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Alice Cooper is an American shock rock singer who started his career under his birth name, Vincent Furnier in the band Alice Cooper. Following the bands breakup in 1974, [1] Furnier, legally took the name and started recording and touring with new musicians.
ImageNameYears ActiveInstrumentsOrianthi (Orianthi Panagaris)2011–2014guitar backing vocalsnoneKeri Kelli (Kenneth Fear Jr.)2007–2009guitar backing vocalsAlong Came a Spider (2008) Welcome 2 My ...2004–2005 2009–2010guitar backing vocalsDirty Diamonds (2005) Live at Montreux ...2003 2005 (substitute)drumsDirty Diamonds (2005)Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer and songwriter whose career spans sixty years. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props and stage illusions, including pyrotechnics, guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, reptiles, baby dolls, and dueling swords, Cooper is considered by many music journalists and peers to be "The ...
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- Formative Years: The Spiders
- New Band Name: Alice Cooper
- Finding Success
- Breakup of The Original Band
In 1964, 16-year-old Furnier, then a student at Cortez High School, was eager to participate in the local annual Letterman's talent show, so he gathered four teammates from his high school's cross-country team to form a group for the show: Glen Buxton, Dennis Dunaway, John Tatum and John Speer. They named themselves the Earwigs. They dressed up in ...
In 1968, the band learned that Todd Rundgren also had a band called the Nazz, and found themselves in need of another stage name. Furnier also believed that the group needed a gimmick to succeed, and that other bands were not exploiting the showmanship potential of the stage. The legend is that the name "Alice Cooper" came from a session with a Oui...
Slow sales of the band's first two albums, as well as Californians' indifference to their act, led the band to relocate again in 1970, this time to Pontiac, Michigan near Furnier's original home town of Detroit. Here, their bizarre stage act was much better received by Midwestern crowds accustomed to the proto punk styles of local bands such as the...
The original Alice Cooper band played their final show on April 8, 1974, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.There are varying reasons former band members have given for the breakup. Smith said the members wanted to take a year off to slow down and possibly do solo projects, and just never reunited. Cooper said there was disagreement over how much money to s...
- 1968–1975, (reunions: 1999, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019)
- Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
Apr 2, 2014 · In 2004 he launched his hugely successful syndicated radio program, Nights With Alice Cooper. In recent years Cooper has reunited with the living members of his old band, and in 2011 the group was ...
Dec 12, 2019 · When Dennis Dunaway joins the other three surviving members of the Alice Cooper group on stage for Christmas Pudding, it'll be the first time he's set foot inside the historic Celebrity Theatre ...
- Ed Masley
- Pop Music Critic
In 2011, the surviving members of the original Alice Cooper band were finally inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame, where they performed for the first time publicly in many years. The original band also contributed to Alice’s 2011 album “Welcome 2 My Nightmare”, a follow up to Alice’s first solo album.
6 days ago · Alice Cooper (born February 4, 1948, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.) is an American rock musician who pioneered a theatrical form of heavy metal music performance that fused onstage horror dramatics with a raw dynamic sound and that eventually earned him the sobriquet “the godfather of shock rock.” His shows evolved from frenetic displays ...
