Alice Cooper
Born February 04, 1948 (Age: 78)
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Detroit, Michigan, USA
Biography
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.
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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Filmography
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
2023
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as Self
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Age: 75
Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon
2022
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as Self
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Age: 74
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 72
Dark Shadows
2012
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as Self
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Age: 64
Alice Cooper: Live at The Enmore Theatre
2011
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as Self
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Age: 62
VH1's 100 Most Shocking Music Moments
2009
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as Self
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Age: 61
This Beat Goes On: Canadian Pop Music in the 1970s
2009
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 61
Alice Cooper: Special Edition Ep
2007
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as Self - Vocals
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Age: 59
40 Years of Star Trek
2006
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as Self
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Age: 57
Rockthology Presents: Hard 'N' Heavy, Volume 8
2004
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as Self
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Age: 56
Back To The 80's - Live In Concert
2004
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 56
I Love Muppets
2002
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as Self
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Age: 54
When Rock Ruled the World
2002
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as Self
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Age: 54
Alice Cooper: Brutally Live
2000
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as Self - Vocals
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Age: 52
The Filth and the Fury
2000
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 52
Halloween... The Happy Haunting of America!
1997
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as Self
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Age: 48
Wayne's World
1992
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as Self
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Age: 44
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 15
1992
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as Self
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Age: 43
Slash & Burn: The Freddy Krueger Story
1991
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as Self
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Age: 43
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
1991
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as Mr. Underwood
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Age: 43
Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts
1991
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as Self
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Age: 42
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 7
1990
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as Self
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Age: 41
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 3
1989
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as Self
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Age: 40
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 1
1989
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as Self
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Age: 40
No Image
The Freddy Krueger Special
1988
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as Self
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Age: 40
Monster Dog
1988
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as Victor Raven
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Age: 40
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
1988
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as Self
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Age: 40
Prince of Darkness
1987
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as Street Schizo
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Age: 39
This Is America Part 2
1980
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 32
Roadie
1980
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as Self
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Age: 32
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1978
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as Father Sun
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Age: 30
Grease Day USA
1978
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as Self
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Age: 30
Sextette
1978
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as Waiter
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Age: 30
Alice Cooper and Friends
1978
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as Self
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Age: 29
Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper
1974
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as Self - Vocals
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Age: 26
Rock-a-bye
1973
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as Self
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Age: 24
Diary of a Mad Housewife
1970
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as Alice Cooper
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Age: 22
Alice Cooper
1970
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as Self
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Age: 21