Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter and broadcaster whose career spans more than five decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors and baby dolls, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal that was designed to shock. Alice Cooper was originally a band consisting of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and drummer Neal Smith. The original Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit "I'm Eighteen" from the album Love it to Death, which was followed by the even bigger single "School's Out" in 1972. The band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies. Furnier's solo career as Alice Cooper, adopting the band's name as his own name, began with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare. In 2008 he released Along Came a Spider, his 18th solo album.
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Unless your New Year's Eve party featured Steven Tyler and Alice Cooper on the same stage performing the classic song "Come Together" ... you were not at the coolest NYE around. Tyler and… READ MORE >
Kim Kardashian is all set to return to the "Pussycat Dolls" ... only this time, she'll be running things BEHIND THE SCENES -- as the executive producer of a new PCD reality show ... TMZ has… READ MORE >
Here's hard rocker Alice Cooper in NYC last night (top) -- and lip-synch wonder Britney Spears back when she could give a great live performance in 2001 (bottom).One was just inducted into the… READ MORE >
Sylvester Stallone's SICK 1955 custom-built truck that he drove in "The Expendables" just went to the highest bidder at an AWESOME celebrity car auction in Arizona this weekend for $132k ... TMZ… READ MORE >
Jurassic rock icon Alice Cooper, 62, and "Expendables" star Sylvester Stallone, 64, giggled together at the same event in London on Monday.Question is ... READ MORE >
The remains of goth rockers Marilyn Manson, 41, and Alice Cooper, 62, were exhumed at the same event in L.A. on Thursday.Question is ... READ MORE >
After over 30 years of performing, it's nice to see 61-year-old Alice Cooper still gets really excited to be on stage.Either that, or rigor mortis has set in. See Also Alice Cooper -- Traffic… READ MORE >
Plainclothes goth rocker Alice Cooper was busted for putting the pedal to the metal in Arizona a few months back -- after one of those pesky photo enforcement cameras caught him going 14 MPH over… READ MORE >
On Tuesday in Australia, Jurassic rocker Alice Cooper started his day on the golf course (left) -- and ended it on stage, looking like a corpse (right).The 61-year-old has credited golf with… READ MORE >
Here's 61-year-old rocker Alice Cooper (left) at a concert in Australia over the weekend -- and Leatherface (right) in the 1974 horror classic "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre."One of them wears a… READ MORE >
