query: What is Alice Cooper's real name?

title: Alice Cooper a Paris

text: sketch features French dialogue as radio disc jockey Vincent Furnier (Cooper's real name) interviews Alice. There has never been an official release and, while not officially broadcast outside France, copies have been circulating amongst Alice Cooper fans for decades. Some copies are missing opening credits, leading fans to refer to it under a variety of titles, including "Alice in Paris", "The Paris Special" and "16 Tracks". Alice Cooper a Paris Alice Cooper a Paris (more commonly known as "Alice in Paris") is a French television special starring shock-rocker Alice Cooper. A series of music videos of songs from his then-current

title: Alice Cooper (band)

text: Alice Cooper (band) Alice Cooper was an American rock band formed in Phoenix, Arizona in 1964. The band consisted of lead singer Vince Furnier (stage name Alice Cooper), Glen Buxton (lead guitar), Michael Bruce (rhythm guitar, keyboards), Dennis Dunaway (bass guitar), and Neal Smith (drums). Furnier legally changed his name to Alice Cooper and has had a solo career under that name since the band became inactive in 1975. The band was notorious for their elaborate, theatrical shock rock stage shows. In 2011, the original Alice Cooper band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. After several

title: Alice Cooper

text: were not exploiting the showmanship potential of the stage. They chose the name "Alice Cooper" largely because it sounded innocuous and wholesome, in humorous contrast to the band's image and music. The legend that the name came from a session with a ouija board was later discredited. In 1975, Furnier adopted this stage name as his own to avoid legal complications over ownership of the band's name. Furnier, now known as Alice Cooper, later stated that the name change was one of his most important and successful career moves. Nonetheless, at the time Cooper and the band realized that the

title: Alice Cooper (band)

text: did, but it was a great story. "Alice Cooper" was a character on "Mayberry R.F.D." (played by Alice Ghostley) at the time, probably coincidentally. Eventually Furnier adopted this stage name as his own. He later stated that the name change was one of his most important and successful career moves. The classic Alice Cooper group line-up consisted of Furnier, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, rhythm guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway and drummer Neal Smith - all former members of the Spiders. This lineup would stay intact well into the 1970s. Original band members Additional members 1973–1974 Alice Cooper (band) Alice

title: Alice Cooper

text: "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"." The classic Alice Cooper group lineup consisted of Furnier, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, rhythm guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith. With the exception of Smith, who graduated from Camelback High School (which is referred to in the song "Alma Mater" on the album "School's Out"), all of the band members were on

title: Alice Cooper (band)

text: UK tour. The Spiders were a 1960s garage rock band, featuring Vincent Furnier (later known as Alice Cooper) on lead vocals. They consisted of Furnier, Dennis Dunaway, Glen Buxton, John Tatum, John Speer and Michael Bruce. Formed by Furnier and Dunaway, both high school friends at Cortez High School in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1964, they would later evolve into the band Alice Cooper, which, in turn, Vincent Furnier would eventually take to be his stage name. In 1964, 16-year-old Furnier was eager to participate in the local annual Letterman's talent show, so he gathered four fellow cross-country teammates to form

title: Alice Cooper (band)

text: years of little success, the Alice Cooper band rose to fame in 1971 with the hit single "I'm Eighteen" and the album "Love It to Death". Success continued with the popular single "School's Out" and the album of the same name in 1972. The band peaked in popularity in 1973 with their next album "Billion Dollar Babies" and its tour, which broke box-office records previously held by The Rolling Stones. The band consisted of former members of the garage rock band the Spiders, formed in Phoenix with three of the eventual five Alice Cooper members (Furnier, Dunaway and Buxton), who

title: Alice Cooper

text: Michigan, "Alice Cooper" was originally a band consisting of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, Glen Buxton on lead guitar, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and Neal Smith on drums. The original Alice Cooper band released its first album in 1969. They broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit song "I'm Eighteen" from their third studio album "Love It to Death". The band reached their commercial peak in 1973 with their sixth studio album "Billion Dollar Babies". In 2011, the original Alice Cooper band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of

title: Alice Cooper

text: with Mike Myers and Dana Carvey in 1992. Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards Grammy Awards Kerrang! Awards Revolver Music Awards Alice Cooper Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spans over fifty years. With his distinctive raspy voice and a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, deadly snakes, baby dolls, and dueling swords, Cooper is considered by music journalists and peers alike to be "The Godfather of Shock Rock". He has drawn equally from horror films, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a macabre and

title: Alice Cooper

text: Alice Cooper Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spans over fifty years. With his distinctive raspy voice and a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, deadly snakes, baby dolls, and dueling swords, Cooper is considered by music journalists and peers alike to be "The Godfather of Shock Rock". He has drawn equally from horror films, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a macabre and theatrical brand of rock designed to shock people. Originating in Phoenix, Arizona, in the late 1960s after he moved from Detroit,

title: Super Duper Alice Cooper

text: Super Duper Alice Cooper Super Duper Alice Cooper is a 2014 Canadian biographical documentary film about shock rock musician Alice Cooper, written and directed by Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen and Reginald Harkema. In addition to narration by Cooper himself, the film also includes commentary from other people who have known, worked with or been influenced by him, including his wife Sheryl Cooper, his mother Ella Furnier, concert promoter Jack Curtis, former bandmates Dennis Dunaway and Neal Smith, manager Shep Gordon, Pamela Des Barres, Bob Ezrin, Elton John, Wayne Kramer, John Lydon, Iggy Pop, Dee Snider and Bernie Taupin. The film

title: Alice Cooper (band)

text: legend is that the name "Alice Cooper" came from a session with a Ouija board and was the name of a 17th century witch. However, Furnier described the incident with the ouija board as an urban legend. He said, "It was like, just pure urban legend...but it was a great story." Furnier stated the name was chosen simply as a gimmick, because it sounded innocuous and wholesome, in humorous contrast to the band's image and music. The band was the subject of media criticism after Furnier threw a live chicken into the audience during the 1969 Toronto Rock 'n' Roll

title: Alice Cooper (band)

text: given for the breakup. Smith said the members wanted to take a year off to slow down and possibly do solo projects, and just never reunited. Cooper said there was disagreement over how much money to sink back into stage shows, which had become costly. Bruce contends that Buxton's issues with substance abuse, which at one time led him to pull a switchblade on the band's tour manager, likely hastened the breakup. The breakup was made public in 1975. Vincent Furnier took "Alice Cooper" as his own name and carried on with a new group of musicians, the original band

title: Super Duper Alice Cooper

text: of Alice Cooper was necessary to create attention. They would take whatever items they could find and incorporate them into their shows. Furnier asks, how do you become Alice Cooper? You create it. Miss Christine and Miss Pamela, from the GTOs, were able to introduce Alice Cooper to composer and renowned record producer Frank Zappa. Zappa suggested the band come over to his house at “7 o’clock”. Mistakenly, the band assumed he had meant 7am, while being awoken by rock music, Zappa was impressed that the band could play such intense music so early. Zappa then asked if they had

title: Alice Cooper

text: the artist who "first introduced horror imagery to rock'n'roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre". Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur, and, since 2004, a popular radio DJ with his classic rock show "Nights with Alice Cooper". Cooper was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Ether Moroni Furnier (1924–1987) and his wife Ella Mae, "née" McCart, (born 1925). His father was an Evangelist in The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite) headquartered in Monongahela, Pennsylvania. He has English, Huguenot French, Irish, Scottish, and Sioux ancestry. He was named after

title: Alice Cooper

text: had begun to make regular road trips to Los Angeles to play shows. 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 had relocated to Los Angeles. 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

title: Alice Cooper

text: heavily influenced by Cooper's costumes. In a 1978 interview with "Rolling Stone", Bob Dylan stated, "I think Alice Cooper is an overlooked songwriter". 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" 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

title: Alice Cooper

text: 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. 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 the singer's new legal name. Speaking on the subject of Alice Cooper continuing as a solo

title: The Last Temptation (Alice Cooper album)

text: 1994, the hair band fad that had fueled Cooper's return was dead, and Cooper was obviously aware of its downfall -- the album sounds almost nothing like its two predecessors (1989's "Trash" and 1991's "Hey Stoopid"). Far surpassing anything Cooper recorded in almost 20 years, "The Last Temptation" is unquestionably some of his best work." The Last Temptation (Alice Cooper album) The Last Temptation is the 20th studio album by rock singer Alice Cooper, released in July 1994 via Epic Records. It centers on a boy named Steven (also the name of the protagonist in Cooper's earlier work, "Welcome to

title: Gimme (Alice Cooper song)

text: Gimme (Alice Cooper song) "Gimme" is a single by rock singer Alice Cooper, released in 2000. The song appeared on Cooper's album Brutal Planet, and was its first and only single. While its highest chart position was only 103 in the UK, the music video was aired several times. The song was written by Cooper and Bob Marlette. The song is about a deal with the Devil, sung from the point of view of Satan. This is a recurring theme for Cooper, and a motif he uses in songs like "I'm The Coolest" from 1976's Alice Cooper Goes to Hell

title: Alice Cooper

text: cure, being a Christian, and his social and work relationship with his family. 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." 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

title: Alice Cooper

text: world". Unlikely non-musician fans of Cooper have included Groucho Marx and Mae West, who both reportedly saw the early shows as a form of vaudeville revue, 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". In the early 1970s, a story was widely reported that "Leave It to Beaver" star 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,

title: Alice Cooper

text: charting album since 1994's "The Last Temptation". 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". 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 thirty years previously. In December 2006, the original Alice

title: Super Duper Alice Cooper

text: considered the film to be rotten. "The Guardian"'s Leslie Felperin rated the film two out of five stars, calling the film a "competent but underwhelming portrait of the 70s/80s rock star". Felperin believes the film "sticks to the usual wave-graph structure of a thousand other rock bio-docs". Super Duper Alice Cooper Super Duper Alice Cooper is a 2014 Canadian biographical documentary film about shock rock musician Alice Cooper, written and directed by Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen and Reginald Harkema. In addition to narration by Cooper himself, the film also includes commentary from other people who have known, worked with or

text: The Last Temptation (Alice Cooper album) The Last Temptation is the 20th studio album by rock singer Alice Cooper, released in July 1994 via Epic Records. It centers on a boy named Steven (also the name of the protagonist in Cooper's earlier work, "Welcome to My Nightmare"), and a mysterious showman. The showman, with apparent supernatural abilities, attempted with the use of twisted versions of morality plays to persuade Steven to join his traveling show, "The Theater of the Real - The Grand-est Guignol!", where he would "never grow up". The full story was given in a 3-part comic book

title: A... My Name Is Alice

text: you're likely to emerge from its underground home feeling a real lift." A... My Name Is Alice A... My Name Is Alice, is a musical revue conceived by Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd, first produced in 1983. It won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Revue. It consists of some 21 songs by composers such as David Zippel, Doug Katsaros, Winnie Holzman, and Lucy Simon, along with sketches by writers like Anne Meara. The revue, a production of The Women's Project, played at "The Top of the Gate" at The Village Gate, New York City, from November 2,

title: Alice Cooper discography

text: there for information regarding versions and remixes. Over his career, Cooper has sold well over 50 million records. The Spiders: Why Don't You Love Me / Hitch Hike (Mascot M-112) 1965 The Spiders: Don’t Blow Your Mind 1966 Nazz: Wonder Who's Loving Her Now? / Lay Down And Die, Goodbye (Very Record S-001) 1967 4CD audio version of Cooper's autobiography, narrated by Cooper. Episode 307: The Muppet Show Airdate: March 28, 29, 30, 1978 Alice plays an agent of the devil and performs selections of "Welcome to My Nightmare" and "School's Out". Also " You And Me". Alice Cooper discography

title: Alice Cooper

text: Cooper band reunited to perform six classic Alice Cooper songs at Cooper's annual charity event in Phoenix, entitled "Christmas Pudding". On July 1, 2007, Cooper performed a duet with Marilyn Manson at the B'Estival event in Bucharest, Romania. 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. Cooper and Manson have been the subject of an academic paper on the significance of adolescent antiheroes. In January 2008, he

title: Nights with Alice Cooper

text: Cooper for money he allegedly owed them for shows. These arguments would ultimately result in Cooper getting beaten senseless by the artists, who would often yell "and THIS is for making fun of RUSH!" (which was a common joke of Cooper's at the time.) "Nights with Alice Cooper" is produced by music journalist and former "Rockline" producer Katherine Turman. Nights with Alice Cooper Nights with Alice Cooper is a radio show hosted by Detroit born rock and roll artist and shock rock pioneer Alice Cooper. It is syndicated by United Stations Radio Networks and broadcast on a wide variety of

title: Alice Cooper

text: with "The Last Temptation"; however, Cooper has indicated that this in fact is not the case. Cooper again adopted a leaner, cleaner sound for his critically acclaimed 2003 release "The Eyes of Alice Cooper". 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. Cooper's radio show "Nights with Alice Cooper" began airing on

title: Alice Cooper

text: with me miming to 'I'm Eighteen' on a jukebox". The Flaming Lips are longtime Alice Cooper fans and used the bass line 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.) 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, Roger Daltrey,

title: Killer (Alice Cooper album)

text: Alice Cooper, "Desperado" was written about Robert Vaughn's character from the movie "The Magnificent Seven". "Halo of Flies" was, according to Cooper's liner notes in the compilation "The Definitive Alice Cooper", an attempt by the band to prove that they could perform King Crimson-like progressive rock suites, and was supposedly about a SMERSH-like organisation. "Desperado", along with "Under My Wheels" and "Be My Lover" have appeared on different compilation albums by Cooper. The song "Dead Babies" stirred up some controversy following the album's release, despite the fact that its lyrics conveyed an "anti-child abuse" message. "Rolling Stone"'s Lester Bangs gave

title: Nights with Alice Cooper

text: Nights with Alice Cooper Nights with Alice Cooper is a radio show hosted by Detroit born rock and roll artist and shock rock pioneer Alice Cooper. It is syndicated by United Stations Radio Networks and broadcast on a wide variety of affiliate radio stations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. The most recent show is also streamed online in a continuous loop by Radionomy; this stream is also used for the official "Nights with Alice Cooper" app for iOS and Android, which additionally offers "exclusive content" as well as interaction with other fans.

title: Steven (Alice Cooper character)

text: Steven (Alice Cooper character) Steven is a fictional character invented by the rock artist Alice Cooper. He appears on the albums "Welcome to My Nightmare" (1975), "Alice Cooper Goes to Hell" (1976)—via "A Bedtime Story" in the liner notes, "Hey Stoopid" (1991), "The Last Temptation" (1994), "Along Came a Spider" (2008), and "Welcome 2 My Nightmare" (2011). According to Alice Cooper, he used the Steven character on four or five albums before considering who the Steven character was. He got the idea of using a recurring character through his albums from Kurt Vonnegut using Kilgore Trout through his novels. Alice

title: Steven (Alice Cooper character)

text: believes that Steven is a seven-year-old boy that lives in all of us and keeps us young. Steven (Alice Cooper character) Steven is a fictional character invented by the rock artist Alice Cooper. He appears on the albums "Welcome to My Nightmare" (1975), "Alice Cooper Goes to Hell" (1976)—via "A Bedtime Story" in the liner notes, "Hey Stoopid" (1991), "The Last Temptation" (1994), "Along Came a Spider" (2008), and "Welcome 2 My Nightmare" (2011). According to Alice Cooper, he used the Steven character on four or five albums before considering who the Steven character was. He got the idea of

title: Alice Cooper

text: story. This was to be Cooper's last album with Epic Records, and his last studio release for six years, though during this period the live album "A Fistful of Alice" was released, and in 1997 he lent his voice to the intro track of Insane Clown Posse's "The Great Milenko". In 1999, the four-disc box set "The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper" appeared, which contained an authorized biography 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. During his absence from the recording studio,

title: Alice Cooper: The Nightmare

text: Alice Cooper album "Love It to Death". In 1983 the TV special was released on VHS and Betamax home video in the US. The TV special was released on DVD titled "Welcome to My Nightmare: Special Edition" on September 8, 2017- which also serves as a re-release of the 1976 concert film, "Welcome to My Nightmare". Alice Cooper: The Nightmare Alice Cooper: The Nightmare was a conceptual television special showcasing the music of the "Welcome To My Nightmare" album by Alice Cooper. It originally broadcast in North America on April 25, 1975 by ABC. In the TV special, Alice Cooper

title: Alice Cooper: The Nightmare

text: Alice Cooper: The Nightmare Alice Cooper: The Nightmare was a conceptual television special showcasing the music of the "Welcome To My Nightmare" album by Alice Cooper. It originally broadcast in North America on April 25, 1975 by ABC. In the TV special, Alice Cooper stars as "Steven" who is trapped in a nightmare he can't wake up from and tries to escape. Vincent Price also appears throughout the special, starring as the "Spirit of the Nightmare". The special features the "Welcome To My Nightmare" album in its entirety, with the addition of the song "Ballad of Dwight Fry" from the

title: Killer (Alice Cooper album)

text: the song "Dead Babies" for their 2002 release "Tribute to the Gods". Guns N' Roses (featuring Alice Cooper) covered the song "Under My Wheels" on the soundtrack of "The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years". with: Killer (Alice Cooper album) Killer is the fourth studio album by the Alice Cooper band, released in November 1971. The album reached number 21 on the "Billboard" 200 album chart, and the two singles "Under My Wheels" and "Be My Lover" made the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Cooper said in the liner notes of "A Fistful of Alice" and "In the

title: Alice Cooper

text: 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. The show is broadcast on nearly 100 stations in the US and Canada, and has also been broadcast all over the world. In June 2005, Alice Cooper was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame. A continuation of the songwriting approach adopted on "The Eyes of Alice Cooper" was again adopted by Cooper for his 24th studio album "Dirty Diamonds", released in 2005. "Dirty Diamonds" became Cooper's highest

title: Alice Cooper

text: 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. 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". In autumn 1970, the Alice Cooper group teamed with producer Bob Ezrin for the recording of their third album, "Love It to Death". This was the final album in their Straight Records

title: Alice Cooper

text: concept of a male playing the role of a villain, a woman killer, in tattered women's clothing and wearing make-up, would have the potential to cause considerable social controversy and grab headlines. In 2007 in his book "Alice Cooper, Golf Monster" Cooper stated that his look was inspired in part by film. One of the band's all-time favorite movies was "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" 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".

title: Alice Cooper (band)

text: were classmates in high school. They created everything as a group and wrote virtually the lion's share of what was to become the classic Alice Cooper canon. Neal Smith's sister Cindy Smith Dunaway (Dennis Dunaway's wife) designed the band's costumes and performed in the stage show (she was the "dancing tooth" on the "Billion Dollar Babies" tour). The band officially relocated to Los Angeles in 1967, having traveled there frequently for shows, and were briefly renamed Nazz. In 1968, the band learned that Todd Rundgren also had a band called Nazz, and found themselves in need of another name. The

title: Alice Cooper Goes to Hell

text: album "Humanary Stew: A Tribute to Alice Cooper". Alice Cooper Goes to Hell Alice Cooper Goes to Hell is the ninth studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 1976. A continuation of "Welcome to My Nightmare" as it continues the story of Steven, this concept album was written almost exclusively by Cooper with guitar player Dick Wagner and producer Bob Ezrin. With the success of “Only Women Bleed” from his first solo effort, Alice continued with the rock ballads on this album. “I Never Cry” was written about his drinking problem, which would in one year send the performer into

title: Alice Cooper

text: "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!." A 2014 article on Alice Cooper in "The Guardian" mentioned Arthur Brown and his flaming helmet, and stated, "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". Evidence of Cooper's eclectic tastes in classic and contemporary rock music can be seen in the track listings of his radio show;

title: Alice Cooper

text: 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. Later he announced that the album will likely be released in 2015. 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 new album. Cooper was the subject of "Super Duper Alice Cooper", a biographical documentary film by Canadian directors Sam Dunn, Scot

title: The Eyes of Alice Cooper

text: High School & Old School" was described as "a modern Alice Cooper classic" for its return to the topic of school (a reference to "School's Out"). The Eyes of Alice Cooper The Eyes of Alice Cooper, released in 2003, is the 23rd album by Alice Cooper. With this album, Cooper returned to his earlier hard rock sound, in the vein of "The Last Temptation", and left the heavy industrial metal sound found in his last two studio albums. Of note is the album cover, which was released in four different versions, featuring alternate colours in Cooper's eyes and the crescent

title: The Eyes of Alice Cooper

text: The Eyes of Alice Cooper The Eyes of Alice Cooper, released in 2003, is the 23rd album by Alice Cooper. With this album, Cooper returned to his earlier hard rock sound, in the vein of "The Last Temptation", and left the heavy industrial metal sound found in his last two studio albums. Of note is the album cover, which was released in four different versions, featuring alternate colours in Cooper's eyes and the crescent around the 'A' in the title. It was available in blue, green, purple and red. In the 2010 "Behind the Music Remastered" on Alice Cooper, "Between

title: Trash (Alice Cooper album)

text: Trash (Alice Cooper album) Trash is the eighteenth studio album released by Alice Cooper in 1989. The album features the single "Poison", Cooper's first top ten hit since his single "You And Me" in 1977 and marked a great success in Cooper's musical career, reaching the Top 20 of various album charts and selling more than two million copies. "Trash" is the first Alice Cooper album to feature John McCurry on guitar, Hugh McDonald on bass, and Bobby Chouinard on drums. After Alice's return to the music industry with the successful "The Nightmare Returns" tour, Cooper had sought assistance from

title: Alice Cooper and Friends

text: Alice Cooper and Friends Alice Cooper and Friends was a live music television special starring Alice Cooper. Broadcast in the United States in September 1977, it was released on VHS in 1978. This rare video has a running time of 52 minutes, of which 25 minutes feature Cooper. It also features live footage of The Tubes, Nazareth and Sha Na Na. "Alice Cooper and Friends" was filmed in concert on 19 June 1977 at the Anaheim Stadium in California. This was the first night of Cooper's "King of the Silver Screen" tour, in support of his album "Lace and Whiskey".

title: Alice Cooper (sculptor)

text: Alice Cooper (sculptor) Alice Cooper (April 8, 1875 – March 4, 1937) was an American sculptor. Cooper was born in Glenwood, Iowa and was raised in Denver, Colorado. She studied under Preston Powers (son of the sculptor Hiram Powers) then at the Art Institute of Chicago with Lorado Taft and the Art Students League of New York through about 1901. Cooper is best known for her bronze figure of Sacajawea ("Sacajawea and Jean-Baptiste") originally produced as the centerpiece for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon, 1905, unveiled in a ceremony attended by Susan B. Anthony and other

title: Freedom (Alice Cooper song)

text: (bought by MCA in 1990) released the Guns N' Roses song "The Garden" from "Use Your Illusion I" as a single, Cooper being a guest on that track. A music video was produced to promote the single. Freedom (Alice Cooper song) "Freedom" is a 1987 single by rock singer Alice Cooper, taken from his seventeenth solo studio album, "Raise Your Fist and Yell". It was written by Alice Cooper and Kane Roberts. The song was the only single released from "Raise Your Fist and Yell". It did not chart in the US when released in late 1987; however, it reached

title: Alice Cooper (teacher)

text: lessons to aspiring students who wished to teach in secondary schools. Cooper died suddenly at her home in Beaconsfield in 1917. Alice Cooper (teacher) Alice Cooper (4 August 1846 – 17 June 1917) was a British headmistress. She was the first head at the Edgbaston High School for Girls. This was the first girls' secondary school open to the public in Birmingham. Cooper encouraged cricket and science for her students. Cooper then worked to improve the education and to train secondary teachers in Oxford. Cooper was born in Doncaster in 1846. She was the first daughter of the Reverend John

title: Alice Cooper (teacher)

text: Alice Cooper (teacher) Alice Cooper (4 August 1846 – 17 June 1917) was a British headmistress. She was the first head at the Edgbaston High School for Girls. This was the first girls' secondary school open to the public in Birmingham. Cooper encouraged cricket and science for her students. Cooper then worked to improve the education and to train secondary teachers in Oxford. Cooper was born in Doncaster in 1846. She was the first daughter of the Reverend John Thomas Cooper and his wife Ann. She was a Unitarian like her parents and she took Cambridge higher exams and became

title: Alice Cooper a Paris

text: Alice Cooper a Paris Alice Cooper a Paris (more commonly known as "Alice in Paris") is a French television special starring shock-rocker Alice Cooper. A series of music videos of songs from his then-current album "Special Forces" with a few songs from "Flush the Fashion" and some older hits mixed in, several songs were re-recorded for the special ("Only Women Bleed", "I'm Eighteen", "Billion Dollar Babies", "School's Out") and have shown up as B-sides of singles with crowd noises mixed in to give the illusion that they were live recordings. The songs are performed in English, but one brief split-screen

title: Poison (Alice Cooper song)

text: is ranked by "Billboard" as the "91st top song of 1989", while Ultimate Classic Rock ranked it as the "7th best Alice Cooper song", commenting "Poison sounds like a typical ’80s pop-metal number at times, but Cooper’s intensity brings it to a whole other level." The song is available as downloadable content (as part of the Alice Cooper pack or as a single) for use in the music video game "Rock Band", and a re-recorded version is also available as downloadable content for "". There are three versions of the video to the song, one of which shows Alice Cooper

title: Alice Cooper Goes to Hell

text: Alice Cooper Goes to Hell Alice Cooper Goes to Hell is the ninth studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 1976. A continuation of "Welcome to My Nightmare" as it continues the story of Steven, this concept album was written almost exclusively by Cooper with guitar player Dick Wagner and producer Bob Ezrin. With the success of “Only Women Bleed” from his first solo effort, Alice continued with the rock ballads on this album. “I Never Cry” was written about his drinking problem, which would in one year send the performer into rehab and affect all his subsequent music up

title: Poison (Alice Cooper song)

text: Poison (Alice Cooper song) "Poison" is a song by American rock musician Alice Cooper. Written by Cooper, Desmond Child, and John McCurry, the song was released worldwide as a single in late-1989 from Cooper's eighteenth album, "Trash" (1989). The song was one of Cooper's biggest hit singles in the United States, peaking at number 7 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, while peaking at number 2 in the UK Singles Chart, only being held off the top spot by the dance record, "Swing the Mood" by Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers. "Poison" is one of Alice Cooper's best known songs. It

title: Alice Cooper (band)

text: is that the name "Alice Cooper" came from a session with a Ouija board, largely chosen because it sounded innocuous and wholesome, in humorous contrast to the band's image and music. However, in an interview with Mark Radcliffe on the Radcliffe and Maconie show on BBC Radio 2 on 30 November 2009 Alice described the incident with the ouija board as an urban legend. He said "We literally got that whole story about the witch thing the way you guys got it. It was like just pure urban legend. I heard about the witch thing probably the same day you

title: Alice Cooper Bailey

text: Alice Cooper Bailey Alice Cooper Bailey (December 9, 1890 – February 1, 1978) was a writer of children's books and articles for periodicals. She is best known for the books "Katrina and Jan" and "Kimo". Bailey was born on December 9, 1890 in San Diego, California, daughter of Henry Ernest Cooper and Mary Ellen, née Porter. Her family moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, when she was a baby. She attended Wellesley College, Oahu College, the University of Hawaii, the Boston Music Conservatory, and received a lifetime teaching diploma from the Honolulu Normal School. Bailey published seven books. Unpublished works included a

title: Killer (Alice Cooper album)

text: Killer (Alice Cooper album) Killer is the fourth studio album by the Alice Cooper band, released in November 1971. The album reached number 21 on the "Billboard" 200 album chart, and the two singles "Under My Wheels" and "Be My Lover" made the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Cooper said in the liner notes of "A Fistful of Alice" and "In the Studio with Redbeard", which spotlighted the "Killer" and "Love It to Death" albums, that the song "Desperado" was written about his friend Jim Morrison, who died the year this album was released. According to an NPR radio interview with

title: Freedom (Alice Cooper song)

text: Freedom (Alice Cooper song) "Freedom" is a 1987 single by rock singer Alice Cooper, taken from his seventeenth solo studio album, "Raise Your Fist and Yell". It was written by Alice Cooper and Kane Roberts. The song was the only single released from "Raise Your Fist and Yell". It did not chart in the US when released in late 1987; however, it reached #50 on the UK charts in early 1988. The single's B-side in both countries was the album track "Time to Kill". It was Cooper's last single to be released by MCA Inc. until 1992 when Geffen Records

title: Alice Cooper

text: in the early 1990s. Cooper is also a fan of NBA basketball, supporting the Detroit Pistons. Cooper has on several occasions credited golf with playing a major role in helping him overcome his addiction to alcohol, 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. The importance that the game has had in his life is also reflected in the title to his 2007 autobiography, "Alice Cooper, Golf Monster". Cooper, who has participated in a number of Pro-Am competitions, plays the game six days

title: Alice Cooper and Friends

text: The special captured a very drunken and lethargic performance by Cooper, which he himself has dismissed as his worst performance. The video does include the infamous "Chickens with Machine Guns" sequence during the song "Lace and Whiskey". This special was the only commercially released video footage from that tour. The video of the special has been discontinued since its original release, and has not been issued on DVD. Used copies regularly appear for sale online. Alice Cooper and Friends Alice Cooper and Friends was a live music television special starring Alice Cooper. Broadcast in the United States in September 1977,

title: From the Inside (Alice Cooper album)

text: B-side called "No Tricks", a non-album track, which was later included in the 1999 box set "The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper". "From the Inside" was released as a single in the US in early-1979 as a remixed edited version, with "Nurse Rozetta" as its B-side. The remix is also included in "The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper". From the Inside (Alice Cooper album) From the Inside is the eleventh studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 1978. It is a concept album about Cooper’s stay in a New York sanitarium due to his alcoholism. Each of the

title: Special Forces (Alice Cooper album)

text: of "Special Forces". There is a completed studio version of the song which remains unreleased. “Seven and Seven Is” was a cover of Love's original, written by Arthur Lee. Special Forces (Alice Cooper album) Special Forces is the thirteenth studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 1981, and was produced by Richard Podolor, most famous as the producer for Three Dog Night. Singles included “You Want It, You Got It”, “Who Do You Think We Are” and “Seven and Seven Is”. Flo and Eddie, former members of The Turtles, performers, and radio personalities, performed on this album. Alice Cooper appeared

title: Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper

text: implications which made the early Alice Cooper character such a controversial figure. The heavy sarcasm, pointed social satire (mannequin stage-props equipped with pubic hair, skewered baby dolls, a bloody 'execution' sequence, and in the show's finale, when an American flag is unfurled and a Richard M. Nixon impersonator is 'beaten up' by the entire band), confrontational improvisation (frontman Cooper taunting audience members), and the infamous boa constrictor were all present. The special features of the DVD are: Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper is a 1974 feature film starring Alice Cooper. The

title: The Strange Case of Alice Cooper

text: The Strange Case of Alice Cooper The Strange Case of Alice Cooper is a live concert video released in September 1979, of Alice Cooper performing with his backing band "The Ultra Latex Band". The concert was filmed on April 9, 1979 during Cooper's 'Madhouse Rock' Tour in San Diego, California, at the San Diego Sports Arena, in support of the album "From The Inside". Two songs that were performed during the filming, "All Strapped Up" and "Dead Babies", were omitted from the film for unknown reasons. A DVD version, with audio commentary by Alice Cooper, was released May 22, 2012

title: Alice Cooper

text: Ronnie James Dio, Slash, Bruce Dickinson and Steve Jones. Sonic.net described it as "intriguing combinations of artists and material" while Allmusic.com noted "the novel approach will definitely hold interested listeners' attention". A song by alternative rock group They Might Be Giants from their 1994 album "John Henry" entitled "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

title: Alice Cooper

text: 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 Jagermiester Ice Cold 4D event (webcast). Bruce, Dunnaway, and Smith appeared on three tracks they co-wrote on Alice's 2011 album "Welcome 2 My Nightmare". In 2017, they appeared on two tracks they co-wrote on Alice's album "Paranormal", released in July, and in November they joined his current live band for five tour dates in the United Kingdom. Following the 1976 US No. 12 ballad hit "I Never Cry"; two albums, "Alice Cooper

title: Alice Cooper

text: Angeles and started appearing regularly on television shows such as "The Hollywood Squares", and Warner Bros. released the "Alice Cooper's 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

title: Alice Cooper

text: Goes to Hell" and "Lace and Whiskey"; and the 1977 US No. 9 ballad hit "You and Me", it became clear from many performances during his 1977 US tour that Cooper was in dire need of help with his alcoholism (at his alcoholic peak it was rumored that Cooper was consuming up to two cases of Budweiser and a bottle of 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. In 1978, a sobered Cooper used his experience in the sanitarium as

title: Special Forces (Alice Cooper album)

text: Special Forces (Alice Cooper album) Special Forces is the thirteenth studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 1981, and was produced by Richard Podolor, most famous as the producer for Three Dog Night. Singles included “You Want It, You Got It”, “Who Do You Think We Are” and “Seven and Seven Is”. Flo and Eddie, former members of The Turtles, performers, and radio personalities, performed on this album. Alice Cooper appeared on The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder to promote the album, being interviewed and looking very gaunt in full military-drag make-up, after which he played live versions of “Who

title: Nights with Alice Cooper

text: The show debuted on January 26, 2004 on 16 stations, including its flagship station, KDKB in Phoenix, Arizona. "Nights with Alice Cooper" features many segments, including "Tuesday Bluesday", "Freaky Facts", "Movie Music Madness", "Cooper's Covers", "Same Name" (two different songs with the same name), "Closet Classic", "The Quiet Room", "Lockdown Rockdown" (songs for Cooper's jailed listeners), "Monster Prog", "Throwback Thursday", "Hey Superstar Clean Out the Garage", "The Best Band You've Never Heard In Your Life" and "Songs We Just Don't Understand". Alice also plays his own rare songs and tells the stories behind them in the "Alice's B.O." (Beyond Obscure)

title: Alice Cooper Goes to Hell

text: to and including 1983’s "DaDa". Cooper called the song “an alcoholic confession”. The “Alice Cooper Goes To Hell” tour of 1976 was completely cancelled prior to commencement due to Cooper suffering from anemia at the time. However, “Go to Hell” proved the last song until his big hit “Poison” to become a consistent part of Cooper’s live setlists, being performed on most tours to the present. “I Never Cry” was also regularly performed in the late 1970s and during the 2000s, whilst “Guilty” was performed regularly on the "Flush the Fashion" and "Special Forces" tours and occasionally during the 2000s

title: Alice Cooper discography

text: Alice Cooper discography The discography of American rock artist Alice Cooper consists of 27 studio albums, 48 singles, 11 live albums, 21 compilation albums, 12 video releases, and an audiobook. Six of his studio albums have achieved platinum in the United States and three more have achieved gold. Promo-only releases, bootlegs and unauthorized/fan-made releases have been excluded. The labels Cooper has recorded on are Straight, Warner Bros., Atlantic, MCA, Epic, Spitfire, Eagle, New West, and Bigger Picture. Individual songs and remixes are discussed in the respective article for each single or album, and will not be listed here. Please look

title: Alice Cooper (sculptor)

text: prominent feminists. This figure now stands in Washington Park. Other work includes: She displayed work at her alma mater, Art Institute of Chicago, as well as the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design. Some of her works were sold by Tiffany & Co. Cooper resided in Denver, Colorado, as well as Illinois and Iowa. In 1905 she married Nathan M. Hubbard and moved to Des Moines, Iowa. They had three daughters. She died on March 4, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, at age 62. Alice Cooper (sculptor) Alice Cooper (April 8, 1875 – March 4, 1937)

title: Poison (Alice Cooper song)

text: Hellraiser movies, which were very popular at the time. The studios in which the video was filmed in spring of 1989 have since been torn down and are now a parking lot in Los Angeles. The video is still often played on VH1 Classic's "Metal Mania". Poison (Alice Cooper song) "Poison" is a song by American rock musician Alice Cooper. Written by Cooper, Desmond Child, and John McCurry, the song was released worldwide as a single in late-1989 from Cooper's eighteenth album, "Trash" (1989). The song was one of Cooper's biggest hit singles in the United States, peaking at number

title: Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper

text: Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper is a 1974 feature film starring Alice Cooper. The movie primarily features live concert footage of the Alice Cooper band on their record-breaking "Billion Dollar Babies" tour, filmed in Texas (mostly at the Sam Houston Coliseum) in April 1973, with some footage from other tour stops, including the Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon, intercut with 'comedy' scenes of a German film director chasing the "Cooper gang" for revenge after they abandoned his would-be masterpiece movie. Two versions of the film exist. The alternate version was issued for

title: The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper

text: The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper (1999) is a 4-CD box set by Alice Cooper. It includes select tracks from every studio album released until then, plus many B-sides, unreleased songs, and other rarities. It also includes Alice Cooper's authorized biography, written by Jeffrey Morgan of Creem magazine. The box set was coincidentally released on the same day as the Columbine High School massacre. Eric Harris's AOL member profile also included a quote from the Alice Cooper song Devil's Food ("Man has ruled this world as a stumbling, demented child king long

title: Alice Cooper

text: being a pro. 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. Cooper's story featured Homer Simpson being a Jason Voorhees-style killer and stalking the citizens of Springfield. In October 1979, Alice Cooper was featured in the Marvel comic book "Marvel Premiere", Volume 1, Number 50. Cooper is also the subject of the "we're not worthy" meme, which originates from his cameo in Wayne's World

title: Alice Cooper

text: 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. 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"". In January 2010, it was announced that Alice would be touring with Rob Zombie on the "Gruesome Twosome" tour. In May 2010, Cooper made an appearance during the beginning of the

title: A... My Name Is Alice

text: A... My Name Is Alice A... My Name Is Alice, is a musical revue conceived by Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd, first produced in 1983. It won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Revue. It consists of some 21 songs by composers such as David Zippel, Doug Katsaros, Winnie Holzman, and Lucy Simon, along with sketches by writers like Anne Meara. The revue, a production of The Women's Project, played at "The Top of the Gate" at The Village Gate, New York City, from November 2, 1983, through November 14, 1983, and then opened in the basement space

title: Gimme (Alice Cooper song)

text: and "I Just Wanna Be God" on Dragontown, the follow-up album to Brutal Planet. The lyrics also make a reference to "Nothing's Free" from The Last Temptation, another song with the same theme. A music video was produced to promote the single. Gimme (Alice Cooper song) "Gimme" is a single by rock singer Alice Cooper, released in 2000. The song appeared on Cooper's album Brutal Planet, and was its first and only single. While its highest chart position was only 103 in the UK, the music video was aired several times. The song was written by Cooper and Bob Marlette.

title: Alice Cooper

text: of an overdose. Another long-time girlfriend of Cooper's was Cindy Lang (1949-2017), with whom he lived for several years. They separated in 1975; Lang sued Cooper for palimony, and they eventually settled out of court in the early 1980s. After his separation from Lang, Cooper was briefly linked with actress Raquel Welch. Cooper then reportedly left Welch, however, to marry 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

title: Alice Cooper

text: performing a cover 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". On seeing shock rock pioneer Arthur Brown performing his US number two hit

title: Alice Cooper

text: a worldwide arena tour. In 1991, Cooper released his 19th 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

title: Alice Cooper

text: Your Scuel". A video was made for the song, featuring Cooper donning his black snake-eyes makeup for the first time since 1979, but neither the song nor the video drew public interest. In 1986, Alice Cooper officially returned to the music industry with the album "Constrictor". The album spawned the hits "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)" (the theme song for the movie ""; 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

title: Alice S. Kandell

text: author or co-author of two books, (with text by Charlotte Salisbury), and a book for children, called "Sikkim: The Hidden Kingdom". Her private collection of Tibetan art was covered in "A Shrine for Tibet: The Alice S. Kandell Collection of Tibetan Sacred Art", by Marylin Rhie and Robert Thurman, with photographs by John Bigelow Taylor. In 2011, she donated a collection of Tibetan art to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian, and about 300 pictures to the Library of Congress. She is the daughter of Leonard S. Kandell, a developer and investor in Manhattan real estate. Alice S.

title: The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper

text: enough"). Alice was shortly after interviewed on KTAR radio in Phoenix, explaining that the song was about nothing more than a black widow spider. The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper (1999) is a 4-CD box set by Alice Cooper. It includes select tracks from every studio album released until then, plus many B-sides, unreleased songs, and other rarities. It also includes Alice Cooper's authorized biography, written by Jeffrey Morgan of Creem magazine. The box set was coincidentally released on the same day as the Columbine High School massacre. Eric Harris's AOL member

title: Alice Cooper

text: a week, off a handicap of four. Since 1997 he has hosted an annual golf competition, the Alice Cooper Celebrity AM Golf Tournament, all proceeds from which go to his charity, the Solid Rock Foundation. 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". He wrote the foreword to the Gary McCord book "Ryder Cup" and participated in the second All*Star Cup in Newport, Wales. In an interview with VH1, friend and fellow golfer Pat Boone said that Cooper was "this close" to

title: Alice Cooper

text: would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The official Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 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. Alice showed up for the event wearing a (presumably fake) blood-splattered shirt and had a live albino Burmese python wrapped around his neck. Cooper told "Rolling Stone Magazine" that he was "elated" by the

title: Alice Cooper

text: 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". He also made an appearance on an episode of "That 70s Show", at the end of which he and two other (minor) guest characters play a session of "Dungeons & Dragons". The first decade of the 21st century saw a sustained period of activity from Alice Cooper. In the decade in which he turned sixty, he

title: Alice Cooper

text: 2012 at Dragon Con, Randi and Cooper discussed their working relationship during this period. 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, and Cooper, who was under the constant pressure of getting into character for that night's show, was consistently sighted nursing a can of beer. "Muscle of Love", released at the end of 1973, was to be the last studio album from the classic lineup,

title: Alice Cooper

text: 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." Alice Cooper appeared at the Woodstock-esque Strawberry Fields Festival near Toronto, Ontario, in August 1970.

title: Alice Cooper

text: "I was obnoxious, disgusting, a real Eddie Haskell." However, the editor ended up reporting that Cooper was the real Haskell. Cooper would later tell 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." 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 Television's "Enough Rope". Cooper discussed various issues during the talk, including the horrors of acute alcoholism and his subsequent

title: The Strange Case of Alice Cooper

text: via "Shout! Factory" as a US-only release. Shout! Factory has also made the movie available digitally on their network for streaming and download. The Strange Case of Alice Cooper The Strange Case of Alice Cooper is a live concert video released in September 1979, of Alice Cooper performing with his backing band "The Ultra Latex Band". The concert was filmed on April 9, 1979 during Cooper's 'Madhouse Rock' Tour in San Diego, California, at the San Diego Sports Arena, in support of the album "From The Inside". Two songs that were performed during the filming, "All Strapped Up" and "Dead

title: Lost in America (Alice Cooper song)

text: referencing the song's lyrics. Lost in America (Alice Cooper song) "Lost in America" is a single by musician Alice Cooper taken from his 1994 album "The Last Temptation". It was the most popular single from the album. The single featured a B-side, a live version of "Hey Stoopid". A music video was made for the song, but it received almost no airplay at all. The music video features a young boy (supposedly Steven) reading the Marvel comics adaptation of the album, written by Neil Gaiman. The comic book comes to life as Alice Cooper and his band playing the song

title: Lost in America (Alice Cooper song)

text: Lost in America (Alice Cooper song) "Lost in America" is a single by musician Alice Cooper taken from his 1994 album "The Last Temptation". It was the most popular single from the album. The single featured a B-side, a live version of "Hey Stoopid". A music video was made for the song, but it received almost no airplay at all. The music video features a young boy (supposedly Steven) reading the Marvel comics adaptation of the album, written by Neil Gaiman. The comic book comes to life as Alice Cooper and his band playing the song with several video clips

title: Alice Cooper (band)

text: Eighteen" in late 1970, and it became a surprise Top 40 hit. The single's success convinced Warner Bros, which had recently purchased Straight Records from Zappa, that the band could be a viable commercial act, leading to much stronger investment in the third Alice Cooper album, "Love It to Death". With "Love It to Death" having charted well, Alice Cooper released four more hit albums and headlined major tours from 1971 to 1974, before breaking up. The original band played their final show on April 8, 1974 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There are varying reasons former band members have