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Biography[]

Personal Life[]

Filmography[]

Trivia[]

  • Once belonged to the exclusive Hollywood club the "Hollywood Vampires" in the mid to late 1970s.
  • In 1998, he opened up his own restaurant right in downtown Phoenix called "Cooperstown".
  • While Cooper was playing a stadium show in the 1970s, a huge fan threw a live chicken on stage. Cooper, who's from Detroit and unfamiliar with farm animals, generally assumed that since the chicken had wings, it would be able to fly. So he grabbed the chicken and tossed into the air, thinking it would fly out of the stadium, when in fact it went straight down into the crowd, who ripped the bird to pieces. The parts were thrown back on stage, and the headlines later claimed that Cooper bit the head off the chicken, and drank its blood. Frank Zappa later advised Cooper not to tell the real story, simply because "everybody loves it!".
  • Legally changed his name to Alice Cooper in 1974.
  • He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on December 2, 2003.
  • He's the godfather of Dave Mustaine, from Megadeth.
  • Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on March 14, 2011.
  • In 2015 Alice, as part of the rock group Hollywood Vampires, released an album, "Hollywood Vampires", with fellow band members Joe Perry and Johnny Depp. The album featured guest appearances by Dave Grohl, Paul McCartney and Christopher Lee.

Quotes[]

  • I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning. Satanism is something else I don't mess with. I think that the heavy metal bands that do are playing with fire. I have never influenced people in a negative way, and I'm not about to start now.
  • When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick. If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.
  • I didn't go to my senior prom, but I played it.
  • On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think.
  • I like horror movies that are over-the-top gory, that's the essence of what I do. I like setting an audience up, giving them a good scare and a good laugh, but it's all based around the songs. Without the 14 top 40 hits, there'd be no cake to put the icing on.
  • I loved The Beatles because they wrote such simple songs, which is a really tough thing to do.
  • Put my head in a guillotine, fine, but put a needle near me and I'm passed out on the floor.
  • You can't out-shock CNN.
  • In the early days of Pink Floyd, they at one point had run out of funds while touring in the L.A., so they stayed over at my place. One morning I get up and go downstairs to the kitchen, and there's Syd Barret at the breakfast table. He was wearing crushed purple velvet trousers and was staring at a box of corn flakes the same way you and I would watch television. He was looking at something we couldn't see.
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