Hollywood Vampires: Rise (earMUSIC)
Simon Price, Metro, 18 June 2019
THE ORIGINAL Hollywood Vampires were a Transatlantic showbiz drinking cabal formed by Alice Cooper in the 1970s, a Hellfire Club for the Sunset Strip set. When the pantomime dame of horror metal persuaded Johnny Depp and Aerosmith's Joe Perry to form a hard-rock supergroup of the same name in 2015, the intention was to pay tribute to Cooper's (un)dead friends by covering their songs with an all-star cast of his living ones.
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