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Alice Cooper: Albums
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After three further disappointing albums, in 1977 Cooper was hospitalized in a New York sanitarium for alcoholism. This may be responsible for a surprise return to form on the hard-rocking, semi-autobiographical album From The Inside. The life changing event ... led Cooper, whose father was a Priest, to become a Christian. Around this time Cooper led celebrities in raising money to remodel the famous Hollywood sign in California. Cooper himself chipped in over $27,000 for the project, doing it in memory of friend and comedian Groucho Marx.
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On August 30 2006, with the Dirty Diamonds album still fresh in memory, Cooper announced on his website that he will start working on his next album in January, and start its tour in 2007 afterwards. His 2006 tour matched him with the Rolling Stones in a number of 40,000 plus seat venues in Canada at the Halifax Commons(on Sept. 23rd 2006) and the US (Louisville, Phoenix).
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In 1997, the live album A Fistful of Alice was released, which was recorded the previous year at Sammy Hagar's "Cabo Wabo" club in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and featured guest performances by Slash and Rob Zombie as well as Hagar. Cooper ... recorded the intro narration for the Insane Clown Posse album The Great Milenko.
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A Z-Series Custom Coupe built exclusively for Alice Cooper was auctioned at The Barrett Jackson Classic Car Auction on Saturday, January 20, 2007. The Z was named for his 1973 release, "Billion Dollar Babies" and sold at $250,000 plus the 10% buyer's premium for a final price of $275,000. Speedster Motorcars produced three album-themed Zs for Mr. Cooper including
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After Flush The Fashion was pronounced a commercial failure, Cooper faded into obscurity, and lapsed back into alcoholism. One result (cause?) of these problems was an album that was idiosyncratic and unappealing. Any fans who may have stayed with Cooper after Flush The Fashion were rewarded with the truly awful 1981 album Special Forces. Cooper no longer tried to look or sound punk at this point; now he came across as a weird militaristic cartoon character with no discernible appeal. The most this lifeless junk-metal album has to offer are a few embarrassingly dopey shock-rock tunes ("Prettiest Cop On The Block", "Skeletons In The Closet") and useless remakes of Arthur Lee's "Seven & Seven Is" and Cooper's own "Generation Landslide", which only serves to show how far his music had fallen since 1973. (By the way, that track was not recorded live, as the packaging states; it was done entirely in the studio, with dubbed-in applause).
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In 1988 Cooper's contract with MCA Records expired and he signed with Epic Records. Then, in 1989, his career finally experienced a real revival with the Desmond Child produced album Trash, which spawned a hit single "Poison", which reached #2 in the UK and #7 in the US, and a worldwide arena tour.
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