Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper summed up his early band with one boast: "We were into fun, sex, death and money when everybody was into peace and love." Alice Cooper is both the name of a rock band that began in Phoenix, Arizona, and the legal name of its singer, who was born Vincent Damon Furnier. Music journalists and fellow musicians call him "The Godfather of Shock Rock". His career has run for more than six decades, across 30 studio albums and over 50 million records sold.
The horror imagery hides a stranger story. How does a group of school athletes from Arizona become famous enough to alarm politicians in two countries? Why is a performer who stages his own execution on tour better known offstage for his humour? And what would it take to end a drinking habit that put him in hospital more than once? The answers start in a Detroit suburb, long before the makeup.
Vincent Damon Furnier was born on the 4th of February 1948 in Detroit, Michigan. His parents were Ether Moroni Furnier and Ella Mae, born McCart. His father was an evangelist in The Church of Jesus Christ, and his grandfather, Thurman Sylvester Furnier, served as president of that church organization from 1963-1965. The boy was named for an uncle, Vincent Collier Furnier, and for the short-story writer Damon Runyon.
The family lived in East Detroit, a few blocks from Eastland Mall. Furnier attended Kantner Elementary School and watched horror movies at the Eastown Theatre, a venue where he would one day perform. Halloween was the biggest night of the year for him, and he took trick-or-treating very seriously. At the ages of 11 and 12 he was active in his church. After a series of childhood illnesses, the family moved to Phoenix, Arizona, and he enrolled at Cortez High School.
In 1964-16-year-old Furnier wanted to enter Cortez High School's annual Letterman's talent show. He recruited four cross country teammates: Glen Buxton, Dennis Dunaway, John Tatum and John Speer. They called themselves the Earwigs and wore costumes and wigs to look like the Beatles. Their act was a set of Beatles parodies rewritten about the track team. In their version of "Please Please Me", the line "Last night I said these words to my girl" became "Last night I ran four laps for my coach". Only Buxton could play an instrument, so he played guitar while the others mimed. The audience gave an overwhelming response, and the Earwigs won.
The win pushed them toward becoming a real band. They bought instruments from a local pawn shop, and Buxton did most of the teaching and much of the early songwriting. As the Spiders, they had Furnier on lead vocals, Buxton on lead guitar, Tatum on rhythm guitar, Dunaway on bass and Speer on drums. In 1966 they graduated. Michael Bruce, a football player from North High School, then replaced Tatum. The band's second single, "Don't Blow Your Mind", became a local hit, backed by "No Price Tag".
By 1967 the group was making regular road trips to Los Angeles to play shows. They renamed themselves Nazz and released "Wonder Who's Lovin' Her Now". Neal Smith took over from Speer on drums, and before the year ended the band moved to Los Angeles. The B-side of that Nazz single, "Lay Down and Die, Goodbye", would resurface later as an Alice Cooper track.
Todd Rundgren led a band that was also called Nazz, and it was signed to a major label. In 1968 that left Furnier's group needing a new name. Furnier also believed they needed a gimmick, since other bands were not exploiting the showmanship available on stage. They chose "Alice Cooper" largely because it sounded innocuous and wholesome, a humorous contrast with their image and music. Asked about it in January 1972 on Dinah Shore's talk show, Cooper said he took it from a character on "Mayberry RFD".
In his 2007 book Alice Cooper, Golf Monster, Cooper traced the look to films the band watched repeatedly. One was What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? from 1962, in which Bette Davis wears caked makeup and heavy black eyeliner. Another was Barbarella from 1968. Cooper remembered Anita Pallenberg as the Great Tyrant, in long black leather gloves with switchblades coming out of them, and thinking "That's what Alice should look like." He added a little of Emma Peel from The Avengers.
All the classic members except Smith had run cross-country at Cortez High School. Smith came from Camelback High School, which the song "Alma Mater" on the album School's Out refers to. Furnier, Buxton and Dunaway were also art students. They admired surrealist artists such as Salvador Dalí, and that admiration fed their stage antics.
After one unsuccessful gig at the Cheetah club in Venice, Los Angeles, the band emptied the room in just ten minutes. Music manager Shep Gordon was watching. He saw that negative impact as a force that could be turned in a more productive direction, and he enlisted the band. Gordon then arranged an audition with the composer and producer Frank Zappa, who wanted bizarre acts for his new label, Straight Records.
Zappa told them to come to his house at 7 o'clock. The band assumed he meant seven in the morning. Zappa was woken by musicians eager to play psychedelic rock at that hour, and he was impressed enough to sign them to a three-album deal. Another Zappa act, the all-female GTOs, helped shape the early onstage look by dressing the band like full-size Barbie dolls.
Their debut album, Pretties for You, arrived in 1969. It was eclectic, presenting experimental songs in a psychedelic setting. The record did not make them famous, and their reputation would come from something far less planned.
At the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival in September 1969, a live chicken somehow ended up among the feathers of a pillow opened on stage. Cooper says it was an accident. With no experience of farm animals, he assumed that a bird with wings could fly. He picked it up and threw it over the crowd. Instead it fell into the first few rows, where wheelchair users reportedly tore it apart.
The next day the incident made the front page of national newspapers. The story claimed Cooper had bitten off the chicken's head and drunk its blood on stage. Zappa phoned to ask whether it was true. Cooper said no, and Zappa answered, "Well, whatever you do, don't tell anyone you didn't do it." The band took the hint, leaned into the tabloid sensationalism and, in the process, created a new subgenre called shock rock.
The band later said this period owed a great deal to Pink Floyd, especially The Piper at the Gates of Dawn from 1967, the one album made under the leadership of Syd Barrett. Glen Buxton said he could listen to Barrett's guitar for hours at a time.
Publicity alone did not sell records. The second album, Easy Action, was produced by David Briggs and released in June 1970. It failed to chart in the Billboard Top 200 at all. Fed up with Californian indifference, the band moved to Pontiac, Michigan. Midwestern crowds there were used to proto-punk bands such as the Stooges and the MC5, and the strange stage act went over far better.
Cooper still took a cream pie in the face at the Cincinnati Pop Festival. Looking back, he said, "L.A. just didn't get it." In his telling, Los Angeles crowds were on acid while the band were basically drinking beer, and they fit much more in Detroit. Michigan stayed their steady home base until 1972.
In August 1970 the band played the Strawberry Fields Festival near Toronto, Ontario, a Woodstock-style gathering. Their glam look and increasingly violent theatrics stood out sharply against the bearded, denim-clad hippie bands. That autumn, a new producer would give them what Easy Action had not.
In autumn 1970 the band went into the studio with producer Bob Ezrin to make Love It to Death. It was the last album owed under their Straight Records contract and their final chance at a hit. That hit arrived with "I'm Eighteen", released in November 1970, which reached number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1971.
The album followed in January 1971. Warner Bros. Records bought the group's contract from Straight and reissued the album with stronger promotion. It reached number 35 on the Billboard 200. It was also the first of 11 albums that Ezrin produced for the band and for Cooper's solo career, and he is widely seen as pivotal to their definitive sound.
The 1971 tour took the band to Europe for the first time. Audience members reportedly included Elton John and David Bowie, who had not yet become Ziggy Stardust. Warner Bros. responded with a new multi-album contract. Killer came out in November 1971 and produced "Under My Wheels" and "Be My Lover". A third single, "Halo of Flies", became a Top 10 hit in the Netherlands in 1973.
The summer of 1972 brought "School's Out", a Top 10 hit in the United States and number 1 in the United Kingdom. It remains a staple of classic rock radio. The album of the same name reached number 2 in the US and sold over a million copies. The band moved into a new mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut. By then Cooper's androgynous stage role had been replaced by brattiness and machismo.
In Britain, the Christian morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse persuaded the BBC to ban the video for "School's Out". The single still reached number 1, and Cooper sent her flowers to thank her for the publicity. Labour Member of Parliament Leo Abse went further and petitioned Home Secretary Reginald Maudling to bar the group from performing in the country. Each attempt to ban the act only fed the legend.
In February 1973 Billion Dollar Babies was released worldwide. It reached number 1 in both the US and UK, and it became the band's most commercially successful studio album. "Elected", a UK Top 10 hit from late 1972, inspired one of the first story-driven promotional videos in the style of MTV. That was three years before Queen's video for "Bohemian Rhapsody". "Hello Hooray" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy" followed as UK Top 10 singles. The title track, with guest vocals by Donovan, was a US hit.
The stage show grew as fast as the charts. By 1971 it ended with a staged execution in an electric chair, after mock fights and gothic tortures inflicted on Cooper. The band wore tight, sequined glam costumes made by Cindy Dunaway, who was Neal Smith's sister and Dennis Dunaway's wife. The Killer-era show added a boa constrictor hugging Cooper, an axe chopping bloodied baby dolls, and a hanging at the gallows.
The 1973 US tour broke box office records previously set by the Rolling Stones. Its multi-level stage featured Billion Dollar Bills, decapitated baby dolls and mannequins, and a dental psychosis scene with dancing teeth. The highlight was a guillotine. The magician James Randi designed it and other effects, and he appeared on stage as executioner at some shows. In 2012 at Dragon Con, Randi and Cooper discussed their working relationship from this period.
Beneath the success, the repeating cycle of recording and touring was taking its toll. Glen Buxton briefly left the band because of waning health. Muscle of Love, released at the end of 1973, was the last studio album from the classic lineup. Its single "Teenage Lament '74" was the group's last UK Top 20 hit of the 1970s. The band also recorded an unsolicited theme for the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun, but a different song of that name by Lulu was chosen.
Disagreements piled up, and the members agreed to a hiatus that was expected to be temporary. Manager Shep Gordon said at the time, "Everyone decided they needed a rest from one another." Journalist Bob Greene, who spent several weeks on the road with the band, published Billion Dollar Baby in November 1974. It painted an unflattering picture of a group in total disharmony.
The final shows by Alice Cooper as a group took place in Brazil in March and April 1974. On the 30th of March, an estimated crowd as high as 158,000 filled the Anhembi Exposition Hall in São Paulo, a record for an indoor show. It was the first rock tour of South America.
In 1975 Cooper returned alone with the album Welcome to My Nightmare. To avoid legal complications over ownership of the group name, "Alice Cooper" had by then become Furnier's legal name. Cooper explained the split in 1975: "After ten years, we got pretty dry together." Gordon described it as a pipe-dream that had become an overwhelming burden.
Ezrin returned as producer and recruited Lou Reed's backing band, including guitarists Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter. The album came out on Atlantic Records in March, led by the US Top 20 ballad "Only Women Bleed", and became a Top 10 hit. It was a concept album built on the nightmare of a child named Steven, with narration by the horror film star Vincent Price. The stage show that went with it featured an 8-foot furry Cyclops that Cooper decapitated.
A television special, Alice Cooper: The Nightmare, starring Cooper and Price, aired on US prime-time television in April 1975. It reached home video in 1983 and earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Long Form Music Video. A concert film followed, produced and directed by David Winters and shot at London's Wembley Arena in September 1975. Cooper chose to continue solo, and the original band became officially defunct. Bruce, Dunaway and Smith formed a short-lived band called Billion Dollar Babies and made one album, Battle Axe, in 1977.
More hit ballads followed. "I Never Cry" reached number 12 in the US in 1976, and "You and Me" reached number 9 in 1977. During the 1977 tour, it became clear that Cooper needed help with alcoholism. At its worst, it was rumored that he drank up to two cases of Budweiser and a bottle of Seagram's Seven Crown whiskey a day. After the tour he had himself hospitalized in a sanitarium.
He turned that experience into the semi-autobiographical album From the Inside in 1978, co-written with Bernie Taupin, known for his work with Elton John. It produced the US Top 20 ballad "How You Gonna See Me Now". The next tour was staged inside an asylum, and it was filmed as The Strange Case of Alice Cooper in 1979.
Cooper's side projects were stranger still. On the 28th of March 1978, he sang on The Muppet Show as one of the devil's henchmen trying to trick Kermit the Frog, Gonzo and Miss Piggy. He played a piano-playing disco waiter in Mae West's final film, Sextette. He also led celebrities in raising money to remodel the Hollywood Sign, and he gave over $27,000 to buy an O in memory of his friend Groucho Marx.
The early 1980s were different. Cooper calls Flush the Fashion in 1980, Special Forces in 1981, Zipper Catches Skin in 1982 and DaDa in 1983 his blackout albums, because a growing cocaine addiction left him unable to remember recording them. Flush the Fashion, produced by Roy Thomas Baker, had a new wave sound that baffled even longtime fans. Still, it yielded the US Top 40 hit "Clones (We're All)". The last two albums did not chart in the Billboard Top 200.
In mid-1983, after DaDa was recorded, Cooper was hospitalized for alcoholism and cirrhosis of the liver. He credits his Christian faith for a recovery that doctors called miraculous, and he says his addiction was taken away rather than overcome. He has stayed sober since. DaDa and the video release of The Nightmare both performed below expectations that fall, and by February 1984 Warner Bros. had let him go.
In January 1984, a divorce hearing for Alice Cooper and his wife Sheryl was held at Maricopa County Superior Court in Arizona. The couple decided not to go forward. Cooper moved back to Phoenix, ending what he called his thirteen-year alcoholic career in Los Angeles. He worked on material with Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry. In spring he filmed the B-grade horror movie Monster Dog in Torrelodones, Spain, and soon afterward he reconciled with Sheryl.
In 1985 Cooper met guitarist Kane Roberts and began writing songs with him. He signed with MCA Records and sang on Twisted Sister's song "Be Chrool to Your Scuel". In the video he wore his black snake-eyes makeup for the first time since 1979. Neither the song nor the video drew public interest.
The real return came in 1986 with the album Constrictor. It produced "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)", the theme song of Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, and the fan favorite "Teenage Frankenstein". The tour that followed, The Nightmare Returns, was his first on the road in years. The Detroit leg, at the end of October 1986 over Halloween, was filmed as The Nightmare Returns. Some regard it as the definitive Alice Cooper concert film.
Raise Your Fist and Yell followed in 1987, with an even rougher sound and the classic "Freedom". Its tour drew inspiration from slasher movies like the Friday the 13th series and A Nightmare on Elm Street. It stirred the kind of outrage in Europe that his early-1970s shows had caused in America. British Labour MP David Blunkett called for a ban, saying he was horrified and the show went beyond the bounds of entertainment. The German government actually succeeded in having some of the gorier segments removed.
There were real dangers too. During the London leg, Cooper met with a near fatal accident in rehearsal of the hanging sequence that closes the show. On the 7th of April 1988, he nearly died of asphyxiation when a safety rope broke during a rehearsal in which he pretended to hang himself, a stunt he often performed in concerts.
Other work kept his name out there. In 1987 he played a menacing vagrant with no lines in John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness. At WrestleMania III in the Pontiac Silverdome, in front of a WWF record 93,173 fans, he escorted wrestler Jake "The Snake" Roberts to the ring. After the match, Cooper threw Roberts's snake, Damien, at the rival manager Jimmy Hart. Roberts called Cooper's involvement an honor, since he had idolized him in his youth.
In 1988 Cooper's MCA contract expired and he signed with Epic Records. The 1989 album Trash, produced by Desmond Child, was Grammy-nominated and became a true revival. Its single "Poison" reached number 2 in the UK and number 7 in the US, and a worldwide arena tour followed.
Stoopid in 1991, his nineteenth studio album, arrived as glam metal was fading and just before the explosion of grunge. It failed to match Trash. That same year, the video Prime Cuts looked back over his career. In it Ezrin gave his summing up of the persona: "He is the psycho killer in all of us." Cooper also shared vocals with Axl Rose on "The Garden", from Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I, and played Freddy Krueger's abusive stepfather in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare.
In the 1992 comedy Wayne's World, Cooper and his band perform "Feed My Frankenstein". Backstage, the title characters find him to be a calm, articulate intellectual discussing the history of Milwaukee. They kneel and chant "We're not worthy!" In 1994 he released The Last Temptation, a concept album about faith, temptation and alienation, paired with a three-part comic book series written by Neil Gaiman. It was his last album for Epic, and his last studio release for six years.
He did not stop working. He toured extensively every year in the late 1990s, and in 1996 he returned to South America for the first time since 1974. That year he also sang Herod on the London cast recording of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar. The 1999 box set The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper included an authorized biography by Creem magazine editor Jeffrey Morgan.
Cooper turned 60 in the decade that began with Brutal Planet in 2000, a return to horror-filled heavy metal and industrial rock set in a post-apocalyptic future. Producer Bob Marlette worked with Ezrin as executive producer. The world tour included Cooper's first concert in Russia. The sequel, Dragontown, arrived in 2001. Like The Last Temptation, both albums explore his born-again Christianity.
In 2003 he adopted a leaner sound for The Eyes of Alice Cooper, and his Bare Bones tour had fewer theatrical flourishes and a greater emphasis on musicianship. On the 26th of January 2004, his radio show Nights with Alice Cooper began airing in several US cities. It mixes classic rock, personal stories and interviews, and it reached nearly 100 stations in the US and Canada. In 2008 he released Along Came a Spider, about a deranged serial killer who wants to build a human spider from his victims' limbs. The Times said his tour for it, Theatre of Death, used enough fake blood to remake Saving Private Ryan, and in it Cooper was executed four times.
Honors piled up. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003 and an honorary doctoral degree from Grand Canyon University in May 2004. In May 2006 he was given the key to the city of Alice, North Dakota. On the 14th of March 2011, the original Alice Cooper band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rob Zombie inducted them, the four surviving members played "I'm Eighteen" and "School's Out", and Steve Hunter filled in for the late Glen Buxton. Cooper wore a blood-splattered shirt and an albino Burmese python around his neck.
The group had been drifting together for years. They first reunited on the 23rd of October 1999 at a memorial weekend for Buxton in Phoenix. In 2017 Bruce, Dunaway and Smith appeared on two tracks of Paranormal and joined Cooper's live band for five dates in the United Kingdom. On the 25th of July 2025, The Revenge of Alice Cooper was released. It was the first album since Muscle of Love to carry the band name rather than a solo one, and it includes previously unreleased tracks by Buxton. In 2026, Cooper began performing with the illusionist Criss Angel at Planet Hollywood in a show called "Welcome to Our Nightmare".
Other recent work shows his range. In 2012 he cameoed as himself in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows. On Easter Sunday 2018, he played Herod in NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert. Detroit Stories appeared on the 26th of February 2021, and Road followed on the 25th of August 2023. He also recorded Solid Rock Revival with child-friendly lyrics, turning "I'm Eighteen" into "I'm Thirteen".
Rob Zombie says his first metal moment was seeing Cooper on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. In a 1978 interview with Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan said, "I think Alice Cooper is an overlooked songwriter." John Lydon of the Sex Pistols named Killer from 1971 the greatest rock album of all time. Salvador Dalí attended a show in 1973, called it surreal, and made a hologram titled First Cylindric Chromo-Hologram Portrait of Alice Cooper's Brain. Groucho Marx and Mae West reportedly saw the early shows as a form of vaudeville.
The man behind the makeup has lived quietly by comparison. Cooper married Sheryl Goddard, a ballerina instructor and choreographer who danced in his show from 1975-1982, on the 20th of March 1976. They have three children: daughters Sonora and Calico and son Dashiell. He often refers to himself as "Alice" in the third person, as a way of distancing himself from the stage persona. In 1995 he and Sheryl started the Solid Rock Foundation, which runs free music, art and vocational programs for at-risk youth. A teen center opened in Phoenix in 2012, and another in Mesa, Arizona, in 2021.
Sobriety shaped the rest of his work. In 1986 the thrash metal band Megadeth opened for his Constrictor tour, and after seeing the band abuse alcohol and other drugs, Cooper approached them personally to help. Lead vocalist Dave Mustaine, who still considers him a "godfather", has stayed close to him. For that kind of support to other addicts, Cooper received the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award in 2008 at the MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert in Los Angeles. Every four years since the single "Elected" in 1972, he has satirically run for president.
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Who is Alice Cooper and what is he known for?
Alice Cooper is an American singer and songwriter, born Vincent Damon Furnier, known for a raspy voice and theatrical stage shows. Music journalists and peers call him "The Godfather of Shock Rock".
Where and when was Alice Cooper born?
Alice Cooper was born Vincent Damon Furnier on the 4th of February 1948 in Detroit, Michigan. He later moved with his family to Phoenix, Arizona, after a series of childhood illnesses.
How did the band Alice Cooper get its name?
The band chose the name Alice Cooper in 1968 largely because it sounded innocuous and wholesome, in humorous contrast to their image. They needed a new name after learning that Todd Rundgren also led a band called Nazz.
What was the chicken incident in the Alice Cooper story?
At the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival in September 1969, Cooper threw a live chicken into the crowd, expecting it to fly. It fell into the first rows and was reportedly torn apart, and the press falsely reported that he had bitten off its head.
What are Alice Cooper's biggest hit songs?
Alice Cooper's best-known hits include "I'm Eighteen", "School's Out", "No More Mr. Nice Guy", "Only Women Bleed", "You and Me" and "Poison". "School's Out" reached number 1 in the UK in 1972.
When was Alice Cooper inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
The original Alice Cooper band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the 14th of March 2011. Rob Zombie inducted them, and Steve Hunter filled in for the late Glen Buxton.
When did Alice Cooper become sober?
Alice Cooper became sober after being hospitalized for alcoholism and cirrhosis of the liver in mid-1983, and he has remained sober since. He credits his Christian faith for the recovery.
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- 136GET YOUR FIRST LOOK AT ALICE COOPER IN 'JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR'Dave Lifton — March 16, 2018
- 137ALICE COOPER To Release 'Detroit Stories' Album In February; Cover Artwork, Track Listing RevealedBlabbermouth.net — November 11, 2020
- 138MagazineAlice Cooper Announces Fall 2021 Tour Dates With Kiss's Ace FrehleyClaire Shaffer — May 17, 2021
- 139BookRock Critic ConfidentialJeffrey Morgan — New Haven Publishing Ltd. — 2021
- 140MagazineAlice Cooper, Lzzy Hale to Judge 'No Cover' Band Competition TV ShowAlthea Legaspi — October 29, 2020
- 142ALICE COOPER Welcomes Back Guitarist KANE ROBERTSBlabbermouth.net — July 13, 2022
- 143NITA STRAUSS Rejoins ALICE COOPER For 2023 Tour DatesBlabbermouth.net — March 6, 2023
- 145Freaks on Parade TourJanuary 30, 2023
- 146NewsHow Alice Cooper reimagined 'I'm Eighteen' and 'School's Out' for a kids albumEd Masley — April 2, 2024
- 147Chicago, Detroit Among Cities Climbing Into Alice Cooper's 'Attic'Cameron Coats — 12 March 2024
- 148ALICE COOPER Reunites With His Original Bandmates For Their First Album in 51 Years, 'The Revenge Of Alice Cooper'Blabbermouth.net — April 21, 2025
- 152Alice Cooper interviewBBC2 — 1986
- 153NewsInterview with Alice CooperMike Quigley — September 1969
- 154Noisey's Back and Forth: A conversation between Alice Cooper and Andrew W.K.Zack Ruskin — 2016-02-12
- 155BookThe British Invasion: Arthur BrownBarry Miles — Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. — 2009
- 157NewsAlice Cooper Recruits Arthur Brown For Fire-themed Halloween ShowDecember 29, 2017
- 158NewsAlice Cooper: 'Rock music was looking for a villain'December 29, 2017
- 159VideoTracks of My YearsBBC Radio 2 — September 3, 2007
- 160Desert Island Discs: Alice CooperKirsty Wark — November 21, 2010
- 162NewsRob Zombie: 'I Find It Distracting To Hear My Own Music'Steven Rosen — December 12, 2008
- 163MagazineThe Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan (part 1)Jonathan Cott — January 26, 1978
- 164NewsFormer Sex Pistol joins Radio 2October 21, 2002
- 167News'98's Best: Rockers Stew Up Alice Cooper Tribute AlbumColin Devenish — June 5, 1998
- 168"Enough Rope" with Alice CooperJune 20, 2005
- 169Salvador Dali's Hologram Portrait of CooperOlga Mataev
- 170A replica of the hologram can be seen at the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. Cooper and original band members Dennis Dunaway and Glen Buxton studied Dalí as art students at Cortez Hig
- 171Ken Osmond Wiki; Alex Ben Block (January 6, 1975). "Cooper's comedy mocks system". The Miami News.
- 172Cooper describes how he fell for Miss Christine in his autobiography Me, Alice (1976).
- 174NewsAlice Cooper: 'Some people turn to God, I turned to golf'Melissa Whitworth — August 28, 2007
- 176Alice Cooper: My family valuesCaroline Rees — September 23, 2011
- 177Alice Cooper and His Wife Have a Death PactEmily Alford — June 23, 2019
- 179MagazineAlice Cooper Receives MusiCares MAP Fund AwardMitchell Peters
- 182Alice Cooper Is A ChristianMarch 28, 2006
- 184NewsAlice Cooper's Political MakeupRichard Leiby — August 24, 2004
- 186Alice Cooper Predicts Next U.S. President Will Be 'Worse Than Trump'Martin Kielty — December 30, 2018
- 187MagazineAlice Cooper Calls Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Kids a 'Fad,' Condemns 'the Whole Woke Thing'Stephen Daw — 2023-08-23
- 189Alice Cooper at 77: 'So many rock star friends didn't make it'Michael Odell — 2025-07-18
- 190NewsDetroit shock rocker Alice Cooper loves hockeyFebruary 20, 2012
- 191NHL Recap – Dallas Stars at Phoenix CoyotesFebruary 18, 2012
- 193Alice Cooper on coaching Little League, paying tribute to his 'dead drunk friends' and moreDustin Schoof — October 18, 2013
- 194Alice Cooper talks shock rock and jocksOctober 28, 2010
- 195NBA Finals 2021: The Phoenix Suns' Most Famous FansJuly 5, 2021
- 196Alice Cooper – Cooper's Golf AddictionNovember 7, 2007
- 197NewsClub ClassAlice Cooper — November 13, 2005
- 198MagazineAlice Cooper: Saved By The Golf Course?May 27, 2007
- 199Alice Cooper, Golf MonsterApril 28, 2007
- 200Details of the pro-am events Cooper has participated in can be found in Alice Cooper, Golf Monster.
- 201NewsInterview with Alice Cooper on late musician Glen CampbellMax Rodewald — August 9, 2017
- 203NewsStars turn out for celebrity golfNick Dermody — August 27, 2006
- 205Dynamite to Launch 'Alice Cooper' Comic Book Series in SeptemberJune 19, 2014
- 206Alice Cooper Launches New Comic SeriesJuly 17, 2013
- 208ALICE COOPER'S NIGHTMARE CASTLEMarch 18, 2018
- 2098 oddities found at Phoenix-area museumsSonja Haller
- 210Travel: Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix hits right noteSteve Stephens
- 212Awards
- 2141973February 28, 1973
- 2161974February 28, 1974
- 217Alice Cooper
- 218Uncut
- 221IEBA Live 2007 Awards BanquetOctober 14, 2008
- 222ALICE COOPER To Be Honored At SPIKE TV's SCREAM AWARDSSeptember 5, 2007
- 224REVOLVER GOLDEN GODS AWARDS 2011 Winners AnnouncedApril 21, 2011
- 2272011 Eyegore AwardsSeptember 14, 2011
- 228I'm Eighteen
- 232Kerrang! Awards 2016: The Winners!June 9, 2016
- 244School's in for Alice CooperMay 3, 2004
- 245Alice CooperJanuary 9, 2017
- 247Cooper receives honorary doctorate at L.A.'s Musicians InstituteMarch 19, 2012
- 248The 2012-2013 Heritage Award goes to Alice CooperApril 5, 2013
- 250BookNo More Mr. Nice Guy: The Inside Story of the Original Alice Cooper GroupMichael Bruce et al. — SAF Publishing Ltd — 2000
- 251BookMe, Alice: The Autobiography of Alice CooperAlice Cooper et al. — Putnam — 1976
- 253BookBillion Dollar BabyBob Greene — Simon & Schuster — 1974
- 254BookAlice Cooper: Live on Tour, Studio, BackstageWolfgang Heilemann et al. — Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf — 2005
- 256BookAlice Cooper: Welcome to My NightmareDave Thompson — Omnibus Press — 2012