In 2011, the original Alice Cooper band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.įurnier adopted the band's name as his own name in the 1970s and began a solo career with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare. The band reached their commercial peak in 1973 with their sixth studio album Billion Dollar Babies. They broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit song 'I'm Eighteen' from their third studio album Love It to Death. The original Alice Cooper band released its first album in 1969. Originating in Phoenix, Arizona, in the late 1960s after he moved from Detroit, Michigan, 'Alice Cooper' was originally a band consisting of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, Glen Buxton on lead guitar, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and Neal Smith on drums. He has drawn equally from horror films, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a macabre and theatrical brand of rock designed to shock people. With his distinctive raspy voice and a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, deadly snakes, baby dolls, and dueling swords, Cooper is considered by music journalists and peers alike to be 'The Godfather of Shock Rock'. Alice Cooper (1969 - 2017) Studio DiscographyĪlice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier February 4, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spans over fifty years.

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