Alice Cooper

At 76 years old, Alice Cooper has this physical status:

Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress whose career spanned 50 years.

Cooper is regarded as "the Godfather of Shock Rock" by his distinctive raspy voice and stage display containing numerous accessories, including guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, reptiles, baby dolls, and dueling swords.

Despite being sometimes referred to as "the Father of Shock Rock" (perhaps by word-of-mouth muddling of the former), Cooper's most common agreed-upon title is "The Father of Shock Rock."

He has taken inspiration from horror films, vaudeville, and garage rock to create "Alice Cooper," a band made up of Furnier and harmonica, Glen Buxton on lead guitar, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and Neal Smith on drums.

In 1969, the original Alice Cooper band released its first album.

They made a break into international music with the 1971 hit song "I'm Eighteen" from their third studio album Love It to Death.

With their sixth studio album Billion Dollar Babies, the band hit their commercial peak in 1973.

In 2011, Alice Cooper's name was changed to his own in the 1970s and began a solo career with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare.

Cooper has experimented with a variety of musical styles, including art rock, hard rock, heavy metal, new wave, glam metal, and industrial rock, extending from his Detroit rock roots. Cooper is known for his witty demeanor offstage, with The Rolling Stone Album Guide naming him the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer."

He has been credited with helping shape heavy metal's sound and appearance, has been dubbed the artist who "first introduced horror imagery to rock and roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have forever changed the game."

Cooper is a film actor, a golfer, a restaurateur, and, since 2004, a well-known radio DJ with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper.

Early life

Vincent Damon Furnier was born in Detroit, Michigan, son of Ether Moroni Furnier (1924-1987) and his wife Ella Mae (née McCart, 1925). He was named after his uncle, Vincent Collier Furnier, and writer Damon Runyon. His father, who was officially identified as "Bickertonites," and his paternal grandfather, Thurman Sylvester Furnier, was an apostle and president (1963-1965) of the Church of Jesus Christ.

Cooper was a member of the 10th Church of England from the 11 to the 12th century. He and his family moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he attended Cortez High School following a string of childhood illnesses. His aspiration in high school was to be "A million record breaker."

Personal life

A tale about Leave It to Beaver actor Ken Osmond had become "rock star Alice Cooper" in the early 1970s. The rumor started when a college newspaper editor asked him what kind of boy he was, to which Cooper replied, "I was obnoxious, disgusting, a real Eddie Haskell," referring to the fictional character Osmond portrayed. However, the editor ended up revealing that Cooper was the true Haskell. "It was the biggest rumors about me that ever came out about me," Cooper later told the New Times. Eventually, I found a T-shirt that said, 'I am not Eddie Haskell.' "But people still believe it."

Cooper did a wide-ranging interview with actor Andrew Denton for the Australian ABC Television's Enough Rope on June 20, 2005, well before his tour to June-July 2005. During the interview, Cooper addressed various topics, including the horrors of acute alcoholism and his subsequent cure, being a Christian, and his familial and professional relationship with his family. During an interview, Cooper said, "I look at Mick Jagger, and he's on an 18-month tour, and he's six years older than me," so I guess I have six more years to go. I would not let him beat me when it comes to longevity."

Cooper often refers to himself in the third person as "Alice" as a way to distance himself from his stage persona.

Miss Christine of the GTOs became Cooper's girlfriend in the time when the Alice Cooper group was signed to Frank Zappa's Straight label. Miss Christine (real name Christine Frka), who had recommended Zappa to the organization, died of an overdose on November 5, 1972. Cindy Lang, Cooper's long-time girlfriend, was with whom he spent many years.

Cooper was briefly linked with actor Raquel Welch after his separation from Lang, but Cooper turned down Welch's advances, according to Dick Wagner. Cooper married ballerina instructor and choreographer Sheryl Goddard, who appeared in the Alice Cooper exhibition from 1975 to 1982. They married on March 20, 1976. Goddard filed for divorce in November 1983, but by mid-1984, she and Cooper had reconciled; they had three children, daughters Sonora and Calico, and son Dashiell.

Cooper said in a 2002 television interview that he had never cheated on his wife the entire time they were together. In the same interview, he also stated that the key to a long-term friendship is to continue going out on dates with one's partner.

Cooper predicted that he and his wife Sheryl have a death pact, wherein they will die at the same time, causing a flurry of headlines in a 2019 interview. Cooper, on the other hand, shared his words, telling USA Today, "I was implying that because we're almost always together, both at home and on the road," says Cooper, "We'd most likely be together at the time." However, neither of us has a suicide plan. We have a life pact.

Megadeth, a thrash metal band from 1986, opened for Cooper on their US Constrictor tour. Cooper personally approached Megadeth band members to help them handle their alcohol use and other drugs. Cooper has remained close to front man Dave Mustaine, who considers Cooper to be his "godfather." Cooper has continued to assist and advise other rock musicians with addiction issues after overcoming his own addiction to alcohol in the mid-1980s. "I've made myself available to my friends of mine" – they're people who call me late at night and say, "Between you and me, I have a problem." Cooper received the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award in 2008 at the fourth annual MusiCares MAP Fund charity benefit concert in Los Angeles, in recognition of his contributions to other addicts in the recovery process.

Cooper said in an interview with Johnnie Walker on BBC Radio 2 in September 2007, that he wasn't a Christian when he stopped drinking, but that he thanks God for "taking it away." Cooper was later convicted of being a born-again Christian, although he did not speak openly about his religious convictions.

Cooper's politics have revolved around his career, and he has said that politics should not be mixed with rock music. Cooper has generally held his political convictions to himself, and in 2010, he said, "I am very non-political." I go out of my way to being non-political. I'm sure I'm the most popular moderate you should know. I was right in the middle of them when John Lennon and Harry Nilsson used to debate politics, and I was the one who said, 'I don't care.' If my parents get to discuss politics, I would step in my room and put on the Rolling Stones or the Who as long as I could avoid politics. And I still feel this way."

Cooper has spoken out against musicians who promote or opine on politics, as he told The Canadian Press, for example, that the rock stars supporting Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry were "treason against rock n' roll." "If I wasn't already a Bush supporter, I would have immediately switched," Kerry added after seeing a list of musicians who supported Kerry.

Linda Ronstadt?

Don Henley?

Geez, that's a good reason to vote for Bush right there. Cooper said in December 2018 that the next US president would be "worse" than then-president Donald Trump, while insisting that musicians discussing politics to their followers was a "abuse of power."

Cooper has satirically ran for president every four years since announcing his single "Elected" in 1972.

Cooper is a fan of both the Detroit Red Wings and the Arizona Coyotes in the NHL. In a reward for the first 10,000 fans of a game with the Dallas Stars on February 18, 2012, the Coyotes gave away his bobblehead. Cooper has been a long baseball fan, assisting the Arizona Diamondbacks and Detroit Tigers. He wished to play left field in the Tigers outfield with Al Kaline, a student in the Hall of Fame. Since his son was playing in the early 1990s, he has been coaching Little League baseball teams. Cooper is also a fan of NBA basketball, supporting both the Detroit Pistons and the Phoenix Suns.

Cooper is an avid golfer who claims that golf helped him overcome his heroin use in the first place, and he's even gone so far as to say that starting one addiction led to another. The importance that the game has brought in to his life is also reflected in Alice Cooper's 2007 autobiography, Golf Monster. Cooper, who has competed in a number of Pro-Am tournaments, plays the game six days a week on a handicap of four.

Cooper has appeared in commercials for Callaway Golf equipment, as well as being a guest of veteran British player and broadcaster Peter Alliss on A Golfer's Travels. He wrote the foreword to the Gary McCord book Ryder Cup and was involved in the second All*Star Cup in Newport, Wales.

Cooper, a Simpsons fan, was invited to write a storyline for Bongo Comics' Treehouse of Horror, a special Monsters of Rock issue that also featured articles written by Gene Simmons, Rob Zombie, and Pat Boone.

Alice Cooper appeared in the Marvel comic book Marvel Premiere, Number 1, closely based on his From the Inside story from the inside.

Cooper was also featured in the "We're not worthy" meme, which was popularized during his appearance in Wayne's World with Mike Myers and Dana Carvey in 1992.

Cooper was included in Alice Cooper's Nightmare Castle, a pinball machine that also features ten songs performed by Cooper, and he provided him with his name and over 700 voice lines to Alice Cooper's Nightmare Castle. Only 500 machines were built.

Play'n GO published Alice Cooper and the Tome of Madness, a web-based game, on October 7, 2021. Alice Cooper's voice lines are included in this game, as well as an animated version of Alice Cooper, as well as the song "Welcome to My Nightmare."

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Career

In 1964, 16-year-old Furnier was eager to attend Cortez High School's annual Letterman's talent competition, so he assembled four fellow cross country students to form a group for the performance: Glen Buxton, Dennis Dunaway, John Tatum, and John Speer. They were branded the Earwigs by the locals. They dressed up in costumes and wigs to mimic the Beatles, and performed several parodies of Beatles songs, with the lyrics changed to include the track team: "Last night, I ran four laps for my coach" was replaced by "I said these words to my child" (showned). Only Buxton knew how to play an instrument—the guitar—so Buxton played guitar, while the rest mused on their instruments. The group received an overwhelming response from the audience and was voted champion of the talent show. The band decided to transform into a real band as a result of their positive experience. They acquired musical instruments from a local pawn store and started to learn how to play them, with Buxton doing the bulk of the teaching and a portion of early songwriting. Furnier, Buxton on lead guitar, Tatum on rhythm guitar, Dunaway on bass guitar, and Speer on drums followed them shortly.

The Spiders graduated from Cortez High School in 1966, and after Michael Bruce, a North High School footballer, replaced John Tatum on rhythm guitar, the band released their second album, "Don't Blow Your Mind," an original composition that became a local No. 58. "No Price Tag" is backed by a one-hit, backed by the fact that "No Price Tag" is backed.

The band had started going on road trips to Los Angeles to attend shows by 1967. They renamed themselves Nazz and launched the single "Wonder Who's Lovin' Her Now" shortly after, with Alice Cooper's "Lay Down and Die, Goodbye" as their new Alice Cooper song. At this time, drummer John Speer was replaced by Neal Smith. By the end of the year, the band had migrated to Los Angeles.

Todd Rundgren also had a band named Nazz in 1968, and the band found themselves in need of a new stage name. Furnier also believed that the band needed a gimmick to succeed, and that other bands were not exploiting the stage's showmanship potential. In a nefarious and wholesome comparison to the band's image and music, they chose "Alice Cooper" largely because it sounded innocuous and wholesome. Alice Cooper, Golf Monster, Cooper's 2007 book Alice Cooper, Golf Monster, said that his appearance was inspired in part by movies. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, one of the band's all-time favorites, was What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Bette Davis: "Because of being a movie star, Bette Davis, wears disgusting caked makeup on her face and underneath her eyes with a deep, black eyeliner." "I remember Anita Pallenberg playing the Great Tyrant in that film in 1968, wearing long black leather gloves with switchblades sticking out of them," the band thought.' That, as well as a sneek of Emma Peel from The Avengers, is what you need.

Furnier, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, drummer Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith were among the classic Alice Cooper band members. Smith, the exception of Smith, who graduated from Camelback High School (which is referred to in the song "Alma Mater" on the album School's Output), the group's members were a member of the Cortez High School cross-country team. Both Cooper, Buxton, and Dunaway were art students, and their admiration for the work of surrealist artists such as Salvador Dal would also inspire their future stage antics.

The band was approached and enlisted by music manager Shep Gordon, who saw the band's negative effect on the night as a power that could be changed in a more effective direction one night after an unsuccessful performance at the Cheetah club in Venice, Los Angeles, where they emptied the entire room of patrons after playing just ten minutes. Shep soon arranged an audition for the band with composer and well-known record producer Frank Zappa, who was trying to sign bizarre music acts to his new record label, Straight Records. The children were told "at 7 o'clock" for the audition, according to Zappa. The band mistakenly assumed he meant 7 o'clock in the morning. Being awakened by a band eager to perform that particular brand of psychedelic rock at seven a.m. in the morning, Zappa was compelled to sign them to a three-album contract. The all-female GTOs, who liked to "dress the Cooper boys up like full-size Barbie dolls," was another Zappa-signed act who was also responsible for the band's early onstage appearance.

Pretties for You, Cooper's debut studio album (1969), was eclectic and contained an experimental presentation of their songs in a psychedelic setting.

Alice Cooper's "shock rock" fame is apparently born almost by accident at first. A new subgenre, shock rock, was created by an unhearded stage routine involving Cooper, a feather pillow, and a live chicken; the band wanted to cash in on the tabloid sensationalism. Cooper maintains that the "Chicken Incident" at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival concert in September 1969 was an accident. Cooper wondered that since the chicken had wings, it would fly on the feathers of a feather pillow they would open during Cooper's appearance, and that they had no expertise with farm animals. He picked it up and threw it out into the crowd, wishing that it would fly away. Instead, the chicken plummeted into the first few rows occupied by wheelchair users, who allegedly proceeded to mash the bird to pieces. The incident on the next day made national newspapers' front page, and Zappa called Cooper to ask if the tale, which revealed that he had bitten off the chicken's head and drunk its blood, was true. Cooper denied the story, but Zappa told him, "Well, whatever you do, don't tell anyone you didn't do it."

Pink Floyd's influence in this period, and especially the album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967), was later revealed by the band. Glen Buxton said he could listen to Syd Barrett's guitar for hours at a time.

Despite the media coverage surrounding the chicken case, the band's second album, Easy Action, was released in June 1970 and fared even worse than its predecessor, barely missing to make it to the Billboard Top 200. Around this time, fed up with Californians' indignation to their performance, they moved to Pontiac, Michigan, where their bizarre stage performance was much more well received by Midwestern audiences used to the Stooges and the MC5's proto punk styles. Despite this, Cooper managed to have a cream pie in the face while performing at the Cincinnati Pop Festival. Michigan will have remained a stable home base until 1972. Cooper said, "L.A. just didn't get it." "They were all on the wrong medication for us." They were on acid and we were basically drinking beer. We fit better in Detroit than we did anywhere else."

Alice Cooper appeared at the Woodstock-esque Strawberry Fields Festival near Toronto, Ontario, in August 1970. In stark contrast to the old, denim-clad hippie bands of the time, the band's mix of glam and more robust stage theatrics stood out. "We were into fun, sex, and money when everyone was into peace and love," Cooper himself wrote. We wanted to see what was going to happen next. We were next, and we had a stake in the Love Generation's heart.

The Alice Cooper band teamed up with producer Bob Ezrin in autumn 1970 for the recording of their third studio album, Love It to Death. This was the band's last attempt to make a hit and this was the band's last attempt to make a hit. "I'm Eighteen," released in November 1970, and debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1971. Warner Bros. Records purchased Alice Cooper's album from Straight and re-issued it, giving the organization a boost in exposure.

Love It to Death was their debut album, peaking at number 35 on the United States. Billboard is the most popular album on the internet. It will be the first of 11 Alice Cooper group's solo albums released by Ezrin, who is widely recognized for helping to create and develop the band's definitive sound.

The group's 1971 tour included a stage show involving mock fights and gothic torture modes, culminating in a staged execution by electric chair, with the band wearing tight, sequined, color-contrasting glam rock-style costumes made by prominent rock-fashion designer Cindy Dunaway (sister of band member Neal Smith and wife of band member Dennis Dunaway) compared Cooper, Sweden's husband and wife. Cooper's androgynous stage role had been developed to feature a villainous face, portraying a potential threat to modern society. Warner Bros. was given ample support for the band's new multi-album contract due to the band's success and album of 1971, which also included Elton John and a pre-Ziggy Bowie.

Killer, the band's sequel to Love It to Death, continued the commercial success of Love It to Death, "Be My Lover" in early 1972, and "Halo of Flies," which made it a Top ten hit in the Netherlands in 1973. Killer developed on the nefarious side of Cooper's androgynous stage role, with its music establishing the company's morale-based stage display, a boa constrictor hugging Cooper on stage, murderous axe chopping of bloodied baby dolls, and execution by hanging at the gallows. Cooper was also questioned about his peculiar name in January 1972 and told talk-show hostess Dinah Shore that he took the name from a "Mayberry RFD" character.

The single "School's Out" was released in the summer of 1972. It has been in the Top 10 in the United States and to number 1 in the United Kingdom, and it has remained a staple of classic rock radio to this day. Output: The album School Output has risen to No. 102. Over a million copies were sold in the United States and one in Germany. In Greenwich, Connecticut, the band relocating to their new home. With Cooper's on-stage androgynous persona completely erased with brattiness and machismo, the band has resurgently won over faithful followers in droves, despite horrifying parents and shocking the social establishment alike. Mary Whitehouse, a Christian morale activist, persuaded the BBC to prohibit the film from being shown on "School's Out," although Whitehouse's campaign did not succeed in the single from gaining number one in the United Kingdom. In gratitude for the media, Cooper gave her a bouquet of roses. Leo Abse, a British Labour member, also requested that Home Secretary Reginald Maudling be barred from performing in the United Kingdom completely.

In February 1973, Billion Dollar Babies was released worldwide and became the band's most commercially successful album, peaking at No. 1 in the country. Both the United States and the United Kingdom have one in each. "Elected," a late-1972 Top ten UK hit from the album, which inspired one of the first MTV-style story-line promo videos ever made for a song, was followed by two more UK Top ten singles, "Hello Hooray" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy," the latter of which was the last UK single from the album; it debuted at No. 88 on the album. In the United States, there are 25 in the country. Donovan's guest vocals appeared on the title track, which was also a US hit single. Glen Buxton left Alice Cooper for a short time due to his declining health.

The band resumed their grueling schedule and toured the United States again, with a string of hit albums and several hit singles. Legisl and pressure groups' attempts to prohibit Alice Cooper's shocking behavior only served to perpetuate Alice Cooper's myth and sparked even more public concern. The guillotine, the Rolling Stones' 1973 tour, set box-office records that had not been established by the Rolling Stones and raised rock theatrics to new heights; the multi-level stage show by then featured numerous special effects, including Billion Dollar Bills, decapitated baby dolls and mannequins, a dental psychosis scene with dancing teeth, and the ultimate execution prop and highlight of the show: the guillotine The guillotine and other stage effects were created for the band by magician James Randi, who appeared on stage at several of the shows as executioner. During this time, Dragon Con, Randi and Cooper talked about their working relationship. The Alice Cooper group had now hit its high point, and it was one of the most prominent and profitable companies in the industry. The band's sporatic schedule of recording and touring had begun to take its toll on the band, despite its appearance.

Muscle of Love, which was released at the end of 1973, was to be Alice Cooper's last UK Top 20 single of the 1970s, with "Teenage Lament 74." An unsolicited theme song was recorded for James Bond's film The Man with the Golden Gun, but Lulu's replacement was chosen instead of a different song with the same name. The Muscle of Love album had not reached its peakcharting glory by 1974, and the band began to have regular disputes. Members decided to go on what was supposed to be a temporary hiatus for a variety of reasons. "Everyone knew they wanted a break from one another," manager Shep Gordon said at the time. "A lot of tension has built up, but it is not something that can't be dealt with." Everyone gets together and talks about it." During the Muscle of Love Christmas Tour in 1973, journalist Bob Greene spent several weeks on the road with the band. Billion Dollar Baby, his book that was published in November 1974, depicted a group in total disarray, with a less-than-flattering picture of the band. Me, Alice, Cooper's autobiography, which also included Steven Gaines' Me, Alice, which gave the singer's interpretation of that period of his career.

Cooper returned to Los Angeles and appeared on television shows including The Hollywood Squares and Warner Bros. During this time, the Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits compilation album was released. It featured modern-style artwork and debuted in the top ten on the US Top 10, earning better than Muscle of Love. Nevertheless, Alice Cooper, the band's 1974 feature film Good to See You Again (consisting mainly of 1973 concert footage with 'comedic' sketches interwoven throughout to a thin storyline), released on a minor theater mostly to drive-in theaters had no box-office success. Cooper appeared on episode 3 of The Snoop Sisters on March 5, 1974, portraying a Satanic cult singer. Alice Cooper's final performances as a group in Brazil between March and April 1974, with the record indoor attendance of 158,000 fans in So Paulo on March 30, the first ever South American rock tour.

Alice Cooper, a 1975-born artist, returned as a solo artist with the publication of Welcome to My Nightmare. "Alice Cooper" became the singer's new legal name by then to prevent court problems regarding the group's ownership. Cooper said in 1975 that Alice Cooper's return to the band as a whole was more about the fact that we had drawn as much as we could out of each other." We've been pretty dry for the past ten years together. "What began as a pipe-dream became an overwhelming burden," manager Gordon said. The success of Welcome to My Nightmare marked the band's last breakup, with Cooper and their drummer Bob Ezrin, who recruited Lou Reed's backing band, guitarists Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter, to appear on the album. The album, which was spearheaded by the US Top 20 hit ballad "Only Women Bleed," was released by Atlantic Records in March of that year and became a Top ten hit for Cooper in March. It was a concept album based on a boy named Steven's nightmare, with narration by classic horror movie actor Vincent Price and serving as the soundtrack to Cooper's latest stage performance, which now featured more theatrics than ever, including an 8-foot (2.4 m) furry Cyclops, which Cooper decapitated and killed.

The Nightmare, a television special starring Cooper and Vincent Price, was accompanying the album and stage performance, and premiered on US prime time television in April 1975. The Nightmare (which was later released on home video in 1983 and received a Grammy Awards nomination for Best Long Form Music Video) was considered as another landmark moment in rock history. Welcome to My Nightmare, a concert film starring West Side Story cast member David Winters and shot live at London's Wembley Arena in 1976, is adding to it all. In 2017, the film was released in a special edition DVD.

Cooper's solo show was such a success, that he decided to remain as a solo artist, and the original band was officially defunct. Bruce, Dunaway, and Smith will continue to form Billion Dollar Babies, who released one album, "Battle Axe," in 1977. Although occasionally appearing with one another and Glen Buxton, the pair did not reunite with Alice until October 23, 1999, at the second Glen Buxton Memorial Weekend in Phoenix, where they did not reunite with Alice until October 23, 1999. On December 16, 2010, the Dodge Theatre in Phoenix revived them for another performance, with Steve Hunter on guitar. On March 14, 2011, the original Alice Cooper group will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as well as on May 11, 2011, at London's Battersea Power Station during the Jägermeister Ice Cold 4D Festival (webcast). On Alice's 2011 album Welcome 2 My Nightmare, Bruce, Dunaway, and Smith appeared on three tracks they co-wrote on Alice's album Welcome 2 My Nightmare. They appeared on two tracks they co-wrote on Alice's album Paranormal in July, and in November they joined his current live band for five tour dates in the United Kingdom.

The No. 2nd in the United States after 1976: The No. 4 in the United States has been on the top of the charts. Alice Cooper Goes to Hell and Whiskey; and the 1977 US No. 12 Ballad hit "I Never Cry"; two albums, Alice Cooper Goes to Hell and Lace and Whiskey; and the 1977 US No. Cooper was in dire need of help with his alcoholism during his 1977 American tour (when it was reported that he was down to two cases of Budweiser and a bottle of whiskey a day). Cooper was hospitalized in a sanitarium for medical care after the tour, and during this period, the live album The Alice Cooper Show was released.

A sobered Cooper's semi-autobiographical collection From the Inside, which he co-wrote with Bernie Taupin in 1978, inspired his next hit ballad, "How You Gonna See Me Now." The following tour's stage performance was staged inside an asylum and was shot for Cooper's first home-video release, The Strange Case of Alice Cooper, in 1979. Cooper appeared on The Muppet Show ("Welcome to My Nightmare"), "You and Me" and "School's Out" around this time (episode #307) on March 28, 1978 (he played one of the devil's henchmen trying to coerce Kermit, Gonzo, and Miss Piggy into selling their souls). In Mae West's last film, Sextette, he appeared as a pianist-playing disco waiter, as well as as a villain in the film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band plays Lonely Hearts Club. In addition, Cooper was instrumental in raising funds to renovate the famous Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles, California. Cooper himself donated over $27,000 to the project, buying an O in honor of close friend and comedian Groucho Marx. Alice was also a guest on Good Friends Soupy Sales' Lunch with Soupy Sales in 1979, and she was greeted with a pie as part of the program. Alice had this to say about his pal: "Being from Detroit, I came home every day and watched Soupy at lunch." (Lunch with Soupy Sales). Soupy's pie-faced experience was one of my life's best times. He was one of my all time heroes."

Cooper's studio albums from the 1980s have been referred to as his "blackout albums" because he can recall recording them due to the use of illicit drugs. The Fashion (1980), Special Forces (1981), Zipper Catches Skin (1982), and DaDa (1983) saw a gradual decline, with the last two not denying the Billboard Top 200. Flush the Fashion, a British producer whose sound baffled even longtime followers, but it did still produce the top 40 hit "Clones (We're All)" in the United States. The album was also on the US dance chart, which was somewhat unexpected. Special Forces featured a more modern wave look and a new wave style, as well as a new version of "Generation Landslide." Cooper's tour with Special Forces marked his last time on the road for nearly five years; it was not until 1986, for Constrictors, that he returned to the tour again. Zipper Catches Skin, 1982's best-selling album with many quirky, guitar-driven songs as well as his most unusual collection of subject matters for lyrics. Producer Bob Ezrin and guitarist Dick Wagner's last album under his Warner Bros. contract in 1983, the thrilling epic DaDa.

Cooper was hospitalized for alcoholism again in mid-1983, as well as liver cirrhosis. By the time DaDa and The Nightmare home video (of his 1975 TV Special) were announced in the fall of that year, Cooper was finally stable and sober; however, both releases fell short of expectations. Even with The Nightmare winning a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video in 1984 (he lost to Duran Duran Duran), Warner Bros. was still struggling to hold Cooper on their books. Cooper became a "free agent" for the first time in his career in February 1984.

Cooper spent a lengthy time away from the music industry dealing with personal issues. On January 30, 1984, Sheryl Cooper's divorce was heard in Maricopa County Superior Court, Arizona, but the couple did not proceed with the divorce, but they did not. He appeared at the 26th Annual Grammy Awards with co-presenter Grace Jones the following month. Cooper was still playing music behind the scenes, recording new material in collaboration with Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry. Cooper appeared in the B-grade horror film Monster Dog, shot in Torrelodones, Spain, and was taken up with filming. He reconciled with Sheryl just a few weeks later, and the couple moved to Chicago. More writing sessions came to an end this year, this time in New York with Hanoi Rocks guitarist Andy McCoy. He met guitarist Kane Roberts in 1985 and started writing songs. Cooper later signed to MCA Records and appeared on Twisted Sister's "Be Chrool to Your Scuel" as a guest vocalist. For the first time since 1979, a video was produced for the song starring actor Luke Perry and Cooper donning his black snake-eyes makeup, but no one cared about it or the video drew public interest.

Alice Cooper made a return to music with the album Constrictor in 1986. The album brought "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)" ("the man behind the mask)" (the film's theme song) and "Teenage Frankenstein"), as well as the fan favorite "Teenage Frankenstein). On a tour appropriately named The Nightmare Returns, Cooper's Constrictor album was a catalyst for him to return to the road for the first time since the 1981 Special Forces project. The Detroit leg of this tour, which took place at the end of October 1986 during Halloween, was shot on film and is seen by some as the definitive Alice Cooper concert film. In 2006, it was first released on DVD. The performance, which attracted rave reviews in the rock music press, was also described by Rolling Stone magazine as "Cooper's violent, twisted onstage fantasies are taking to a new generation." Raise Your Fist and Yell, which had a much louder sound than its predecessor, was followed by the Constrictor album in 1987, as well as the Cooper classic "Freedom." The subsequent tour of Raise Your Fist and Yell, which was heavily inspired by the slasher horror films of the 1970s, served up a shocking spectacle similar to its predecessor's, especially in Europe, which brought back the public outrage sparked by Cooper's public performances in America in the early 1970s.

David Blunkett, a Labour MP, has called for the show to be barred in the United Kingdom, saying, "I'm horrified by his behavior – it goes beyond entertainment limits." The controversies erupted in the German segment of the tour, with the German government successfully removing some of the gorier sections of the show. Cooper was also on tour in London when he suffered in a near-fatal crash during the show's rehearsal of the hanging execution sequence.

Constructor (1986) and Raise Your Fist and Yell (1987), both of whom will leave the band before 1988 (although Kane Roberts played guitar on 1989's album Trash), a former member of Confederation and Yell (1986).

Cooper made a brief appearance in 1981's Prince of Darkness, directed by John Carpenter. He had no lines and consisted of mainly menacing the protagonists before imprisoning one of them with a bicycle frame.

Cooper appeared at WrestleMania III, escorting wrestler Jake "The Snake" Roberts to the ring for his match against The Honky Tonk Man in 1987. Cooper was involved and threw Jake's snake Damien at Honky's boss Jimmy Hart after the match, which Roberts lost. Cooperation was regarded as an honor by Roberts, who had idolized Cooper in his youth and was already a huge fan. The WrestleMania III, which attracted a whopping 93,173 fans, was held in the Pontiac Silverdome near Cooper's home town, Detroit.

After the song was featured on the soundtrack to Iron Eagle II, Cooper produced a music video for the "Poison" B-side "I Got a Line on You."

Cooper almost died of asphyxiation after a safety rope broke during a rehearsal concert in whichin he pretended to hang himself, a practice he would often perform at live concerts.

Cooper's MCA Records deal came to an end in 1988 and he signed with Epic Records. With the Desmond Child's music and Grammy-nominated album Trash, which resulted in a hit single "Poison" that debuted at No.. In the United Kingdom and No. 2, there are 2 on the UK and No. A live audience tour in the United States and a worldwide arena tour.

Cooper's nineteenth studio album Hey Stoopid debuted on the radio in 1991, starring several well-known rock artists on the program. The glam metal's crazion was on the decline, but it didn't have the same marketing impact as its predecessor. Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts, a documentary that chronicled his entire career, as well as Shep Gordon and Bob Ezrin. According to one observer, Prime Cuts demonstrated how Cooper used (in comparison to similarly achieving artists) theories of satire and moralization to such good effect throughout his career. Bob Ezrin gave his own summation of the Alice Cooper persona on YouTube: "He is the psycho killer in all of us." He's the axe murderer, he's the spoiled child, he's the perpetrator, he's the perpetrator, he's the murderer, he's the murderer, he's the perpetrator, he's the murderer, he's the killer, he's the perpetrator, he's the murderer, he's the killer, he's the killer, he's

Cooper appeared on recordings by the most influential bands of the time, such as the Guns N' Roses album Use Your Illusion I, on which he performed vocal duties with Axl Rose on the track "The Garden." Freddy Krueger's abused stepfather appeared in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film Freddy's Death (1991).

Cooper appeared in Wayne's World, a 1992 comedy film. Cooper and his band performed "Feed My Frankenstein" from their album Hey Stoopid, for the first time. Wayne Cambell and Garth Algar discover that when offstage, Cooper is a patient, articulate intellectual, and they explore Milwaukee's rich past. When shouting "We're not worthy," Wayne and Garth respond to an invitation to hang out with Cooper by kneeling and bowing reverently before him.

We're not worthy!"

Cooper's first concept album since DaDa was released in 1994. The album explores topics of faith, temptation, alienation, and modern life's frustrations, and has been described as "a young man's effort to find the truth amid the distractions of the modern world's 'Sideshow.' The Last Temptation was a three-part comic book series written by Neil Gaiman, fleshing out the album's tale. According to Brian 'Renfield' Nelson, Cooper's personal assistant, "Alice was interested in going to Hollywood Records even before 'The Last Temptation' was announced because Bob Pfeifer, who had signed Alice to Epic, is now President of Hollywood Records." Alice begged that Sony/Epic let him go so he could make the move to Hollywood after 'The Last Temptation' was over. He just wanted to go where his buddies are." He was out of work for six years as a member of A Fistful of Alice was announced, and in 1997 he contributed to Insane Clown Posse's The Great Milenko's intro track.

Cooper toured extensively every year during his absence from the recording studio in the late 1990s, including in 1996, South America, which he hadn't visited since 1974. Cooper appeared on the London cast recording of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar in 1996.

The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper appeared in 1999, and included Cooper, Alcohol and Razor Blades, Poison, and Needles: The Glorious Wretched Excess of Alice Cooper, Creem magazine editor Jeffrey Morgan's words.

Alice Cooper, the decade in which he would reach his 60th birthday, saw a steady period of activity in the first decade of the 21st century. He toured extensively, earning acclaim for his steady stream of studio albums. A number of recent news stories appear on CNN, starting in 2000 with Brutal Planet, a return to violent heavy metal, industrial rock, set in a dystopian post-apocalyptic future, inspired by our brutal modern world. Bob Marlette produced the album, with longtime Cooper production collaborator Bob Ezrin serving as executive producer. Cooper's first concert in Russia culminated in the production of Brutally Live, a documentary of a concert that was shot in London, England, on July 19, 2000.

Cooper appeared on "Radio Daze," a 2001-to-date episode of That '70s Show, in which he partakes in a game of Dungeons & Dragons.

The successor to Brutal Planet was the sonically related and acclaimed sequel Dragontown, which saw Bob Ezrin back as producer. Cooper himself has described the album as leading the listener down "a nightmarish path to the imagination of rock's original storyteller" and "the worst town on Brutal Planet." Both Brutal Planet and Dragontown are albums that explore Cooper's birth into Christianity in a manner similar to The Last Temptation. Dragontown appears to be the third chapter in a trilogy that began with The Last Temptation, according to some, but Cooper has denied this.

For his critically acclaimed 2003 release The Eyes of Alice Cooper, Cooper's leaner, cleaner sound was back. Cooper, who was aware that many contemporary bands were achieving a lot with his old sounds and styles, worked with a younger group of road and studio musicians who were not familiar with his repertoire of old. The resulting Bare Bones tour featured a less glamorous performance style with less dramatic flourishes and a greater emphasis on musicality.

Nights with Alice Cooper from Cooper's radio show Nights with Alice Cooper debuted in several American cities on January 26, 2004. The program features classic rock, Cooper's personal experiences about his as a rock star, as well as interviews with well-known rock stars. The show is being carried internationally on nearly 100 stations in the United States and Canada, and it has been broadcast internationally.

Cooper's twentieth studio album Dirty Diamonds, a continuation of Alice Cooper's songwriting style, was revived by him for his twentieth-fourth studio album. At the time, Dirty Diamonds became Cooper's highest-charting album since 1994's The Last Temptation. The Dirty Diamonds tour began in America in August 2005, featuring many European concerts, including a appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland on July 12. Cooper and his band, including Kiss drummer Eric Singer, were filmed for a DVD released in Montreux, Switzerland. Cooper was supposed to be lauded for "still mining semblance of teenage angst and rebellion," according to one of the Montreux's reviews. He had done more than 30 years ago.

The original Alice Cooper band reunited in December 2006 to perform six classic Alice Cooper songs at Cooper's annual charity event in Phoenix, titled "Christmas Pudding."

Cooper performed a duet with Marilyn Manson at the B'Estival festival in Bucharest, Romania, on July 1, 2007. Cooper had previously criticized Manson for his overtly anti-Christian on-stage antics, and had sarcastically referred to Manson's originality in choosing a female name and dressing in women's clothing. An academic paper on the importance of adolescent antiheroes has been published about Cooper and Manson.

Cooper was one of the guest singers on the new Avantasia album The Scarecrow's seventh track "The Toy Master" in January 2008. Cooper unveiled Along Came a Spider, his twenty-fifth studio album, in July 2008. It was Cooper's highest-charting album since 1991's Hey Stoopid, achieving No. 1. In the United States, 53 percent were interviewed, and No. 58 in the United States. In the United Kingdom, 31 people have died. The album, which is also featured in Raise Your Fist and Yell in 1987, delves into the antics of a deranged serial killer named "Spider" who is on a quest to create a human spider from the limbs of his victims. Music critics generally praised the album, but Rolling Stone magazine pointed out that the recording had sorely disappointed Bob Ezrin's production values. In a long November 2009 article about Cooper in The Times, the resulting Theatre of Death tour (during which Cooper is executed on four separate occasions) was described as "epic" and featuring "enough fake blood to reimagine Saving Private Ryan.

Cooper was also honoured and lauded in various ways during this period: he was nominated on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003; in May 2004, he received an honorary doctoral degree from Grand Canyon University. He was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame in June 2005. He was given the keys to Alice, North Dakota, in May 2006. He received the 2006 Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards, as well as the 2007 Mojo music magazine Hero Award. At the 2007 Scream Awards, he was named the best in the world of Rock Immortalism.

Alice will be touring with Rob Zombie on The Gruesome Twosome Tour in January 2010. Cooper appeared in May 2010 at the start of the season finale of the reality-show American Idol, in which he performed "School's Out."

Cooper, with his daughter and former band member Dick Wagner, produced the music for the indie horror film Silas Gore.

Cooper started a new album dubbed Welcome 2 My Nightmare, a sequel to the original Welcome to My Nightmare. In a Radio Metal interview, he said, "We'll bring some of the originals people on board and then add some new people." "I'm really enjoying working with Bob (Ezrin) again."

Cooper and his former band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on December 15, 2010. Cooper was inducted by fellow horror-rocker Rob Zombie at the induction ceremony on March 14, 2011. Bruce, Cooper, Dunaway, and Smith delivered brief acceptance addresses and performed "I'm Eighteen" and "School's Out" together on live together, with Steve Hunter filling in for the late Glen Buxton. Alice wore a (mostly fake) blood-splattered shirt and a live albino Burmese python wrapped around his neck at the festival. Cooper expressed surprise at the news and that his name had been submitted for the original band, "We all went to the same high school together, and we were all on the track team, and it was cool that guys who didn't know each other before the band's careers went far."

Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Cooper, Jennifer Warnes, and others attended a benefit concert in Tucson, Arizona, on March 10, 2011. The Fund for Civility, Respect and Understanding, a charitable charity that raises the threat of and providing medical assistance to people with mental disorders, supports people with mental disorders. At the BBC auto show Top Gear in June 2011, Cooper took his position in the Reasonably Priced Car.

Cooper was named the Kerrang on June 9, 2011.

Icon Award at Kerrang!

The annual awards of the magazine reveal that no one wins. Cooper fought back against the "anaemic" rock music that dominates the charts, and he has no intention of removing from the business.

Cooper supported Iron Maiden on their Maiden England World Tour from June to July 21, 2012, and then headlined Bloodstock Open Air on Sunday, August 12. Cooper appeared at the Sunflower Jam charity concert in London on September 16, 2012, starring Brian May lead guitarist John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, drummer Ian Paice of Deep Purple, and Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson.

In the 2012 Tim Burton version of Dark Shadows, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Helena Bonham Carter appeared as himself. Barnabas Collins, Depp's character, wants his name to be that of a woman, and Alice is the ugliest woman he has ever seen.

Cooper revealed in 2013 that he had finished recording a covers album, based on songs by his rock star drinking buddies in the 1970s, who had since died from overelection, and that it was scheduled for a Spring 2014 release. Later, he revealed that the album would likely be released in 2015.

Alice Cooper will be the opening act for Mötley Crüe's final tour, which will run through 2014 and 2015. Cooper appeared on Theory of a Deadman's new album on January 28, 2014.

Cooper was the subject of Sam Dunn's biography, Scot McFadyen, and Reginald Harkema's documentary film. At the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015, the film received a Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary. Cooper released the live album and video Raise the Dead: Live from Wacken, which was shot at Germany's Wacken heavy metal festival earlier this year.

Cooper launched Hollywood Vampires, a supergroup starring Johnny Depp and Joe Perry, in 2015, and the Rock in Rio festival in Brazil featured many guest artists, including Paul McCartney. Cooper made news again in 2016 when he resurgent his running gag of running for the US presidency. Several tour dates from August to early September 2017, Cooper appeared as a co-headliner with Deep Purple and Edgar Winter.

In July 2017, Cooper released Paranormal, a tribute to the album Paranormal. It featured drummer Larry Mullen Jr. of U2, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top on guitar and Roger Glover of Deep Purple on bass. The guitars were created by guitarists Tommy Denander and Tommy Henriksen.

In NBC's live broadcast of Andrew Lloyd Weber's Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, Cooper appeared on Easter Sunday, 2018. "Weird," critic Noel Murray of the New York Times praised "Alice Cooper's dazzling show as a "beginning moment of clarity," and Los Angeles Times journalist Lorraine Ali praised his appearance as "Weird?" Yes, but also in a 'Billion Dollar Babies' style. Cooper's part was small but indelible." Cooper had previously recorded the video (but not performed it live) in 2000, with the 1996 London revival cast.

Cooper's twentieth solo album, Detroit Stories, was released on February 26, 2021. He revealed in May that he would launch a fall tour to promote the album, which will be funded by Ace Frehley.

Cooper wrote the afterword to Jeffrey Morgan's autobiography Rock Critic Confidential, which was published in New Haven on June 28, 2021.

Cooper appeared as a judge on the Sumerian Records YouTube channel's No Cover season 1 beginning in April 2022.

Nita Strauss, a touring guitarist, announced that she had left the band on July 11, 2022. Kane Roberts had rejoined the band just days after, replacing Strauss.

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