Profile
Alice Cooper
Singer + Songwriter + Musician
Male
Born
Feb 4, 1948
Age
65
Hometown
Detroit
Genres
Glam rock + Shock...
Instruments
Lead vocals
Record Label
Epic Records
Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter, and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors and baby dolls, Cooper has drawn equally from horror… Read More
Photos
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Romance
Check out the latest love interests for Alice Cooper.
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Sheryl GoddardMarried 1976
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Sheryl CooperMarried 1975
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Christine FrkaDated 1968 - 1972
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Cindy LangDated 1968 - 1975
Family
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Alice Cooper
Age 65
parents
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Ether Moroni FurnierMother
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Ella Mae McCartMother
children
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Calico CooperDaughter, Age 32
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Dashiel CooperSon
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Sonora CooperDaughter
News + Updates
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Roger Weisman: The End Of An Era, Or Something: Another Collector Weighs In On The Closing Of Bleecker Bob'sHuffington Post - Apr 12, 2013
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You Won't Believe Who Rejected Raquel Welch's AdvancesHuffington Post - Apr 09, 2013
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Alice Cooper, Doors Guitarist Playing At AcademyFox News - Mar 29, 2013
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Kristi York Wooten: Unseen Photos Of Rock Stars And Salvador Dali Revealed (Photos)Huffington Post - Mar 25, 2013
Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Alice Cooper.
CHILDHOOD
1948
Birth
Born on February 4, 1948.
TEENAGE
1964
16 Years Old
In 1964 sixteen year-old Furnier (later rumours suggested he was nineteen) was eager to take part in the local annual letterman's talent show, so he gathered fellow cross-country teammates to form a group for the show.
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TWENTIES
1969
21 Years Old
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Cooper claims that the infamous "Chicken Incident" at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival concert in September 1969 was an accident.
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Alice Cooper appeared at the Woodstock-esque, Strawberry Fields Festival near Toronto, Ontario in August 1970.
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The group's 1971 tour featured a stage show involving mock fights and gothic torture modes being imposed on Cooper climaxing with a staged execution by electric chair, with the band sporting tight, sequined, and color-contrasting glam rock-style costumes made by prominent rock fashion designer Cindy Dunaway (sister of band member Neal Smith, and wife of band member Dennis Dunaway).
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1972
24 Years Old
In January 1972, Cooper was again asked about his peculiar name, and told talk show hostess Dinah Shore that he took the name from a "Mayberry RFD" character.
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In February 1973 Billion Dollar Babies was released worldwide and became the band's most commercially successful album, reaching No. 1 in both the US and UK. "Elected", a late-1972 Top 10 UK hit from the album, which inspired one of the first MTV-style story-line promo videos ever made for a song (three years before Queen's promotional video for "Bohemian Rhapsody"), was followed by two more UK Top 10 singles, "Hello Hooray" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy", the latter of which was the last UK single from the album; it reached No. 25 in the US.
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However, the band's 1974 feature film Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper (consisting mainly of 1973 concert footage with 'comedic' sketches woven throughout to a faint storyline), released on a minor theatrical run mostly to drive-in theaters, saw little box office success.
In 1975 Alice released his first solo album, Welcome to My Nightmare.
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1976
28 Years Old
Following the 1976 US No. 12 ballad hit "I Never Cry"; two albums, Alice Cooper Goes to Hell and Lace and Whiskey; and the 1977 US No. 9 ballad hit "You and Me", it became clear from many performances during his 1977 US tour that Cooper was in dire need of help with his alcoholism (at his alcoholic peak it was rumored that Cooper was consuming up to two cases of Budweiser and a bottle of whiskey a day).
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THIRTIES
In 1978 a sobered Cooper used his experience in the sanitarium as the inspiration for the semi-autobiographical album From the Inside, which he co-wrote with Bernie Taupin.
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While those three albums engaged the experimental New Wave sound with energetic results, 1983 marked the return collaboration of producer Bob Ezrin and guitarist Dick Wagner with the haunting epic DaDa, the final album in his Warner Bros. contract.
The Constrictor album was followed by Raise Your Fist and Yell in 1987, which had an even rougher sound than its predecessor, as well as the Cooper classic "Freedom".
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FORTIES
1992
44 Years Old
Cooper made a famous cameo appearance in the 1992 hit comedy film Wayne's World.
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1994
46 Years Old
In 1994 Cooper released The Last Temptation, his first concept album since DaDa.
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During his absence from the recording studio, Cooper toured extensively every year throughout the latter part of the 1990s, including, in 1996, South America, which he had not visited since 1974.
FIFTIES
Cooper's radio show, Nights with Alice Cooper, began airing on January 26, 2004 in several US cities.
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A continuation of the songwriting approach adopted on The Eyes of Alice Cooper was again adopted by Cooper for his 24th studio album, Dirty Diamonds, released in 2005.
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2006
58 Years Old
In December 2006 the original Alice Cooper band reunited to perform six classic Alice Cooper songs at Cooper's annual charity event in Phoenix, entitled "Christmas Pudding".
2007
59 Years Old
On July 1, 2007 Cooper performed a duet with Marilyn Manson at the B'Estival event in Bucharest, Romania.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
In May 2010, Cooper made an appearance during the beginning of the season finale of the reality-show American Idol, in which he sang "School's Out".
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The official Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony took place March 14, 2011 where Cooper was inducted by fellow horror-rocker Rob Zombie.
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Cooper is a fan of the NHL Phoenix Coyotes. On February 18, 2012 the Coyotes gave away his bobblehead in a promotion for the first 10,000 fans for a game with the Dallas Stars.
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