The Man Who Ate Alice Cooper
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 15 February 1975
Yes, once again CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY, Regius Professor of Logic, Rhetoric, Trash Aesthetics, and Hohner Super Vamper, leaps forth with a mouthful of scintillating verbosity aimed, with all the abandon of the truly crazed, straight at your frontal lobes, readers all. If he's reduced you to a frothing heap before, take guard – for now, before your very eyes, witness the climactic horror of this week's episode:
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