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Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) [1] is an American rock singer and songwriter whose career spans sixty years. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props and stage illusions, [2] Cooper is considered by music journalists and peers to be "The Godfather of Shock Rock". [3]
Alice Cooper – Alice Cooper was a band before frontman Vincent Furnier started a solo career under the same name. Allegedly, Alice Cooper was the name of a spirit members of the band came in contact with through a ouija , [ 10 ] though Furnier has also claimed that he wanted their name to contrast with their sound, and Alice Cooper sounds ...
Alice is a form of the Old French name Alis / Alys (older Alais), short form of Adelais, which is derived from the Old High German Adalhaidis (see Adelaide), from the Proto-Germanic words *aþala-, meaning "noble" and *haidu-, meaning "appearance; kind" (compare German Adel "nobility", edel "noble", nominalizing suffix -heit "-hood"), hence "of noble character or rank, of nobility". [1]
You may not know Vincent Furnier, but you do know Alice Cooper. For nearly 50 years, Cooper and the band bearing that name is one of the iconic figures in hard rock. With an outrageous stage show ...
The Alice Cooper band performed the song on the British TV show The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1971. [6] They also performed it in West Germany on the show Beat-Club. Since then, "Under My Wheels" has been a staple of Cooper's live shows. It is the third most-performed song in his catalogue behind only "School’s Out" and "I’m Eighteen".
The track is a duet between Alice Cooper and Scottish musician Donovan, who provides the falsetto and high harmony vocals. [2] BMI lists [3] the composers of "Billion Dollar Babies" as Alice Cooper, Michael Bruce and Reggie Vinson (a session guitarist who had worked with the Alice Cooper band previously). [4]
As a single by Cooper, it was released as just "Only Women". Prior to the release of Welcome to My Nightmare in the US, a shortened version of the song was released as a single and was alternatively titled "Only Women" by Atlantic Records due to protests by feminist groups. [ 4 ]
Alice Cooper, who has been sober for 42 years, launched an alcohol-free cocktail, the Sex, Drugs, Rock & Dry Cocktail, with WhistlePig. The icon, 76, says that he liked the idea of "outwitting ...