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Killer is the fourth studio album by American rock band Alice Cooper, released in November 1971 by Warner Bros. Records. The album peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard 200 album chart, and the two singles " Under My Wheels " and " Be My Lover " made the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
"Be My Lover" is a song by American rock band Alice Cooper, released in 1972 as the second single from their fourth album Killer. The song was written by guitarist Michael Bruce and produced by Bob Ezrin. [4]
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".
Surviving Alice Cooper group members, producer Bob Ezrin and manager Shep Gordon reflect on the making of a 1971 masterpiece, "Killer."
Formally, Alice Cooper was a band on its first seven albums from 1969 to 1973, although the line was always blurry, with the singer credited as Alice Cooper, not Vincent Furnier, in the sleeve notes.
The single was only released in the Netherlands, two years after the song appeared on the album. The song was, according to Cooper's liner notes in the compilation The Definitive Alice Cooper, an attempt by the band to prove that they could perform King Crimson-like progressive rock suites, and was supposedly about a spy organization.
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) [1] is an American rock singer 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]
This is the discography of American rock singer and songwriter Alice Cooper and his original band.It includes 29 studio albums (plus two studio albums with Hollywood Vampires), 50 singles, 11 live albums, 21 compilation albums, 12 video releases, and an audiobook (promo-only releases have been excluded here).