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Alice Cooper

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than five decades. With a stage show that sometimes included a guillotine, gallows, electric chair, fake blood, boa constrictor and baby dolls, Cooper drew 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 originally was a band that consisted of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, Glen Buxton on lead guitar, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and Neal Smith on drums. Taking on the name in 1968, the Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit "I'm Eighteen". It was followed in 1972 by the even bigger single "School's Out", which reached #1 in the UK during that summer. The band reached its commercial peak with the transatlantic #1 album Billion Dollar Babies in 1973. Furnier's solo career as Alice Cooper, legally adopting the band's name as his own, began with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare, and reached his commercial peak with the 1989 hit "Poison". His most recent studio release (his 18th solo album) was in 2008, Along Came a Spider. Expanding from his original Detroit-based garage rock roots, over the years Cooper has experimented with many different musical styles, including art rock, conceptual rock, rock and roll, jazz, new wave, and heavy metal. Alice Cooper is known for his social and witty persona offstage. The Rolling Stone Album Guide goes so far as to call him the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer". He helped to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and is seen as the person who "first introduced horror imagery to rock'n'roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre". Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur, and since 2004 a popular radio DJ with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper. In 2011, the original Alice Cooper Group was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alice Cooper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Born:
Feb 4, 1948 In Detroit, Michigan, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
55
First Appeared:
In the movie Diary of a Mad Housewife 1970-08-10
Latest Project:
Movie The History of Metal and Horror 2021-09-17
Known For
Filmography
Movie The History of Metal and Horror Self 2021-09-17
Movie Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine Self - Musician 2019-03-14
Movie Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert King Herod 2018-04-01
Movie Hired Gun Self 2017-06-29
Movie Danny Says Self 2015-03-18
Movie Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini Self 2015-10-16
Movie Super Duper Alice Cooper Self (voice) 2014-04-17
Movie An Honest Liar Self 2014-04-18
Movie Slash: Raised On the Sunset Strip Self 2014-10-29
Movie Wacken Self 2014-07-24
Movie Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen Self 2013-03-06
Movie Who Shot Rock & Roll: The Film Self 2013-04-20
Movie A Band Called Death Self 2013-06-27
Movie Skum Rocks! Self / Narrator (voice) 2013-09-26
Movie Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th Self - Rock Legend 2013-09-13
Movie Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon Self 2013-09-07
Movie Sunset Strip Self 2012-03-16
Movie Bigfoot Alice Cooper 2012-10-28
Movie Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story Self 2012-07-17
Movie Lemmy Self 2010-03-15
Movie Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy Self 2010-05-04
Movie Alice Cooper: Theatre of Death Self - Vocals 2010-10-01
Movie Suck Bartender 2009-09-11
Movie Promised Land of Heavy Metal Self (archive footage) 2008-11-15
Movie Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation Self 2007-05-01
Movie Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux 2005 Lead Vocal 2006-05-30
Movie Best Ever Muppet Moments Self 2006-03-11
Movie Metal: A Headbanger's Journey Self 2005-09-14
Movie The Perfect Scary Movie Self 2005-10-29
Movie John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies Self 2004-03-23
Movie Mayor of the Sunset Strip Self 2003-06-17
Movie The Attic Expeditions Samuel Leventhal 2001-03-30
Movie Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror Self 2001-04-15
Movie The Filth and the Fury Self (archive footage) 2000-03-29
Movie Alice Cooper: Brutally Live Self - Vocals 2000-11-27
Movie Halloween... The Happy Haunting of America! Self 1997-01-01
Movie The History of Rock 'n' Roll Self 1995-03-06
Movie Slash & Burn: The Freddy Krueger Story Self 1991-10-25
Movie Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts Self 1991-01-01
Movie Hard 'N Heavy Volume 7 Self 1990-01-01
Movie Hard 'N Heavy Volume 1 Self 1989-01-01
Movie Hard 'N Heavy Volume 3 Self 1989-01-01
Movie The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years Self 1988-06-17
Movie The Freddy Krueger Special Self 1988-08-18
Movie Prince of Darkness Street Schizo 1987-10-23
Movie Monster Dog Victor Raven 1984-12-01
Movie Alice Cooper à Paris Self 1982-01-14
Movie Roadie Alice Cooper 1980-06-13
Movie This Is America Part 2 Self (archive footage) 1980-09-05
Movie Alice Cooper: The Strange Case of Alice Cooper Self 1979-04-09
Movie Sextette Waiter 1978-03-03
Movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Father Sun 1978-07-24
Movie Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare Steven / Alice 1976-11-28
Movie Alice Cooper: The Nightmare Steven 1975-04-25
Movie Diary of a Mad Housewife Alice Cooper 1970-08-10
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