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We’re not worthy of Alice Cooper answering our 11 Questions Photos: Jenny Risher asks interesting people the same 11 interesting questions. Advertisement You have to be some sort of superhero or vampire to survive in the world of rock ’n’ roll for 50 years, and living legend Alice Cooper is one of the few who fits that particular bill. The horror-rock icon—likely the only person who’s in both the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame and The Friars Club—has just released his 21st solo record, ...

Rock legend Alice Cooper may have his first number one in Australia but the end of this week based on midweek sales of his ‘Detroit Stories’ album.

Wild thing: Alice Cooper in Detroit, 1970 Credit: Ross Marino/Getty Images In 1970, Alice Cooper decided to leave Los Angeles. Stymied by commercial failure, in two fruitless years the theatrical rocker had caught the ear of almost no one. “I don’t get what you’re doing,” Frank Zappa had told him, “and I think that’s great.” Few agreed. With “20,000 groups from around the world heading to [LA],” in the first revolutionary act of a career that has endured for more than half a c...

Alice Cooper Has Some Detroit Stories to Tell Alice Cooper Has Some Detroit Stories to Tell The original shock-rocker talks about his new hometown-saluting album, why he enjoyed reuniting with his original band members, possible Broadway plans and why he owes Variety a debt. A.D. Amorosi, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The only thing that Alice Cooper has forever done better than scare and shock is create titillating heavy rock filled with odd, often dangerous characters and their noir-ish t...

Alice Cooper s latest studio album, Detroit Stories , gets its release this Friday, February 26, and in celebration of the new records impending arrival, the shock rocker will appear live tonight on a streaming event hosted by the social-networking site talkshoplive . Coopers appearance, which begins at 9 p.m. ET, also marks the launch of the talkshoplive platforms new Rock n Roll Channel, which will feature well-known artists encouraging direct-to-consumer sales of their relea...

Rolling Stone Alice Cooper Pays Homage to His Hometown With a Wink on ‘Detroit Stories’ The shock rocker’s love for the Motor City is genuine, but he won’t let that stand between him and a good one-liner By Jenny Risher* Part of Alice Cooper’s enduring appeal has been the fact that, unlike many of his Seventies FM-radio peers, he always rejected the notion that rock & roll should be Serious Art. “School’s Out” is just a distant cousin of Chuck Berry’s “Schoo...

Alice Cooper 's latest studio album, Detroit Stories , gets its release today. The 15-track collection pays tribute to the hard-edged music of the sho...

Arizona Republic Alice Cooper spends his latest album, "Detroit Stories," paying tribute to a city that looms large in Cooper legend for obvious reasons.  First and foremost, he was born there. And although he met the other founding members of the Alice Cooper group in Phoenix, where his family moved when he was 12, the Cortez High School track star and his bandmates were sharing a farmhouse on the outskirts of Detroit when they recorded "Im Eighteen," their breakthrough single. Theyd mov...

By Syndicated Content Alice Cooper s latest studio album, Detroit Stories , gets its release this Friday, February 26, and in celebration of the new records impending arrival, the shock rocker will appear live tonight on a streaming event hosted by the social-networking site talkshoplive . Coopers appearance, which begins at 9 p.m. ET, also marks the launch of the talkshoplive platforms new Rock n Roll Channel, which will feature well-known artists encouraging direct-to-...

Alice Cooper 's latest studio album, Detroit Stories , gets its release today. The 15-track collection pays tribute to the hard-edged music of the sho...