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Alice Cooper: Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits

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, a fakir, the illusory crown prince of retch-rock, and to a certain extent they've been right. What else can explain his being banned in Rochester, New York?

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