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Alice Cooper
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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 s…
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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. He's 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.
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Frampton
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2026
Eddie Cochran: Don't Forget Me
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2025
Dreams
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- 2024
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2024
Born to Be Wild: The Story of Steppenwolf
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2024
Jim Henson Idea Man
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2024
Jonathan & Jesus
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2023
Michael Monroe -dokumenttielokuva
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2023
Spooktacular!
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2023
Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World
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2023
Hollywood Vampires: Live In Rio
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2023
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
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2023
Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC
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- 2022
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2022
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
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- 2022
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2022
Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary
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2022
Alice Cooper - Road (Live at Hellfest 2022)
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2022
Alice Cooper - Graspop Metal Meeting
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2022
No Cover
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2022
Rock this Town
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2021
Alice Cooper: Detroit Stories
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2021
The History of Metal and Horror
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2021
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
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2021
Rock Camp: The Movie
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2020
Zappa
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2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #5: Haunted Lives
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2020
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
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2020
Power Hour
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2020
Laurel Canyon
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2020
Reunited Apart
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2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
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2020
Stars in the House
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2020
Duncanville
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2019
Suzi Q
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2019
House of Cardin
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2019
Alice Cooper: Live from the Astroturf
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2019
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
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- 2019
