Alice Cooper
Biography
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than five decades. With a stage show that sometimes included a guillotine, gallows, electric chair, fake blood, boa constrictor and baby dolls, Cooper drew equally from horror movies, vaudeville and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal that was designed to shock.
Alice Cooper originally was a band that consisted 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. Taking on the name in 1968, the Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit "I'm Eighteen". It was followed in 1972 by the even bigger single "School's Out", which reached #1 in the UK during that summer. The band reached its commercial peak with the transatlantic #1 album Billion Dollar Babies in 1973.
Furnier's solo career as Alice Cooper, legally adopting the band's name as his own, began with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare, and reached his commercial peak with the 1989 hit "Poison". His most recent studio release (his 18th solo album) was in 2008, Along Came a Spider. Expanding from his original Detroit-based garage rock roots, over the years Cooper has experimented with many different musical styles, including art rock, conceptual rock, rock and roll, jazz, new wave, and heavy metal.
He's known for his social and witty persona offstage. The Rolling Stone Album Guide goes so far as to call him the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer". He helped to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and is seen as the person who "first introduced horror imagery to rock'n'roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre". Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur, and since 2004 a popular radio DJ with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper. In 2011, the original Alice Cooper Group was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Acting (139 movies)
The Perfect Scary Movie
2005
The History of Metal and Horror
2021
Roadie
1980
Alice Cooper: Detroit Stories
2021
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
2005
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
1991
Prince of Darkness
1987
Wayne's World
1992
The Filth and the Fury
2000
Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World
2023
Cum On Feel The Noize
2017
Halloween... The Happy Haunting of America!
1997
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1978
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
2007
Live Eighties
2004
Larry presents: Best of The 80s
2004
Zappa
2020
Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux 2005
2006
Suck
2009
Dark Shadows
2012
The Attic Expeditions
2001
John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies
2004
Alice Cooper: Theatre of Death
2010
WWE WrestleMania III
1987
Lemmy
2010
Alice Cooper: Brutally Live
2000
Alice Cooper: Trashes The World
1990
Alice Cooper: Halloween Night of Fear
2011
Monster Dog
1984
Alice Cooper: The Nightmare Returns
1987
Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper
1974
Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare
1976
VH1's 100 Most Shocking Music Moments
2009
Sextette
1978
Rock this Town
2022
Bigfoot
2012
Alice Cooper: The Strange Case of Alice Cooper
1979
Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts
1991
Rockthology 2
2004
Michael Monroe -dokumenttielokuva
2023
The Freddy Krueger Special
1988
Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC
2023
Alice Cooper: Live at The Enmore Theatre
2011
Spooktacular!
2023
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
2020
Who Shot Rock & Roll: The Film
2013
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
2013
I Love Muppets
2002
Best Ever Muppet Moments
2006
Super Duper Alice Cooper
2014
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010
Alice Cooper - Road (Live at Hellfest 2022)
2022
Rockthology Presents: Hard 'N' Heavy, Volume 8
2004
Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini
2015
An Honest Liar
2014
Alice Cooper: The Nightmare
1975
Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary
2022
Show Business Is My Life (But I Can't Prove It)
2022
A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who
1994
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
2001
Diary of a Mad Housewife
1970
Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon
2022
Alice Cooper: Raise the Dead (Live from Wacken)
2014
From Straight to Bizarre
2012
Louder Than Hell: Wacken The Movie
2014
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022
Prachtig 80: Volume 2
2003
The Best of Musikladen: Vol. One
2001
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
2023
When Woodstock Was Young
2009
Alice Cooper - Graspop Metal Meeting
2022
Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story
2012
Hired Gun
2017
Alice Cooper - The Ultimate Clip Collection
2003
Slash & Burn: The Freddy Krueger Story
1991
Born to Be Wild: The Story of Steppenwolf
2024
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
1988
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
2019
Alice Cooper: Live from the Astroturf
2019
This Is America Part 2
1980
Medicine Ball Caravan
1971
The Story of Rock 'n' Roll Comics
2011
Skum Rocks!
2013
Hollywood Vampires - Rock in Rio 2015
2015
Danny Says
2015
Mayor of the Sunset Strip
2003
Sunset Strip
2012
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 1
1989
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 3
1989
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 7
1990
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 15
1992
Alice Cooper : Wacken 2017
2017
Midsummer Rock: The Cincinnati Pop Festival 1970
1970
To Be Frank: Sinatra at 100
2015
Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
2018
Rock-a-bye
1973
Grease Day USA
1978
Hollywood Vampires Live at Hellfest 2018
2018
Alice Cooper: Rock In Rio 2017
2017
25 Years of Punk
2001
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Alice Cooper: Theatre of Death | 2010 | Producer |
| Alice Cooper: Theatre of Death | 2010 | Writer |