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Alice Cooper

May 04, 2023

This article is about the musician. For his former rock band, see Alice Cooper (band). For other people named Alice Cooper, see Alice Cooper (disambiguation).

Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948)[1] is an American rock singer whose career spans over five decades. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props and stage illusions, including pyrotechnics, guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, reptiles, baby dolls, and dueling swords,[2] Cooper is considered by many music journalists and peers to be "The Godfather of Shock Rock".[3] He has drawn equally from horror films, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a macabre and theatrical brand of rock designed to shock audiences.[4]

Alice Cooper
Cooper performing in 2016
Born
Vincent Damon Furnier

(1948-02-04) February 4, 1948 (age 75)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Occupations
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • actor
Years active1964–present
Spouse
Sheryl Goddard
​
(m. 1976)​
Children3
Musical career
OriginPhoenix, Arizona, U.S.
Genres
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
Labels
Member of
Formerly of
Websitealicecooper.com

Originating in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1964, "Alice Cooper" was originally a band with roots extending back to a band called the Earwigs, consisting of Furnier on lead vocals and harmonica, Glen Buxton on lead guitar, and Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar and backing vocals. By 1966, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar joined the three and Neal Smith was added on drums in 1967. The five named the band "Alice Cooper", and Furnier eventually adopted it as his stage pseudonym.[5][6] They released their 1969 debut studio album with limited chart success. Breaking out with the 1970 single "I'm Eighteen" and the third studio album Love It to Death,[citation needed] the band reached their commercial peak in 1973 with their sixth studio album, Billion Dollar Babies.[7] After[citation needed] the band broke up, Furnier legally changed his name to Alice Cooper and began a solo career in 1975 with the concept album Welcome to My Nightmare. Over his career, Cooper has sold well over 50 million records.[8]

Cooper has experimented with a number of musical styles, mainly hard rock, glam rock, heavy metal, and glam metal,[9][10] but also new wave (1980–1983),[11] art rock on DaDa (1983), and industrial rock on Brutal Planet (2000) and Dragontown (2001).[12] He helped to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and has been described as the artist who "first introduced horror imagery to rock'n'roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre".[13] He is also known for his wit offstage, with The Rolling Stone Album Guide calling him the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer".[14] Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur, and, since 2004, a radio disc jockey (DJ) with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper.

Early life

Vincent Damon Furnier was born on February 4, 1948, in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Ether Moroni Furnier (1924–1987) and his wife Ella Mae (née McCart; 1925–2022). He was named after his uncle, Vincent Collier Furnier, and the short-story writer Damon Runyon.[15] His father was an evangelist in The Church of Jesus Christ, informally known as "Bickertonites",[16] and his paternal grandfather, Thurman Sylvester Furnier, was an apostle (from 1917) in and president (1963–1965) of that church.

Cooper was active in his church at ages 11 to 12.[17][18] Following a series of childhood illnesses, he moved with his family to Phoenix, Arizona, where he attended Cortez High School.[19] In his high school yearbook, his ambition was to be "A million record seller".[20]

Career

1960s

See also: Alice Cooper (band)

The Spiders and Nazz

In 1964, 16-year-old Furnier was eager to participate in Cortez High School's annual Letterman's talent show, so he gathered four fellow cross country teammates to form a group for the show: Glen Buxton, Dennis Dunaway, John Tatum, and John Speer.[fn 1] They named themselves the Earwigs.[21] They dressed up in costumes and wigs to resemble the Beatles, and performed several parodies of Beatles songs, with the lyrics modified to refer to the track team: in their rendition of "Please Please Me", for example, the line "Last night I said these words to my girl" was replaced with "Last night I ran four laps for my coach".[22] Of the group, only Buxton knew how to play an instrument—the guitar—so Buxton played guitar while the rest mimed on their instruments.[21][23] The group got an overwhelming response from the audience and won the talent show. As a result of their positive experience, the group decided to try to turn into a real band. They acquired musical instruments from a local pawn shop, and proceeded to learn how to play them, with Buxton doing most of the teaching, as well as much of the early songwriting.[23] They soon renamed themselves the Spiders, featuring Furnier on lead vocals, Buxton on lead guitar, Tatum on rhythm guitar, Dunaway on bass guitar, and Speer on drums.[21]

In 1966, the Spiders graduated from Cortez High School, and after North High School football player Michael Bruce replaced John Tatum on rhythm guitar, the band released their second single, "Don't Blow Your Mind", an original composition which became a local No. 1 hit, backed by "No Price Tag".[21]

By 1967, the band had begun to make regular road trips to Los Angeles to play shows.[21] They soon renamed themselves Nazz and released the single "Wonder Who's Lovin' Her Now", backed with future Alice Cooper track "Lay Down and Die, Goodbye". Around this time, drummer John Speer was replaced by Neal Smith. By the end of the year, the band relocated to Los Angeles.[21]

Name change to "Alice Cooper"

In 1968, the band learned that Todd Rundgren also had a band called Nazz, and found themselves in need of another stage name. Furnier also believed that the group needed a gimmick to succeed, and that other bands were not exploiting the showmanship potential of the stage.[21] They chose the name "Alice Cooper" largely because it sounded innocuous and wholesome, in humorous contrast to the band's image and music. In his 2007 book Alice Cooper, Golf Monster, Cooper stated that his look was inspired in part by films. One of the band's all-time favorite movies was What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) starring Bette Davis: "In the movie, Bette wears disgusting caked makeup smeared on her face and underneath her eyes, with deep, dark, black eyeliner." Another movie the band watched over and over was Barbarella (1968): "When I saw Anita Pallenberg playing the Great Tyrant in that movie in 1968, wearing long black leather gloves with switchblades coming out of them, I thought, 'That's what Alice should look like.' That, and a little bit of Emma Peel from The Avengers."[24]

The classic Alice Cooper group lineup consisted of Furnier, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, rhythm guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith.[21] With the exception of Smith, who graduated from Camelback High School (which is referred to in the song "Alma Mater" on the band's fifth studio album School's Out), all of the band members were on the Cortez High School cross-country team.[25] Cooper, Buxton, and Dunaway were also art students, and their admiration for the works of surrealist artists such as Salvador Dalí would further inspire their future stage antics.[26]

One night after an unsuccessful gig at the Cheetah club in Venice, Los Angeles, where the band emptied the entire room of patrons after playing just ten minutes, they were approached and enlisted by music manager Shep Gordon, who saw the band's negative impact that night as a force that could be turned in a more productive direction.[21] Shep then arranged an audition for the band with composer and renowned record producer Frank Zappa, who was looking to sign bizarre music acts to his new record label, Straight Records.[21] For the audition Zappa told them to come to his house "at 7 o'clock." The band mistakenly assumed he meant 7 o'clock in the morning. Being woken up by a band willing to play that particular brand of psychedelic rock at seven in the morning impressed Zappa enough for him to sign them to a three-album deal. Another Zappa-signed act, the all-female GTOs, who liked to "dress the Cooper boys up like full size Barbie dolls," played a major role in developing the band's early onstage look.[27][fn 2]

Cooper's debut studio album, Pretties for You (1969), was eclectic and featured an experimental presentation of their songs in a psychedelic context.

Alice Cooper's "shock rock" reputation apparently developed almost by accident at first. An unrehearsed stage routine involving Cooper, a feather pillow, and a live chicken garnered attention from the press; the band decided to capitalize on the tabloid sensationalism, creating in the process a new subgenre, shock rock.[21] Cooper claims that the infamous "Chicken Incident" at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival concert in September 1969 was an accident.[21] A chicken somehow made its way onto the stage into the feathers of a feather pillow they would open during Cooper's performance, and not having any experience with farm animals, Cooper presumed that, because the chicken had wings, it would be able to fly.[21][28] He picked it up and threw it out over the crowd, expecting it to fly away. The chicken instead plummeted into the first few rows occupied by wheelchair users, who reportedly proceeded to tear the bird to pieces.[fn 3] The next day the incident made the front page of national newspapers, and Zappa phoned Cooper and asked if the story, which reported that he had bitten off the chicken's head and drunk its blood on stage, was true. Cooper denied the rumor, whereupon Zappa told him, "Well, whatever you do, don't tell anyone you didn't do it."[21][29][fn 4]

The band later claimed that this period was highly influenced by Pink Floyd, especially their debut studio album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967), the only Pink Floyd album made under the leadership of founding member Syd Barrett (lead vocals and guitar). Glen Buxton said he could listen to Barrett's guitar for hours at a time.[30]

Alice Cooper band in 1970s: 1970–1975

 
Cooper performing in 1972

Despite the publicity from the chicken incident, the band's second studio album, Easy Action, produced by David Briggs and released in June 1970, fared even worse than its predecessor, entirely failing to chart within the Billboard Top 200. Around this time, fed up with Californians' indifference to their act, they relocated to Pontiac, Michigan, where their bizarre stage act was much better received by Midwestern crowds accustomed to the proto-punk styles of local bands such as the Stooges and the MC5. Despite this, Cooper still managed to receive a cream pie in the face when performing at the Cincinnati Pop Festival. Michigan would remain their steady home base until 1972. "L.A. just didn't get it," Cooper stated. "They were all on the wrong drug for us. They were on acid and we were basically drinking beer. We fit much more in Detroit than we did anywhere else."[31]

Alice Cooper appeared at the Woodstock-esque Strawberry Fields Festival near Toronto, Ontario, in August 1970. The band's mix of glam and increasingly violent stage theatrics stood out in stark contrast to the bearded, denim-clad hippie bands of the time.[32] As Cooper himself stated: "We were into fun, sex, death and money when everybody was into peace and love. We wanted to see what was next. It turned out we were next, and we drove a stake through the heart of the Love Generation".[33]

In autumn 1970, the Alice Cooper group teamed with producer Bob Ezrin for the recording of their third studio album, Love It to Death. This was the final album in their Straight Records contract and the band's last chance to create a hit. That first success came with the single "I'm Eighteen", released in November 1970, which reached number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1971. Not long after the album's release in January 1971, Warner Bros. Records purchased Alice Cooper's contract from Straight and re-issued the album, giving the group a higher level of promotion.[34]

Love It to Death proved to be their breakthrough studio album, reaching number 35 on the U.S. Billboard 200 album charts. It would be the first of 11[fn 5] Alice Cooper group and solo albums produced by Ezrin, who is widely seen as being pivotal in helping to create and develop the band's definitive sound.[35]

The group's 1971 tour featured a stage show involving mock fights and gothic torture modes being imposed on Cooper, climaxing in a staged execution by electric chair, with the band sporting tight, sequined, color-contrasting glam rock-style costumes made by prominent rock-fashion designer Cindy Dunaway (sister of band member Neal Smith, and wife of band member Dennis Dunaway). Cooper's androgynous stage role had developed to present a villainous side, portraying a potential threat to modern society. The success of the band's single and album, and their tour of 1971, which included their first tour of Europe (audience members reportedly included Elton John and a pre-Ziggy Stardust David Bowie), provided enough encouragement for Warner Bros. to offer the band a new multi-album contract.[citation needed]

Their follow-up studio album Killer, released in November 1971, continued the commercial success of Love It to Death and included further single success with "Under My Wheels", "Be My Lover" in early 1972, and "Halo of Flies", which became a Top 10 hit in the Netherlands in 1973. Thematically, Killer expanded on the villainous side of Cooper's androgynous stage role, with its music becoming the soundtrack to the group's morality-based stage show, which by then featured a boa constrictor hugging Cooper on stage, the murderous axe chopping of bloodied baby dolls, and execution by hanging at the gallows. In January 1972, Cooper was again asked about his peculiar name, and told talk show hostess Dinah Shore that he took the name from a "Mayberry RFD" character.[citation needed]

The summer of 1972 saw the release of the single "School's Out". It went Top 10 in the U.S. and to number 1 in the UK, and remains a staple on classic rock radio to this day. The studio album School's Out reached No. 2 on the US charts and sold over a million copies. The band relocated to their new mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut.[36] With Cooper's on stage androgynous persona completely replaced with brattiness and machismo, the band solidified their success with subsequent tours in the United States and Europe, and won over devoted fans in droves while at the same time horrifying parents and outraging the social establishment.[citation needed] In the United Kingdom, Mary Whitehouse, a Christian morality campaigner, persuaded the BBC to ban the video for "School's Out",[37] although Whitehouse's campaign did not prevent the single also reaching number one in the UK. Cooper sent her a bunch of flowers in gratitude for the publicity.[38] Meanwhile, British Labour Member of Parliament Leo Abse petitioned Home Secretary Reginald Maudling to have the group banned altogether from performing in the country.[39]

 
The group in 1973

In February 1973, Billion Dollar Babies was released worldwide and became the band's most commercially successful studio album, reaching No. 1 in both the US and UK. "Elected", a late-1972 Top 10 UK hit from the album, which inspired one of the first MTV-style story-line promo videos ever made for a song (three years before Queen's promotional video for "Bohemian Rhapsody"), was followed by two more UK Top 10 singles, "Hello Hooray" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy", the latter of which was the last UK single from the album; it reached No. 25 in the US.[40] The title track, featuring guest vocals by Donovan, was also a US hit single. Around this time Glen Buxton left Alice Cooper briefly because of waning health.[41]

With a string of successful concept albums and several hit singles, the band continued their grueling schedule and toured the United States again. Continued attempts by politicians and pressure groups to ban their shocking act only served to fuel the legend of Alice Cooper further and generate even greater public interest.[citation needed] Their 1973 US tour broke box office records previously set by the Rolling Stones and raised rock theatrics to new heights; the multi-level stage show by then featured numerous special effects, including Billion Dollar Bills, decapitated baby dolls and mannequins, a dental psychosis scene complete with dancing teeth, and the ultimate execution prop and highlight of the show: the guillotine. The guillotine and other stage effects were designed for the band by magician James Randi, who appeared on stage during some of the shows as executioner. In 2012 at Dragon Con, Randi and Cooper discussed their working relationship during this period.[42] The Alice Cooper group had now reached its peak and it was among the most visible and successful acts in the industry. Beneath the surface, however, the repetitive schedule of recording and touring had begun to take its toll on the band.[citation needed]

Muscle of Love, released at the end of 1973, was to be the last studio album from the classic lineup, and marked Alice Cooper's last UK Top 20 single of the 1970s with "Teenage Lament '74". An unsolicited theme song was recorded for the James Bond spy film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), but a different song of the same name by Lulu was chosen instead. By 1974, the Muscle of Love album still had not matched the top-charting success of its predecessor, and the band began to have constant disagreements. For various reasons, the members agreed to take what was expected to be a temporary hiatus. "Everyone decided they needed a rest from one another", said manager Shep Gordon at the time. "A lot of pressure had built up, but it's nothing that can't be dealt with. Everybody still gets together and talks." Journalist Bob Greene spent several weeks on the road with the band during the Muscle of Love Christmas Tour in 1973. His book Billion Dollar Baby, released in November 1974, painted a less-than-flattering picture of the band, showing a group in total disharmony.[43] Cooper later wrote an autobiography with Steven Gaines called Me, Alice (1976) which gave Cooper's version of that era of his career, among other things.[44]

 
In the 1970s, Cooper founded a celebrity drinking club, the Hollywood Vampires, headquartered at the Rainbow Bar and Grill in West Hollywood, California

During this time, Cooper relocated back to Los Angeles and started appearing regularly on television shows such as The Hollywood Squares, and Warner Bros. released the Greatest Hits compilation album. It featured classic-style artwork and reached the US Top 10, performing better than Muscle of Love. However, the band's 1974 feature film Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper (consisting mainly of 1973 concert footage with 'comedic' sketches woven throughout to a faint storyline), released on a minor cinematic run mostly to drive-in theaters, saw little box office success. On March 5, 1974, Cooper appeared on episode 3 of The Snoop Sisters playing a Satanic cult singer. The final shows by Alice Cooper as a group were in Brazil in March and April 1974, including the record indoor attendance estimated as high as 158,000 fans in São Paulo on March 30, at the Anhembi Exposition Hall at the start of the first ever South American rock tour.[45]

Alice Cooper solo: 1975–1980

In 1975, Alice Cooper returned as a solo artist with the release of Welcome to My Nightmare. To avoid legal complications over ownership of the group name, "Alice Cooper" had by then become Furnier's new legal name. Speaking on the subject of Alice Cooper continuing as a solo project as opposed to the band it once was, Cooper stated in 1975, "It got very basically down to the fact that we had drawn as much as we could out of each other. After ten years, we got pretty dry together." Manager Gordon added, "What had started in a sense as a pipe-dream became an overwhelming burden."[43] The success of Welcome to My Nightmare marked the final breakup of the original members of the band, with Cooper collaborating with their producer Bob Ezrin, who recruited Lou Reed's backing band, including guitarists Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter, to play on the album. Spearheaded by the US Top 20 hit ballad "Only Women Bleed", the album was released by Atlantic Records in March of that year and became a Top 10 hit for Cooper. It was a concept album that was based on the nightmare of a child named Steven, featuring narration by classic horror movie film star Vincent Price, and serving as the soundtrack to Cooper's new stage show, which now showcased more theatrics than ever, including an 8-foot-tall (2.4 m) furry Cyclops which Cooper decapitated and killed.[citation needed]

Accompanying the album and stage show was the television special The Nightmare, starring Cooper and Vincent Price, which aired on US prime-time TV in April 1975. The Nightmare (which was later released on home video in 1983 and gained a Grammy Award nomination for Best Long Form Music Video) was regarded as another groundbreaking moment in rock history. Adding to it all, a concert film, Welcome to My Nightmare, produced, directed, and choreographed by West Side Story cast member David Winters and filmed live at London's Wembley Arena in September 1975, was released to theaters in 1976. The film was released in a special edition DVD in 2017.[46]

Such was the immense success of Cooper's solo project that he decided to continue as a solo artist, and the original band became officially defunct. Bruce, Dunaway, and Smith would go on to form the short-lived band Billion Dollar Babies, producing one studio album—Battle Axe—in 1977. While occasionally performing with one another and Glen Buxton, they would not reunite with Alice until October 23, 1999, at the second Glen Buxton Memorial Weekend for a show at CoopersTown in Phoenix. They reunited for another show, with Steve Hunter on guitar, on December 16, 2010, at the Dodge Theatre in Phoenix.[47] This lineup would perform together again (televised) on March 14, 2011, at the induction of the original Alice Cooper group into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as well as on May 11, 2011, at London's Battersea Power Station at the Jägermeister Ice Cold 4D event (webcast). In 2011, Bruce, Dunaway, and Smith appeared on three tracks they co-wrote on Alice's solo studio album Welcome 2 My Nightmare. In 2017, they appeared on two tracks they co-wrote on Alice's solo studio album Paranormal, released in July, and in November they joined his current live band for five tour dates in the United Kingdom.[citation needed]

 
Cooper in 1977

Following the 1976 US No. 12 ballad hit "I Never Cry";[35] two studio albums, Alice Cooper Goes to Hell and Lace and Whiskey; and the 1977 US No. 9 ballad hit "You and Me", it became clear during his 1977 US tour that Cooper was in dire need of help with his alcoholism (at his alcoholic peak it was rumored that he was consuming up to two cases of Budweiser beer and a bottle of Seagram's Seven Crown whiskey a day). Following the tour, Cooper had himself hospitalized in a sanitarium for treatment, during which time the live album The Alice Cooper Show was released.[48]

In 1978, a sobered Cooper used his experience in the sanitarium as the inspiration for his semi-autobiographical studio album From the Inside, which he co-wrote with Bernie Taupin, known for his work with Elton John; it spawned yet another US Top 20 hit ballad, "How You Gonna See Me Now". The subsequent tour's stage show was based inside an asylum, and was filmed for Cooper's first home-video release, The Strange Case of Alice Cooper, in 1979. Around this time, Cooper performed "Welcome to My Nightmare", "You and Me", and "School's Out" on The Muppet Show (episode #307) on March 28, 1978 (he played one of the devil's henchmen trying to dupe Kermit, Gonzo and Miss Piggy into selling their souls). He also appeared in an against-typecasting role as a piano-playing disco waiter in Mae West's final film, Sextette, and as a villain in the film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Cooper also led celebrities in raising money to remodel the famous Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles, California. Cooper himself contributed over $27,000 to the project, buying an O in the sign in memory of close friend and comedian Groucho Marx. In 1979, Cooper also guest starred on good friend Soupy Sales' show, Lunch with Soupy Sales and was hit in the face with a pie, as part of the show. When asked about the experience, Cooper had this to say about his friend: "Being from Detroit, I came home every day and watched Soupy at lunch (Lunch with Soupy Sales). One of the greatest moments of my life was getting pie-faced by Soupy. He was one of my all time heroes."[49]

1980s

Cooper's studio albums from the beginning of the 1980s have been referred to by Cooper as his "blackout albums" because he cannot remember recording them, owing to the influence of his new, and increasing cocaine addiction. Flush the Fashion (1980), Special Forces (1981), Zipper Catches Skin (1982) and DaDa (1983) saw a gradual commercial decline, with the last two not charting within the Billboard Top 200. Flush the Fashion, produced by Roy Thomas Baker, known for his work with Queen and the Cars, had a thick, edgy new wave musical sound that baffled even longtime fans, though it still yielded the US Top 40 hit "Clones (We're All)". The track also surprisingly charted on the US Disco Top 100 chart. Special Forces featured a more aggressive but consistent new wave style, and included a new version of "Generation Landslide" from Billion Dollar Babies (1973). His tour for Special Forces marked Cooper's last time on the road for nearly five years; it was not until 1986, for Constrictor, that he toured again. 1982's Zipper Catches Skin was a more pop punk-oriented recording, containing many quirky high-energy guitar-driven songs along with his most unusual collection of subject matters for lyrics, and Patty Donahue of the Waitresses provided guest vocals and "sarcasm" on the track "I Like Girls". 1983 marked the return collaboration of producer Bob Ezrin and guitarist Dick Wagner for the haunting epic DaDa, the final studio album in his Warner Bros. contract.[50]

In mid-1983, after the recording of DaDa was completed, Cooper was hospitalized for alcoholism again, and cirrhosis of the liver.[51] Cooper was finally stable and sober (and has remained sober since that time) by the time DaDa and The Nightmare home video (of his 1975 TV Special) were released in the fall of that year; however, both releases performed below expectations. Even with The Nightmare scoring a nomination for 1984's Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video (he lost to Duran Duran), it was not enough for Warner Bros. to keep Cooper on their books. By February 1984, Cooper became a "free agent" for the first time in his career.[52]

Cooper spent a lengthy period away from the music business dealing with personal issues. His divorce from Sheryl Cooper was heard at Maricopa County Superior Court, Arizona, on January 30, 1984, but a decision was made by the couple not to move forward with the divorce. The following month he guested at the 26th Annual Grammy Awards alongside co-presenter Grace Jones. Behind the scenes Cooper kept busy musically, working on new material in collaboration with Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry. The spring of 1984 was taken up with filming, Cooper acting in the B-grade horror movie Monster Dog, filmed in Torrelodones, Spain. Shortly thereafter he reconciled with Sheryl; the couple relocated to Chicago. The year closed with more writing sessions, this time in New York during November with Hanoi Rocks guitarist Andy McCoy.[53] In 1985, he met and began writing songs with guitarist Kane Roberts. Cooper was subsequently signed to MCA Records, and appeared as guest vocalist on Twisted Sister's song "Be Chrool to Your Scuel". A video was made for the song, featuring actor Luke Perry and Cooper donning his black snake-eyes makeup for the first time since 1979, but neither the song nor the video drew public interest.[54]

In 1986, Alice Cooper officially returned to the music industry with the studio album Constrictor. The album spawned the hits "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)" (the theme song for the movie Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives; in the video for the song Cooper was given a cameo role as a deranged psychiatrist) and the fan favorite "Teenage Frankenstein". The Constrictor album was a catalyst for Cooper to make a triumphant return to the road for the first time since the 1981 Special Forces project, on a tour titled The Nightmare Returns. The Detroit leg of this tour, which took place at the end of October 1986 during Halloween, was captured on film as The Nightmare Returns (1987), and is viewed by some as being the definitive Alice Cooper concert film. It was released on DVD in 2006.[55] The concert, which received rave reviews in the rock music press,[fn 6] was also described by Rolling Stone magazine as bringing "Cooper's violent, twisted onstage fantasies to a new generation". The Constrictor album was followed by Raise Your Fist and Yell in 1987, which had an even rougher sound than its predecessor, as well as the Cooper classic "Freedom". The subsequent tour of Raise Your Fist and Yell, which was heavily inspired by the slasher horror movies of the time such as the Friday the 13th series and A Nightmare on Elm Street, served up a shocking spectacle similar to its predecessor, and courted the kind of controversy, especially in Europe, that recalled the public outrage caused by Cooper's public performances in America in the early 1970s.[56]

In Britain, Labour MP David Blunkett called for the show to be banned, saying "I'm horrified by his behaviour – it goes beyond the bounds of entertainment." The controversy spilled over into the German segment of the tour, with the German government actually succeeding in having some of the gorier segments of the performance removed.[57] It was also during the London leg of the tour that Cooper met with a near fatal accident during rehearsal of the hanging execution sequence that occurs at the end of the show.[58]

Constrictor (1986) and Raise Your Fist and Yell (1987) were recorded with lead guitarist Kane Roberts and bassist Kip Winger, both of whom would leave the band by the end of 1988 (although Kane Roberts played guitar on "Bed of Nails" on Cooper's 1989 studio album Trash).

In 1987, Cooper made a brief appearance as a vagrant in the supernatural horror film Prince of Darkness, directed by John Carpenter. His role had no lines and consisted of generally menacing the protagonists before eventually impaling one of them with a bicycle frame.[59]

Also in 1987, Cooper appeared at WrestleMania III, escorting wrestler Jake "The Snake" Roberts to the ring for his match against The Honky Tonk Man. After the match, which Roberts lost, ended, Cooper got involved and threw Jake's snake Damien at Honky's manager Jimmy Hart. Roberts considered the involvement of Cooper to be an honor, as he had idolized Cooper in his youth and was still a huge fan. WrestleMania III, which attracted a WWF record 93,173 fans, was held in the Pontiac Silverdome near Cooper's home town of Detroit.[60]

Cooper recorded a music video for the "Poison" B-side "I Got a Line on You" after the song was featured on the soundtrack to Iron Eagle II (1988).[61]

On April 7, 1988, Cooper nearly died of asphyxiation after a safety rope broke during a rehearsal concert wherein he pretended to hang himself, a stunt he would often perform during live concerts.[62][63]

In 1988, Cooper's contract with MCA Records expired and he signed with Epic Records. Then in 1989 his career finally experienced a legitimate revival with the Desmond Child produced and Grammy-nominated studio album Trash, which spawned a hit single "Poison", which reached No. 2 in the UK and No. 7 in the US, and a worldwide arena tour.[64]

1990s

In 1991, Cooper released his nineteenth studio album Hey Stoopid featuring several notable rock musicians guesting on the record. Released as glam metal's popularity was on the wane, and just before the explosion of grunge, it failed to have the same commercial impact as its predecessor. The same year also saw the release of the video Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts which chronicled his entire career using in depth interviews with Cooper himself, Bob Ezrin, and Shep Gordon. One critic has noted that Prime Cuts demonstrates how Cooper had used (in contrast to similar artists who succeeded him) themes of satire and moralization to such good effect throughout his career.[65] It was in the Prime Cuts video that Bob Ezrin delivered his own summation of the Alice Cooper persona: "He is the psycho killer in all of us. He's the axe murderer, he's the spoiled child, he's the abuser, he's the abused; he's the perpetrator, he's the victim, he's the gun slinger, and he's the guy lying dead in the middle of the street".[66]

During the early 1990s, Cooper guested on records by the most successful bands of the time, such as the Guns N' Roses third studio album Use Your Illusion I, on which he shared vocal duties with Axl Rose on the track "The Garden". He also had a brief appearance as the abusive stepfather of Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street slasher film Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991).[67]

Cooper made a cameo appearance in the 1992 comedy film Wayne's World. Cooper and his band first appear on stage performing "Feed My Frankenstein" from their studio album Hey Stoopid. Afterwards at a backstage party, the movie's main characters Wayne Cambell and Garth Algar discover that when offstage, Cooper is a calm, articulate intellectual as he and his band discuss the history of Milwaukee in depth. Wayne and Garth respond to an invitation to hang out with Cooper by kneeling and bowing reverently before him while chanting "We're not worthy! We're not worthy!"[68]

In 1994, Cooper released The Last Temptation, his first concept album since DaDa (1983). The album deals with issues of faith, temptation, alienation and the frustrations of modern life, and has been described as "a young man's struggle to see the truth through the distractions of the 'Sideshow' of the modern world".[69] Concurrent with the release of The Last Temptation was a three-part comic book series written by Neil Gaiman, fleshing out the album's story. This was to be Cooper's last album with Epic Records since according to Brian 'Renfield' Nelson, Cooper's personal assistant, "Alice was interested in going to Hollywood Records even before 'The Last Temptation' was released because Bob Pfeifer, who originally signed Alice to Epic, was now the President of Hollywood Records. After 'The Last Temptation' was finished, Alice requested that Sony/Epic let him go so that he could make the switch to Hollywood. He just wanted to go where his friends are." and was his last studio release for six years, though during this period the live album A Fistful of Alice (1997)[70] was released, and in 1997 he lent his voice to the intro track of Insane Clown Posse's The Great Milenko.[71]

During his absence from the recording studio, Cooper toured extensively every year throughout the latter part of the 1990s, including, in 1996, South America, which he had not visited since 1974. Also in 1996, Cooper sang the role of Herod on the London cast recording of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar.[72]

In 1999, the four-disc box set The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper appeared, which contained the authorized biography[73] of Cooper, Alcohol and Razor Blades, Poison and Needles: The Glorious Wretched Excess of Alice Cooper, All-American, written by Creem magazine editor Jeffrey Morgan.[74]

2000s

 
Cooper in 2006

The first decade of the 21st century saw a sustained period of activity from Alice Cooper, the decade in which he would turn sixty. He toured extensively releasing a steady stream of studio albums to favorable critical acclaim. Beginning in 2000 with Brutal Planet, a return to horror-filled heavy metal, industrial rock, set in a dystopian post-apocalyptic future, inspired by our brutal modern world, and a number of current news stories appearing on CNN.[75] The album was produced by Bob Marlette, with longtime Cooper production collaborator Bob Ezrin returning as executive producer. The accompanying world tour, which included Cooper's first concert in Russia, also resulted in Brutally Live (2000), a DVD of a concert, recorded in London, England, on July 19, 2000.[76]

Cooper made a guest appearance on a 2001, 3rd-season episode of That '70s Show, "Radio Daze" in which he partakes in a game of Dungeons & Dragons.[77]

Brutal Planet was succeeded by the sonically similar and acclaimed sequel Dragontown (2001), which saw Bob Ezrin back as producer. The album has been described as leading the listener down "a nightmarish path into the mind of rock's original conceptual storyteller"[78] and by Cooper himself as being "the worst town on Brutal Planet". Like The Last Temptation, both Brutal Planet and Dragontown are albums which explore Cooper's born again Christianity. It is often cited in the music media that Dragontown forms the third chapter in a trilogy begun with The Last Temptation;[79] however, Cooper has indicated that this in fact is not the case.[80]

Cooper again adopted a leaner, cleaner sound for his critically acclaimed 2003 release The Eyes of Alice Cooper.[81] Recognizing that many contemporary bands were having great success with his former sounds and styles, Cooper worked with a somewhat younger group of road and studio musicians who were familiar with his oeuvre of old. The resulting Bare Bones tour adopted a less-orchestrated performance style that had fewer theatrical flourishes and a greater emphasis on musicality.[82]

Cooper's radio show Nights with Alice Cooper began airing on January 26, 2004, in several US cities. The program showcases classic rock, Cooper's personal stories about his life as a rock icon and interviews with prominent rock artists.[83] The show is broadcast on nearly 100 stations in the US and Canada, and has been broadcast internationally.[84]

A continuation of the songwriting approach adopted on The Eyes of Alice Cooper was again adopted by Cooper for his seventeenth solo studio album Dirty Diamonds, released in 2005. Dirty Diamonds became Cooper's highest-charting album since 1994's The Last Temptation at the time.[85] The Dirty Diamonds tour launched in America in August 2005 after several European concerts, including a performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland on July 12. Cooper and his band, including Kiss drummer Eric Singer, were filmed for a DVD released as Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux 2005 (2006). One critic, in a review of the Montreux release, commented that Cooper was to be applauded for "still mining pretty much the same territory of teenage angst and rebellion" as he had done more than 30 years previously.[86]

In December 2006, the original Alice Cooper band reunited to perform six classic Alice Cooper songs at Cooper's annual charity event in Phoenix, entitled "Christmas Pudding".[fn 7]

On July 1, 2007, Cooper performed a duet with Marilyn Manson at the B'Estival event in Bucharest, Romania.[87] The performance represented a reconciliation between the two artists; Cooper had previously taken issue with Manson over his overtly anti-Christian on stage antics and had sarcastically made reference to the originality of Manson's choosing a female name and dressing in women's clothing.[75] Cooper and Manson have been the subject of an academic paper on the significance of adolescent antiheroes.[88]

In January 2008, Cooper was one of the guest singers on Avantasia's third studio album The Scarecrow, singing the seventh track "The Toy Master". In July 2008, after lengthy delays, Cooper released Along Came a Spider, his eighteenth solo studio studio album. It was Cooper's highest-charting album since 1991's Hey Stoopid, reaching No. 53 in the US and No. 31 in the UK. The album, visiting similar territory explored in 1987's Raise Your Fist and Yell, deals with the nefarious antics of a deranged serial killer named "Spider" who is on a quest to use the limbs of his victims to create a human spider. The album generally received positive reviews from music critics, though Rolling Stone magazine opined that the music on the record sorely missed Bob Ezrin's production values.[89] The resulting Theatre of Death tour of the album (during which Cooper is executed on four separate occasions) was described in a long November 2009 article about Cooper in The Times as "epic" and featuring "enough fake blood to remake Saving Private Ryan".[citation needed]

During this period Cooper was also recognized and awarded in various ways: given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003;[90] in May 2004 he received an honorary doctoral degree from Grand Canyon University.[91] In June 2005, he was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame.[92] In May 2006 he was given the key to the city of Alice, North Dakota.[93] He won the living legend award at the 2006 Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards event;[94] and he won the 2007 Mojo music magazine Hero Award.[95] He received a Rock Immortal award at the 2007 Scream Awards.[96]

Cooper appeared on the British TV series Room 101 where a balloon model of him was featured. https://www.instagram.com/p/BjqRVnEhsK4/?hl=en

2010s and 2020s

 
Cooper performing at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland, 2011

In January 2010, it was announced that Cooper would be touring with Rob Zombie on The Gruesome Twosome Tour.[97] In May 2010, Cooper made an appearance during the beginning of the season finale of the singing competition show American Idol, in which he sang "School's Out".[98]

 
Cooper performing live at Wembley Arena in London, England, 2012

With his daughter, and former band member Dick Wagner, Cooper scored the music for the indie horror flick Silas Gore (2010).[99]

During 2010, Cooper began working on a new studio album, dubbed Welcome 2 My Nightmare, a sequel to the original Welcome to My Nightmare (1975).[100] In a Radio Metal interview, he said that "We'll put some of the original people on it and add some new people ... I'm very happy with working with Bob (Ezrin) again."[100]

On December 15, 2010, it was announced Cooper and his former band would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony took place March 14, 2011, where Cooper was inducted by fellow horror-rocker Rob Zombie. Original members Bruce, Cooper, Dunaway, and Smith all made brief acceptance speeches and performed "I'm Eighteen" and "School's Out" live together, with Steve Hunter filling in for the late Glen Buxton. Cooper showed up for the event wearing a (presumably fake) blood-splattered shirt and had a live albino Burmese python wrapped around his neck.[101][102] Cooper told Rolling Stone magazine that he was "elated" by the news and that the nomination had been made for the original band, as "We all did go to the same high school together, and we were all on the track team, and it was pretty cool that guys that knew each other before the band ended up going that far".[103]

On March 10, 2011, Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Cooper, Jennifer Warnes, and others performed at a benefit concert in Tucson, Arizona, benefiting The Fund for Civility, Respect and Understanding, a foundation that raises awareness about and provides medical prevention and treatment services to people with mental disorders.[104] In June 2011 Cooper took his place in the Reasonably Priced Car at the BBC motoring show Top Gear.[105]

On June 9, 2011, Cooper was awarded the Kerrang! Icon Award at Kerrang! magazine's annual awards show. Cooper used the opportunity to hit out at the "anaemic" rock music that dominates the charts, and said he has no intention of retiring from the industry.[106]

Cooper supported Iron Maiden on their Maiden England World Tour from June to July 21, 2012,[107] and then headlined Bloodstock Open Air on Sunday August 12.[108] On September 16, 2012, Cooper appeared at the Sunflower Jam charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London, performing alongside Brian May lead guitarist of Queen, bassist John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, drummer Ian Paice of Deep Purple, and Iron Maiden lead vocalist Bruce Dickinson.[109]

Cooper cameos as himself in the 2012 Tim Burton adaptation of Dark Shadows that starred Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter. In the film, Depp's character Barnabas Collins, assumes his name to be that of a woman, describes Alice as the ugliest woman he has ever seen.[110]

In 2013, Cooper announced that he had finished recording a covers album, based on songs by his rock star drinking buddies in the 1970s who had since died from excess, and that it was scheduled for a spring 2014 release.[111] Later he announced that the album would likely be released in 2015.[112]

On January 28, 2014, it was officially revealed that Alice Cooper would be the opening act for Mötley Crüe's final tour, which would span throughout 2014 and 2015. Cooper was featured on the song "Savages" on Theory of a Deadman's fifth studio album.[113]

Cooper was the subject of Super Duper Alice Cooper, a biographical documentary film by Canadian directors Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen and Reginald Harkema.[114] The film won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015.[115] In October, Cooper released the live album and video Raise the Dead: Live from Wacken, which was recorded at Germany's Wacken heavy metal festival the previous year.[116]

In 2015, Cooper premiered Hollywood Vampires, a supergroup featuring Johnny Depp and Joe Perry with a new studio album of rock covers, featuring many guest artists including Paul McCartney, and live dates at L.A.'s Roxy Theatre and at Brazil's Rock in Rio festival in September. In 2016, Cooper made headlines again as he resumed his running gag of campaigning for the US presidency.[117] Cooper featured as a co-headliner with Deep Purple and Edgar Winter for several tour dates from August to early September 2017.[118]

Cooper released his twentieth solo studio album Paranormal in July 2017. It featured contributions from drummer Larry Mullen Jr. of U2, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top on guitar and Roger Glover from Deep Purple on bass guitar. Guitarists Tommy Denander and Tommy Henriksen contributed most of the guitars.[citation needed]

 
Cooper performing live at Caesars Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, 2022

On Easter Sunday, 2018, Cooper performed as Herod in NBC's live performance of Andrew Lloyd Weber's Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert.[119] Reviews were positive, with The New York Times' critic Noel Murray praising "Alice Cooper's magnificently scenery-chewing performance" as a "startling moment of clarity,"[120] and Lorraine Ali of the Los Angeles Times describing his performance as, "Weird? Yes, but also perfect in a campy, dramatic and evil 'Billion Dollar Babies' kind of way. Cooper's part was small but indelible."[121] Cooper had previously recorded the song (though not performed it live) in 2000, with the 1996 London revival cast.[122]

Cooper released his twenty-first solo studio album, Detroit Stories, on February 26, 2021.[123] In May, he announced a fall tour to promote the album, supported by Ace Frehley, which began in September 2021.[124]

Cooper wrote the afterword to Jeffrey Morgan's autobiography Rock Critic Confidential which was published by New Haven on June 28, 2021.[125]

Cooper participated as a judge on the music competition television show No Cover season 1 that started to be aired in the Sumerian Records YouTube Channel in April 2022.[126]

On July 11, 2022, touring guitarist Nita Strauss announced she had departed the band.[127] A few days later, it was announced Kane Roberts had rejoined the band, replacing Strauss.[128] On March 6, 2023, it was announced Nita Strauss had rejoined the band.[129]

Cooper presents a show five weekdays on the UK's Planet Rock.

Style and influences

During an interview for the program Entertainment USA in 1986, Cooper told interviewer Jonathan King that the Yardbirds were his favorite band of all time.[130] Cooper had as far back as 1969 said that it was music from the mid-sixties, and particularly from British bands the Beatles, the Who, and the Rolling Stones, as well as the Yardbirds, that had the greatest influence on him.[131] Cooper would later pay homage to the Who by singing "I'm a Boy" for A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who in 1994 at Carnegie Hall in New York, and performing a cover version of "My Generation" on the Brutal Planet tour of 2000. During an interview with Ozzy Osbourne from radio program Nights with Alice Cooper on May 22, 2007, Cooper again affirmed his debt of gratitude to these bands, and to the Beatles in particular. During their discussion, Cooper and Osbourne bemoaned the often inferior quality of songwriting coming from contemporary rock artists. Cooper stated that in his opinion the cause of the problem was that certain modern bands "had forgotten to listen to the Beatles".[citation needed]

 
Arthur Brown was a major influence on Cooper. During live performances and in the promotional video, Brown performed the 1968 song "Fire" wearing black and white makeup (corpse paint) and a burning headpiece.[132][133]

On seeing shock rock pioneer Arthur Brown performing his US number two hit "Fire" in 1968, Cooper states, "Can you imagine the young Alice Cooper watching that with all his make-up and hellish performance? It was like all my Halloweens came at once!"[134] A 2014 article on Alice Cooper in The Guardian mentioned Arthur Brown and his flaming helmet, "British rock always was more theatrical than its US counterpart. Often this involved destruction or macabre gimmickry", with Cooper responding, "That's why most people thought we were British at first."[135]

Evidence of Cooper's eclectic tastes in classic and contemporary rock music can be seen in the track listings of his radio show; in addition, when he appeared on the BBC Radio 2 program Tracks of My Years in September 2007, he listed his favorite tracks of all time as being: "19th Nervous Breakdown" (1966) by the Rolling Stones; "Turning Japanese" (1980) by the Vapors; "My Sharona" (1979) by the Knack; "Beds Are Burning" (1987) by Midnight Oil; "My Generation" (1965) by the Who; "Welcome to the Jungle" (1987) by Guns N' Roses; "Rebel Rebel" (1974) by David Bowie; "Over Under Sideways Down" (1966) by the Yardbirds; "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" (2003) by Jet; and "A Hard Day's Night" (1964) by the Beatles,[136] and when he appeared on Desert Island Discs in 2010 he chose the songs "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" by the Yardbirds; "I Get Around" by the Beach Boys; "I'm a Boy" by the Who; "Timer" by Laura Nyro; "21st Century Schizoid Man" by King Crimson; "Been Caught Stealing" by Jane's Addiction; "Work Song" by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band; and "Ballad of a Thin Man" by Bob Dylan.[137]

Rob Zombie, former lead vocalist of White Zombie, claims his first "metal moment" was seeing Alice Cooper on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert.[138][139] Zombie has also claimed to have been heavily influenced by Cooper's costumes.[24] In a 1978 interview with Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan stated, "I think Alice Cooper is an overlooked songwriter."[140]

In the foreword to Alice Cooper's CD retrospective box set The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper, John Lydon of the Sex Pistols pronounced Killer (1971) as the greatest rock album of all time, and in 2002 Lydon presented his own tribute program to Cooper on BBC radio. Lydon told the BBC that "I know the words to every Alice Cooper song. The fact is, if you can call what I have a musical career, it all started with me miming to 'I'm Eighteen' on a jukebox."[141]

The Flaming Lips are longtime Alice Cooper fans and used the bassline from "Levity Ball" (an early song from the 1969 release Pretties for You) for their song "The Ceiling Is Bending". They also covered "Sun Arise" for an Alice Cooper tribute album. (Cooper's version, which closes the album Love It to Death, was itself a cover of a Rolf Harris song.[142])

In 1999, Cleopatra Records released Humanary Stew: A Tribute to Alice Cooper featuring a number of contributions from rock and metal all-star collaborations, including Dave Mustaine of Megadeth, Roger Daltrey of the Who, Ronnie James Dio, Slash of Guns N' Roses, Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, and Steve Jones of Sex Pistols. Sonic.net described it as "intriguing combinations of artists and material" while AllMusic noted "the novel approach will definitely hold interested listeners' attention".[143][144]

A song by alternative rock group They Might Be Giants from their fifth studio album John Henry (1994) titled "Why Must I Be Sad?" mentions 13 Cooper songs, and has been described as being "from the perspective of a kid who hears all of his unspoken sadness given voice in the music of Alice Cooper; Alice says everything the kid has been wishing he could say about his alienated, frustrated, teenage world."[145]

Unlikely non-musician fans of Cooper have included comedian Groucho Marx and actress Mae West, who both reportedly saw the early shows as a form of vaudeville revue,[146] and artist Salvador Dalí, who on attending a show in 1973 described it as being surreal, and made a hologram, First Cylindric Chromo-Hologram Portrait of Alice Cooper's Brain.[147][fn 8]

Personal life

In the early 1970s, a story was widely reported that Leave It to Beaver actor Ken Osmond had become "rock star Alice Cooper". According to Cooper, the rumor began when a college newspaper editor asked him what kind of child he was, to which Cooper replied, "I was obnoxious, disgusting, a real Eddie Haskell," referring to the fictional character Osmond portrayed. However, the editor ended up reporting that Cooper was the real Haskell. Cooper later told the New Times: "It was the biggest rumor that ever came out about me. Finally, I got a T-shirt that said, 'No, I am not Eddie Haskell.' But people still believed it."[148]

On June 20, 2005, ahead of his June–July 2005 tour, Cooper had a wide-ranging interview with interviewer of celebrities Andrew Denton for the Australian ABC TV's Enough Rope. Cooper discussed various issues during the talk, including the horrors of acute alcoholism and his subsequent cure, being a Christian, and his social and work relationship with his family.[146] During the interview, Cooper remarked "I look at Mick Jagger and he's on an 18-month tour and he's six years older than me, so I figure, when he retires, I have six more years. I will not let him beat me when it comes to longevity."[146]

Cooper frequently refers to himself in the third person as "Alice" as a way to distance himself from his stage persona.[149]

Marriage and relationships

In the period when the Alice Cooper group was signed to Frank Zappa's Straight label, Miss Christine of the GTOs became Cooper's girlfriend. Miss Christine (real name Christine Frka), who had recommended Zappa to the group, died on November 5, 1972, of an overdose.[fn 9] Another long-time girlfriend of Cooper's was Cindy Lang,[150] with whom he lived for several years.

After his separation from Lang, Cooper was briefly linked with actress Raquel Welch, although according to Dick Wagner, Cooper rejected Welch's advances.[149] Cooper ended up marrying ballerina instructor and choreographer Sheryl Goddard, who performed in the Alice Cooper show from 1975 to 1982. They married on March 20, 1976. In November 1983, at the height of Cooper's alcoholism, Goddard filed for divorce, but by mid-1984, she and Cooper had reconciled;[151] they have three children: daughters Sonora and Calico, and son Dashiell.[152]

In a 2002 television interview, Cooper stated that he had never cheated on his wife the entire time they had been together. In the same interview, he also said that the secret to a lasting and successful relationship is to continue going out on dates with one's partner.[153]

In a 2019 interview, Cooper said that he and his wife Sheryl have a death pact, wherein they will die at the same time, sparking a flurry of headlines.[154] But Cooper clarified his comments, telling USA Today, "What I was meaning was that because we're almost always together, at home and on the road, that if something did happen to either of us, we'd most likely be together at the time. But neither of us has a suicide pact. We have a life pact."[155]

Drugs and alcohol use

In 1986, thrash metal band Megadeth opened for Cooper on their US Constrictor tour. After noticing the abuse of alcohol and other drugs by Megadeth band members, Cooper personally approached the band to try to help them control their abuse. He has stayed close to lead vocalist Dave Mustaine, who considers Cooper to be his "godfather".[156] Since overcoming his own addiction to alcohol in the mid-1980s, Cooper has continued to help and counsel other rock musicians with addiction problems. "I've made myself very available to friends of mine – they're people who would call me late at night and say, 'Between you and me, I've got a problem.'" In recognition of the work he has done in helping other addicts in the recovery process, Cooper received in 2008 the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award at the fourth annual MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert in Los Angeles.[157]

Religion

During an interview with Johnnie Walker on BBC Radio 2 in September 2007, Cooper said that he was not a Christian when he gave up drinking, but stated that he thanks God for "taking it away", saying, "I mean if He [God] can part the Red Sea and create the universe, He can certainly take alcoholism away from somebody."[158] Although he originally did not speak publicly about his religious beliefs, Cooper was later vocal about his faith as a born-again Christian.[159][160]

Politics

Throughout his career, Cooper's philosophy regarding politics is that politics should not be mixed with rock music. Cooper has usually kept his political views to himself, and in 2010 said, "I am extremely non-political. I go out of my way to be non-political. I'm probably the biggest moderate you know. When John Lennon and Harry Nilsson used to argue politics, I was sitting right in the middle of them, and I was the guy who was going 'I don't care.' When my parents would start talking politics, I would go in my room and put on the Rolling Stones or the Who as long as I could avoid politics. And I still feel that way."[103]

On occasion, Cooper has spoken out against musicians who promote or opine on politics; for example, in the build-up to the 2004 presidential election, he told The Canadian Press that the rock stars campaigning for and touring on behalf of Democratic candidate John Kerry were committing "treason against rock n' roll". He added, upon seeing a list of musicians who supported Kerry, "If I wasn't already a Bush supporter, I would have immediately switched. Linda Ronstadt? Don Henley? Geez, that's a good reason right there to vote for Bush."[161][fn 10] In December 2018, Cooper predicted that the next U.S. president would be "worse" than then-president Donald Trump, while arguing that musicians talking politics to their fans was an "abuse of power".[162]

Every four years since releasing his single "Elected" in 1972, Cooper has satirically run for president.[117]

Sports

Cooper is a fan of both the NHL's Detroit Red Wings and Arizona Coyotes.[163] On February 18, 2012, the Coyotes gave away his bobblehead in a promotion for the first 10,000 fans for a game with the Dallas Stars.[164][165] Cooper is a longtime baseball fan, supporting the Arizona Diamondbacks and Detroit Tigers. As a child, he dreamed of playing left field in the Tigers outfield alongside Tigers Hall of Famer Al Kaline. He has coached Little League baseball teams since his son played in the early 1990s.[166] Cooper is also a fan of NBA basketball, supporting both the Detroit Pistons and the Phoenix Suns.[167][168]

Cooper is an avid golfer and says that the sport helped him play a major role in overcoming his addiction to alcohol,[169] and has even gone so far as to say that when he took up golf, it was a case of replacing one addiction with another.[170][171] The importance that the game has had in his life is also reflected in the title to his 2007 autobiography, Alice Cooper, Golf Monster.[172] Cooper, who has participated in a number of pro–am competitions,[fn 11] plays the game six days a week, off a handicap of four.[25] He also, through golf, enjoyed an unlikely friendship with country guitarist and singer Glen Campbell after they became neighbours, playing together 'nearly every other day'[173]

Cooper has also appeared in commercials for Callaway Golf equipment and was a guest of veteran British player and broadcaster Peter Alliss on A Golfer's Travels.[174] He wrote the foreword to the Gary McCord book Ryder Cup and participated in the second All-Star Cup in Newport, Wales.[175]

In popular culture

Cooper, a fan of The Simpsons, was asked to contribute a storyline for the September 2004 edition of Bongo Comics's Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror, a special Monsters of Rock issue that also included stories plotted by Gene Simmons, Rob Zombie and Pat Boone.[176]

In October 1979, Cooper was featured in the Marvel comic book Marvel Premiere, Volume 1, Number 50 loosely adapting his From the Inside studio album.[177][178]

Cooper is also the subject of the "We're not worthy" meme, which was popularized during his cameo in Wayne's World with Mike Myers and Dana Carvey in 1992.[179]

Cooper contributed his likeness and over 700 voice lines to Alice Cooper's Nightmare Castle, a pinball machine released in 2018 by Spooky Pinball that also features ten songs performed by Cooper. Only 500 machines were made.[180]

On October 7, 2021, Play'n GO released Alice Cooper and the Tome of Madness,[181] a web-based game. This branded game features voice lines especially recorded by Cooper, in addition to this it boasts an animated version of Cooper as well as the song "Welcome to My Nightmare".

Solo band members

Main article: List of Alice Cooper solo band members
 
Alice Cooper and his solo band performing live in London, 2012

Current members

  • Alice Cooper – lead vocals, harmonica, guitar, percussion, synthesizer (1974–present)
  • Ryan Roxie – lead and rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1996–2006, 2012–present)
  • Chuck Garric – bass guitar, backing vocals (2002–present)
  • Tommy Henriksen – rhythm and lead guitar, backing vocals (2011–present)
  • Glen Sobel – drums, percussion (2011–present)
  • Nita Strauss – lead and rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2014–2022, 2023–present)

Former members

  • Dick Wagner – guitar, bass guitar (1975–1979, 1982, 1983)
  • Steve Hunter – guitar (1975–1979, 2011)
  • Erik Scott – bass guitar (1980–1982)
  • Kane Roberts – lead and rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1985–1988, 2022–2023)
  • David Rosenberg – drums (1985–1986)
  • Kip Winger – bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals (1985–1987)
  • Paul Taylor – keyboards (1986–1987)
  • Ken Mary – drums (1986–1988)
  • John McCurry – lead and rhythm guitar (1988–1989)
  • Al Pitrelli – lead guitar and music director (1989–1991)
  • Hugh Mcdonald – bass guitar (1988–1991)
  • Orianthi – lead and rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2011–2014)

Discography

Main article: Alice Cooper discography

Band studio albums

Solo studio albums

Tours

  • Pretties for You Tour (1968–1970)
  • Easy Action Tour (1970–1971)
  • Love It to Death Tour (1971)
  • Killer Tour (1971–1972)
  • School's Out for Summer '72 Tour (1972)
  • Billion Dollar Babies Tour (1973–1974)
  • Welcome to My Nightmare Tour (1975–1977)
  • King of the Silver Screen Tour (1977)
  • School's Out for Summer '78 Tour (1978–1979)
  • Madhouse Rocks Tour (1979)
  • Flush the Fashion Tour (1980)
  • Special Forces Tour (1981–1982)
  • The Nightmare Returns Tour (1986–1987)
  • Live in the Flesh Tour (1987–1988)
  • Trash Tour (1989–1990)
  • Operation Rock & Roll (1991)
  • Nightmare on Your Street Tour (1991)
  • Hey Stoopid Tour (1991)
  • South America '95 Tour (1995)
  • Summer's Out for Summer '96 Tour (1996)
  • School's Out for Summer '97 Tour (1997)
  • Rock N' Roll Carnival Tour (1997–1998)
  • New Year's Rotten Eve Tour '98 (1998)
  • Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper Tour (1999)
  • Brutal Planet Tour (2000–2001)
  • British Rock Symphony Tour (2000)
  • Descent into Dragontown Tour (2001–2002)
  • Bare Bones Tour (2003)
  • The Eyes of Alice Cooper Tour (2003–2004)
  • Dirty Diamonds Tour (2005–2006)
  • Psychodrama Tour (2007–2009)
  • Theatre of Death Tour (2009–2010)
  • No More Mr. Nice Guy Tour (2011–2012)
  • Raise the Dead Tour (2012–2015)
  • Spend the Night with Alice Cooper Tour (2016–2017)
  • A Paranormal Evening with Alice Cooper Live Tour (2018)
  • Ol' Black Eyes Is Back (2019–2020)
  • Detroit Muscle Tour (2021–2022)

Filmography

Main article: Alice Cooper filmography

Accolades

Awards and nominations

Year Nominee / Work Award Associations Result Ref(s)
Award Ceremony / Media Category
1972 Alice Cooper (band) Bravo magazine International Band of the Year Won [182]
1973 School's Out (album) Grammy Awards Best Recording Package Nominated [a][183]
Alice Cooper (band) NME Awards World Stage Band Won [184]
1974 Billion Dollar Babies (album) Grammy Awards Best Recording Package Nominated [b][185]
Alice Cooper (band) NME Awards World Stage Band Won [186]
1984 Alice Cooper: The Nightmare (video) Grammy Awards Best Video Album Nominated [187]
1994 Alice Cooper Foundations Forum Lifetime Achievement Won [182]
1996 Alice Cooper Motor City Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Won [182]
1997 "Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn)" (track) Grammy Awards Best Metal Performance Nominated [187]
Alice Cooper Eyegore Awards Eyegore Award Won [188]
2001 Alice Cooper International Horror Guild Awards Living Legend Won [189]
2006 Alice Cooper Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards Living Legend Won [190]
2007 Alice Cooper Mojo magazine Hero Award Won [182]
Alice Cooper IEBA Live Music Industry Awards Lifetime Achievement Won [c][182][191]
Alice Cooper Scream Awards Scream Rock Immortal Won [192]
2008 Alice Cooper MusiCares MAP Fund Awards Stevie Ray Vaughan Award Won [193]
2009 Alice Cooper Texas Frightmare Weekend Lifetime Achievement Won [182][194]
2011 Alice Cooper Revolver Golden Gods Awards Golden God Won [195]
Kerrang! Awards Kerrang! Icon Won [196]
Eyegore Awards Eyegore Award Won [197][198]
2013 Alice Cooper — Caesars Sold Out Award Won [182][199]
2014 Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards Film of the Year Nominated [200]
2015 Alice Cooper Kerrang! Awards Kerrang! Legend Won [201]
Best Radio Show Won
Welcome to My Nightmare Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards Classic Album Won [202]
2016 Nights with Alice Cooper Kerrang! Awards Best Radio Show Won [203]
2017 Alice Cooper (band) Music Biz Outstanding Achievement Award Won [182][204]
"Live from the Astroturf" (single) Making Vinyl Hollywood Packaging Awards Best 45-RPM Package Award Won [205]
2018 Paranormal Detroit Music Awards Foundation Outstanding National Major Label Recording Nominated [206]
"Paranoiac Personality" Outstanding National Single Nominated
The Sound of A Outstanding Video / Major Budget Nominated
Alice Cooper The Rocks Awards Best Worldwide Solo Artist Won [207]
2019 Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert Grammy Awards Best Musical Theater Album Nominated [187]
Alice Cooper The Rocks Awards Best Worldwide Solo Artist Nominated [208]
Live from the Astroturf, Alice Cooper (film) Phoenix Film Festival Best Documentary Short Film Won [209][210]
Dallas International Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary Won [209][210]
WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival Documentary under 60 minutes Won [210]
Editing Won
Northeast Mountain Film Festival Best Film of 2019 Won [209][210]
Madrid International Film Festival Best Editing of a Documentary Nominated [209][211]
Best Director of a Feature Documentary Nominated [d][209][211]
Best Feature Documentary Nominated [209][211]
Live from the Astroturf, Alice Cooper (live album) Making Vinyl Hollywood Packaging Awards Best Record Store Day – Vinyl Won [e][205][212]
2020 "Breadcrumbs" Detroit Music Awards Foundation Outstanding National Major Label Recording Won [213]
  1. ^ Wilkes & Braun, Sound Packing Corp., and Robert Otter also received credit.
  2. ^ Pacific Eye & Ear also received credit.
  3. ^ Alice Cooper's manager, Shep Gordon, also received an award.
  4. ^ Steve Gaddis, director, also received credit.
  5. ^ Good Records, a store co-owned by Chris Penn, also received credit.

Others

Year Title Notes Ref(s)
2002 Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame Inductee [182]
2003 Hollywood Walk of Fame Inducted with a star [214]
2004 Honorary Doctorate of Performing Arts degree Honoree; Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, AZ [215]
2005 Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame Inductee [92]
2007 KSHE-95 Real Rock Museum Hall of Fame Inductee; Virtual museum [216]
2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee with the original Alice Cooper band [217]
2012 Honorary Doctorate of Music degree Honoree and Keynote Speaker; Musicians Institute in Los Angeles, CA [218]
Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry Heritage Award Honoree [219]

See also

Explanatory footnotes

  1. ^ Cooper describes in detail in his first autobiography, Me, Alice, how he was tasked with organizing an act for the show.
  2. ^ Barry Miles's biography of Frank Zappa includes a vivid description of how the GTO's influenced Cooper to wear makeup and dress in drag onstage.
  3. ^ Cooper confirms this version of events in an interview in Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts.
  4. ^ Five years later, the Chicken Incident would be parodied in the second verse of the Ray Stevens song "The Moonlight Special", with Cooper referred to as Agnes Stoopa.
  5. ^ See the Alice Cooper entry under List of albums produced by Ezrin at Ezrin's Wikipedia page
  6. ^ For example, see the November 13, 1986, issue of Kerrang! music magazine, whose front cover bears the headline 'The Night He Came Home ... Alice Knocks 'Em Dead in Detroit'.
  7. ^ Damon Johnson, a guitarist in Cooper's then band, filled in for the deceased Glen Buxton.
  8. ^ A replica of the hologram can be seen at the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. Cooper and original band members Dennis Dunaway and Glen Buxton studied Dalí as art students at Cortez High School in Phoenix, Arizona, and the cover art of Cooper's eighth solo studio album DaDa (1983) features a slightly altered version of Dalí's painting Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (1940).
  9. ^ Cooper describes how he fell for Miss Christine in his autobiography Me, Alice (1976).
  10. ^ On Zimbio's list of "Famous Republicans" May 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine (accessed May 8, 2012), Cooper is a Republican.
  11. ^ Details of the pro-am events Cooper has participated in can be found in Alice Cooper, Golf Monster.

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Further reading

External links

  • Official website
  • Official Nights with Alice Cooper website
  • Nights with Alice Cooper on Planet Rock
  • High-quality photos of Alice Cooper
  • Alice Cooper at AllMusic
  • Alice Cooper discography at Discogs  
  • Alice Cooper at IMDb

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alice, cooper, this, article, about, musician, former, rock, band, band, other, people, named, disambiguation, born, vincent, damon, furnier, february, 1948, american, rock, singer, whose, career, spans, over, five, decades, with, raspy, voice, stage, show, th. This article is about the musician For his former rock band see Alice Cooper band For other people named Alice Cooper see Alice Cooper disambiguation Alice Cooper born Vincent Damon Furnier February 4 1948 1 is an American rock singer whose career spans over five decades With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props and stage illusions including pyrotechnics guillotines electric chairs fake blood reptiles baby dolls and dueling swords 2 Cooper is considered by many music journalists and peers to be The Godfather of Shock Rock 3 He has drawn equally from horror films vaudeville and garage rock to pioneer a macabre and theatrical brand of rock designed to shock audiences 4 Alice CooperCooper performing in 2016BornVincent Damon Furnier 1948 02 04 February 4 1948 age 75 Detroit Michigan U S OccupationsSingersongwriteractorYears active1964 presentSpouseSheryl Goddard m 1976 wbr Children3Musical careerOriginPhoenix Arizona U S GenresHard rockshock rockglam rockheavy metalInstrument s VocalsLabelsStraightWarner Bros AtlanticMCAEpicSpitfireSteamhammerUMeMember ofHollywood VampiresFormerly ofAlice CooperWebsitealicecooper wbr comOriginating in Phoenix Arizona in 1964 Alice Cooper was originally a band with roots extending back to a band called the Earwigs consisting of Furnier on lead vocals and harmonica Glen Buxton on lead guitar and Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar and backing vocals By 1966 Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar joined the three and Neal Smith was added on drums in 1967 The five named the band Alice Cooper and Furnier eventually adopted it as his stage pseudonym 5 6 They released their 1969 debut studio album with limited chart success Breaking out with the 1970 single I m Eighteen and the third studio album Love It to Death citation needed the band reached their commercial peak in 1973 with their sixth studio album Billion Dollar Babies 7 After citation needed the band broke up Furnier legally changed his name to Alice Cooper and began a solo career in 1975 with the concept album Welcome to My Nightmare Over his career Cooper has sold well over 50 million records 8 Cooper has experimented with a number of musical styles mainly hard rock glam rock heavy metal and glam metal 9 10 but also new wave 1980 1983 11 art rock on DaDa 1983 and industrial rock on Brutal Planet 2000 and Dragontown 2001 12 He helped to shape the sound and look of heavy metal and has been described as the artist who first introduced horror imagery to rock n roll and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre 13 He is also known for his wit offstage with The Rolling Stone Album Guide calling him the world s most beloved heavy metal entertainer 14 Away from music Cooper is a film actor a golfing celebrity a restaurateur and since 2004 a radio disc jockey DJ with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 1960s 2 1 1 The Spiders and Nazz 2 1 2 Name change to Alice Cooper 2 2 Alice Cooper band in 1970s 1970 1975 2 3 Alice Cooper solo 1975 1980 2 4 1980s 2 5 1990s 2 6 2000s 2 7 2010s and 2020s 3 Style and influences 4 Personal life 4 1 Marriage and relationships 4 2 Drugs and alcohol use 4 3 Religion 4 4 Politics 4 5 Sports 4 6 In popular culture 5 Solo band members 6 Discography 7 Tours 8 Filmography 9 Accolades 9 1 Awards and nominations 9 2 Others 10 See also 11 Explanatory footnotes 12 References 13 Further reading 14 External linksEarly life EditVincent Damon Furnier was born on February 4 1948 in Detroit Michigan the son of Ether Moroni Furnier 1924 1987 and his wife Ella Mae nee McCart 1925 2022 He was named after his uncle Vincent Collier Furnier and the short story writer Damon Runyon 15 His father was an evangelist in The Church of Jesus Christ informally known as Bickertonites 16 and his paternal grandfather Thurman Sylvester Furnier was an apostle from 1917 in and president 1963 1965 of that church Cooper was active in his church at ages 11 to 12 17 18 Following a series of childhood illnesses he moved with his family to Phoenix Arizona where he attended Cortez High School 19 In his high school yearbook his ambition was to be A million record seller 20 Career Edit1960s Edit See also Alice Cooper band The Spiders and Nazz Edit In 1964 16 year old Furnier was eager to participate in Cortez High School s annual Letterman s talent show so he gathered four fellow cross country teammates to form a group for the show Glen Buxton Dennis Dunaway John Tatum and John Speer fn 1 They named themselves the Earwigs 21 They dressed up in costumes and wigs to resemble the Beatles and performed several parodies of Beatles songs with the lyrics modified to refer to the track team in their rendition of Please Please Me for example the line Last night I said these words to my girl was replaced with Last night I ran four laps for my coach 22 Of the group only Buxton knew how to play an instrument the guitar so Buxton played guitar while the rest mimed on their instruments 21 23 The group got an overwhelming response from the audience and won the talent show As a result of their positive experience the group decided to try to turn into a real band They acquired musical instruments from a local pawn shop and proceeded to learn how to play them with Buxton doing most of the teaching as well as much of the early songwriting 23 They soon renamed themselves the Spiders featuring Furnier on lead vocals Buxton on lead guitar Tatum on rhythm guitar Dunaway on bass guitar and Speer on drums 21 In 1966 the Spiders graduated from Cortez High School and after North High School football player Michael Bruce replaced John Tatum on rhythm guitar the band released their second single Don t Blow Your Mind an original composition which became a local No 1 hit backed by No Price Tag 21 By 1967 the band had begun to make regular road trips to Los Angeles to play shows 21 They soon renamed themselves Nazz and released the single Wonder Who s Lovin Her Now backed with future Alice Cooper track Lay Down and Die Goodbye Around this time drummer John Speer was replaced by Neal Smith By the end of the year the band relocated to Los Angeles 21 Name change to Alice Cooper Edit In 1968 the band learned that Todd Rundgren also had a band called Nazz and found themselves in need of another stage name Furnier also believed that the group needed a gimmick to succeed and that other bands were not exploiting the showmanship potential of the stage 21 They chose the name Alice Cooper largely because it sounded innocuous and wholesome in humorous contrast to the band s image and music In his 2007 book Alice Cooper Golf Monster Cooper stated that his look was inspired in part by films One of the band s all time favorite movies was What Ever Happened to Baby Jane 1962 starring Bette Davis In the movie Bette wears disgusting caked makeup smeared on her face and underneath her eyes with deep dark black eyeliner Another movie the band watched over and over was Barbarella 1968 When I saw Anita Pallenberg playing the Great Tyrant in that movie in 1968 wearing long black leather gloves with switchblades coming out of them I thought That s what Alice should look like That and a little bit of Emma Peel from The Avengers 24 The classic Alice Cooper group lineup consisted of Furnier lead guitarist Glen Buxton rhythm guitarist Michael Bruce bassist Dennis Dunaway and drummer Neal Smith 21 With the exception of Smith who graduated from Camelback High School which is referred to in the song Alma Mater on the band s fifth studio album School s Out all of the band members were on the Cortez High School cross country team 25 Cooper Buxton and Dunaway were also art students and their admiration for the works of surrealist artists such as Salvador Dali would further inspire their future stage antics 26 One night after an unsuccessful gig at the Cheetah club in Venice Los Angeles where the band emptied the entire room of patrons after playing just ten minutes they were approached and enlisted by music manager Shep Gordon who saw the band s negative impact that night as a force that could be turned in a more productive direction 21 Shep then arranged an audition for the band with composer and renowned record producer Frank Zappa who was looking to sign bizarre music acts to his new record label Straight Records 21 For the audition Zappa told them to come to his house at 7 o clock The band mistakenly assumed he meant 7 o clock in the morning Being woken up by a band willing to play that particular brand of psychedelic rock at seven in the morning impressed Zappa enough for him to sign them to a three album deal Another Zappa signed act the all female GTOs who liked to dress the Cooper boys up like full size Barbie dolls played a major role in developing the band s early onstage look 27 fn 2 Cooper s debut studio album Pretties for You 1969 was eclectic and featured an experimental presentation of their songs in a psychedelic context Alice Cooper s shock rock reputation apparently developed almost by accident at first An unrehearsed stage routine involving Cooper a feather pillow and a live chicken garnered attention from the press the band decided to capitalize on the tabloid sensationalism creating in the process a new subgenre shock rock 21 Cooper claims that the infamous Chicken Incident at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival concert in September 1969 was an accident 21 A chicken somehow made its way onto the stage into the feathers of a feather pillow they would open during Cooper s performance and not having any experience with farm animals Cooper presumed that because the chicken had wings it would be able to fly 21 28 He picked it up and threw it out over the crowd expecting it to fly away The chicken instead plummeted into the first few rows occupied by wheelchair users who reportedly proceeded to tear the bird to pieces fn 3 The next day the incident made the front page of national newspapers and Zappa phoned Cooper and asked if the story which reported that he had bitten off the chicken s head and drunk its blood on stage was true Cooper denied the rumor whereupon Zappa told him Well whatever you do don t tell anyone you didn t do it 21 29 fn 4 The band later claimed that this period was highly influenced by Pink Floyd especially their debut studio album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn 1967 the only Pink Floyd album made under the leadership of founding member Syd Barrett lead vocals and guitar Glen Buxton said he could listen to Barrett s guitar for hours at a time 30 Alice Cooper band in 1970s 1970 1975 Edit Cooper performing in 1972 Despite the publicity from the chicken incident the band s second studio album Easy Action produced by David Briggs and released in June 1970 fared even worse than its predecessor entirely failing to chart within the Billboard Top 200 Around this time fed up with Californians indifference to their act they relocated to Pontiac Michigan where their bizarre stage act was much better received by Midwestern crowds accustomed to the proto punk styles of local bands such as the Stooges and the MC5 Despite this Cooper still managed to receive a cream pie in the face when performing at the Cincinnati Pop Festival Michigan would remain their steady home base until 1972 L A just didn t get it Cooper stated They were all on the wrong drug for us They were on acid and we were basically drinking beer We fit much more in Detroit than we did anywhere else 31 Alice Cooper appeared at the Woodstock esque Strawberry Fields Festival near Toronto Ontario in August 1970 The band s mix of glam and increasingly violent stage theatrics stood out in stark contrast to the bearded denim clad hippie bands of the time 32 As Cooper himself stated We were into fun sex death and money when everybody was into peace and love We wanted to see what was next It turned out we were next and we drove a stake through the heart of the Love Generation 33 In autumn 1970 the Alice Cooper group teamed with producer Bob Ezrin for the recording of their third studio album Love It to Death This was the final album in their Straight Records contract and the band s last chance to create a hit That first success came with the single I m Eighteen released in November 1970 which reached number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1971 Not long after the album s release in January 1971 Warner Bros Records purchased Alice Cooper s contract from Straight and re issued the album giving the group a higher level of promotion 34 Love It to Death proved to be their breakthrough studio album reaching number 35 on the U S Billboard 200 album charts It would be the first of 11 fn 5 Alice Cooper group and solo albums produced by Ezrin who is widely seen as being pivotal in helping to create and develop the band s definitive sound 35 The group s 1971 tour featured a stage show involving mock fights and gothic torture modes being imposed on Cooper climaxing in a staged execution by electric chair with the band sporting tight sequined color contrasting glam rock style costumes made by prominent rock fashion designer Cindy Dunaway sister of band member Neal Smith and wife of band member Dennis Dunaway Cooper s androgynous stage role had developed to present a villainous side portraying a potential threat to modern society The success of the band s single and album and their tour of 1971 which included their first tour of Europe audience members reportedly included Elton John and a pre Ziggy Stardust David Bowie provided enough encouragement for Warner Bros to offer the band a new multi album contract citation needed Their follow up studio album Killer released in November 1971 continued the commercial success of Love It to Death and included further single success with Under My Wheels Be My Lover in early 1972 and Halo of Flies which became a Top 10 hit in the Netherlands in 1973 Thematically Killer expanded on the villainous side of Cooper s androgynous stage role with its music becoming the soundtrack to the group s morality based stage show which by then featured a boa constrictor hugging Cooper on stage the murderous axe chopping of bloodied baby dolls and execution by hanging at the gallows In January 1972 Cooper was again asked about his peculiar name and told talk show hostess Dinah Shore that he took the name from a Mayberry RFD character citation needed The summer of 1972 saw the release of the single School s Out It went Top 10 in the U S and to number 1 in the UK and remains a staple on classic rock radio to this day The studio album School s Out reached No 2 on the US charts and sold over a million copies The band relocated to their new mansion in Greenwich Connecticut 36 With Cooper s on stage androgynous persona completely replaced with brattiness and machismo the band solidified their success with subsequent tours in the United States and Europe and won over devoted fans in droves while at the same time horrifying parents and outraging the social establishment citation needed In the United Kingdom Mary Whitehouse a Christian morality campaigner persuaded the BBC to ban the video for School s Out 37 although Whitehouse s campaign did not prevent the single also reaching number one in the UK Cooper sent her a bunch of flowers in gratitude for the publicity 38 Meanwhile British Labour Member of Parliament Leo Abse petitioned Home Secretary Reginald Maudling to have the group banned altogether from performing in the country 39 The group in 1973 In February 1973 Billion Dollar Babies was released worldwide and became the band s most commercially successful studio album reaching No 1 in both the US and UK Elected a late 1972 Top 10 UK hit from the album which inspired one of the first MTV style story line promo videos ever made for a song three years before Queen s promotional video for Bohemian Rhapsody was followed by two more UK Top 10 singles Hello Hooray and No More Mr Nice Guy the latter of which was the last UK single from the album it reached No 25 in the US 40 The title track featuring guest vocals by Donovan was also a US hit single Around this time Glen Buxton left Alice Cooper briefly because of waning health 41 With a string of successful concept albums and several hit singles the band continued their grueling schedule and toured the United States again Continued attempts by politicians and pressure groups to ban their shocking act only served to fuel the legend of Alice Cooper further and generate even greater public interest citation needed Their 1973 US tour broke box office records previously set by the Rolling Stones and raised rock theatrics to new heights the multi level stage show by then featured numerous special effects including Billion Dollar Bills decapitated baby dolls and mannequins a dental psychosis scene complete with dancing teeth and the ultimate execution prop and highlight of the show the guillotine The guillotine and other stage effects were designed for the band by magician James Randi who appeared on stage during some of the shows as executioner In 2012 at Dragon Con Randi and Cooper discussed their working relationship during this period 42 The Alice Cooper group had now reached its peak and it was among the most visible and successful acts in the industry Beneath the surface however the repetitive schedule of recording and touring had begun to take its toll on the band citation needed Muscle of Love released at the end of 1973 was to be the last studio album from the classic lineup and marked Alice Cooper s last UK Top 20 single of the 1970s with Teenage Lament 74 An unsolicited theme song was recorded for the James Bond spy film The Man with the Golden Gun 1974 but a different song of the same name by Lulu was chosen instead By 1974 the Muscle of Love album still had not matched the top charting success of its predecessor and the band began to have constant disagreements For various reasons the members agreed to take what was expected to be a temporary hiatus Everyone decided they needed a rest from one another said manager Shep Gordon at the time A lot of pressure had built up but it s nothing that can t be dealt with Everybody still gets together and talks Journalist Bob Greene spent several weeks on the road with the band during the Muscle of Love Christmas Tour in 1973 His book Billion Dollar Baby released in November 1974 painted a less than flattering picture of the band showing a group in total disharmony 43 Cooper later wrote an autobiography with Steven Gaines called Me Alice 1976 which gave Cooper s version of that era of his career among other things 44 In the 1970s Cooper founded a celebrity drinking club the Hollywood Vampires headquartered at the Rainbow Bar and Grill in West Hollywood California During this time Cooper relocated back to Los Angeles and started appearing regularly on television shows such as The Hollywood Squares and Warner Bros released the Greatest Hits compilation album It featured classic style artwork and reached the US Top 10 performing better than Muscle of Love However the band s 1974 feature film Good to See You Again Alice Cooper consisting mainly of 1973 concert footage with comedic sketches woven throughout to a faint storyline released on a minor cinematic run mostly to drive in theaters saw little box office success On March 5 1974 Cooper appeared on episode 3 of The Snoop Sisters playing a Satanic cult singer The final shows by Alice Cooper as a group were in Brazil in March and April 1974 including the record indoor attendance estimated as high as 158 000 fans in Sao Paulo on March 30 at the Anhembi Exposition Hall at the start of the first ever South American rock tour 45 Alice Cooper solo 1975 1980 Edit In 1975 Alice Cooper returned as a solo artist with the release of Welcome to My Nightmare To avoid legal complications over ownership of the group name Alice Cooper had by then become Furnier s new legal name Speaking on the subject of Alice Cooper continuing as a solo project as opposed to the band it once was Cooper stated in 1975 It got very basically down to the fact that we had drawn as much as we could out of each other After ten years we got pretty dry together Manager Gordon added What had started in a sense as a pipe dream became an overwhelming burden 43 The success of Welcome to My Nightmare marked the final breakup of the original members of the band with Cooper collaborating with their producer Bob Ezrin who recruited Lou Reed s backing band including guitarists Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter to play on the album Spearheaded by the US Top 20 hit ballad Only Women Bleed the album was released by Atlantic Records in March of that year and became a Top 10 hit for Cooper It was a concept album that was based on the nightmare of a child named Steven featuring narration by classic horror movie film star Vincent Price and serving as the soundtrack to Cooper s new stage show which now showcased more theatrics than ever including an 8 foot tall 2 4 m furry Cyclops which Cooper decapitated and killed citation needed Accompanying the album and stage show was the television special The Nightmare starring Cooper and Vincent Price which aired on US prime time TV in April 1975 The Nightmare which was later released on home video in 1983 and gained a Grammy Award nomination for Best Long Form Music Video was regarded as another groundbreaking moment in rock history Adding to it all a concert film Welcome to My Nightmare produced directed and choreographed by West Side Story cast member David Winters and filmed live at London s Wembley Arena in September 1975 was released to theaters in 1976 The film was released in a special edition DVD in 2017 46 Such was the immense success of Cooper s solo project that he decided to continue as a solo artist and the original band became officially defunct Bruce Dunaway and Smith would go on to form the short lived band Billion Dollar Babies producing one studio album Battle Axe in 1977 While occasionally performing with one another and Glen Buxton they would not reunite with Alice until October 23 1999 at the second Glen Buxton Memorial Weekend for a show at CoopersTown in Phoenix They reunited for another show with Steve Hunter on guitar on December 16 2010 at the Dodge Theatre in Phoenix 47 This lineup would perform together again televised on March 14 2011 at the induction of the original Alice Cooper group into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as well as on May 11 2011 at London s Battersea Power Station at the Jagermeister Ice Cold 4D event webcast In 2011 Bruce Dunaway and Smith appeared on three tracks they co wrote on Alice s solo studio album Welcome 2 My Nightmare In 2017 they appeared on two tracks they co wrote on Alice s solo studio album Paranormal released in July and in November they joined his current live band for five tour dates in the United Kingdom citation needed Cooper in 1977 Following the 1976 US No 12 ballad hit I Never Cry 35 two studio albums Alice Cooper Goes to Hell and Lace and Whiskey and the 1977 US No 9 ballad hit You and Me it became clear during his 1977 US tour that Cooper was in dire need of help with his alcoholism at his alcoholic peak it was rumored that he was consuming up to two cases of Budweiser beer and a bottle of Seagram s Seven Crown whiskey a day Following the tour Cooper had himself hospitalized in a sanitarium for treatment during which time the live album The Alice Cooper Show was released 48 In 1978 a sobered Cooper used his experience in the sanitarium as the inspiration for his semi autobiographical studio album From the Inside which he co wrote with Bernie Taupin known for his work with Elton John it spawned yet another US Top 20 hit ballad How You Gonna See Me Now The subsequent tour s stage show was based inside an asylum and was filmed for Cooper s first home video release The Strange Case of Alice Cooper in 1979 Around this time Cooper performed Welcome to My Nightmare You and Me and School s Out on The Muppet Show episode 307 on March 28 1978 he played one of the devil s henchmen trying to dupe Kermit Gonzo and Miss Piggy into selling their souls He also appeared in an against typecasting role as a piano playing disco waiter in Mae West s final film Sextette and as a villain in the film Sgt Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band Cooper also led celebrities in raising money to remodel the famous Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles California Cooper himself contributed over 27 000 to the project buying an O in the sign in memory of close friend and comedian Groucho Marx In 1979 Cooper also guest starred on good friend Soupy Sales show Lunch with Soupy Sales and was hit in the face with a pie as part of the show When asked about the experience Cooper had this to say about his friend Being from Detroit I came home every day and watched Soupy at lunch Lunch with Soupy Sales One of the greatest moments of my life was getting pie faced by Soupy He was one of my all time heroes 49 1980s Edit Cooper s studio albums from the beginning of the 1980s have been referred to by Cooper as his blackout albums because he cannot remember recording them owing to the influence of his new and increasing cocaine addiction Flush the Fashion 1980 Special Forces 1981 Zipper Catches Skin 1982 and DaDa 1983 saw a gradual commercial decline with the last two not charting within the Billboard Top 200 Flush the Fashion produced by Roy Thomas Baker known for his work with Queen and the Cars had a thick edgy new wave musical sound that baffled even longtime fans though it still yielded the US Top 40 hit Clones We re All The track also surprisingly charted on the US Disco Top 100 chart Special Forces featured a more aggressive but consistent new wave style and included a new version of Generation Landslide from Billion Dollar Babies 1973 His tour for Special Forces marked Cooper s last time on the road for nearly five years it was not until 1986 for Constrictor that he toured again 1982 s Zipper Catches Skin was a more pop punk oriented recording containing many quirky high energy guitar driven songs along with his most unusual collection of subject matters for lyrics and Patty Donahue of the Waitresses provided guest vocals and sarcasm on the track I Like Girls 1983 marked the return collaboration of producer Bob Ezrin and guitarist Dick Wagner for the haunting epic DaDa the final studio album in his Warner Bros contract 50 In mid 1983 after the recording of DaDa was completed Cooper was hospitalized for alcoholism again and cirrhosis of the liver 51 Cooper was finally stable and sober and has remained sober since that time by the time DaDa and The Nightmare home video of his 1975 TV Special were released in the fall of that year however both releases performed below expectations Even with The Nightmare scoring a nomination for 1984 s Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video he lost to Duran Duran it was not enough for Warner Bros to keep Cooper on their books By February 1984 Cooper became a free agent for the first time in his career 52 Cooper spent a lengthy period away from the music business dealing with personal issues His divorce from Sheryl Cooper was heard at Maricopa County Superior Court Arizona on January 30 1984 but a decision was made by the couple not to move forward with the divorce The following month he guested at the 26th Annual Grammy Awards alongside co presenter Grace Jones Behind the scenes Cooper kept busy musically working on new material in collaboration with Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry The spring of 1984 was taken up with filming Cooper acting in the B grade horror movie Monster Dog filmed in Torrelodones Spain Shortly thereafter he reconciled with Sheryl the couple relocated to Chicago The year closed with more writing sessions this time in New York during November with Hanoi Rocks guitarist Andy McCoy 53 In 1985 he met and began writing songs with guitarist Kane Roberts Cooper was subsequently signed to MCA Records and appeared as guest vocalist on Twisted Sister s song Be Chrool to Your Scuel A video was made for the song featuring actor Luke Perry and Cooper donning his black snake eyes makeup for the first time since 1979 but neither the song nor the video drew public interest 54 In 1986 Alice Cooper officially returned to the music industry with the studio album Constrictor The album spawned the hits He s Back The Man Behind the Mask the theme song for the movie Friday the 13th Part VI Jason Lives in the video for the song Cooper was given a cameo role as a deranged psychiatrist and the fan favorite Teenage Frankenstein The Constrictor album was a catalyst for Cooper to make a triumphant return to the road for the first time since the 1981 Special Forces project on a tour titled The Nightmare Returns The Detroit leg of this tour which took place at the end of October 1986 during Halloween was captured on film as The Nightmare Returns 1987 and is viewed by some as being the definitive Alice Cooper concert film It was released on DVD in 2006 55 The concert which received rave reviews in the rock music press fn 6 was also described by Rolling Stone magazine as bringing Cooper s violent twisted onstage fantasies to a new generation The Constrictor album was followed by Raise Your Fist and Yell in 1987 which had an even rougher sound than its predecessor as well as the Cooper classic Freedom The subsequent tour of Raise Your Fist and Yell which was heavily inspired by the slasher horror movies of the time such as the Friday the 13th series and A Nightmare on Elm Street served up a shocking spectacle similar to its predecessor and courted the kind of controversy especially in Europe that recalled the public outrage caused by Cooper s public performances in America in the early 1970s 56 In Britain Labour MP David Blunkett called for the show to be banned saying I m horrified by his behaviour it goes beyond the bounds of entertainment The controversy spilled over into the German segment of the tour with the German government actually succeeding in having some of the gorier segments of the performance removed 57 It was also during the London leg of the tour that Cooper met with a near fatal accident during rehearsal of the hanging execution sequence that occurs at the end of the show 58 Constrictor 1986 and Raise Your Fist and Yell 1987 were recorded with lead guitarist Kane Roberts and bassist Kip Winger both of whom would leave the band by the end of 1988 although Kane Roberts played guitar on Bed of Nails on Cooper s 1989 studio album Trash In 1987 Cooper made a brief appearance as a vagrant in the supernatural horror film Prince of Darkness directed by John Carpenter His role had no lines and consisted of generally menacing the protagonists before eventually impaling one of them with a bicycle frame 59 Also in 1987 Cooper appeared at WrestleMania III escorting wrestler Jake The Snake Roberts to the ring for his match against The Honky Tonk Man After the match which Roberts lost ended Cooper got involved and threw Jake s snake Damien at Honky s manager Jimmy Hart Roberts considered the involvement of Cooper to be an honor as he had idolized Cooper in his youth and was still a huge fan WrestleMania III which attracted a WWF record 93 173 fans was held in the Pontiac Silverdome near Cooper s home town of Detroit 60 Cooper recorded a music video for the Poison B side I Got a Line on You after the song was featured on the soundtrack to Iron Eagle II 1988 61 On April 7 1988 Cooper nearly died of asphyxiation after a safety rope broke during a rehearsal concert wherein he pretended to hang himself a stunt he would often perform during live concerts 62 63 In 1988 Cooper s contract with MCA Records expired and he signed with Epic Records Then in 1989 his career finally experienced a legitimate revival with the Desmond Child produced and Grammy nominated studio album Trash which spawned a hit single Poison which reached No 2 in the UK and No 7 in the US and a worldwide arena tour 64 1990s Edit In 1991 Cooper released his nineteenth studio album Hey Stoopid featuring several notable rock musicians guesting on the record Released as glam metal s popularity was on the wane and just before the explosion of grunge it failed to have the same commercial impact as its predecessor The same year also saw the release of the video Alice Cooper Prime Cuts which chronicled his entire career using in depth interviews with Cooper himself Bob Ezrin and Shep Gordon One critic has noted that Prime Cuts demonstrates how Cooper had used in contrast to similar artists who succeeded him themes of satire and moralization to such good effect throughout his career 65 It was in the Prime Cuts video that Bob Ezrin delivered his own summation of the Alice Cooper persona He is the psycho killer in all of us He s the axe murderer he s the spoiled child he s the abuser he s the abused he s the perpetrator he s the victim he s the gun slinger and he s the guy lying dead in the middle of the street 66 During the early 1990s Cooper guested on records by the most successful bands of the time such as the Guns N Roses third studio album Use Your Illusion I on which he shared vocal duties with Axl Rose on the track The Garden He also had a brief appearance as the abusive stepfather of Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street slasher film Freddy s Dead The Final Nightmare 1991 67 Cooper made a cameo appearance in the 1992 comedy film Wayne s World Cooper and his band first appear on stage performing Feed My Frankenstein from their studio album Hey Stoopid Afterwards at a backstage party the movie s main characters Wayne Cambell and Garth Algar discover that when offstage Cooper is a calm articulate intellectual as he and his band discuss the history of Milwaukee in depth Wayne and Garth respond to an invitation to hang out with Cooper by kneeling and bowing reverently before him while chanting We re not worthy We re not worthy 68 In 1994 Cooper released The Last Temptation his first concept album since DaDa 1983 The album deals with issues of faith temptation alienation and the frustrations of modern life and has been described as a young man s struggle to see the truth through the distractions of the Sideshow of the modern world 69 Concurrent with the release of The Last Temptation was a three part comic book series written by Neil Gaiman fleshing out the album s story This was to be Cooper s last album with Epic Records since according to Brian Renfield Nelson Cooper s personal assistant Alice was interested in going to Hollywood Records even before The Last Temptation was released because Bob Pfeifer who originally signed Alice to Epic was now the President of Hollywood Records After The Last Temptation was finished Alice requested that Sony Epic let him go so that he could make the switch to Hollywood He just wanted to go where his friends are and was his last studio release for six years though during this period the live album A Fistful of Alice 1997 70 was released and in 1997 he lent his voice to the intro track of Insane Clown Posse s The Great Milenko 71 During his absence from the recording studio Cooper toured extensively every year throughout the latter part of the 1990s including in 1996 South America which he had not visited since 1974 Also in 1996 Cooper sang the role of Herod on the London cast recording of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar 72 In 1999 the four disc box set The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper appeared which contained the authorized biography 73 of Cooper Alcohol and Razor Blades Poison and Needles The Glorious Wretched Excess of Alice Cooper All American written by Creem magazine editor Jeffrey Morgan 74 2000s Edit Cooper in 2006 The first decade of the 21st century saw a sustained period of activity from Alice Cooper the decade in which he would turn sixty He toured extensively releasing a steady stream of studio albums to favorable critical acclaim Beginning in 2000 with Brutal Planet a return to horror filled heavy metal industrial rock set in a dystopian post apocalyptic future inspired by our brutal modern world and a number of current news stories appearing on CNN 75 The album was produced by Bob Marlette with longtime Cooper production collaborator Bob Ezrin returning as executive producer The accompanying world tour which included Cooper s first concert in Russia also resulted in Brutally Live 2000 a DVD of a concert recorded in London England on July 19 2000 76 Cooper made a guest appearance on a 2001 3rd season episode of That 70s Show Radio Daze in which he partakes in a game of Dungeons amp Dragons 77 Brutal Planet was succeeded by the sonically similar and acclaimed sequel Dragontown 2001 which saw Bob Ezrin back as producer The album has been described as leading the listener down a nightmarish path into the mind of rock s original conceptual storyteller 78 and by Cooper himself as being the worst town on Brutal Planet Like The Last Temptation both Brutal Planet and Dragontown are albums which explore Cooper s born again Christianity It is often cited in the music media that Dragontown forms the third chapter in a trilogy begun with The Last Temptation 79 however Cooper has indicated that this in fact is not the case 80 Cooper again adopted a leaner cleaner sound for his critically acclaimed 2003 release The Eyes of Alice Cooper 81 Recognizing that many contemporary bands were having great success with his former sounds and styles Cooper worked with a somewhat younger group of road and studio musicians who were familiar with his oeuvre of old The resulting Bare Bones tour adopted a less orchestrated performance style that had fewer theatrical flourishes and a greater emphasis on musicality 82 Cooper s radio show Nights with Alice Cooper began airing on January 26 2004 in several US cities The program showcases classic rock Cooper s personal stories about his life as a rock icon and interviews with prominent rock artists 83 The show is broadcast on nearly 100 stations in the US and Canada and has been broadcast internationally 84 A continuation of the songwriting approach adopted on The Eyes of Alice Cooper was again adopted by Cooper for his seventeenth solo studio album Dirty Diamonds released in 2005 Dirty Diamonds became Cooper s highest charting album since 1994 s The Last Temptation at the time 85 The Dirty Diamonds tour launched in America in August 2005 after several European concerts including a performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland on July 12 Cooper and his band including Kiss drummer Eric Singer were filmed for a DVD released as Alice Cooper Live at Montreux 2005 2006 One critic in a review of the Montreux release commented that Cooper was to be applauded for still mining pretty much the same territory of teenage angst and rebellion as he had done more than 30 years previously 86 In December 2006 the original Alice Cooper band reunited to perform six classic Alice Cooper songs at Cooper s annual charity event in Phoenix entitled Christmas Pudding fn 7 On July 1 2007 Cooper performed a duet with Marilyn Manson at the B Estival event in Bucharest Romania 87 The performance represented a reconciliation between the two artists Cooper had previously taken issue with Manson over his overtly anti Christian on stage antics and had sarcastically made reference to the originality of Manson s choosing a female name and dressing in women s clothing 75 Cooper and Manson have been the subject of an academic paper on the significance of adolescent antiheroes 88 In January 2008 Cooper was one of the guest singers on Avantasia s third studio album The Scarecrow singing the seventh track The Toy Master In July 2008 after lengthy delays Cooper released Along Came a Spider his eighteenth solo studio studio album It was Cooper s highest charting album since 1991 s Hey Stoopid reaching No 53 in the US and No 31 in the UK The album visiting similar territory explored in 1987 s Raise Your Fist and Yell deals with the nefarious antics of a deranged serial killer named Spider who is on a quest to use the limbs of his victims to create a human spider The album generally received positive reviews from music critics though Rolling Stone magazine opined that the music on the record sorely missed Bob Ezrin s production values 89 The resulting Theatre of Death tour of the album during which Cooper is executed on four separate occasions was described in a long November 2009 article about Cooper in The Times as epic and featuring enough fake blood to remake Saving Private Ryan citation needed During this period Cooper was also recognized and awarded in various ways given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003 90 in May 2004 he received an honorary doctoral degree from Grand Canyon University 91 In June 2005 he was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame 92 In May 2006 he was given the key to the city of Alice North Dakota 93 He won the living legend award at the 2006 Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards event 94 and he won the 2007 Mojo music magazine Hero Award 95 He received a Rock Immortal award at the 2007 Scream Awards 96 Cooper appeared on the British TV series Room 101 where a balloon model of him was featured https www instagram com p BjqRVnEhsK4 hl en 2010s and 2020s Edit Cooper performing at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium in Helsinki Finland 2011 In January 2010 it was announced that Cooper would be touring with Rob Zombie on The Gruesome Twosome Tour 97 In May 2010 Cooper made an appearance during the beginning of the season finale of the singing competition show American Idol in which he sang School s Out 98 Cooper performing live at Wembley Arena in London England 2012 With his daughter and former band member Dick Wagner Cooper scored the music for the indie horror flick Silas Gore 2010 99 During 2010 Cooper began working on a new studio album dubbed Welcome 2 My Nightmare a sequel to the original Welcome to My Nightmare 1975 100 In a Radio Metal interview he said that We ll put some of the original people on it and add some new people I m very happy with working with Bob Ezrin again 100 On December 15 2010 it was announced Cooper and his former band would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The induction ceremony took place March 14 2011 where Cooper was inducted by fellow horror rocker Rob Zombie Original members Bruce Cooper Dunaway and Smith all made brief acceptance speeches and performed I m Eighteen and School s Out live together with Steve Hunter filling in for the late Glen Buxton Cooper showed up for the event wearing a presumably fake blood splattered shirt and had a live albino Burmese python wrapped around his neck 101 102 Cooper told Rolling Stone magazine that he was elated by the news and that the nomination had been made for the original band as We all did go to the same high school together and we were all on the track team and it was pretty cool that guys that knew each other before the band ended up going that far 103 On March 10 2011 Jackson Browne David Crosby Graham Nash Cooper Jennifer Warnes and others performed at a benefit concert in Tucson Arizona benefiting The Fund for Civility Respect and Understanding a foundation that raises awareness about and provides medical prevention and treatment services to people with mental disorders 104 In June 2011 Cooper took his place in the Reasonably Priced Car at the BBC motoring show Top Gear 105 On June 9 2011 Cooper was awarded the Kerrang Icon Award at Kerrang magazine s annual awards show Cooper used the opportunity to hit out at the anaemic rock music that dominates the charts and said he has no intention of retiring from the industry 106 Cooper supported Iron Maiden on their Maiden England World Tour from June to July 21 2012 107 and then headlined Bloodstock Open Air on Sunday August 12 108 On September 16 2012 Cooper appeared at the Sunflower Jam charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall London performing alongside Brian May lead guitarist of Queen bassist John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin drummer Ian Paice of Deep Purple and Iron Maiden lead vocalist Bruce Dickinson 109 Cooper cameos as himself in the 2012 Tim Burton adaptation of Dark Shadows that starred Johnny Depp Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter In the film Depp s character Barnabas Collins assumes his name to be that of a woman describes Alice as the ugliest woman he has ever seen 110 In 2013 Cooper announced that he had finished recording a covers album based on songs by his rock star drinking buddies in the 1970s who had since died from excess and that it was scheduled for a spring 2014 release 111 Later he announced that the album would likely be released in 2015 112 On January 28 2014 it was officially revealed that Alice Cooper would be the opening act for Motley Crue s final tour which would span throughout 2014 and 2015 Cooper was featured on the song Savages on Theory of a Deadman s fifth studio album 113 Cooper was the subject of Super Duper Alice Cooper a biographical documentary film by Canadian directors Sam Dunn Scot McFadyen and Reginald Harkema 114 The film won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015 115 In October Cooper released the live album and video Raise the Dead Live from Wacken which was recorded at Germany s Wacken heavy metal festival the previous year 116 In 2015 Cooper premiered Hollywood Vampires a supergroup featuring Johnny Depp and Joe Perry with a new studio album of rock covers featuring many guest artists including Paul McCartney and live dates at L A s Roxy Theatre and at Brazil s Rock in Rio festival in September In 2016 Cooper made headlines again as he resumed his running gag of campaigning for the US presidency 117 Cooper featured as a co headliner with Deep Purple and Edgar Winter for several tour dates from August to early September 2017 118 Cooper released his twentieth solo studio album Paranormal in July 2017 It featured contributions from drummer Larry Mullen Jr of U2 Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top on guitar and Roger Glover from Deep Purple on bass guitar Guitarists Tommy Denander and Tommy Henriksen contributed most of the guitars citation needed Cooper performing live at Caesars Windsor in Windsor Ontario 2022 On Easter Sunday 2018 Cooper performed as Herod in NBC s live performance of Andrew Lloyd Weber s Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert 119 Reviews were positive with The New York Times critic Noel Murray praising Alice Cooper s magnificently scenery chewing performance as a startling moment of clarity 120 and Lorraine Ali of the Los Angeles Times describing his performance as Weird Yes but also perfect in a campy dramatic and evil Billion Dollar Babies kind of way Cooper s part was small but indelible 121 Cooper had previously recorded the song though not performed it live in 2000 with the 1996 London revival cast 122 Cooper released his twenty first solo studio album Detroit Stories on February 26 2021 123 In May he announced a fall tour to promote the album supported by Ace Frehley which began in September 2021 124 Cooper wrote the afterword to Jeffrey Morgan s autobiography Rock Critic Confidential which was published by New Haven on June 28 2021 125 Cooper participated as a judge on the music competition television show No Cover season 1 that started to be aired in the Sumerian Records YouTube Channel in April 2022 126 On July 11 2022 touring guitarist Nita Strauss announced she had departed the band 127 A few days later it was announced Kane Roberts had rejoined the band replacing Strauss 128 On March 6 2023 it was announced Nita Strauss had rejoined the band 129 Cooper presents a show five weekdays on the UK s Planet Rock Style and influences EditDuring an interview for the program Entertainment USA in 1986 Cooper told interviewer Jonathan King that the Yardbirds were his favorite band of all time 130 Cooper had as far back as 1969 said that it was music from the mid sixties and particularly from British bands the Beatles the Who and the Rolling Stones as well as the Yardbirds that had the greatest influence on him 131 Cooper would later pay homage to the Who by singing I m a Boy for A Celebration The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who in 1994 at Carnegie Hall in New York and performing a cover version of My Generation on the Brutal Planet tour of 2000 During an interview with Ozzy Osbourne from radio program Nights with Alice Cooper on May 22 2007 Cooper again affirmed his debt of gratitude to these bands and to the Beatles in particular During their discussion Cooper and Osbourne bemoaned the often inferior quality of songwriting coming from contemporary rock artists Cooper stated that in his opinion the cause of the problem was that certain modern bands had forgotten to listen to the Beatles citation needed Arthur Brown was a major influence on Cooper During live performances and in the promotional video Brown performed the 1968 song Fire wearing black and white makeup corpse paint and a burning headpiece 132 133 On seeing shock rock pioneer Arthur Brown performing his US number two hit Fire in 1968 Cooper states Can you imagine the young Alice Cooper watching that with all his make up and hellish performance It was like all my Halloweens came at once 134 A 2014 article on Alice Cooper in The Guardian mentioned Arthur Brown and his flaming helmet British rock always was more theatrical than its US counterpart Often this involved destruction or macabre gimmickry with Cooper responding That s why most people thought we were British at first 135 Evidence of Cooper s eclectic tastes in classic and contemporary rock music can be seen in the track listings of his radio show in addition when he appeared on the BBC Radio 2 program Tracks of My Years in September 2007 he listed his favorite tracks of all time as being 19th Nervous Breakdown 1966 by the Rolling Stones Turning Japanese 1980 by the Vapors My Sharona 1979 by the Knack Beds Are Burning 1987 by Midnight Oil My Generation 1965 by the Who Welcome to the Jungle 1987 by Guns N Roses Rebel Rebel 1974 by David Bowie Over Under Sideways Down 1966 by the Yardbirds Are You Gonna Be My Girl 2003 by Jet and A Hard Day s Night 1964 by the Beatles 136 and when he appeared on Desert Island Discs in 2010 he chose the songs Happenings Ten Years Time Ago by the Yardbirds I Get Around by the Beach Boys I m a Boy by the Who Timer by Laura Nyro 21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson Been Caught Stealing by Jane s Addiction Work Song by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Ballad of a Thin Man by Bob Dylan 137 Rob Zombie former lead vocalist of White Zombie claims his first metal moment was seeing Alice Cooper on Don Kirshner s Rock Concert 138 139 Zombie has also claimed to have been heavily influenced by Cooper s costumes 24 In a 1978 interview with Rolling Stone Bob Dylan stated I think Alice Cooper is an overlooked songwriter 140 In the foreword to Alice Cooper s CD retrospective box set The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper John Lydon of the Sex Pistols pronounced Killer 1971 as the greatest rock album of all time and in 2002 Lydon presented his own tribute program to Cooper on BBC radio Lydon told the BBC that I know the words to every Alice Cooper song The fact is if you can call what I have a musical career it all started with me miming to I m Eighteen on a jukebox 141 The Flaming Lips are longtime Alice Cooper fans and used the bassline from Levity Ball an early song from the 1969 release Pretties for You for their song The Ceiling Is Bending They also covered Sun Arise for an Alice Cooper tribute album Cooper s version which closes the album Love It to Death was itself a cover of a Rolf Harris song 142 In 1999 Cleopatra Records released Humanary Stew A Tribute to Alice Cooper featuring a number of contributions from rock and metal all star collaborations including Dave Mustaine of Megadeth Roger Daltrey of the Who Ronnie James Dio Slash of Guns N Roses Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden and Steve Jones of Sex Pistols Sonic net described it as intriguing combinations of artists and material while AllMusic noted the novel approach will definitely hold interested listeners attention 143 144 A song by alternative rock group They Might Be Giants from their fifth studio album John Henry 1994 titled Why Must I Be Sad mentions 13 Cooper songs and has been described as being from the perspective of a kid who hears all of his unspoken sadness given voice in the music of Alice Cooper Alice says everything the kid has been wishing he could say about his alienated frustrated teenage world 145 Unlikely non musician fans of Cooper have included comedian Groucho Marx and actress Mae West who both reportedly saw the early shows as a form of vaudeville revue 146 and artist Salvador Dali who on attending a show in 1973 described it as being surreal and made a hologram First Cylindric Chromo Hologram Portrait of Alice Cooper s Brain 147 fn 8 Personal life EditIn the early 1970s a story was widely reported that Leave It to Beaver actor Ken Osmond had become rock star Alice Cooper According to Cooper the rumor began when a college newspaper editor asked him what kind of child he was to which Cooper replied I was obnoxious disgusting a real Eddie Haskell referring to the fictional character Osmond portrayed However the editor ended up reporting that Cooper was the real Haskell Cooper later told the New Times It was the biggest rumor that ever came out about me Finally I got a T shirt that said No I am not Eddie Haskell But people still believed it 148 On June 20 2005 ahead of his June July 2005 tour Cooper had a wide ranging interview with interviewer of celebrities Andrew Denton for the Australian ABC TV s Enough Rope Cooper discussed various issues during the talk including the horrors of acute alcoholism and his subsequent cure being a Christian and his social and work relationship with his family 146 During the interview Cooper remarked I look at Mick Jagger and he s on an 18 month tour and he s six years older than me so I figure when he retires I have six more years I will not let him beat me when it comes to longevity 146 Cooper frequently refers to himself in the third person as Alice as a way to distance himself from his stage persona 149 Marriage and relationships Edit In the period when the Alice Cooper group was signed to Frank Zappa s Straight label Miss Christine of the GTOs became Cooper s girlfriend Miss Christine real name Christine Frka who had recommended Zappa to the group died on November 5 1972 of an overdose fn 9 Another long time girlfriend of Cooper s was Cindy Lang 150 with whom he lived for several years After his separation from Lang Cooper was briefly linked with actress Raquel Welch although according to Dick Wagner Cooper rejected Welch s advances 149 Cooper ended up marrying ballerina instructor and choreographer Sheryl Goddard who performed in the Alice Cooper show from 1975 to 1982 They married on March 20 1976 In November 1983 at the height of Cooper s alcoholism Goddard filed for divorce but by mid 1984 she and Cooper had reconciled 151 they have three children daughters Sonora and Calico and son Dashiell 152 In a 2002 television interview Cooper stated that he had never cheated on his wife the entire time they had been together In the same interview he also said that the secret to a lasting and successful relationship is to continue going out on dates with one s partner 153 In a 2019 interview Cooper said that he and his wife Sheryl have a death pact wherein they will die at the same time sparking a flurry of headlines 154 But Cooper clarified his comments telling USA Today What I was meaning was that because we re almost always together at home and on the road that if something did happen to either of us we d most likely be together at the time But neither of us has a suicide pact We have a life pact 155 Drugs and alcohol use Edit In 1986 thrash metal band Megadeth opened for Cooper on their US Constrictor tour After noticing the abuse of alcohol and other drugs by Megadeth band members Cooper personally approached the band to try to help them control their abuse He has stayed close to lead vocalist Dave Mustaine who considers Cooper to be his godfather 156 Since overcoming his own addiction to alcohol in the mid 1980s Cooper has continued to help and counsel other rock musicians with addiction problems I ve made myself very available to friends of mine they re people who would call me late at night and say Between you and me I ve got a problem In recognition of the work he has done in helping other addicts in the recovery process Cooper received in 2008 the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award at the fourth annual MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert in Los Angeles 157 Religion Edit During an interview with Johnnie Walker on BBC Radio 2 in September 2007 Cooper said that he was not a Christian when he gave up drinking but stated that he thanks God for taking it away saying I mean if He God can part the Red Sea and create the universe He can certainly take alcoholism away from somebody 158 Although he originally did not speak publicly about his religious beliefs Cooper was later vocal about his faith as a born again Christian 159 160 Politics Edit Throughout his career Cooper s philosophy regarding politics is that politics should not be mixed with rock music Cooper has usually kept his political views to himself and in 2010 said I am extremely non political I go out of my way to be non political I m probably the biggest moderate you know When John Lennon and Harry Nilsson used to argue politics I was sitting right in the middle of them and I was the guy who was going I don t care When my parents would start talking politics I would go in my room and put on the Rolling Stones or the Who as long as I could avoid politics And I still feel that way 103 On occasion Cooper has spoken out against musicians who promote or opine on politics for example in the build up to the 2004 presidential election he told The Canadian Press that the rock stars campaigning for and touring on behalf of Democratic candidate John Kerry were committing treason against rock n roll He added upon seeing a list of musicians who supported Kerry If I wasn t already a Bush supporter I would have immediately switched Linda Ronstadt Don Henley Geez that s a good reason right there to vote for Bush 161 fn 10 In December 2018 Cooper predicted that the next U S president would be worse than then president Donald Trump while arguing that musicians talking politics to their fans was an abuse of power 162 Every four years since releasing his single Elected in 1972 Cooper has satirically run for president 117 Sports Edit Cooper is a fan of both the NHL s Detroit Red Wings and Arizona Coyotes 163 On February 18 2012 the Coyotes gave away his bobblehead in a promotion for the first 10 000 fans for a game with the Dallas Stars 164 165 Cooper is a longtime baseball fan supporting the Arizona Diamondbacks and Detroit Tigers As a child he dreamed of playing left field in the Tigers outfield alongside Tigers Hall of Famer Al Kaline He has coached Little League baseball teams since his son played in the early 1990s 166 Cooper is also a fan of NBA basketball supporting both the Detroit Pistons and the Phoenix Suns 167 168 Cooper is an avid golfer and says that the sport helped him play a major role in overcoming his addiction to alcohol 169 and has even gone so far as to say that when he took up golf it was a case of replacing one addiction with another 170 171 The importance that the game has had in his life is also reflected in the title to his 2007 autobiography Alice Cooper Golf Monster 172 Cooper who has participated in a number of pro am competitions fn 11 plays the game six days a week off a handicap of four 25 He also through golf enjoyed an unlikely friendship with country guitarist and singer Glen Campbell after they became neighbours playing together nearly every other day 173 Cooper has also appeared in commercials for Callaway Golf equipment and was a guest of veteran British player and broadcaster Peter Alliss on A Golfer s Travels 174 He wrote the foreword to the Gary McCord book Ryder Cup and participated in the second All Star Cup in Newport Wales 175 In popular culture Edit Cooper a fan of The Simpsons was asked to contribute a storyline for the September 2004 edition of Bongo Comics s Bart Simpson s Treehouse of Horror a special Monsters of Rock issue that also included stories plotted by Gene Simmons Rob Zombie and Pat Boone 176 In October 1979 Cooper was featured in the Marvel comic book Marvel Premiere Volume 1 Number 50 loosely adapting his From the Inside studio album 177 178 Cooper is also the subject of the We re not worthy meme which was popularized during his cameo in Wayne s World with Mike Myers and Dana Carvey in 1992 179 Cooper contributed his likeness and over 700 voice lines to Alice Cooper s Nightmare Castle a pinball machine released in 2018 by Spooky Pinball that also features ten songs performed by Cooper Only 500 machines were made 180 On October 7 2021 Play n GO released Alice Cooper and the Tome of Madness 181 a web based game This branded game features voice lines especially recorded by Cooper in addition to this it boasts an animated version of Cooper as well as the song Welcome to My Nightmare Solo band members EditMain article List of Alice Cooper solo band members Alice Cooper and his solo band performing live in London 2012 Current members Alice Cooper lead vocals harmonica guitar percussion synthesizer 1974 present Ryan Roxie lead and rhythm guitar backing vocals 1996 2006 2012 present Chuck Garric bass guitar backing vocals 2002 present Tommy Henriksen rhythm and lead guitar backing vocals 2011 present Glen Sobel drums percussion 2011 present Nita Strauss lead and rhythm guitar backing vocals 2014 2022 2023 present Former members Dick Wagner guitar bass guitar 1975 1979 1982 1983 Steve Hunter guitar 1975 1979 2011 Erik Scott bass guitar 1980 1982 Kane Roberts lead and rhythm guitar backing vocals 1985 1988 2022 2023 David Rosenberg drums 1985 1986 Kip Winger bass guitar keyboards backing vocals 1985 1987 Paul Taylor keyboards 1986 1987 Ken Mary drums 1986 1988 John McCurry lead and rhythm guitar 1988 1989 Al Pitrelli lead guitar and music director 1989 1991 Hugh Mcdonald bass guitar 1988 1991 Orianthi lead and rhythm guitar backing vocals 2011 2014 Discography EditMain article Alice Cooper discography Band studio albums Pretties for You 1969 Easy Action 1970 Love It to Death 1971 Killer 1971 School s Out 1972 Billion Dollar Babies 1973 Muscle of Love 1973 Solo studio albums Welcome to My Nightmare 1975 Alice Cooper Goes to Hell 1976 Lace and Whiskey 1977 From the Inside 1978 Flush the Fashion 1980 Special Forces 1981 Zipper Catches Skin 1982 DaDa 1983 Constrictor 1986 Raise Your Fist and Yell 1987 Trash 1989 Hey Stoopid 1991 The Last Temptation 1994 Brutal Planet 2000 Dragontown 2001 The Eyes of Alice Cooper 2003 Dirty Diamonds 2005 Along Came a Spider 2008 Welcome 2 My Nightmare 2011 Paranormal 2017 Detroit Stories 2021 Tours EditPretties for You Tour 1968 1970 Easy Action Tour 1970 1971 Love It to Death Tour 1971 Killer Tour 1971 1972 School s Out for Summer 72 Tour 1972 Billion Dollar Babies Tour 1973 1974 Welcome to My Nightmare Tour 1975 1977 King of the Silver Screen Tour 1977 School s Out for Summer 78 Tour 1978 1979 Madhouse Rocks Tour 1979 Flush the Fashion Tour 1980 Special Forces Tour 1981 1982 The Nightmare Returns Tour 1986 1987 Live in the Flesh Tour 1987 1988 Trash Tour 1989 1990 Operation Rock amp Roll 1991 Nightmare on Your Street Tour 1991 Hey Stoopid Tour 1991 South America 95 Tour 1995 Summer s Out for Summer 96 Tour 1996 School s Out for Summer 97 Tour 1997 Rock N Roll Carnival Tour 1997 1998 New Year s Rotten Eve Tour 98 1998 Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper Tour 1999 Brutal Planet Tour 2000 2001 British Rock Symphony Tour 2000 Descent into Dragontown Tour 2001 2002 Bare Bones Tour 2003 The Eyes of Alice Cooper Tour 2003 2004 Dirty Diamonds Tour 2005 2006 Psychodrama Tour 2007 2009 Theatre of Death Tour 2009 2010 No More Mr Nice Guy Tour 2011 2012 Raise the Dead Tour 2012 2015 Spend the Night with Alice Cooper Tour 2016 2017 A Paranormal Evening with Alice Cooper Live Tour 2018 Ol Black Eyes Is Back 2019 2020 Detroit Muscle Tour 2021 2022 Filmography EditMain article Alice Cooper filmographyAccolades EditAwards and nominations Edit Year Nominee Work Award Associations Result Ref s Award Ceremony Media Category1972 Alice Cooper band Bravo magazine International Band of the Year Won 182 1973 School s Out album Grammy Awards Best Recording Package Nominated a 183 Alice Cooper band NME Awards World Stage Band Won 184 1974 Billion Dollar Babies album Grammy Awards Best Recording Package Nominated b 185 Alice Cooper band NME Awards World Stage Band Won 186 1984 Alice Cooper The Nightmare video Grammy Awards Best Video Album Nominated 187 1994 Alice Cooper Foundations Forum Lifetime Achievement Won 182 1996 Alice Cooper Motor City Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Won 182 1997 Hands of Death Burn Baby Burn track Grammy Awards Best Metal Performance Nominated 187 Alice Cooper Eyegore Awards Eyegore Award Won 188 2001 Alice Cooper International Horror Guild Awards Living Legend Won 189 2006 Alice Cooper Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards Living Legend Won 190 2007 Alice Cooper Mojo magazine Hero Award Won 182 Alice Cooper IEBA Live Music Industry Awards Lifetime Achievement Won c 182 191 Alice Cooper Scream Awards Scream Rock Immortal Won 192 2008 Alice Cooper MusiCares MAP Fund Awards Stevie Ray Vaughan Award Won 193 2009 Alice Cooper Texas Frightmare Weekend Lifetime Achievement Won 182 194 2011 Alice Cooper Revolver Golden Gods Awards Golden God Won 195 Kerrang Awards Kerrang Icon Won 196 Eyegore Awards Eyegore Award Won 197 198 2013 Alice Cooper Caesars Sold Out Award Won 182 199 2014 Supermensch The Legend of Shep Gordon Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards Film of the Year Nominated 200 2015 Alice Cooper Kerrang Awards Kerrang Legend Won 201 Best Radio Show WonWelcome to My Nightmare Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards Classic Album Won 202 2016 Nights with Alice Cooper Kerrang Awards Best Radio Show Won 203 2017 Alice Cooper band Music Biz Outstanding Achievement Award Won 182 204 Live from the Astroturf single Making Vinyl Hollywood Packaging Awards Best 45 RPM Package Award Won 205 2018 Paranormal Detroit Music Awards Foundation Outstanding National Major Label Recording Nominated 206 Paranoiac Personality Outstanding National Single NominatedThe Sound of A Outstanding Video Major Budget NominatedAlice Cooper The Rocks Awards Best Worldwide Solo Artist Won 207 2019 Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert Grammy Awards Best Musical Theater Album Nominated 187 Alice Cooper The Rocks Awards Best Worldwide Solo Artist Nominated 208 Live from the Astroturf Alice Cooper film Phoenix Film Festival Best Documentary Short Film Won 209 210 Dallas International Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary Won 209 210 WorldFest Houston International Film Festival Documentary under 60 minutes Won 210 Editing WonNortheast Mountain Film Festival Best Film of 2019 Won 209 210 Madrid International Film Festival Best Editing of a Documentary Nominated 209 211 Best Director of a Feature Documentary Nominated d 209 211 Best Feature Documentary Nominated 209 211 Live from the Astroturf Alice Cooper live album Making Vinyl Hollywood Packaging Awards Best Record Store Day Vinyl Won e 205 212 2020 Breadcrumbs Detroit Music Awards Foundation Outstanding National Major Label Recording Won 213 Wilkes amp Braun Sound Packing Corp and Robert Otter also received credit Pacific Eye amp Ear also received credit Alice Cooper s manager Shep Gordon also received an award Steve Gaddis director also received credit Good Records a store co owned by Chris Penn also received credit Others Edit Year Title Notes Ref s 2002 Arizona Music amp Entertainment Hall of Fame Inductee 182 2003 Hollywood Walk of Fame Inducted with a star 214 2004 Honorary Doctorate of Performing Arts degree Honoree Grand Canyon University in Phoenix AZ 215 2005 Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame Inductee 92 2007 KSHE 95 Real Rock Museum Hall of Fame Inductee Virtual museum 216 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee with the original Alice Cooper band 217 2012 Honorary Doctorate of Music degree Honoree and Keynote Speaker Musicians Institute in Los Angeles CA 218 Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry Heritage Award Honoree 219 See also EditList of Alice Cooper solo band members List of glam metal bands and artistsExplanatory footnotes Edit Cooper describes in detail in his first autobiography Me Alice how he was tasked with organizing an act for the show Barry Miles s biography of Frank Zappa includes a vivid description of how the GTO s influenced Cooper to wear makeup and dress in drag onstage Cooper confirms this version of events in an interview in Alice Cooper Prime Cuts Five years later the Chicken Incident would be parodied in the second verse of the Ray Stevens song The Moonlight Special with Cooper referred to as Agnes Stoopa See the Alice Cooper entry under List of albums produced by Ezrin at Ezrin s Wikipedia page For example see the November 13 1986 issue of Kerrang music magazine whose front cover bears the headline The Night He Came Home Alice Knocks Em Dead in Detroit Damon Johnson a guitarist in Cooper s then band filled in for the deceased Glen Buxton A replica of the hologram can be seen at the Salvador Dali Museum in St Petersburg Florida Cooper and original band members Dennis Dunaway and Glen Buxton studied Dali as art students at Cortez 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Bob 1974 Billion Dollar Baby Simon amp Schuster ISBN 978 0 689 10616 3 Heilemann Wolfgang Thomas Sabine 2005 Alice Cooper Live on Tour Studio Backstage Schwarzkopf amp Schwarzkopf ISBN 3 89602 651 8 Morgan Jeffrey 1999 Alcohol and Razor Blades Poison and Needles The Glorious Wretched Excess of Alice Cooper All American alicecooper com Archived from the original on February 15 2002 Thompson Dave 2012 Alice Cooper Welcome to My Nightmare Omnibus Press ISBN 978 1780382326 External links EditAlice Cooper at Wikipedia s sister projects Media from Commons Quotations from Wikiquote Data from Wikidata Official website Official Nights with Alice Cooper website Nights with Alice Cooper on Planet Rock High quality photos of Alice Cooper Alice Cooper at AllMusic Alice Cooper discography at Discogs Alice Cooper at IMDb Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Alice Cooper amp oldid 1152171986, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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