Alice Cooper

It's time to give Alice Cooper some love.

Beginning with the album Love It To Death, the original Alice Cooper band had a short, but phenomenal run as the biggest rock and roll act in the world in the early seventies, with a string of albums that also included Killer, Schools Out, and Billion Dollar Babies.

During this time, Alice Cooper also revolutionized the idea of rock and roll as theatre — paving the way for bands from KISS to Marilyn Manson and beyond. Their elaborate stage shows revolved around the twisted, mascaraed Alice — a unisexual character straight out of your worst slasher film nightmare, who ultimately paid for his crimes with onstage executions that included the electric chair, beheadings and hangings. Alice Cooper were universally reviled by parents, politicians, and the religious right as a result of these shows. Naturally, the fans loved them all the more for it.

After the breakup of the original band, Alice himself enjoyed sporadic success as a solo artist with albums like Welcome To My Nightmare — but things were never quite the same again.

Many feel its high time the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame rightfully recognized the band who paved the way for KISS and others like them. You'll find bloggers talking about Michael Bruce, Neal Smith, Dennis Dunaway, the late Glenn Buxton, and of course Alice Cooper himself, at sites like 4metal.

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• D.B. Cooper Disappearance, Fact and Fiction. DB Cooper is Alice Cooper?

  
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  DB Cooper: Mystery Man Dead or Alive Old 727 With Rear Stairs Extended On This Date in History: On this date in 1971 , one of the biggest law enforcement mysteries in US history began. A man, commonly referred to as DB Cooper, hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727. The Boeing 727 was a relatively ...
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• American Idols Scott MacIntyre joins Alice Cooper for Christmas Pudding

  
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  American Idols Scott MacIntyre will join Alice Coopers Christmas Pudding at the Dodge Theater in Phoenix, Arizona on Friday, December 18. Also appearing will be Dee Snider, Warrant, Lita Ford, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, Gary Mule Deer, Runaway Phoenix, River of Life Choir, ventriliquist Ronn Lucas and world ...
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• Alice Cooper Got His Name from a Ouija Board

  
  Dr. Donald Ryles-Paranormal,Alternative,Celebrity,Strange, & More-NEWS BLOG — Authority: 138
  Source : http://newsblaze.com/story/2009112203014700002.ba/topstory.html   Alice Cooper took his stage name from a message his mother received from a Ouija board.   The rocker originally performed under his real name, Vincent Furnier, until his mother’s dalliance with the occult led him to adopt the name of ...
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• Alice Coopers supernatural name

  
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  Alice Cooper took his stage name from a message his mother received from a Ouija board. The rocker originally performed under his real name, Vincent Furnier, until his mothers dalliance with the occult led him to adopt the name of the group he was singing in.
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• MIGHT THERE BE A SUITABLE VELVET REVOLVER FRONTMAN HIDDEN IN THE TRACKLISTING OF SLASH’S SOLO ALBUM?

  
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  All this talk about Slash’s upcoming solo album has got me playing “Fantasy Velvet Revolver” in my head once again. Though I still hold out hope that Vince’s idea of having Perry Farrell front the band comes to fruition, I know in my heart that there’s probably a better chance of Scott Weiland rejoining ...
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• Alice Coopers holiday heaven and hell

  
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  The legendary rocker on Russian cuisine getting caught in a hurricane and his passion for golf.
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• Slash Defends Fergie Team-Up on Guns N Roses Classic

  
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  Filed under: News In a move that is likely to set headbangers frothing at the mouth with rage, one-time Guns N Roses guitarist Slash has defended his decision to use Black Eyed Peas vocalist Fergie to sing on a new version of his former paymasters global smash Paradise City. The pop singer joins ...
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• Jarvis Cocker Awarded Honorary Doctorate

  
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• Alice Cooper

  
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• Circus Magazine - Rock Immortals #1

  
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  Today Im venturing back to the 1960s and 70s, a simpler time when there was no phones, no lights, no motorcars, not a single luxury... Wait, thats not right. But there was no internet, cellphones, Britney Spears, tabloid news shows, reality TV (save for 12 episodes of " American Family "), eco-friendly hybrids, GPS ...
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• Slash, Cypress Hill and Fergie Release Japan Only Single

  
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  Observant readers will remember that not so long ago we told you that Slash was getting a cabal of artists together to perform on his upcoming solo project, including Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, Dave Grohl, Flea, and recent additions Kid Rock and Lemmy. Well, the first taste of this new Slash project has been served. [...]
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• DAVE GROHL, CHRIS CORNELL TO HELP SLASH MOUTH RAPE HIS LEGACY

  
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• Scott MacIntyre to Perform at Alice Cooper’s Christmas Pudding

  
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  Scott MacIntyre to Perform at Alice Cooper’s Christmas Pudding is a post from: American Idol Rock the Bosom! Scott MacIntyre is slated to perform at Alice Cooper’s Christmas Pudding! From the website: Christmas Pudding is one of Solid Rock’s major fundraisers. This holiday-themed variety show, held every ...
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• Hit Parader - October 1980

  
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  Today Im traveling back to 1980, a simpler time when a b-movie actor who once costarred with a chimpanzee was elected President of the United States (paving the way for a bad actor who once costarred with chimp-sized Danny DeVito to be elected Governator), Tom Hanks was getting his first big exposure starring as a ...
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• SLASHS ALBUM SOUNDS PRETTY COOL

  
  No Expiration - a blog about timeless music — Authority: 435
  In September, I wrote about how Dave Grohl is playing on Slash s upcoming solo album. Also guesting on the album: Flea , Chris Cornell , most of Guns N Roses (other than Axl, obviously), Iggy Pop , Cypress Hill , Alice Cooper , Ozzy Osbourne , Meat Loaf and Adam Levine of Maroon 5 . And Fergie . ...
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• Died On This Date (November 5, 1972) Miss Christine Frka / The GTOs, Frank Zappa

  
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  Miss Christine (Born Christine Frka)1950 – November 5, 1972Miss Christine was one of the infamous, GTO’s, a small collection of groupies that provided companionship for many of the world’s most famous rock stars while visiting Los Angeles during the ’60s and’70s.  They were so named by Frank Zappa who also ...
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• Jack White Refuses to Sing on Next Year’s Slash LP

  
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  With a new album, slated to drop sometime next year, Slash has been setting up the likes of Flea, Dave Grohl, and Alice Cooper for guest spots on the Slash LP. However, one musical dream of the guitar legend seems to be going unfulfilled. Slash reveals that Jack White recently refused to team up and [...]
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• Jack White Refuses to Sing on Slashs Solo Album

  
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  Filed under: News , New Music , Holy Hell With three bands, a prolific record label and the occasional lecturing gig , Jack White certainly doesnt need to take on any more projects. That could explain why he turned down an opportunity that any musician not named Axl Rose would kill for -- performing on ...
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• Danielle Harris Interview at Chiller Eyegore Awards 2009

  
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