
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.
Movie | Boy Howdy! The Story of CREEM Magazine | Himself | 2018-10-01 |
Series | Midsummer Rock: The Cincinnati Pop Festival 1970 | Unknown | 2017 |
Movie | Alice Cooper - Wacken 2017 | Vocals | 2017-08-03 |
Movie | Hired Gun | Himself | 2016-03-18 |
Movie | To Be Frank: Sinatra at 100 | Himself | 2015-12-12 |
Movie | Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini | Himself | 2015-10-31 |
Movie | Super Duper Alice Cooper | Himself | 2014-04-17 |
Movie | An Honest Liar | Himself | 2014-04-18 |
Movie | Wacken: Louder Than Hell | 2014-07-24 | |
Movie | Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon | Himself | 2014-06-06 |
Movie | Alice Cooper: Raise the Dead (Live from Wacken) | Vocals | 2014-10-21 |
Movie | Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen | Himself | 2013-03-06 |
Movie | Who Shot Rock & Roll: The Film | Himself | 2013-04-20 |
Movie | A Band Called Death | Himself | 2013-06-27 |
Movie | From Straight To Bizarre | himself | 2012-02-21 |
Movie | Dark Shadows | Alice Cooper | 2012-05-08 |
Movie | Sunset Strip | Himself | 2012-03-16 |
Movie | Bigfoot | Himself | 2012-06-30 |
Movie | Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story | 2012-07-17 | |
Movie | The Story of Rock 'n' Roll Comics | Himself | 2011-07-01 |
Movie | Alice Cooper: Halloween Night of Fear London | 2011-10-29 | |
Movie | Lemmy | Himself | 2010-03-15 |
Movie | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Himself | 2010-05-04 |
Movie | Alice Cooper: Theatre of Death | Himself | 2010-10-01 |
Movie | When Woodstock Was Young | 2009-11-17 | |
Movie | Suck | Bartender | 2009-09-11 |
Series | 100 Most Shocking Music Moments | 2009-12-28 | |
Series | The Graham Norton Show | Himself | 2007-02-22 |
Movie | Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux 2005 | Lead Vocal | 2006-05-30 |
Movie | Best Ever Muppet Moments | Himself | 2006-03-11 |
Series | The One Show | Unknown | 2006-08-14 |
Movie | Metal: A Headbanger's Journey | Himself | 2005-09-14 |
Movie | The Perfect Scary Movie | Himself | 2005-10-29 |
Movie | John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies | Himself | 2004-03-23 |
Movie | Spooks & Creeps | Pirate Jack ("Freakshow") | 2004-10-26 |
Movie | Mayor of the Sunset Strip | Himself | 2003-06-17 |
Movie | Alice Cooper - The Ultimate Clip Collection | 2003-11-03 | |
Movie | I Love Muppets | Himself | 2002-03-31 |
Series | Monk | Unknown | 2002-07-12 |
Movie | The Attic Expeditions | Samuel Leventhal | 2001-03-30 |
Movie | Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror | Himself | 2000-01-01 |
Movie | The Filth and the Fury | Himself (archive footage) | 2000-03-29 |
Movie | Alice Cooper: Brutally Live | Vocals | 2000-12-05 |
Series | The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn | Unknown | 1999-03-30 |
Series | Rove | Himself | 1999-09-22 |
Series | That '70s Show | Unknown | 1998-08-23 |
Movie | Halloween... The Happy Haunting of America | Himself | 1997-01-01 |
Series | The Frank Skinner Show | Unknown | 1995-09-10 |
Movie | A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who | 1994-12-16 | |
Movie | Wayne's World | Himself | 1992-02-14 |
Movie | Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts | 1991-01-01 | |
Movie | Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare | Mr. Underwood | 1991-09-05 |
Movie | Alice Cooper: Trashes the World | Vocals | 1990-09-17 |
Movie | Alice Cooper: The Nightmare Returns | Himself | 1989-01-01 |
Movie | The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years | Himself | 1988-06-17 |
Movie | WWE WrestleMania III | Himself | 1987-03-29 |
Movie | Prince of Darkness | Street Schizo | 1987-10-23 |
Movie | Monster Dog | Victor Raven | 1984-01-01 |
Movie | This Is America Part 2 | Himself (archive footage) | 1980-09-05 |
Movie | Roadie | Himself | 1980-06-13 |
Movie | The Strange Case of Alice Cooper | 1979-04-09 | |
Movie | Sextette | Waiter | 1978-03-03 |
Movie | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | Marvin Sunk (the 'Sun King') | 1978-07-24 |
Series | The Muppet Show | Unknown | 1976-09-18 |
Movie | Alice Cooper: The Nightmare | Steven | 1975-04-25 |
Movie | Alice Cooper: Welcome to my Nightmare | Steven / Alice | 1975-11-28 |
Series | Tony Orlando and Dawn | Unknown | 1974-12-04 |
Movie | Alice Cooper: Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper | Self / Vocalist | 1972-09-10 |
Movie | We Have Come for Your Daughters | 1971-09-20 | |
Movie | Diary of a Mad Housewife | Himself | 1970-01-01 |
Series | Beat-Club | Unknown | 1965-09-25 |