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Alice Cooper is in the news again with word that he has signed with German record label Steamhammer/SPV. Cooper is currently working on his new album, “Along Came A Spider,” which is scheduled for release sometime in the fall. Currently, Cooper is taking a break from the recording studio to perform in Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
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Alice Cooper wasted little time following up the breakthrough success of Love It to Death with another album released the same year, Killer. Again, producer Bob Ezrin was on board and helps the group solidify ...Read full review
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By mid-1970, after two failed albums, the Alice Cooper group was teamed up with fledgling producer Bob Ezrin for their third album, the last in their contract with Straight Records, and the band's last chance to create a hit. That hit soon came with the single "Eighteen", released in November of 1970, which reached number 21 in the Billboard Hot 100. The album that followed was "Love It to Death", released in February 1971, which proved to be their breakthrough record, reaching number 35 in the US Billboard 200 album charts. Love it to Death would be the first of eight Alice Cooper group and solo albums produced by Ezrin, who is credited with having helped create and develop the band's definitive sound. The band's trailblazing mix of glam and increasingly violent stage theatrics stood out amongst bearded, denim-clad hippy bands. Sporting tight sequined costumes by the prominent rock fashion designer Cindy Dunaway (sister to band member Neil, and wife to band member Dennis) and stage shows that involved mock fights and Gothic torture modes being imposed on Cooper, the androgynous stage role now presented a villainous side which posed a potential threat to modern society.
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The 1997 album A Fistful Of Alice contains 12 live performances recorded in June 1996 at Sammy Hagar's Cabo Wabo Cantina in Mexico. (The 13th track, "Is Anybody Home?", was a so-so previously unreleased studio song). Most of the songs are drawn from Cooper's '70's heyday; in addition, he performed his 1989 comeback hit "Poison" and two more recent songs. Give or take an "Only Women Bleed" or two, the songs are well-chosen and entertainingly performed; Alice is not merely going through the motions here. This album proves that, even as he was nearing 50, Cooper still hadn't lost his teenage mentality. Good for him.
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With the success of "Only Women Bleed" from his first solo effort, Alice continued with the rock ballads on this album. "I Never Cry" was written about the matter of Alice's drinking situation, which would in one year send the performer into re-hab. As quoted by Cooper, the song was "an alcoholic confession".
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Steamhammer/SPV (home of Motorhead, Dio, UFO and many others)has announced the signing of rock icon Alice Cooper. Autumn 2008 will see the arrival of Cooper's eagerly awaited new studio album, which the legendary singer began recording in February. Tentatively titled "Along Came A Spider", the CD is being co-produced by Greg Hampton and Danny Saber (Madonna, Bowie, Stones, Ozzy etc)in Los Angeles.
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