Alice Cooper
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than five decades. With a stage show that sometimes included a guillotine, gallows, electric chair, fake blood, boa constrictor and baby dolls, Cooper drew equally from horror movies, vaudeville and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal that was designed to shock. Alice Cooper originally was a band that consisted 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. Taking on the name in 1968, the Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit "I'm Eighteen". It was followed in 1972 by the even bigger single "School's Out", which reached #1 in the UK during that summer. The band reached its commercial peak with the transatlantic #1 album Billion Dollar Babies in 1973. Furnier's solo career as Alice Cooper, legally adopting the band's name as his own, began with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare, and reached his commercial peak with the 1989 hit "Poison". His most recent studio release (his 18th solo album) was in 2008, Along Came a Spider. Expanding from his original Detroit-based garage rock roots, over the years Cooper has experimented with many different musical styles, including art rock, conceptual rock, rock and roll, jazz, new wave, and heavy metal. He's known for his social and witty persona offstage. The Rolling Stone Album Guide goes so far as to call him the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer". He helped to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and is seen as the person 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. In 2011, the original Alice Cooper Group was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
Alice Cooper: The Strange Case of Alice Cooper
Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen
Rockthology Presents: Hard 'N' Heavy, Volume 8
Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary
Show Business Is My Life (But I Can't Prove It)
A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who
Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon
Alice Cooper: Raise the Dead (Live from Wacken)
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
Midsummer Rock: The Cincinnati Pop Festival 1970
Udo Lindenberg - MTV Unplugged 2 - Live vom Atlantik
This Beat Goes On: Canadian Pop Music in the 1970s
Udo Lindenberg: Volle Fahrt voraus - Begegnungen auf dem Lindischen Ozean
Malevolent: Unearthing John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness
Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1979
Alice Cooper: A Paranormal Evening at the Olympia Paris
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The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange
