Alice Cooper
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Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Phonograph Record, August 1972
IF YOU DON'T THINK Alice Cooper are the Rolling Stones of 1972, think again. In innumerable aspects – from the foremost importance of image to ...
Alice Cooper: All Right, Son . . .Where's My Big Boy With Extra Sauce?
Interview by Barbara Charone, Creem, August 1977
ALICE COOPER is waiting for the man. He's even got a Coca-Cola in his hand. But where's the burgers? Alice Cooper is waiting. He's waiting ...
Audio interviews
Interview by Mike Quigley, Rock's Backpages audio, August 1969
I brief clip in which Alice explains where they are coming from, and where they are going to.
File format: mp3; file size: 1.2mb, interview length: 1' 13" sound quality: **
Interview by Howie Klein, Rock's Backpages audio, 1978
Eight months into recovery, Alice talks about coming off the booze, what it means to be "Alice Cooper", praises Etta James' cover of 'Only Women Bleed', chats about President Ford (and voting for Nixon), and opines about Patti Smith and punk rock.
File format: mp3; file size: 51.5mb, interview length: 56' 12" sound quality: ***
Interview by Adam Blake, Rock's Backpages audio, 18 July 1989
Interviewed at London's Mayfair Hotel, Vincent Furnier's alias talks about his new album Trash and about performing his older material; planning his stage shows; music coming first and theatrics second; the evolution of his theatricality; his current audience; the 'Elected' video and videos today; Alice Cooper vs. Vince Furnier, and being "the ultimate rock villain"; drinking with Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin; his Minister father... and such non-rock influences as John Barry.
File format: mp3; file size: 22.4meg, interview length: 23' 20" sound quality: ***
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The Mothers of Invention, Alice Cooper, Wild Man Fischer: Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, UCLA Daily Bruin, 15 January 1969
Frank Zappa and other frightening occurrences ...
Alice Cooper: Pretties for You
Review by Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone, 12 July 1969
ALICE COOPER IS A West Coast Zappa-sponsored group: two guitars, bass, drums and a vocalist who doubles on harmonica. Echoes of 1967 psychedelia in the ...
Interview by Mike Quigley, Poppin, September 1969
MIKE QUIGLEY: What's the reaction been like wherever you've played? ...
Boy-Girl Alice Cooper Puts on a Freaky Show
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 29 May 1970
ON STAGE, THE lead singer of a rock band, a young man named Alice Cooper, has taken off his silver jump suit to reveal black ...
Alice Cooper: Love It To Death
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 15 April 1971
IT CAME ON the radio in the late afternoon and from the first note it was right: Alice Cooper bringing it all back home again. ...
Alice Cooper: Town Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 8 May 1971
Concert in Drag By Alice Cooper, A Boy and Band ...
Alice Cooper: Town Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 16 May 1971
WITCH-CRAFT? ...
Alice Cooper: Love It To Death (Straight WS 1883)
Review by Richard Cromelin, Creem, June 1971
IT HAS BEEN an uneasy relationship, that between Alice Cooper and their potential audience (generally, those who savor the outrageous and the flamboyant in dress ...
Alice Cooper: Love Them To Death
Profile and Interview by Danny Goldberg, Circus, June 1971
"WE'RE MERELY the end-product of an affluent society," Alice Cooper is fond of saying. "We enjoy getting on stage and showing the public what their ...
Alice Cooper: Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, Long Beach CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 1971
Alice Cooper Tops Show at Long Beach ...
Overview by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 26 November 1971
Update, 2020. "Perverted, outrageous, violent, repulsive, ugly, tasteless. A travesty. That's what's good about them". This was a quote about the Rolling Stones, recorded around ...
Alice Cooper: The Killer Comes to Town
Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, Friends/Frendz, July 1972
WELL, LET'S see, kids — it must be back there in 1969 that the name of Alice Cooper started to get around and gain a ...
The Government and Alice Cooper’s Panties
Report by John Mendelssohn, Disc, 9 July 1972
WOTTA week it’s been here in Hollywood, guys and gals, what with each and every day virtually splitting its trousers with grand and glamorous events, ...
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 15 July 1972
MICHAEL WATTS REPORTS on Friday's sensational — and controversial concert. ...
Alice Cooper: Alice's New Snake – Yvonne Likes Her Work
Profile by Jim Esposito, Rock, 17 July 1972
THERE ARE lots of rumors circulating the rock industry, especially about Alice Cooper. However, the one about Alice having to get rid of his old ...
Alice Cooper: Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 1972
Alice Cooper Mounts Camel, Gallows at Bowl ...
Review by Ben Edmonds, Creem, October 1972
AS WE ALL KNOW, summer never lasts forever, and Alice was faced with the problem of rushing out a follow-up album before the leaves began ...
Alice Cooper: Rehearsing at The Fillmore
Report and Interview by Jim Esposito, Circus, October 1972
2013 NOTE: My photographer Flash and I were in New York City on other business when we heard Alice Cooper was rehearsing his upcoming tour ...
Alice Cooper, Flo & Eddie: With Alice in Glasgow
Report by Ed Jones, Cracker, November 1972
GREEN'S PLAYHOUSE is like a vast seedy Roman amphitheatre, a black roaring cauldron of sweat, smoke and screams. The Glasgow audience is tough, gritty and ...
Alice Cooper: Dancing In The Street Without A Permit Is Strictly Forbidden
Report by Jonh Ingham, Fusion, November 1972
Alice hits London. Summertime blues 1972. ...
Alice Cooper: Green's Playhouse, Glasgow
Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 18 November 1972
BROKEN RIBS AND FAKE BLOOD — SPECIAL REVIEW OF THE ALICE COOPER CONCERT BY NICK KENT ...
Alice Is Still Swinging — By The Neck!
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 18 November 1972
THE KIDS AT GREEN'S PLAYHOUSE, GLASGOW, were yelling "Alice, Alice, Alice" at the top of their voices in deafening unison as the object of their ...
Alice Cooper: No More Mr Nice Guy
Report and Interview by Steve Turner, Outloud, 1973
Vincent Furnier is sitting in Max's Kansas City on 24th Street and Park Avenue in downtown New York City. It's 1 a.m. on a Monday ...
Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies (Warner)
Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 24 February 1973
YOU'VE GOT to hand it to Alice Cooper and the boys – they know just when to pump out another album for the kids to ...
Alice Cooper: Spectrum, Philadelphia
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 17 March 1973
THE ROCK WORLD today mourns the death of Alice Cooper, who was accidently killed last night when the safety screws failed on the guillotine he ...
Report and Interview by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, April 1973
"TO BE HONEST, I was a little worried about the guillotine," Alice Cooper says. "The safety doesn't work too well, and, well, there was that ...
Alice Cooper: The Spectrum, Philadelphia
Live Review by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, April 1973
DIDN'T IT STRIKE you as strange, even back then before Peter and Gordon or the color series of Beatle cards, that they could call a ...
Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies (Warner Bros.)
Review by Ben Edmonds, Creem, May 1973
QUITE SIMPLY, Billion Dollar Babies is the Sgt. Pepper of punkdom. Or a reasonable facsimile there of, which in the end is probably just as ...
Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies
Review by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, May 1973
Alice Cooper is uglyAlice Cooper's a starWhen he shows his tummy on tellyAll the girls go aaaaaahghh. ...
Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies
Review by Robot A. Hull, Phonograph Record, May 1973
"One of these days somebody's gonna have enough guts to take a machine gun and fire into all the sicko creeps we got running loose ...
Alice Cooper: Alice, Nixon and Batman at LA Party
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 19 May 1973
ALICE COOPER was introduced by a fake President of the United States at a reception at the Coconut Grove to mark the group's appearance at ...
Alice Cooper: Scenes From An Impending Conquest
Profile by Ben Edmonds, Creem, June 1973
"Alice Cooper...I thought it was gonna be like Judy Collins or something: It was the most revolting thing I've ever seen. You shoulda been there..." ...
Paul Simon: Carnegie Hall; Alice Cooper: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 10 June 1973
Paul Simon & Alice Cooper, So Differently the Same ...
Alice Cooper: Madison Square Garden, NYC
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 30 June 1973
LET'S ASSUME, just for the purpose of arguement, that you're a sensitive soul filled with love for your fellow humans, and that you really get ...
Bob Ezrin: The Square And The Faggots
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 18 August 1973
"DETACHMENT. Yes, that's it exactly. We were both talking about that. Lou said last night: 'This album is an exercise in detachment and apathy'. I ...
Alice Cooper: Alice Shows His Muscle
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 22 September 1973
"YA WANNA SCOOP?" grins Shep Gordon, the inimitable manager of Alice Cooper, a paragon of virtue in his rust-coloured brushed velvet jacket. "Sure" hisses the ...
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, 29 November 1973
Well, Alice is rich. ...
Alice Cooper: A Christmas Chiller
Report by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 22 December 1973
The great Sherlock Holmes, cleverly disguised as MM investigator Chris Charlesworth, pulls his deerstalker over his eyes and sets forth on his most dangerous adventure. ...
Alice Cooper: Muscle of Love (Warner Brothers)
Review by Kim Fowley, Phonograph Record, January 1974
ALICE COOPER is an American International movie 10 years later set to music. But where is the director, Bob Ezrin? He directed such wow scenes ...
Alice through the looking glass
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 12 January 1974
Shep Gordon worked for firm making clothes for the dead... Now he manages the killer himself, Alice Cooper. Gordon talks to MM New York writer ...
Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, 17 January 1974
The Alice Cooper phenomenon, which began with the chart entry of "I'm Eighteen," rose to diabolical heights with Killer and School's Out and extravaganzaed in ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 19 January 1974
WOWEE, that Alice Cooper is certainly a funny fellow an no mistake. ...
Alice Cooper: Fangs Ain't What They Used To Be
Interview by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 23 March 1974
AT THE END of the second evening of this three-day trip to London, after a grueling schedule of interviews for the press radio and TV, ...
Alice Cooper: The Mystery Tits
Report by Jim Esposito, Oui, June 1974
FIFTEEN FEET in front of me, Alice Cooper was doing his thing all over an elevated plywood stage. ...
Alice Cooper: Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits
Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 7 September 1974
Alice's absurd achievements ...
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 12 October 1974
Chris Charlesworth has a round – of golf, that is – with Alice Cooper in New York and finds the ghoul of rock is a ...
Alice Cooper: Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits
Review by Michael Gross, Crawdaddy!, November 1974
THEY'VE CALLED the perpetration of Alice Cooper on the pop public one of the greatest PR coups of all time. They've called Alice a charlatan, ...
Glitter Rock's Lingering Shadow
Report by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 3 November 1974
I like sex, because sex is not dangerous. Violence is dangerous, that's why I leave my violence on stage. But we've never been into glitter. ...
Alice Cooper: Through the Looking Glass
Report and Interview by Michael Gross, Club, 1975
THE LOBBY OF the Boston Sheraton Hotel looks, smells and feels like Grand Central Station. In the midst of it stands a tall, skinny man ...
Retrospective by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 15 February 1975
Yes, once again CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY, Regius Professor of Logic, Rhetoric, Trash Aesthetics, and Hohner Super Vamper, leaps forth with a mouthful of scintillating verbosity ...
Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 22 February 1975
ETHYL'S FRIGID AS an eskimo pie, she's cool in bed/she oughta be, 'cuz Ethyl's dead... ...
Singles from Elton John, David Bowie et al
Review by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 1 March 1975
Elton gets lost ...
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 2 March 1975
"THE MYSTERY," said Alice Cooper, an unmistakable hint of determination in his voice, "is the fact that no matter what, when people go to see ...
Alice Moves from Hysteria to Hollywood: The Billion Dollar Baby Goes Showbiz
Report and Interview by Ed McCormack, Rolling Stone, 13 March 1975
NEW YORK — It's a night for Henry Mancini mood music, with the rain slapdashing the sidewalks and dissolving pools of neonlike poster paint, and ...
Nick Kent – A Limey in LA #1: Hey Man, You With A Gwoop?
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 15 March 1975
Speech impediments are the thing in Los Angeles this year. There are quite a lot of naked men jumping out of bushes – whereas more ...
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 12 April 1975
THE NEW Alice Cooper Revue, which opened in Chicago last week and moved on to Detroit and Cincinnati, is yet another step forward in the ...
Alice Cooper: Welcome To My Nightmare
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, May 1975
THE PLOT OF THE somnambulistic and psychopathic Steven and his nocturnal atrocities (he unknowingly murders in his sleep) takes up most of the second side ...
Alice Cooper, Suzi Quatro: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Toby Goldstein, Billboard, 24 May 1975
WHEN ALICE Cooper's track record is summoned up, the one question that springs to mind is, what can he possibly do to surpass himself this ...
Alice Cooper: The Forum, Los Angeles
Live Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, July 1975
WHEN ALICE CAME back to the Forum, it was an owning-up of sorts. This time there were no pretenses of Rock Band Identity (the backing ...
Alice Cooper: No more Mr. Horrorshow Droog
Special Feature by Ed McCormack, Rolling Stone, 31 July 1975
School's Out for Alice Cooper... but Has He Reformed? ...
Alice Cooper: Alice Cooper Goes To Hell
Review by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 10 July 1976
THIS ALBUM HAS already received an almost unamimous thumbs-down form the staff, which really suprises as it's no better or worse than Welcome To My ...
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get his own back on Alice, of course
Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Sounds, 2 October 1976
Or how Alice Cooper finds the truth and a giant man-eating chicken. ...
Alice Cooper: Love It To Death
Retrospective by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 27 August 1977
"I'M CAUGHT in a dream –so what?" ...
Interview by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 8 September 1977
PROVIDENCE, R.I. ...
Review by Penny Valentine, Melody Maker, 9 December 1978
ALICE NEVER really was a contender for the world's greatest rock musician or singer (that's why he had to "kill" chickens and babies every night ...
Alice Cooper Is Back From Hell
Interview by Howie Klein, BAM, 15 December 1978
FIRST THE reality — huge smokestacks are belching soot and grime into the cramped grayish sky. It looks like a job for the Environmental Protection ...
Alice Cooper: Flush The Fashion (Warner Bros.)
Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Creem, September 1980
"Goodbye. Hey, goodbye guys! Maybe I'll see...maybe I'll see y'around sometime, huh? Hey, don't make a stranger of yourself, huh? Remember the Coop, huh? I ...
Twisted Sister: New Year's Dee
Interview by Helen Fitzgerald, Melody Maker, 4 January 1986
DEE SNIDER, fang-toothed leader of outrageous HM maniacs TWISTED SISTER lets his tongue gallop over a few topics suggested by Helen 'Tape-deck' FitzGerald. ...
Interview by Bill Holdship, Creem, March 1987
ALICE COOPER'S 'Under My Wheels' is a rock 'n' roll classic. You can put it on a party tape or hear it on the radio ...
Alice Cooper, The Stranglers, Status Quo: Reading Festival
Live Review by Len Brown, New Musical Express, September 1987
WELCOME TO my nightmare. "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! It's been five years but it's good to be back. . . Awwwwwwright! . . . We f—kin' ...
Alice Cooper: The Last Temptation
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 14 July 1994
IF YOU WENT to high school in the '70s, Alice Cooper's 'I'm Eighteen' and 'School's Out' became part of your life. Cooper dirges like 'Desperado' ...
Live Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 7 October 1995
DOUBLE-O HEAVEN! Ozzy Osbourne proves he's right back on form with a storming South American extravaganza! Alice Cooper, Megadeth, Paradise Lost and Therapy? also blast ...
Interview by Tony Fletcher, iJamming.net, 12 November 1996
ONE REASON I've been looking forward to getting this site up is to make available some of the interviews I conducted for the Keith Moon ...
Marilyn Manson: Wrong Is Right
Essay by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 19 December 1996
Marilyn Manson's diet for an evil new planet ...
Alice Cooper Box Set Keeps The Horror Alive
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 7 May 1999
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT may be a divisive issue in America, but it has been very good to Alice Cooper. ...
Interview by Ian Fortnam, bol.com, May 2000
WAY BACK in the post-Woodstock doldrums of the early 1970s, Alice Cooper erupted out of Phoenix, Arizona, and immediately consigned the wilting bouquet of navel-gazing ...
Alice Cooper: Last Night A Record Changed My Life
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, MOJO, October 2003
Back when he was dodging Phoenix rednecks as frontman of The Spiders, Alice Cooper's heart opened to a Broadway show soundtrack. ...
Alice Cooper: The Jon Wilde Interview
Interview by Jon Wilde, Uncut, July 2005
UNCUT: Am I speaking to Vincent Furnier or his alter-ego, Alice Cooper? ...
Interview by Mark Paytress, MOJO, December 2005
Leading a band of blood-thirsty long-haired crazies, Alice Cooper ruled '70s rock'n'roll, surviving hangings and electrocution, before booze, madness and global fame destroyed the beast. ...
Born-Again Shock Rocker (and Golfer) Alice Cooper
Report and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 27 August 2008
AS HE WRITES in his highly readable autobiography, Alice Cooper, Golf Monster, the father of shock rock credits the game for helping him maintain his ...
Memoir by Caroline Boucher, The Observer, 14 November 2010
Alice had hamburger… and his snake had a couple of mice. ...
Vinyl: Love It To Death + Killer + School's Out + Billion Dollar Babies
Retrospective by Paul Gorman, Paul Gorman Is, 23 July 2012
THE FOUR ALBUMS released by Alice Cooper between 1971 and 1973 propelled the band's international ascendance and its frontman into enduring superstardom. ...
Slaves to the rhythm: What the non-frontmen have to say
Book Review by James Medd, New Statesman, 18 June 2015
That's Entertainment: My Life in the Jam Rick Buckler Omnibus Press, 384pp, £14.95 Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams and Drugs with the Grateful Dead Bill ...
Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 18 November 2017
Forget the guillotine, noose and snakes – the master of the macabre's fans will be stunned by his enduring passion for God, golf and marriage ...
In the Hot Seat with Larry LeBlanc: Toby Mamis, manager, Alive Enterprises
Interview by Larry LeBlanc, Celebrity Access, 30 August 2018
YOU ARE GOING to have to wait for a film to make much sense of Toby Mamis' fabulously winding career. ...
'Children of the Revolution': Glam Rock and the '70s
Essay by Toby Manning, New Socialist, 16 October 2021
Glam, in all its queer, communal, proletarian glory, is the soundtrack to a militant '70s that we must reclaim for the left. ...
A Walk on the Wild Side of Sunset: Remembering Lemmy and the Hollywood Vampires
Book Excerpt by Ian Winwood, 'Bodies' (Faber & Faber), April 2022
This is an excerpt from Ian's new book Bodies: Life and Death in Music, published by Faber on April 21. ...
see also Joe Perry
see also Hollywood Vampires
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