Alice Cooper facts
- Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier) is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades.
- On December 2, 2003, Alice Cooper was inducted in to the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
- Alice Cooper got his name legally changed in 1975.
- Alice Cooper enjoys to collect cars and antique watches.
- Furnier's solo career as Alice Cooper, adopting the band's name as his own name, began with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare.
- With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors and baby dolls, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal that was designed to shock.
- Cooper`s live album "Live At Cabo Wabo '96'" was re-released as "A Fistful of Alice" in 1997.
- Cooper`s album "DaDa"`s cover is based on a Salvador Dali painting called "Slave Market".
- 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.
- Alice had constant bouts of Asthma as a child.
- Alice Cooper is known for his social and witty persona offstage, The Rolling Stone Album Guide going so far as to refer to him as the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer".
- Cooper`s biography "Alice Cooper, Golf Monster" came out late July 2007.
- Alice loves to golf and is very good at it. He does golf outings for charity. He rarely if ever keeps the money for himself.
Cooper`s album "Life and Crimes Of Alice Cooper" consists of 81 songs".
- Alice Cooper attended "Cortez high school" in 1965.
- Alice Cooper has 25 gold albums.
- Alice has a total of 68 single albums.
- Alice Cooper is #20 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artist of Hard Rock.
- Alice wrote a song for Jim Morrison called "Desperado".
- Alice Cooper married Sheryl Cooper on March 3, 1976 and are still married today. They have 3 children: Calico born in 1981, Dashiell born in 1984 and Sonora Rose born in 1993.
- Cooper is never seen on stage without his black greasepaint around his eyes and mouth.
