2003–2009

Alice Cooper (vocals) (Current)

Jimmy DeGrasso (drums)(Current)

Chuck Garric (bass) (Current)

Keri Kelli (guitar) (Current)

Damon Johnson (guitar) (Current)

Calico Cooper (stage actor/dancer)

Jason Hook (guitar)

Ryan Roxie (guitar)

Eric Dover (guitar, keyboard)

Brent Fitz (drums)

Tommy Clufetos (drums)

Eric Singer (drums)

Pretties for You (1969)

Easy Action (1970)

Love It to Death (1971)

Killer (1971)

School's Out (1972)

Billion Dollar Babies (1973)

Muscle of Love (1973)

Welcome to My Nightmare (1975)

Alice Cooper Goes to Hell (1976)

Lace and Whiskey (1977)

From the Inside (1978)

Flush the Fashion (1980)

Special Forces (1981)

Zipper Catches Skin (1982)

DaDa (1983)

Constrictor (1986)

Raise Your Fist and Yell (1987)

Trash (1989)

Hey Stoopid (1991)

The Last Temptation (1994)

Brutal Planet (2000)

Dragontown (2001)

The Eyes of Alice Cooper (2003)

Dirty Diamonds (2005)

Along Came A Spider (2008)

Actor


Horrorween (2010)

Suck (2009)

The Attic Expeditions (2001)

Freakshow (1999)

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) (uncredited)

Prince of Darkness (1987)

Leviatán (1984)

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) (the 'Sun King')

Sextette (1978)

Alice Cooper: The Nightmare (1975) (TV)

"The Snoop Sisters" (2 episodes, 1973-1974)


As HimSelf


Mobster Movie (2011)

Lemmy (2009)

"Breakfast" (1 episode, 2009)

"Last Call with Carson Daly" (2 episodes, 2007-2009)

Rove Live (2 episodes, 2001-2009)

"The 7PM Project" (1 episode, 2009)

"No disparen al pianista" (1 episode, 2009)

"The Hour" (1 episode, 2008)

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (9 episodes, 2005-2008)

"Loose Women" (1 episode, 2008)

"Die ultimative Chartshow" (1 episode, 2008)

One for the Fire: The Legacy of 'Night of the Living Dead' (2008)

Life After Dead: The Ladies of the Evil Dead (2007)

"The Paul O'Grady Show" (2 episodes, 2005-2007)

NRJ 12: Scream Awards (2007) (TV)

Scream Awards 2007 (2007) (TV)

"E! True Hollywood Story" (1 episode, 2007)

"The Graham Norton Show" (1 episode, 2007)

Goolians (2006)

HypaSpace (1 episode, 2006)

All*Star Cup 2006 (2006) (TV)

"Monk" (1 episode, 2006)

Best Ever Muppet Moments (2006) (TV)

"The Bigger Picture" (1 episode, 2006)

Fight club camp kusse: Stand up på Skanderborg (2006) (TV)

I Did Not Know That (2006) (TV)

"Sound Off" (2005) TV series

"HARDtalk Extra" (1 episode, 2005)

"The Frank Skinner Show" (1 episode, 2005)

The Perfect Scary Movie (2005) (TV)

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (2005)

Unauthorized and Proud of It: Todd Loren's Rock 'n' Roll Comics (2005)

"The Great Outdoors" (1 episode, 2005)

"Enough Rope with Andrew Denton" (1 episode, 2005)

"The Kumars at No. 42" (1 episode, 2005)

The British Soap Awards 2005 (2005) (TV)

X-Rated: The Pop Videos They Tried to Ban (2004) (TV)

The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn (3 episodes, 2000-2004)

The 33rd Annual Juno Awards (2004) (TV)

John Carpenter: Fear Is Just the Beginning... The Man and His Movies (2004)

"The Great American Celebrity Spelling Bee" (2004) TV mini-series

"Never Mind the Buzzcocks" (1 episode, 2004)

"Today with Des and Mel" (1 episode, 2003)

The British Comedy Awards 2003 (2003) (TV)

The Ultimate Clip Collection: Alice Cooper (2003)

"V Graham Norton" (2 episodes, 2002-2003)

Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003)

Summer Music Mania 2003 (2003) (TV)

"Die 70er Show" (1 episode, 2003)

"Player$" (1 episode, 2003)

"One-Hit Wonders" (6 episodes, 2002)

I Love Muppets (2002) (TV)

Adventures in Rock (2002) (TV)

25 Years of Punk (2001) (TV)

That '70s Show (1 episode, 2001)

"100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock" (2000) TV mini-series

Alice Cooper: Brutally Live (2000)

The Beatles Revolution (2000) (TV)

The Daily Show (1 episode, 2000)

"VH-1 Where Are They Now?" (1 episode, 2000)

"Trigger Happy TV" (1 episode, 2000)

"Top Ten" (2000) TV series

Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror (2000) (TV)

Sofia Eriksson möter Alice Cooper (1999) (TV)

"Mark Lamarr Leaving the 20th Century" (1 episode, 1999)

"Behind the Music" (1 episode, 1999)

British Rock Symphony (1999) (TV)

The Spice Girls in America: A Tour Story (1999)

"Sin City Spectacular" (1 episode, 1998)

"Rage" (1 episode, 1997)

A Fistful of Alice (1997) (TV)

"Pearl" (1 episode, 1997)

Halloween... The Happy Haunting of America! (1997)

"A Golfer's Travels with Peter Alliss" (1 episode, 1997)

"VH1 Presents the 70's" (1996) TV mini-series

"Rock & Roll" (1995) TV mini-series

"Space Ghost Coast to Coast" (1 episode, 1995)

"Something Wilder" (1 episode, 1995)

The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 8 (1995) (TV)

"Clive Anderson Talks Back" (1 episode, 1994)

"Raw Power" (1 episode, 1994)

Top of the Pops (1 episode, 1994)

Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who (1994)

"The Brian Conley Show" (1992) TV series

Wayne's World (1992)

"Aspel & Company" (1 episode, 1992)

Ozzy Osbourne: Don't Blame Me (1991)

Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts (1991)

The 17th Annual American Music Awards (1990) (TV)

Alice Cooper Trashes the World (1990)

Alice Cooper: Video Trash (1990)

Hard 'N Heavy Volume 7 (1990)

Hard 'N Heavy Volume 3 (1989)

The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988)

WrestleMania III (1987)

"The Tube" (1 episode, 1986)

Twisted Sister: Come Out and Play (1986) (segment "Be Chrool to Your Scuel")

Alice Cooper: The Nightmare Returns (1986)

"Rock 'n' Roll: The First 25 Years" (1982) TV series

Alice Cooper à Paris (1982) (TV)

Roadie (1980)

"Cosas" (1 episode, 1980)

"Pink Lady" (1 episode, 1980)

The Strange Case of Alice Cooper (1979)

"The Muppet Show" (1 episode, 1978)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (2 episodes, 1975-1977)

Alice Cooper & Friends (1977) (TV)

"The Soupy Sales Show" (1976) TV series

"Tony Orlando and Dawn" (1 episode, 1976)

The Second Annual Rock Music Awards (1976) (TV)

Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare (1975)

"Iltatähti" (1 episode, 1974)

The 16th Annual The Grammy Awards 1974 (TV)

Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper (1974)

"The Hollywood Squares" (1 episode, 1973)

Rock-a-bye (1973)

"Beat-Club" (2 episodes, 1971-1972)

"In Concert" (1 episode, 1972)

Medicine Ball Caravan (1971)

Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)

Midsummer Rock (1970) (TV)

Alice Cooper, Keith Zimmerman (2007). Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict.

Alice Cooper, Steven Gaines (1976). Me, Alice: The Autobiography of Alice Cooper.

Wolfgang Heilemann, Sabine Thomas (2005). Alice Cooper: Live on Tour, Studio, Backstage.

Michael Bruce, Billy James (2000). No More Mr. Nice Guy: The Inside Story of the Original Alice Cooper Group.

Bob Greene (1974). Billion Dollar Baby.

Jeffrey Morgan (1999). Alcohol and Razor Blades, Poison and Needles: The Glorious Wretched Excess of Alice Cooper, All-American. (Reproduced on the Alice Cooper official website).

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Between ‘50s showman Screamin’ Jay Hawkins emerging from a coffin and Kiss’ Gene Simmons spitting ‘blood’ in the mid-‘70s, no one defined shock rock like Alice Cooper. Cooper used violent (and vile) theatrics – simulated executions, the chopping up of baby dolls, and draping himself with a live boa constrictor – and explicit lyrics to become a controversial yet hugely popular figure in the early and mid-‘70s. After a decade of fluctuating record sales, Cooper returned to platinum with the #20 1989 LP “Trash”. Though he is respected by a new generation of hard-rock fans, he never reached this kind of popularity again.

Vincent Furnier, son of a preacher, assembled his hard-rocking band in Phoenix. They were first known as the Earwigs, then the Spiders and finally the Nazz (not to be confused with Todd Rundgren’s band). They moved en masse to L.A. in 1968. Billing themselves as Alice Cooper (who, according to a Ouija board, was a 17th century witch reincarnated as Furnier), they established themselves on the Southern California bar circuit with a bizarre stag show and a reputation as the worst band in L.A. Frank Zappa’s Straight Records released their first two albums, which sold poorly and, with tour costs, left them $100,000 in debt.

The band members moved to Detroit, where they lived for several months in a single hotel room before the release of their major-label debut and breakthrough album, “Love It to Death”. Joining Cooper’s taboo-defying lyrics to powerful hard rock, the album became the first in a string of gold and platinum releases and included “Eighteen” (#21, 1971). Subsequent hit singles included “School’s Out” (#7, 1972), “Elected” (#26, 1972), “Hello Hooray” (#35, 1973) and “No More Mr. Nice Guy” (#25, 1973). “Killer” (#21, 1971), School’s Out” (#2, 1972) and “Billion Dollar Babies” (#1, 1973) are all platinum.

In 1973 Surrealist master Salvador Dali filmed the singer, wearing diamond necklaces and tiara, as he bit the head off a small replica of the Venus de Milo for a holographic work. With such widespread success, even amid the gruesome stage sets and macabre makeup, Cooper seemed less threatening.

The band broke up in 1974 and Cooper began using such musicians as ex-Lou Reed guitarists Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter. (In 1977 former band members Bruce, Dunaway and Smith formed Billion Dollar Babies and recorded one unsuccessful album). “Alice Cooper – The Nightmare”, an April 1975 prime-time TV special, seemed to indicate Cooper’s acceptance as a mainstream entertainer, as did a handful of appearances on “The Hollywood Squares”. His then-current hit, “Only Women Bleed” (#12, 1975), was a ballad, as were two subsequent hits: “I Never Cry” (#12, 1976) and “You and Me” (#9, 1977)

In 1978 Cooper committed himself to a psychiatric hospital for treatment of alcoholism, an experience chronicled on “From the Inside”, which some lyrics by Elton John’s songwriting partner Bernie Taupin and the hit “How You Gonna See Me Now” (#12, 1978). Neither the hard-rocking “Flush the Fashion” nor “Special Forces” was especially successful and Cooper took a hiatus. He returned in 1986 with “Constrictor”, followed by “Raise Your Fist and Yell”, both deep in the heavy-metal vein. The Nightmare Returns Tour and MTV Halloween, special brought Cooper’s violent, twisted on-stage fantasies to a new generation and he closed the ‘80s with the platinum “Trash” and “Poison” (#7, 1989), his first Top 20 single in more than a decade.

Cooper, for whom Alice is such a character that he speaks of him in the third person in interviews, has also appeared in several films: “Prince of Darkness” (1988), “Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare” (1991) and most notably “Wayne’s World” (1992). For “The Decline of Western Civilization, Part II – The Metal Years”, he re-recorded “Under My Wheels” with Guns n’ Roses’ Axl Rose, Slash and Izzy Stradlin. Prominent among Cooper’s legion of second-generation fans are Steve Vai, Nikki Sixx, Joe Satriani and Slash, all of whom guested on “Hey Stoopid”; Soundgarden’s singer, Chris Cornell, was on “The Last Temptation”, while Sammy Hagar and Rob Zombie appeared on the live recording “A Fistful of Alice”.

His career flagging in the late ‘90s, Cooper moved away from the power ballads that had marked his ‘80s records and reunited with producer Bob Ezrin (who had worked on “Love It to Death”, “Killer” and “School’s Out”, among others) on the Indie release “Brutal Planet”, a science-fiction concept album. But despite the return of a guillotine (a mainstay of his ‘70s shows) as an accessory on the Live From the Brutal Planet Tour, Cooper seems mild compared to the likes of Slipknot or Marilyn Manson, who arguably were directly inspired by him. Not only does he now play family-friendly places such as state fairs but he also opened a restaurant, Alice Cooper’s town, in Phoenix.

Once belonged to the exclusive Hollywood club the "Hollywood Vampires" in the mid to late 70s.

Graduated from Cortez High School in Phoenix, Arizona.

He is an avid golfer, and has participated in several celebrity tournaments.

Was granted an honorary PhD (Doctor of Performing Arts) from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona (2004).

When the giant letters of the famous "HOLLYWOOD" sign had to be replaced with new letters in 1978, a fund-raising party was held, with the old letters being auctioned off at around $28,000 each. Hugh M. Hefner hosted the event and bought the "H", while Warner Brothers bought the "W". Alice bought an "O" in memory of the late Groucho Marx, with whom he had been very good friends. The check was painted on a big piece of the old sign and endorsed by Alice.

While Cooper was playing a stadium show in the 1970s, a fan threw a live chicken on stage. Cooper, who's from Detroit and unfamiliar with farm animals, generally assumed that since the chicken had wings, it would be able to fly. So he grabbed the chicken and tossed into the air, thinking it would fly out of the stadium, when in fact it went straight down into the crowd, who ripped the bird to pieces. The parts were thrown back on stage, and the headlines later claimed that Cooper bit the head off the chicken, and drank its blood. Frank Zappa later advised Cooper not to tell the real story, simply because "everybody loves it!".

Cooper's daughter, Calico Cooper, has been touring with him as one of the dancers/actors in the show.

Despite his horror-make up, pet snakes and wild image, he is a huge fan of Australian pop star Kylie Minogue.

1974: Legally changed his name to Alice Cooper.

Collects cars and antique watches.

His favorite songs are "19th Nervous Breakdown" by The Rolling Stones, "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors, "My Sharona" by The Knack, "Beds Are Burning" by Midnight Oil, "My Generation" by The Who, "Welcome To The Jungle" by Guns 'N Roses, "Rebel Rebel" by David Bowie, "Over Under Sideways Down" by The Yardbirds, "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" by Jet and "A Hard Day's Night" by The Beatles. (Source: BBC Radio 2 "Tracks of My Years").

He's the godfather of Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine.

Is a huge Fan of The Simpsons.