Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, musician and occasional actor whose career spans five decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors, baby dolls, and dueling swords, Cooper is considered by music journalists and peers alike to be "The Godfather of Shock Rock"; he has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a macabre, theatrical brand of rock designed to shock people. Cooper is also known for his distinctive raspy voice.
Originating in Phoenix in the late 1960s after he moved from Detroit, Alice Cooper was originally a band consisting of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and drummer Neal Smith. The original Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit "I'm Eighteen" from the album Love It to Death, which was followed by the even bigger single "School's Out" in 1972. The band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies.
Alice Cooper (April 8, 1875 – 1937) was an American sculptor.
Born in Glenwood, Iowa, and based in Denver, Colorado, Cooper studied under Preston Powers (son of the well-known sculptor Hiram Powers,) then at the Art Institute of Chicago with Lorado Taft and the Art Students League of New York through about 1901.
Cooper is best known for her bronze figure of Sacajawea (Sacajawea and Jean-Baptiste) originally produced as the centerpiece for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon, 1905, unveiled in a ceremony attended by Susan B. Anthony and other prominent feminists. This figure now stands in Washington Park.
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Alice Cooper were an American rock band formed in Phoenix, Arizona in 1964. The band consisted of lead singer Vince Furnier, Glen Buxton (lead guitar), Michael Bruce (rhythm guitar, keyboards), Dennis Dunaway (bass guitar), and Neal Smith (drums). Furnier legally changed his name to Alice Cooper and has had a solo career under that name since the band became inactive in 1975. The band was notorious for their elaborate, theatrical shock rock stage shows. In 2011, the original Alice Cooper band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
After several years of little success, the Alice Cooper band rose to fame in 1971 with the success of the single "I'm Eighteen" and the album Love It to Death. The band peaked in popularity in 1973 with the album Billion Dollar Babies and its tour, which broke box-office records previously held by The Rolling Stones.
The band consisted of members, all from the previous 60s garage rock band, the Spiders. They created everything as a group and wrote virtually the lion's share of what was to become the classic Alice Cooper canon. Neal Smith's sister Cindy Smith Dunaway (Dennis Dunaway's wife) designed the band's costumes and also performed in the stage show (she was the "dancing tooth" during the band's Billion Dollar Babies tour).
Hell Is is a compilation album by Alice Cooper. It was released in 2003 and featured many of his best-known songs of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
He will come like a whisper
Like a thief in the night
With everything you do
And everything you say
You dig yourself a hole
You make a bed to lay
And with your newfound name
You still remain the same
Still laying endless blame
Cuts will leave scars
And some of them will never heal
I am content with this
I never forgot to feel
Please believe this scene
The writing’s on the wall
For all to see
And I can’t show you
Living for the dream
My little hell this is
Being what you see
And hiding everything
I’m burning so it’s hard to breathe
Just give it all to me
Will you bleed for me
Bleed the soul we’ve given in
My enigmatic vision
Pushes me through the dream
Reminding myself
Things aren’t always what they seem
I can’t stand here
Watching you destroy everything we built
I believe I can see
What you want me to be
I’m not that
Please believe this scene
The writing’s on the wall
For all to see
And I can’t show you
Living for the dream
My little hell this is
Being what you see
And hiding everything
I’m burning so it’s hard to breathe
Just give it all to me
Will you bleed for me
Bleed the soul we’ve given in
Growing up now in this tragic world
Another war began, another flag unfurled
Trying to see past the darkness saturating it all
Will we have to be here to witness it all fall
Will we have to be here to witness it all fall
Will we have to be here to witness it all fall
Will we have to be here to witness it all fall
Will we have to be here to witness it all fall
What’s wrong with
This world we bought into
Just trying to live through
Plastic lives pass us by
But we cry just to try
To reach out
Break through, get to
A place of enlightenment
Far from the darkening
As it goes
We grow cold
We grow old
All as one
We’re dying
Living for the dream
My little hell this is
Being what you see
And hiding everything
I’m burning so it’s hard to breathe
Just give it all to me
Will you bleed for me