Alice Cooper (Vincent Damon Furnier)
2007 Scream Awards, 19 October 2007
Born: 4 February 1948, Allen Park, Michigan
Furnier attended Washington Elementary and a middle school at Detroit, then moved to Phoenix, Arizona where he attended Cortez High School. He was on the cross-country track team and formed a band for a school talent show. (They faked Beatles songs, later learned the instruments.) The band graduated in 1966, had a local hit record, and started to play gigs at Los Angeles, first as The Spiders, then as The Nazz, which they changed when they learned that Todd Rundgren was already using that name, and ended with Alice Cooper. They released two unsuccessful albums on Frank Zappa's label. Fed up with indifferent LA audiences the band moved to Detroit in 1970, the same year Warner Bros. Records bought their contract from Zappa. They hit the charts with "I'm Eighteen" and continued to chart through 1973 but the band broke up the next year. Furnier, now using the Alice Cooper name himself, returned to LA and started appearing on television. In 1975, during the "Welcome to my Nightmare" tour, he was drunk on stage, tripped over a footlight, and fell into the pit, and split his head open. Ten years later he stopped drinking completely. He has produced 25 solo albums and has a syndicated evening rock show called "Nights with Alice Cooper". The band owned the name, his annual payments to his original band members are apparently sufficient for them to live comfortably. Off stage he's a registered Republican, lived next door to Barry Goldwater at Paradise Valley, Arizona, golfs with a four handicap, is a born-again Christian (since getting off the bottle), and has been married to his wife since 1976.
Biography from Wikipedia and SickThingsUK.co.uk
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Alice Cooper - Nights with Alice Cooper (29 June 2010) - City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen. permalink
Alice Cooper - Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion. permalink
Alice Cooper - From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans. permalink
Alice Cooper - Philadelphia Daily News (3 March 2006) - God gives you a life and says, Okay, what are you going to do with it? permalink
Alice Cooper - Esquire inteview with Cal Fussman (January 2009) - Golf is the crack of sports. If you hit five good shots, you know you can hit six good shots. The next time you hit six good shots, you know you can hit seven. permalink
Alice Cooper - Esquire inteview with Cal Fussman (January 2009) - 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. permalink
Alice Cooper - I don't ever get angry on the golf course either. What's the point? Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player. permalink
Alice Cooper - On golf, interview with Nick Harper in The Guardian (28 November 2003) - I get onstage now with more attitude at fifty-seven than I had when I was twenty. When I was twenty, my attitude was kind of like, "Yeah, yeah, I'm a big rock star." Now, when I get onstage, I go up there, and I am the Moriarty of rock. I am the consummate villain. I am the Hannibal Lector of rock, and I play it like that. permalink
Alice Cooper - KNAC interview (22 September 2005) - I haven't had an alcoholic drink in 22 years, but when I did drink I'd go for either Canadian whisky or Budweiser. Sometimes both. For a long time I used to think "Hey you, get off the floor!" was my name. permalink
Alice Cooper - Interview with Nick Harper in The Guardian (28 November 2003) - I play at the Phoenix Country Club, which oddly enough is in Phoenix. I don't wear the make-up, no, but I'm the only guy there who can scare the ball into the hole. permalink
Alice Cooper - On golf, interview with Nick Harper in The Guardian (28 November 2003) - I was only ninety-eight pounds and had spent a year and a half hunched over in bed, which left a curvature of my spine and shoulders which could have put the hunchback of Notre Dame to shame. permalink
Alice Cooper - Me, Alice 'as told to Steven Gaines' (1976) - I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" is pretty clever. permalink
Alice Cooper - Esquire inteview with Cal Fussman (January 2009) - If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that song written in four hours. permalink
Alice Cooper - Esquire inteview with Cal Fussman (January 2009) - If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. permalink
Alice Cooper - Statement to the Canadian Press (26 August 2005)
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