Alice Cooper
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Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Phonograph Record, August 1972
IF YOU DON'T THINK Alice Cooper are the Rolling Stones of 1972, think again. In innumerable aspects – from the foremost importance of image to ...
Alice Cooper: All Right, Son . . .Where's My Big Boy With Extra Sauce?
Interview by Barbara Charone, Creem, August 1977
ALICE COOPER is waiting for the man. He's even got a Coca-Cola in his hand. But where's the burgers? Alice Cooper is waiting. He's waiting ...
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Interview by Mike Quigley, Poppin, September 1969
MIKE QUIGLEY: What's the reaction been like wherever you've played? ...
Boy-Girl Alice Cooper Puts on a Freaky Show
Live Review by Mike Jahn, New York Times, May 1970
ON STAGE, THE lead singer of a rock band, a young man named Alice Cooper, has taken off his silver jump suit to reveal black ...
Alice Cooper: Love It To Death
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, April 1971
IT CAME ON the radio in the late afternoon and from the first note it was right: Alice Cooper bringing it all back home again. ...
Alice Cooper: Town Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, New York Times, May 1971
Concert in Drag By Alice Cooper, A Boy and Band ...
Alice Cooper: Alice's New Snake – Yvonne Likes Her Work
Profile by Jim Esposito, Rock Magazine, July 1972
THERE ARE lots of rumors circulating the rock industry, especially about Alice Cooper. However, the one about Alice having to get rid of his old ...
Alice Cooper: Rehearsing at The Fillmore
Report and Interview by Jim Esposito, Circus, October 1972
2013 NOTE: My photographer Flash and I were in New York City on other business when we heard Alice Cooper was rehearsing his upcoming tour ...
Review by Ben Edmonds, Creem, October 1972
AS WE ALL KNOW, summer never lasts forever, and Alice was faced with the problem of rushing out a follow-up album before the leaves began ...
Alice Is Still Swinging — By The Neck!
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, November 1972
THE KIDS AT GREEN'S PLAYHOUSE, GLASGOW, were yelling "Alice, Alice, Alice" at the top of their voices in deafening unison as the object of their ...
The Government and Alice Cooper’s Panties
Report by John Mendelsohn, Disc and Music Echo, Summer 1972
WOTTA week its been here in Hollywood, guys and gals, what with each and every day virtually splitting its trousers with grand and glamorous events, ...
Alice Cooper: No More Mr Nice Guy
Report and Interview by Steve Turner, Outloud, 1973
Vincent Furnier is sitting in Max's Kansas City on 24th Street and Park Avenue in downtown New York City. It's 1 a.m. on a Monday ...
Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies (Warner)
Review by Nick Kent, NME, February 1973
YOU'VE GOT to hand it to Alice Cooper and the boys they know just when to pump out another album for the kids to ...
Report and Interview by Mike Jahn, New York Times, April 1973
"TO BE HONEST, I was a little worried about the guillotine," Alice Cooper says. "The safety doesn't work too well, and, well, there was that ...
Alice Cooper: The Spectrum, Philadelphia
Live Review by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, April 1973
DIDN'T IT STRIKE you as strange, even back then before Peter and Gordon or the color series of Beatle cards, that they could call a ...
Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies (Warner Bros.)
Review by Ben Edmonds, Creem, May 1973
QUITE SIMPLY, Billion Dollar Babies is the Sgt. Pepper of punkdom. Or a reasonable facsimile there of, which in the end is probably just as ...
Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies
Review by Robot A. Hull, Phonograph Record, May 1973
"One of these days somebody's gonna have enough guts to take a machine gun and fire into all the sicko creeps we got running loose ...
Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies
Review by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, May 1973
Alice Cooper is uglyAlice Cooper's a starWhen he shows his tummy on tellyAll the girls go aaaaaahghh. ...
Alice Cooper: Scenes From An Impending Conquest
Profile by Ben Edmonds, Creem, June 1973
"Alice Cooper...I thought it was gonna be like Judy Collins or something: It was the most revolting thing I've ever seen. You shoulda been there..." ...
Alice Cooper: Madison Square Garden, NYC
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, June 1973
LET'S ASSUME, just for the purpose of arguement, that you're a sensitive soul filled with love for your fellow humans, and that you really get ...
Bob Ezrin: The Square And The Faggots
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, August 1973
"DETACHMENT. Yes, that's it exactly. We were both talking about that. Lou said last night: 'This album is an exercise in detachment and apathy'. I ...
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, November 1973
Well, Alice is rich. ...
Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, January 1974
The Alice Cooper phenomenon, which began with the chart entry of "I'm Eighteen," rose to diabolical heights with Killer and School's Out and extravaganzaed in ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, January 1974
WOWEE, that Alice Cooper is certainly a funny fellow an no mistake. ...
Alice Cooper: Fangs Ain't What They Used To Be
Interview by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, March 1974
AT THE END of the second evening of this three-day trip to London, after a grueling schedule of interviews for the press radio and TV, ...
Alice Cooper: The Mystery Tits
Report by Jim Esposito, Oui, June 1974
FIFTEEN FEET in front of me, Alice Cooper was doing his thing all over an elevated plywood stage. ...
Alice Cooper: Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits
Review by Ian MacDonald, NME, September 1974
Alice's absurd achievements ...
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, October 1974
Chris Charlesworth has a round of golf, that is with Alice Cooper in New York and finds the ghoul of rock is a ...
Alice Cooper: Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits
Review by 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, ...
Alice Cooper: Through the Looking Glass
Report and Interview by Michael Gross, Club, 1975
THE LOBBY OF the Boston Sheraton Hotel looks, smells and feels like Grand Central Station. In the midst of it stands a tall, skinny man ...
Retrospective by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 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 ...
Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, February 1975
ETHYL'S FRIGID AS an eskimo pie, she's cool in bed/she oughta be, 'cuz Ethyl's dead... ...
Nick Kent – A Limey in LA #1: Hey Man, You With A Gwoop?
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, March 1975
Speech impediments are the thing in Los Angeles this year. There are quite a lot of naked men jumping out of bushes – whereas more ...
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, April 1975
THE NEW Alice Cooper Revue, which opened in Chicago last week and moved on to Detroit and Cincinnati, is yet another step forward in the ...
Alice Cooper: Welcome To My Nightmare
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, May 1975
THE PLOT OF THE somnambulistic and psychopathic Steven and his nocturnal atrocities (he unknowingly murders in his sleep) takes up most of the second side ...
Alice Cooper: The Forum, Los Angeles
Live Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, July 1975
WHEN ALICE CAME back to the Forum, it was an owning-up of sorts. This time there were no pretenses of Rock Band Identity (the backing ...
Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Sounds, October 1976
"OH YEAH, I'm getting restless. I want to play again," said Alice Cooper, deepening his tan with the smog-filtered sunrays that slanted into the patio ...
Alice Cooper: Love It To Death
Retrospective by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, August 1977
"I'M CAUGHT in a dream –so what?" ...
Review by Penny Valentine, Melody Maker, December 1978
ALICE NEVER really was a contender for the world's greatest rock musician or singer (that's why he had to "kill" chickens and babies every night ...
Alice Cooper Is Back From Hell
Interview by Howie Klein, BAM, December 1978
FIRST THE reality — huge smokestacks are belching soot and grime into the cramped grayish sky. It looks like a job for the Environmental Protection ...
Alice Cooper: Flush The Fashion (Warner Bros.)
Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Creem, September 1980
"Goodbye. Hey, goodbye guys! Maybe I'll see...maybe I'll see y'around sometime, huh? Hey, don't make a stranger of yourself, huh? Remember the Coop, huh? I ...
Interview by Bill Holdship, Creem, March 1987
ALICE COOPER'S 'Under My Wheels' is a rock 'n' roll classic. You can put it on a party tape or hear it on the radio ...
Interview by Ian Fortnam, bol.com, May 2000
WAY BACK in the post-Woodstock doldrums of the early 1970s, Alice Cooper erupted out of Phoenix, Arizona, and immediately consigned the wilting bouquet of navel-gazing ...
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