Title: Alice Cooper, golf monster
First published: 2007
Description: The man who invented shock rock tells the amazing and, yeah, shocking story of how he slayed his thirsty demons--with a golf club. It started one day when Cooper was watching a Star Trek rerun between concerts, bored and drunk on a quart-of-whiskey-a-day habit; a friend dragged the rocker out of his room and suggested a round of golf. Cooper has been a self-confessed golf addict ever since. Today he and his band still tour the world, playing some one hundred gigs a year . . . and three hundred days out of that year, Cooper is on the course.Alice Cooper, Golf Monster is Cooper's tell-all memoir; in it he talks candidly about his entire life and career, as well as his struggles with alcohol, how he fell in love with the game of golf, how he dried out at a sanitarium back in the late '70s, and how he put the last nails in his addiction's coffin by getting up daily at 7 a.m. to play 36 holes. Alice has hilarious, touching, and sometimes surprising stories about so many of his friends: Led Zeppelin and the Doors, George Burns and Groucho Marx, golf legends like John Daly and Tiger Woods . . . everyone is here from Dali to Elvis to Arnold Palmer.This is the story of Cooper's life, and also a story about golf. He rose from hacker to scratch golfer to serious Pro Am competitor and on to his status today as one of the best celebrity golfers around--all while rising through the rock 'n' roll ranks releasing platinum albums and selling out arenas with his legendary act.From the Hardcover edition.
Subjects: Alice Cooper (Musical group), Biography, Nonfiction, Rock musicians, Sports & Recreations, Cooper, Alice, -- 1948-, Golf, Rock Music, Biography & Autobiography, Biography / Autobiography, Sports & Recreation, Biography/Autobiography, Composers & Musicians - Rock, General, Genres & Styles - Rock, Golf - General, Personal Memoirs, Music / Rock, Composers & Musicians - General, Entertainment & Performing Arts - General, 1948-, Cooper, Alice,, United States, Rock musicians, united states, Rock musicians, biography
Places: United States
People: Alice Cooper (1948-)
LC classification: ML420.C67 A3 2007