Alice Cooper

Known for ActingBorn 1948-02-04 (age 78)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 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Alice Cooper: Rock In Rio 2017

The Best of Musikladen: Vol. One

Slå på ring

Alice Cooper à Paris

Alice Cooper and Friends

The Yardbirds: In Their Own Words

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #5: Haunted Lives

Alice Cooper: Live from the Astroturf

Hollywood Vampires Live at Hellfest 2018

Halloween... The Happy Haunting of America!

Heavy Metal Heaven Hosted by Elvira

Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary

Alice Cooper - AVO Session

Alice Cooper - The Ultimate Clip Collection

Freakshow

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Laurel Canyon

Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll

The Top Ten Revealed

Alice Cooper : Wacken 2017

Alice Cooper: A Paranormal Evening at the Olympia Paris

Alice Cooper: Raise the Dead (Live from Wacken)

The Story of the Yardbirds

Grease Day USA

Jonathan & Jesus

Jim Henson Idea Man

Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th

Monk

Duncanville

That '70s Show

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

Slash & Burn: The Freddy Krueger Story

Hard 'N Heavy Volume 1

WWF Superstars

Born to Be Wild: The Story of Steppenwolf

The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart

1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything

The Muppet Show

Alice Cooper: The Nightmare

Bubble Guppies

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

Alice Cooper - Road (Live at Hellfest 2022)

The Perfect Scary Movie

Classic Albums

Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

Alice Cooper: Bonnaroo 2012

Top Gear