announced
(Arizona Republic - November 13, 2008)

Fleetwood Mac alumnus Bob Welch, heavy-metal band F5, country-rockers Whiskey Falls and Tempe's Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers will headline the eighth edition of Alice Cooper's Christmas Pudding in Phoenix....

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Alice Cooper and Salvador Dali Live the Surreal Life
(Spin - February 2009)

In 1973, both legendary artist and the python-loving rocker were at the height of their infamy. So when Dali filmed Cooper wearing $1 million worth of Harry Winston jewels for what was to be the world's first moving hologram (still on display at the...

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The youngest hardcore Alice Cooper fan?
(Sea Coast Online - April 28, 2009)

Alyssa Herries is an 8-year-old girl with three dreams: 1. To meet legendary shock rocker Alice Cooper. 2. To go to Alice Cooperstown, his restaurant in Phoenix. 3. To sit in the front row at an Alice Cooper concert....

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At 61 Alice Cooper can still shock
(Age, The - May 26, 2009)

Veteran shock rocker Alice Cooper's stage schtick includes getting hanged in a straightjacket and decapitated on stage, spraying blood on the head-banging crowd. But the stage persona is worlds away from the 61-year-old clean-living...

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Alice Cooper's Theater of Death thunders into KC
(Kansas City Star - August 8, 2009)

Friday's concert was barely 15 minutes old when Alice Cooper was forced under the guillotine. The crime was impaling a roadie and the sold out Ameristar Casino crowd were all witnesses to his guilt....

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Music at the Crossroads: Alice Cooper, at age 61, still rockin' on
(Victoria Advocate - August 20, 2009)

He's pretty sick when he performs, but I think fans like him that way. I'm talking about Alice Cooper. He once stated that his audience would like to see Britney Spears' head cut off. As he once said, "The sicker our fans get, the sicker we'll get."...

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Alice Cooper: Over 60, Clean & Sober, and Still Kicking Ass
(Aquarian - September 23, 2009)

If a nom de plume can be an enigma, then Alice Cooper is its riddle. He is the flash-in-the-pan that is mere months from entering a sixth decade of volume-addled irony that is best described in his memorable tune, "Guilty," as "waking up...

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Alice Cooper brings Halloween to Indio
(Press-Enterprise - October 22, 2009)

In his latest stage show, shock-rock superstar Alice Cooper is going to die four times. Cooper said the show, which comes to Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio on Oct. 30, will go through the phases of Alice Cooper the character, including...

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House of Blues Concert Review
(Aquarian - October 28, 2009)

Alice Cooper and his Theatre of Death tour invaded the House of Blues and, as usual, the stage show changed but not the music and the fans like the fact that they will hear his biggest — he gives the people what they want...

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Golf: My Saviour
(Times - November 20, 2009)

Typical, isn't it? You fly to Las Vegas to have a nice quiet chat with Alice Cooper, but by the end of the night you're dressed in a zombie costume, splattered with blood, and trying to kill him in front of thousands of shrieking fans....

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King Of Shock Rock is Gore to the Core
(Western Morning News - November 27, 2009)

Don't be fooled by the thoughtful, kindly demeanour of family man and golf fanatic Vincent Furnier - when his alter ego Alice Cooper emerges on stage at Plymouth Pavilions next week all hell will break loose, along with enough fake blood for a...

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Composing Screams: The Sounds of the 80's Slashers
(HorrorHound - March 2010)

Easily one of the most important things to come out of the 1980s was the birth of MTV (Music Television) on August 1st, 1981. The advent of this cable network music video jukebox introduced a new generation to what was hip and trendy in music with...

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The Gruesome Twosome
(Bubblegum Slut - July 2010)

This spring/summer a terrible two-headed beast swept across the USA. Citizens turned out in their thousands to witness the monster terrorize their towns with it’s armory of guillotines, gallows and brain-rotting rock ‘n’ roll beats......

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Alice Cooper: Master of the Musical Macabre at Fraze
(Dayton Daily News - July 16, 2010)

Guillotines, a hangman's noose and other implements of torture were not common rock 'n' roll stage props when Alice Cooper first pioneered the mixture of horror, theatrics and hard rock in the early 1970s. Four decades later, few artists still come close...

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Alice Cooper, Huey Lewis play on area golf courses
(Dayton Daily News - July 31, 2010)

Golfers at a couple of Dayton's country clubs were surprised in recent days to see headliners of Fraze Pavilion performances teeing it up in their midst. On the day he was scheduled to perform at The Fraze, rock star Alice Cooper warmed up...

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The Story Behind...
(Metal Hammer - August 2010)

IT WAS 1975. The year Led Zeppelin released Physical Graffiti, Thin Lizzy rocked things up with Fighting and UFO released Force It. It was the year that Motorhead and the Sex Pistols formed. And with glam rock an ever-fading force, Alice...

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Alice Cooper 'dies' four times
(Sun - August 2, 2010)

And the legend - who topped himself FOUR times during his gig at Sonisphere this weekend - insists he is just a normal family man who is scared of his own alter-ego. The rocker, whose real name is the not-so-cool Vincent Furnier, said: "Usually I do a...

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13 Questions: Alice Cooper
(Bizarre - October 2010)

Alice Cooper (or Vincent Damon Furnier to his mum) was shocking audiences before most of you were born. He started his career in the mid 1960s, and his horror-and-gore-soaked live shows have involved simulated hangings, boa constrictors...

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:60 Second Interview
(Metro - October 29, 2010)

Vincent Furnier, 62, found success with his panto-rock incarnation Alice Cooper in the '70s with hits including School's Out and a stage show involving snakes, fake blood and, during one infamous gig, chicken dismemberment. He is currently...

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Alice Cooper's Hallowe'en Night of Fear
(Times - October 30, 2010)

It's a question of how you like your Hallowe'en thrills. Do you prefer bobbing apples or gawplng at sideshow freaks? Do you take ghoulish fascination in watching a man drive a long nail into his nostril? Hey, do you want the most legendary shock-rocker...

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Alice Cooper: Pete Townshend
(Rolling Stone - December 9, 2010)

"The Who were almost like a dominatrix who inflicted the show on the audience — that definitely influenced me," says Alice Cooper, describing his admiration for the London rockers. "Pete's the best stage guitarist I've ever seen — the best...

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