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
I'm hidden in the scream when the virgin dies, I'm the ache in the belly when your baby cries, and I'm the burning sensation when the convict fries.
I don't know, but I've been told, the streets of hell are paved with gold.
Do you feel your best when your strung out on your morphine and meth?
I appreciate an audience that reacts to the music, even if they jump on stage and try to beat us up, I think that's a fantastic reaction. I think that they're really hearing something then.
I got a muscle of love.
All sliced up and sealed tight in baggies. Guess love makes you do funny things.
Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm.
Old enough to be drafted but not old enough to vote.
Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now.
All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock.
Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10.
We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound.
We try to be as much involved in our product as possible, because then it's us.
We just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then.