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Alice Cooper is an American singer and songwriter. With a career spanning over six decades, he is known for his raspy singing voice and theatrical stage shows that feature numerous props and illusions. Cooper is considered by music journalists and peers to be "The Godfather of Shock Rock". He has drawn from horror films, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a macabre and theatrical brand of rock…
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entertainment · American rock singer (born 1948) · actor · vocalist · rock musician · composer · singer · also Alice Cooper, Vincent Furnier, Cooper
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“s on stage theatrics remain an influence on metal. Photograph: Brian Rasic/REX Another thing in common with UK rock was the band”
“I look at Mick Jagger and he”
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“It was the biggest rumor that ever came out about me. Finally, I got a T-shirt that said,”
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“had forgotten to listen to the Beatles”
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Published video “Shock rock starts here ⚡🔥 #AliceCooper #IsItMyBody #BeatClub #ShockRock #Live1971 #YTShorts”.
Published video “Alice Cooper - Is It My Body (Beat Club, 1971)”.
Published video “"But then it turned into something where we got really good at what we were doing"”.
Published video “Alice Cooper's 'The Studio Albums 1975-1978' exclusive remastered collection is OUT NOW”.
Published video “Where did the time go?”.
Published video “Music is happiness 🖤”.
Published video “Where it all started...”.
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Published video “Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen (Beat Club, 1972)”.
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Cooper started performing with illusionist Criss Angel at Planet Hollywood for a set list named "Welcome to Our Nightmare"
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And also includes never-before-released tracks by their original guitarist Glen Buxton
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Released ep “Halloween Horror”.
Released album “Road”.
It was announced Strauss had rejoined the band
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In 2023, Cooper made remarks against the transgender community and suggested women would be sexually assaulted in bathrooms if men were permitted access and called most instances of transgender identity a "fad", resulting in the loss of a cosmetics branding deal.
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Released album “Paranormal Stories”.
Touring guitarist Nita Strauss announced she had departed the band
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The Guardian: Alice Cooper review – guillotine-wielding rocker is no longer a cut above
Snopes.com rated the claim “Alice Cooper's album "School's Out" came wrapped in a pair of panties.” True.
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Released album “Three Temptations From Alice”.
The Guardian: 'It was tribal and sexual': Alice Cooper on the debauchery of Detroit rock
Released album “Detroit Stories”.
Released album “Live From the Apollo Theatre Glasgow Feb 19.1982”.
Released album “Treasures: A Vinyl Collection”.
The Guardian: Alice Cooper review – a potent brew of sex, death and pantomime villainy
Released ep “The Breadcrumbs EP”.
Snopes.com rated the claim “A photograph shows rocker Alice Cooper together with actress Jean Stapleton.” True.
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Released album “The Little Box of Alice Cooper”.
The Guardian: Alice Cooper: ‘I want my shows to take you as far away as possible from politics’
Released album “A Paranormal Evening at the Olympia Paris”.
Released album “The Essential Alice Cooper: The Epic Years”.
Released ep “The Sound of A”.
Released album “Paranormal”.
The Guardian: Alice Cooper: Paranormal review – bringing urgency to weird rock'n'roll
The Guardian: 'We found it rolled up in a tube': Alice Cooper discovers Warhol classic after 40 years
The Guardian: Hanging out with the Alice Cooper band - archive, 30 June 1972
The Guardian: Alice Cooper webchat – your questions answered on pranks, makeup remover and Bowie
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
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Released album “Broadcast Collection 1971–1995”.
Released album “The Very Best of Alice Cooper: Gone to Hell”.
Cooper made headlines again as he resumed his running gag of campaigning for the US presidency
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Released album “Original Album Series, Vol. 2”.
Released album “Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here Symphonic”.
Released album “Peter and the Wolf in Hollywood”.
Released album “The Studio Albums 1969–1983”.
Released album “Transmission Impossible”.
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
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Released album “Raise the Dead: Live From Wacken”.
It was officially revealed that Alice Cooper would be the opening act for Mötley Crüe's final tour, spanning 2014 and 2015
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Released album “Super Duper Alice Cooper: Welcome to His Nightmare”.
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
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Released album “Classics”.
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, an
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Released album “Playlist: The Very Best of Alice Cooper”.
At Dragon Con, Randi and Cooper discussed their working relationship during this period
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Released album “No More Mr. Nice Guy: Live!”.
Released album “Welcome 2 My Nightmare”.
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2011).
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Cooper was awarded the Kerrang
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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)
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Where Cooper was inducted by fellow horror-rocker Rob Zombie
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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 awar
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Bruce, Dunaway, and Smith appeared on three tracks they co-wrote on Alice's solo studio album Welcome 2 My Nightmare
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It was announced Cooper and his former band would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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Released album “Theatre of Death: Live at Hammersmith 2009”.
Released ep “Alice Does Alice”.
Cooper has usually kept his political views to himself, and in 2010 said, "I am extremely non-political.
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Released album “Rockin’ With the Beast”.
Released album “Theatre of Death Tour 2009: Live in Nottingham”.
Released album “Spark in the Dark: The Best of Alice Cooper”.
Released album “Greatest Hits: Steel Box Collection”.
Released album “Original Album Classics”.
Released album “Along Came a Spider”.
Released album “Classicks / Trashes the World”.
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
Released album “Dirty Diamonds / The Eyes of Alice Cooper”.
Cooper performed a duet with Marilyn Manson at the B'Estival event in Bucharest, Romania
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Released album “The Best of Alice Cooper”.
“s all-time favorite movies was What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) starring Bette Davis:”
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Released album “Extended Versions”.
Released album “Brutal Planet/Dragontown”.
Released album “Live at Montreux 2005”.
Released album “Legends”.
Released album “Dirty Diamonds”.
Released album “Collections”.
Released album “The Epic Years”.
Released album “The Eyes of Alice Cooper”.
Released album “Hell Is”.
Released album “The Ultimate Clip Collection”.
Released album “Alice Cooper 1: All Time Hits 1970–1978”.
“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”
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Released album “Dragontown”.
Released album “The Definitive Alice Cooper”.
Released album “Mascara & Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper”.
Released album “Alice Cooper”.
Released album “It’s Me”.
On a third-season episode of That '70s Show titled "Radio Daze", in which he partook in a game of Dungeons & Dragons
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Released album “Hey Stoopid / The Last Temptation”.
Released album “Brutally Live”.
Released album “Brutal Planet”.
With Brutal Planet, a return to horror-filled heavy metal, industrial rock, set in a dystopian post-apocalyptic future
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Released album “Super Hits”.
Released album “The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper”.
The four-disc box set The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper appeared, which contained the authorized biography of Cooper, Alcohol and Razor Blades, Poison and Needles: The Glorious Wretched Excess of Alice Cooper, All-Amer
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Released album “Freedom for Frankenstein: Hits & Pieces 1984-91”.
Released album “Poison”.
Released album “Goes to Hell / Zipper Catches Skin”.
Released album “He’s Back”.
Released album “A Fistful of Alice”.
Released album “…A Nice Nightmare”.
Lent his voice to the intro track of Insane Clown Posse's The Great Milenko
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Cooper sang the role of Herod on the London cast recording of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar
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South America, which he had not visited since 1974
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Released album “The Best Of”.
Released album “Alice Cooper Classicks”.
Released album “Bizarre Rock”.
Released album “The Last Temptation”.
Cooper released The Last Temptation, his first concept album since DaDa (1983)
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Released album “Hey Stoopid”.
Cooper released his nineteenth studio album Hey Stoopid featuring several notable rock musicians guesting on the record
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Released album “Alice”.
Released ep “Video Trash”.
Released album “Prince of Darkness”.
Released album “Trash”.
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
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Cooper nearly died of asphyxiation after a safety rope broke during a rehearsal concert wherein he pretended to hang himself, a stunt he often performed during live concerts
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“I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife. ... That's one thing guys don't understand. This is something that you would be very surprised that I understand, is that men are microwaves and women are pressure cookers. Men want sex, bang; women like romance. Guys, learn how to romance.”
Cooper's contract with MCA Records expired and he signed with Epic Records
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“The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller”
Released album “Raise Your Fist and Yell”.
Released album “A Man Called Alice”.
Released album “Constrictor / Raise Your Fist and Yell”.
Cooper made a brief appearance as a vagrant in the supernatural horror film Prince of Darkness, directed by John Carpenter
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Cooper appeared at WrestleMania III, escorting wrestler Jake "The Snake" Roberts to the ring for his match against The Honky Tonk Man
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Which had an even rougher sound than its predecessor, as well as the Cooper classic "Freedom"
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Released album “The Nightmare Returns”.
Released album “Constrictor”.
Cooper told interviewer Jonathan King that the Yardbirds were his favorite band of all time
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Alice Cooper officially returned to the music industry with the studio album Constrictor
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Released album “To Hell and Back: Alice Cooper’s Greatest Hits”.
Met and began writing songs with guitarist Kane Roberts
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But a decision was made by the couple not to move forward with the divorce
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Released album “DaDa”.
Released album “Flush the Fashion / Special Forces”.
And gained a Grammy Award nomination for Best Long Form Music Video) was regarded as another groundbreaking moment in rock history
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Released album “The Nightmare”.
Released album “Lace and Whiskey/Alice Cooper Goes to Hell”.
Released album “Zipper Catches Skin”.
Released album “Collection”.
Released album “Special Forces”.
Released album “Flush the Fashion”.
Released ep “The Best of Alice Cooper”.
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
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Released ep “How You Gonna See Me Now”.
Released album “From the Inside”.
(he played one of the devil's henchmen trying to dupe Kermit the Frog, Gonzo and Miss Piggy into selling their souls)
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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 y
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Released album “The Alice Cooper Show”.
Released album “Lace and Whiskey”.
Released ep “I Never Cry / Didn’t We Meet / Wake Me Gently / You Gotta Dance”.
Released ep “Four Tracks From Alice Cooper”.
Released ep “Lace and Whiskey”.
Released album “Alice Cooper Goes to Hell”.
“s version of that era of his career, among other things. 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”
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Released album “Welcome to My Nightmare: Live at The Forum, Los Angeles, 6/17/75”.
Released album “Welcome to My Nightmare”.
Furnier legally changed his name to Alice Cooper and began a solo career with the concept album Welcome to My Nightmare (1975)
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"It got very basically down to the fact that we had drawn as much as we could out of each other
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Alice Cooper returned as a solo artist with the release of Welcome to My Nightmare
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“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.”
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Cooper appeared on episode 3 of The Snoop Sisters playing a Satanic cult singer
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Every four years since releasing his single "Elected" in 1972, Cooper has satirically run for president.
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“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.”
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“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”
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Wearing long black leather gloves with switchblades coming out of them, I thought, 'That's what Alice should look like
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The band learned that Todd Rundgren also had a band called Nazz, which was signed to a major label, and found themselves in need of another name
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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 co
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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 Tatu
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Alice Cooper was originally a band consisting of Furnier, guitarists Glen Buxton and Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith
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Born 1948-02-04.
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In Detroit, Michigan, the son of Ether Moroni Furnier (1924–1987) and his wife Ella Mae (née McCart; 1925–2022)
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