Alice Cooper

Also Known As: Vincent Damon Furnier

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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA

Birthday: February 04, 1948

Adult: No

Gender: Male

Popularity:

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Known For:

The Perfect Scary Movie
The History of Metal and Horror
Roadie
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
Alice Cooper: Detroit Stories
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Prince of Darkness
Wayne's World
The Filth and the Fury
Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World
Cum On Feel The Noize
Halloween... The Happy Haunting of America!
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
Live Eighties
Larry presents: Best of The 80s
Zappa
Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux 2005
Suck
Dark Shadows
The Attic Expeditions
John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies
Spooks & Creeps
Alice Cooper: Theatre of Death
The History of Rock 'n' Roll
WWE WrestleMania III
Lemmy
Alice Cooper: Brutally Live
Alice Cooper: Trashes The World
Alice Cooper: Halloween Night of Fear
Monster Dog
Alice Cooper: The Nightmare Returns
Good to See You Again Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare
VH1's 100 Most Shocking Music Moments
Sextette
Rock this Town
Bigfoot
Alice Cooper: The Strange Case of Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts
Rockthology 2
Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen
Michael Monroe -dokumenttielokuva
The Freddy Krueger Special
Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC
Alice Cooper: Live at The Enmore Theatre
Spooktacular!
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Who Shot Rock & Roll: The Film
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
I Love Muppets
Best Ever Muppet Moments
Super Duper Alice Cooper
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Alice Cooper - Hellfest
Alice Cooper: Live at Wacken Open Air 2013
Rockthology Presents: Hard 'N' Heavy, Volume 8
Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini
An Honest Liar
Alice Cooper: The Nightmare
Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary
Show Business Is My Life (But I Can't Prove It)
A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon
Alice Cooper: Raise the Dead (Live from Wacken)
From Straight to Bizarre
Wacken
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Prachtig 80: Volume 2
The Best of Musikladen: Vol. One
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
When Woodstock Was Young
Alice Cooper - Graspop Metal Meeting 2022
Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story
Hired Gun
Alice Cooper - The Ultimate Clip Collection
Jim Henson Idea Man
Slash & Burn: The Freddy Krueger Story
Born to Be Wild: The Story of Steppenwolf
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
Alice Cooper: Live from the Astroturf
This Is America Part 2
Medicine Ball Caravan
The Story of Rock 'n' Roll Comics
Skum Rocks!
Hollywood Vampires - Rock in Rio 2015
Danny Says
Mayor of the Sunset Strip
Sunset Strip
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 1
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 7
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 3
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 15
Alice Cooper : Wacken 2017
Midsummer Rock: The Cincinnati Pop Festival 1970
To Be Frank: Sinatra at 100
Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
Rock-a-bye
Grease Day USA
Hollywood Vampires Live at Hellfest 2018
Alice Cooper: Rock In Rio 2017
25 Years of Punk
Let it Rock: Volume 1
Freakshow
Udo Lindenberg - MTV Unplugged 2 - Live vom Atlantik
This Beat Goes On: Canadian Pop Music in the 1970s
Alice Cooper à Paris
Promised Land of Heavy Metal
Udo Lindenberg: Volle Fahrt voraus - Begegnungen auf dem Lindischen Ozean
Suzi Q
40 Years of Star Trek
Malevolent: Unearthing John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness
Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll
The Art of McCartney
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
Great American Rock Anthems: Turn It Up to 11
Alice Cooper: Montreal 1972
Alice Cooper: Old School: 1964-1974
The Sunflower Superjam 2012
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1979
Alice Cooper - AVO Session
Alice Cooper and Friends
Alice Cooper: Bonnaroo 2012
AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #5: HAUNTED LIVES
Rock Camp: The Movie
House of Cardin
Alice Cooper: A Paranormal Evening at the Olympia Paris
Alice Cooper
When Rock Ruled the World
Glam Rock at the BBC
A Band Called Death
Slash: Raised On the Sunset Strip
Alice Cooper: Special Edition Ep
Back to the 80's live
The Yardbirds