Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper is an American singer, songwriter and actor whose career spans over five decades. With his distinctive raspy voice and a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, deadly snakes, baby dolls, and dueling swords, Cooper is considered by music journalists and peers alike to be "The Godfather of Shock Rock". He has drawn equally from horror films, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a macabre and theatrical brand of rock designed to shock people...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth4 February 1948
CityDetroit, MI
CountryUnited States of America
It (playing fairs) is a little more challenging and at the same time a little easier,
The new songs fit right in. They are so close to that style. That is what you want. I wanted them to sound like that era.
That's the fun audience, ... Everybody is there to have fun.
I've got a crew that has been with me for quite a while, ... They know how to break down the disappearing coffin trick. They know how to break down the guillotine.
They coincide with each other but they don't at the same time. So what it is, is when people come to see us the first time, they see this.
The age of the audience has dropped 10-15 years, maybe more. All of the audiences through Spain, Italy through Germany, the Netherlands and Scandinavia are like 15-16 through 25. It's like 1972 again.
We would walk over the names of Vincent Price, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, never, ever thinking that our names would ever be on the Walk of Fame, ... That is really quite a privilege to be here.
Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.
Johnny [Depp] got this rock 'n' roll old soul to him. If I say a song, he goes, 'Oh yeah. I know that song.' A song he shouldn't know, a song that's not his generation at all. So he might as well have been there.
Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't - anymore. I don't consider a lot of the pop things I hear on the radio to be rock n' roll. It's just kind of fragmented
I came into this life, looked all around. I saw just what I liked and took what I found.
Chained in a cell, got my own private hell. Preacher crucifies me, warden wants to fry me.
I wanna be in the headlines, anything to be in the headlines.
Militant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets.