Alice Cooper is an American rock singer and songwriter whose career spans sixty years. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props and stage illusions, Cooper is considered by many music journalists and peers to be "The Godfather of Shock Rock". He has drawn equally from horror films, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a macabre and theatrical brand of rock designed to shock audiences.
Charles Frederick Winger is an American singer and bass guitarist, active as a member of the rock band Winger and as a solo artist. He initially gained notability as a member of Alice Cooper's band, contributing bass to his Constrictor (1986) and Raise Your Fist and Yell (1987) albums.
Welcome to My Nightmare is the debut solo studio album by American rock musician Alice Cooper, released on February 28, 1975 by Atlantic Records. A concept album, its songs played in sequence form a journey through the nightmares of a child named Steven. The album inspired the Alice Cooper: The Nightmare TV special, a worldwide concert tour in 1975, and his Welcome to My Nightmare concert film in 1976. The tour was one of the most over-the-top excursions of that era. Most of Lou Reed's band joined Cooper for this record. Welcome to My Nightmare is his only album under the Atlantic Records label in North America; internationally, it was released on the ABC subsidiary Anchor Records.
Lace and Whiskey is the third solo and tenth overall studio album by American rock singer Alice Cooper, released on April 29, 1977, by Warner Bros. Records.
Kane Roberts is an American rock guitarist and singer best known as a former lead guitarist for Alice Cooper. Additionally, he has performed as a solo act, and his cover of the Bon Jovi song "Does Anybody Really Fall in Love Anymore" cracked the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. Roberts is notable for his Rambo-like appearance and physique and his usage of an electric guitar shaped like a machine gun.
Constrictor is the ninth solo studio album by American rock musician Alice Cooper, released in September 1986 by MCA Records. After a hiatus from the music industry after the release of DaDa (1983), Cooper remained in seclusion for three years. He starred in Monster Dog (1986), a horror film for which he wrote two songs. He also guest starred on the Twisted Sister track "Be Chrool to Your Scuel". Constrictor was Alice Cooper's first studio album to feature Kane Roberts on guitar, Kip Winger, who would later gain fame with his own band, Winger, on bass guitar, and the only one to feature David Rosenberg on drums. Winger has since pointed out that his last name was erroneously spelt in the album credits as Wringer.
Raise Your Fist and Yell is the tenth solo studio album by American rock musician Alice Cooper, released in October 1987, by MCA Records. It features the track "Prince of Darkness", which is featured very briefly in the John Carpenter film of the same name, in which Cooper has a cameo as a murderous vagrant. The song can be heard on the Walkman of one of his victims. A music video was made for the song "Freedom", which also became the album's sole single. Raise Your Fist and Yell is the only Alice Cooper album to feature Ken K. Mary on drums and the second and last to feature Kip Winger on bass.
Ryan Roxie is an American guitarist, singer-songwriter best known as a solo artist and for playing guitar with Alice Cooper, Casablanca, Gilby Clarke, and Slash's Snakepit. Roxie is the primary founder of the System-12 Guitar Method and also hosts the weekly In the Trenches with Ryan Roxie podcast.
Richard Allen Wagner was an American rock guitarist, songwriter and author best known for his work with Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, and Kiss. He also fronted his own Michigan-based bands, the Frost and the Bossmen.
"School's Out" is a song first recorded as the title track of Alice Cooper's fifth album. It was released as the album's only single on April 26, 1972. "School's Out" was Alice Cooper's biggest international hit and it has been regarded as their signature song and reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100, number three in the Canadian RPM 100 Singles chart, number two on the Irish Singles Chart and number one on the UK Singles Chart.
"You're the Voice" is a song recorded by the British-born Australian singer John Farnham released in 1986, which became an immediate hit in Australia as well as several European countries, his native country the United Kingdom, and Ireland. It was released as a single in September 1986 ahead of his album Whispering Jack, and was written by Andy Qunta, Keith Reid, Maggie Ryder, and Chris Thompson.
"Poison" is a song by American musician Alice Cooper. Written by Cooper, producer Desmond Child and guitarist John McCurry, the song was released as a single in July 1989 from Cooper's eighteenth album, Trash. It became one of Cooper's biggest hit singles in the United States, peaking at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. The song performed even better in the UK by peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart.
"He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)" is a song by American rock musician Alice Cooper. It was released as the lead single from his 1986 album Constrictor and was used as the theme song for the motion picture Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives.
“Under My Wheels” is a song by American rock band Alice Cooper, released in 1971 as the first single from their fourth album Killer. The song was written by Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway and Bob Ezrin. The song peaked at #59 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.
The Nightmare Returns is a live concert video of Alice Cooper. The concert was filmed live in Detroit, Michigan, USA on Halloween 1986 at the start of his "The Nightmare Returns" World Tour, in support of his album Constrictor. This video was originally released in 1987 on VHS and Betamax, and was released on DVD in 2006. The music video for "Teenage Frankenstein" consists of footage from this concert.
"Feed My Frankenstein" is a song originally written and originally released by British hard rock band Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction for their album Hoodlum Thunder. American singer Alice Cooper covered it on his 19th solo studio album, Hey Stoopid, and released it as a single in May 1992. Its highest chart position as a single was number 27 in the UK. Cooper gained a co-writer credit for his version due to different lyrics from the original.
"No More Mr. Nice Guy" is a song by American rock band Alice Cooper, released in 1973 as a single off their sixth studio album Billion Dollar Babies (1973). The single reached No. 25 on the US charts and No. 10 on the UK charts, and helped Billion Dollar Babies to reach No. 1 in both the UK and the US. The song was written by Michael Bruce and Alice Cooper.
"I Am the Future" is a 1982 song by American rock musician Alice Cooper recorded for the 1982 film Class of 1984. The song was one of two singles released from his seventh solo studio album Zipper Catches Skin (1982). The single did not chart, and despite the advent of MTV at the time a promotional video was not created for it.
"Hello Hooray" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Rolf Kempf, and first recorded by Judy Collins on her 1968 album Who Knows Where the Time Goes. Its most famous rendition was by the band Alice Cooper, who covered it on their 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies. The Alice Cooper version was released as a single, and reached #35 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also saw success internationally, reaching #6 on the UK Singles Chart, #6 in the Netherlands on the MegaCharts, #13 on Germany's Media Control Chart, #14 on the Ireland chart, #16 on the Austria chart, and #95 on Australia's ARIA chart.
Live from the Astroturf is the 12th live album by rock group Alice Cooper, originally released through Good Records on November 23, 2018, before receiving a worldwide release from Earmusic on September 30, 2022. It features eight songs performed by the original line-up of the Alice Cooper band recorded on October 6, 2015, at Good Records in Dallas, Texas.
