Alice Cooper biography
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“Alice Cooper” was originally a band name with Vincent Furnier portraying the lead persona. In 1974, Furnier legally changed his name to Alice Cooper and launched a solo career. The band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies. Cooper’s solo career began with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare. Expanding from his Detroit garage rock and glam rock[3] roots, over the years Cooper has experimented with many different musical styles including: conceptual rock, art rock, hard rock, pop rock, experimental rock and industrial rock. Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur and, since 2004, a popular radio DJ with his classic rock shows “Nights with Alice Cooper” and “Breakfast with Alice”.
Alice Cooper is also the name of Betty Cooper’s mother in the Archie comic strips. The classic Alice Cooper group line-up consisted of singer Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier), lead guitarist Glen Buxton, rhythm guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith. A chicken somehow made its way on stage during Alice Cooper’s performance. By mid-1972 the Alice Cooper show had become infamous, but what the band really needed was a big hit single.
Cooper appeared on the first episode of ABC In Concert in 1972. In 1975 Cooper released his first solo album, which marked the final break with the original members of the Alice Cooper band. Following the tour, Cooper had himself hospitalized in a New York sanitarium for treatment, during which time the live album The Alice Cooper Show was released. The subsequent tour’s stage show was based inside an asylum, and was filmed for Cooper’s first home video release, “The Strange Case of Alice Cooper”, in 1979.
In 1983, after the recording of DaDa, Cooper was re-hospitalized for alcoholism. In 1984 Alice Cooper was, for the first time in his career, a free agent.
In 1986, Alice Cooper officially returned to the music industry with the album Constrictor. Also in 1986, Megadeth were asked to open for Alice Cooper for dates on his US tour. In 1988 Cooper’s contract with MCA Records expired and he signed with Epic Records. In 1991, amidst the grunge rock explosion, Cooper’s album Hey Stoopid was released to a mediocre response, as well as the home video documentary “Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts” which chronicled his career story up to that point. Cooper toured USA, headlining the pre-OzzFest concept “Operation: Rock n’ Roll” festival tour.
In 1995, Cooper toured through South America for the first time since 1974. Cooper also recorded the intro narration for the Insane Clown Posse album The Great Milenko.
In 1999, the four-disc box set The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper was released. In 2003, Cooper again adopted a leaner, cleaner sound for his critically acclaimed album The Eyes Of Alice Cooper. On January 26, 2004, Cooper’s radio show, Nights with Alice Cooper, began airing in several US cities. In 2005, Cooper released his 24th studio album Dirty Diamonds. It is a continuation of the songwriting approach the band used on The Eyes of Alice Cooper. In 2006, Cooper’s Nights with Alice Cooper radio show also began to appear as the Breakfast Show on the UK’s DAB only Planet Rock. Alice Cooper is featured in Avantasia’s third album The Scarecrow. During an interview that Cooper himself conducted with Ozzy Osbourne on his radio show Nights with Alice Cooper in 2007, Cooper again affirmed his debt of gratitude to these bands, and to The Beatles in particular. In the foreword to Alice Cooper’s CD retrospective box set The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper, John Lydon of The Sex Pistols—a fan of Alice—pronounced Killer as the greatest rock album of all time.
In 1999 Cleopatra Records released “Humanary Stew: A Tribute to Alice Cooper“, featuring a number of rock and metal all-star collaborations.
alice cooper iz so freakin old, man he needs to die and give uz all a break
WHAT DA FUCK . I COME HERE TO READ WHAT HE’S OTHER FANS HAVE TO SAY . SO HERE’S A LITTLE TIP FOR YOU :DON’T , I REPEAT DON’T SAY “HE NEEDS TO DIE”. Now , I love Alice Cooper and for those who care he’s new album will be out 28 june . And for those who don’t care I’d like to say even if you don’t like him it’s realy stoopid to say he needs to die .