Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper

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Alice Cooper rose to national infamy in the early '70s on the "parent's worst nightmare" platform by melding Detroit punk/glam metal and horror movies, and unapologetically employing violent stage props (hangman's gallows, guillotines, electric chairs, sword-impaled baby dolls, blood, gore, live snakes), outlandish stage clothes and eye make-up (now a long-established Alice trademark). The band's 1971 album, Love It To Death, introduced the now-classic rock staple "I'm Eighteen." This began a string of worldwide gold and platinum albums and sell-out arena tours. Conservative groups rushed to denounce Alice as a menace to society but his controversial shows were wildly successful and paved the road for the likes of KISS, Ozzy Osbourne, Marilyn Manson, Twisted Sister, and Rob Zombie (Zombie confessed during VH1's Top 100 Metal documentary that, "We've all been ripping Alice Cooper off for years."). In a famous 1973 interview in Rolling Stone magazine, Alice summed up his band with the now-famous quote, "The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades."

Source: Press Office (June 2005) read less

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