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.
Movies (139)
Dreams
2025
The Yardbirds: In Their Own Words
2024
Born to Be Wild: The Story of Steppenwolf
2024
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024
Michael Monroe -dokumenttielokuva
2023
Spooktacular!
2023
Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World
2023
Hollywood Vampires: Live In Rio
2023
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
2023
Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC
2023
Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon
2022
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022
Show Business Is My Life (But I Can't Prove It)
2022
Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary
2022
Alice Cooper - Road (Live at Hellfest 2022)
2022
Alice Cooper - Graspop Metal Meeting
2022
Rock this Town
2022
Alice Cooper: Detroit Stories
2021
The History of Metal and Horror
2021
Rock Camp: The Movie
2021
Zappa
2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #5: Haunted Lives
2020
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
Suzi Q
2019
House of Cardin
2019
Alice Cooper: Live from the Astroturf
2019
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
2019
Udo Lindenberg: Volle Fahrt voraus - Begegnungen auf dem Lindischen Ozean
2019
Udo Lindenberg - MTV Unplugged 2 - Live vom Atlantik
2018
Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll
2018
Malevolent: Unearthing John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness
2018
Hollywood Vampires Live at Hellfest 2018
2018
Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
2018
Alice Cooper: A Paranormal Evening at the Olympia Paris
2017
Alice Cooper: Rock In Rio 2017
2017
Glam Rock at the BBC
2017
Alice Cooper : Wacken 2017
2017
Hired Gun
2017
Cum On Feel The Noize
2017
To Be Frank: Sinatra at 100
2015
Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini
2015
Danny Says
2015
Louder Than Hell: Wacken The Movie
2014
Slash: Raised On the Sunset Strip
2014
Alice Cooper: Raise the Dead (Live from Wacken)
2014
The Art of McCartney
2014
An Honest Liar
2014
Super Duper Alice Cooper
2014
Alice Cooper: Montreal 1972
2014
Great American Rock Anthems: Turn It Up to 11
2013
Skum Rocks!
2013
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
2013
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
2013
The Sunflower Superjam 2012
2013
A Band Called Death
2013
Who Shot Rock & Roll: The Film
2013
Alice Cooper: Old School: 1964-1974
2012
Alice Cooper - AVO Session
2012
Bigfoot
2012
Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story
2012
Alice Cooper: Bonnaroo 2012
2012
Dark Shadows
2012
Sunset Strip
2012
From Straight to Bizarre
2012
Alice Cooper: Halloween Night of Fear
2011
The Story of Rock 'n' Roll Comics
2011
Alice Cooper: Live at The Enmore Theatre
2011
Alice Cooper: Theatre of Death
2010
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010
Lemmy
2010
VH1's 100 Most Shocking Music Moments
2009
When Woodstock Was Young
2009
Suck
2009
This Beat Goes On: Canadian Pop Music in the 1970s
2009
The Story of the Yardbirds
2008
Promised Land of Heavy Metal
2008
Life After Dead: The Ladies of the Evil Dead
2007
Alice Cooper: Special Edition Ep
2007
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
2007
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1979
2007
Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux 2005
2006
Best Ever Muppet Moments
2006
40 Years of Star Trek
2006
The Perfect Scary Movie
2005
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
2005
Rockthology 2
2004
Rockthology Presents: Hard 'N' Heavy, Volume 8
2004
Live Eighties
2004
John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies
2004
Back To The 80's - Live In Concert
2004
Larry presents: Best of The 80s
2004
Let it Rock: Volume 1
2003
Prachtig 80: Volume 2
2003
Alice Cooper - The Ultimate Clip Collection
2003
Mayor of the Sunset Strip
2003
I Love Muppets
2002
When Rock Ruled the World
2002
The Best of Musikladen: Vol. One
2001
25 Years of Punk
2001
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
2001
The Attic Expeditions
2001
Alice Cooper: Brutally Live
2000
The Filth and the Fury
2000
Freakshow
1999
Halloween... The Happy Haunting of America!
1997
A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who
1994
Wayne's World
1992
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 15
1992
Slash & Burn: The Freddy Krueger Story
1991
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
1991
Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts
1991
Alice Cooper: Trashes The World
1990
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 7
1990
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 1
1989
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 3
1989
Monster Dog
1988
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
1988
Prince of Darkness
1987
Jake "The Snake" Roberts
1987
WWE WrestleMania III
1987
Alice Cooper: The Nightmare Returns
1987
Alice Cooper à Paris
1982
This Is America Part 2
1980
Roadie
1980
Alice Cooper: The Strange Case of Alice Cooper
1979
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1978
Grease Day USA
1978
Sextette
1978
Alice Cooper and Friends
1978
Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare
1976
Alice Cooper: The Nightmare
1975
Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper
1974
Rock-a-Bye
1973
Medicine Ball Caravan
1971
Diary of a Mad Housewife
1970
Midsummer Rock: The Cincinnati Pop Festival 1970
1970
Alice Cooper
1970
Muppet Video: Rock Music with the Muppets
TV Shows (43)
Jonathan & Jesus
2024
No Cover
2022
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
2021
Power Hour
2020
Laurel Canyon
2020
Reunited Apart
2020
Stars in the House
2020
Duncanville
2020
The Top Ten Revealed
2018
Counting Cars
2012
The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange
2012
Bubble Guppies
2011
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
Live from Studio Five
2009
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The One Show
2006
The One Show
2006
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Top Gear
2002
Monk
2002
Slå på ring
2001
Trigger Happy TV
2000
Rove
1999
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
1999
That '70s Show
1998
Leute heute
1997
Classic Albums
1997
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996
The Frank Skinner Show
1995
Room 101
1994
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
1994
Heavy Metal Heaven Hosted by Elvira
1989
This Morning
1988
WWF Wrestling Challenge
1986
Pink Lady
1980
The Muppet Show
1976
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
Tony Orlando and Dawn
1974
The Snoop Sisters
1973
Disco
1971
Top of the Pops
1964
The Mike Douglas Show
1961