Alice Cooper

American singer (born 1948) · United States · Musicians

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He turned rock concerts into Grand Guignol theater - guillotines, boa constrictors, fake blood, electric chairs - and made horror props as essential to the genre as power chords. Six decades in, the raspy voice and the vaudeville macabre still define what it means to shock an audience on purpose.

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A life in dates

2011Rock and Roll Hall of FameAward2005“I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife. ... That's one thing guys don't understand.”In their words20 June 2005Interview with Andrew Denton on Enough Rope (20 June 2005)Read the whole statement

2004“I call it treason against rock 'n' roll because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics. ...”In their words26 August 2004On Rock n Roll and political campaigns, in a statement to the Canadian Press (26 August 2004), as quoted in "Rock is on a roll withRead the whole statement

2003“Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.”In their words28 November 2003On the game of Golf in an interview with Nick Harper in The Guardian (28 November 2003)Read the whole statement

1975“Man's got his woman to take his seed He's got the power - oh She's got the need She spends her life through pleasing up her man She feeds him dinner or anything she can.”In their words"Only Women Bleed" (co-written with Dick Wagner) - Lyrics online.Read the whole statement

1969“People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing.”In their wordsSeptember 1969Interview in Poppin (September 1969)Read the whole statement

“We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.”In their wordsSeptember 1969Interview in Poppin (September 1969)Read the whole statement

1948Born4 February 1948

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I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife. ... That's one thing guys don't understand.
Jun 20, 2005, Interview with Andrew Denton on Enough Rope (20 June 2005), Own words
I call it treason against rock 'n' roll because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics. ...
Aug 26, 2004, On Rock n Roll and political campaigns, in a statement to the Canadian Press (26 August 2004), as quoted in "Rock is on a roll with, Own words
Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
Nov 28, 2003, On the game of Golf in an interview with Nick Harper in The Guardian (28 November 2003), Own words

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Awards

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame2011

Honorary Doctorate

Heritage Award

Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

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Spouse Sheryl Cooper

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Vincent Damon Furnier formed a band in Phoenix in 1964 with four others, and they called the whole thing Alice Cooper. Between 1969 and 1973 they cut seven albums and scored hits like "I'm Eighteen" and "School's Out," drawing from garage rock and horror films to build something theatrical and deliberately unsettling. When the band split in 1975, Furnier took the name for himself legally and went solo with Welcome to My Nightmare. The singles kept coming - "Only Women Bleed," "Poison" - and the stage show only got stranger. Thirty studio albums and fifty million records later, he's in the Rock Hall and running a foundation in Phoenix that gives at-risk kids free access to music and art programs. Offstage he's funny and sharp; onstage he's still the man who made the guillotine a standard piece of rock equipment.

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United States

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