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Alice Cooper

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February 04, 1948 in Allen Park, Michigan, The United States

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http://www.alicecooper.com

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Biographies & Memoirs, Music

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Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon) is an American rock singer, songwriter and broadcaster whose career spans more than five decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors and baby dolls, Cooper has drawn 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 was originally a band consisting of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and drummer Neal Smith. The original Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit "I'm Eighteen" from the album Love it to Death, which...more Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon) is an American rock singer, songwriter and broadcaster whose career spans more than five decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors and baby dolls, Cooper has drawn 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 was originally a band consisting of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and drummer Neal Smith. The original Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit "I'm Eighteen" from the album Love it to Death, which was followed by the even bigger single "School's Out" in 1972. The band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies.

Furnier's solo career as Alice Cooper, adopting the band's name as his own name, began with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare. In 2008 he released Along Came a Spider, his 18th solo album. Expanding from his original Detroit rock roots, over the years Cooper has experimented with many different musical styles, including conceptual rock, art rock, glam metal, hard rock, new wave, pop rock, soft rock, experimental rock, heavy metal, and industrial rock. In recent times he has returned more to his garage rock roots.

Alice Cooper is known for his social and witty persona offstage, The Rolling Stone Album Guide going so far as to refer to him as the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer". He helped to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and has been credited as being 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.

On VH1's "100 Greatest artists of Hard Rock", Cooper was ranked #20.
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Average rating: 3.75 · 408 ratings · 70 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict by Alice Cooper, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman 3.82 avg rating — 236 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Me, Alice: The Autobiography of Alice Cooper with Steven Gaines by Alice Cooper, Steven S. Gaines 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1976	My rating:
	Welcome to My Nightmare 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Billion Dollar Babies 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Best of Alice Cooper 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Poems of Love and Reflection 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Life & Crimes of Alice Cooper 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Life & Crimes of Alice Cooper 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Special Forces 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Compleat Alice Cooper: Incorporating the Three Acts of Alice Cooper : The Last Temptation by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author), Alice Cooper, Dave McKean (Illustrator) 3.49 avg rating — 2,047 ratings — published 1995 — 12 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Alice Cooper

“The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.”
― Alice Cooper

tags: desires , goals , hippies , rock-music

28 people liked it

“Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.”
― Alice Cooper

tags: alice-cooper , golf

17 people liked it

“I call it treason against rock 'n' roll because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics. ... When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick. .... If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.”
― Alice Cooper

tags: politics

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