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Alice Cooper, nome artístico de Vincent Damon Furnier (Detroit, 4 de fevereiro de 1948), é um cantor e compositor de hard rock. Ele é mais conhecido por suas apresentações ao vivo, frequentemente teatrais e violentas, cheias de maquiagem, cadeiras elétricas, guilhotinas, cabeças decapitadas artificias e sangue falso. O humor, frequentemente, faz parte de seus trabalhos e entrevistas.
Nascido na cidade de Detroit, em 1948, Vincent Furnier formou suas primeiras bandas na década de 60. Apesar de terem sido muitas, apenas a Nazz obteve alguma repercussão, chegando a realizar algumas gravações.
Finalmente, em 1969, montou o Alice Cooper junto com Mike Bruce e Glen Buxon (guitarras), Dennis Dunaway (baixo) e Neil Smith (bateria). O primeiro álbum "Pretties For You" foi lançado, porém, não muito bem sucedido.
A carreira do grupo começou a decolar quando o produtor Bob Ezrin aconselhou o vocalista a fazer performances diabólicas nas apresentações, além de cantar, abusando dos efeitos de horror, cobras, sangue e cenas teatrais. Com o disco "Easy Action", de 1970, chamaram a atenção da mídia e das gravadoras, conseguindo um contrato com a Warner Brothers.
O sucesso definitivo chegou com o clássico "School's Out" (1972), seguido por "Billion Dollar" Babies (1973), quando atingiram o topo das paradas de todo o mundo. Ao mesmo tempo em que conheciam a fama, os integrantes da banda se viam numa difícil situação: o abuso de drogas e álcool por parte de Vincent estava cada vez mais frequente. Decidem, portanto, seguir com a banda sem ele, mudando o nome do grupo para Billion Dollar Babies, mas acabaram não se mantendo no cenário musical.
Vincent então adota o nome Alice Cooper, anteriormente da banda, para si próprio e passa a seguir em carreira solo. Gravou "Welcome to My Nightmare" em 1975. Esse disco foi muito bem recebido e o Hard Rock praticado pelo vocalista somado ao espetáculo teatral em que haviam se transformado suas apresentações faziam cada vez mais sucesso.
Mas nem todos os álbuns foram tão bem assim. Não por falta de criatividade ou de capacidade de Alice, e sim, por causa do vício que prejudicava a sua vida e consequentemente o seu trabalho.
Apesar de ter se internado em algumas clínicas de recuperação, sua fama era mantida pelos shows, sempre lotados, já que os álbuns continuavam fracos e sem o mesmo pique do início. Somente em 1989, com "Trash", em 1991, com "Hey Stoopid", e em 1994, com "The Last Temptation", é que Alice voltou a figurar nas paradas e a fazer algum sucesso com material inédito, emplacando alguns hits nas rádios e na MTV.
Em 2000, o álbum "Brutal Planet", um dos mais pesados de toda a sua carreira, também foi muito bem recebido, sendo seguido por extensa turnê com praticamente todos os shows lotados.
No ano seguinte, veio " Dragontown" , uma espécie de continuação do álbum anterior, com letras sarcásticas e o som mais arrastado. Um pouco mais devagar, é verdade, mas sem nunca deixar de soar pesado, como só Alice Cooper sabe fazer. A bateria mais uma vez ficou por conta do competente Eric Singer, consagrado por ter tocado em diversas bandas, principalmente no Kiss.
Em 2003, o cantor estava de volta com seu mais recente trabalho, o disco “The Eyes of Alice Cooper”, reunindo 13 faixas e letras sarcásticas.
De volta aos estúdios em 2005, Alice Cooper lançou em agosto o álbum “Dirty Diamonds”, pela New West Records. Um depois o cantor estava de volta às prateleiras com o material ao vivo “Alice Cooper Box – Collector’s Edition”, reunindo registros ao vivo das turnês “Welcome to My Nightmare” de 1970 e “Brutally Live” de 2000.
Em 2008, Cooper lança seu 25° álbum de carreira: "Along Came a Spider". Conceitual, o disco conta a história do ‘serial killer’ Spider e, para isso, o vocalista contou com a ajuda de Eric Singer (bateria), Chuck Garric (baixo), Keri Kelli e Jason Hook (guitarras), um time entrosado e coeso. A sonoridade é calcada nos anos 70, com distorções características, ‘riffs’ arrastados e uma produção bem crua.
“Along Came a Spider” conta ainda com a participação do guitarrista Slash em “Vengeance Is Mine” e de Ozzy Osbourne, que toca harmônica e assina em conjunto “Wake the Dead”.
Em 2009 é lançado o single "Keepin' the Helloween Alive" que foi co-escrito e co-produzido por Cooper com Piggy D. (integrante da banda do Rob Zombie), que tocou a Guitarra e fez o Backing Vocal. Dave Pino (Powerman 5000) participou na guitarra e David Spreng (Bob Dylan, The Bravery) na bateria. A música foi lançada apenas em versão digital para ser baixada no iTunes junto com uma versão para karaokê intitulada "Cooperoke".
Álbuns de estúdio
1969 -Pretties for You
1970 -Easy Action
1971 -Love It to Death
1971 -Killer
1972 -School's Out
1973 -Billion Dollar Babies
1973 -Muscle of Love
1975 -Welcome to My Nightmare
1976 -Alice Cooper Goes to Hell
1977 -Lace and Whiskey
1978 -From the Inside
1980 -Flush the Fashion
1981 -Special Forces
1982 -Zipper Catches Skin
1983 -DaDa
1986 -Constrictor
1987 -Raise Your Fist and Yell
1989 -Trash
1991 -Hey Stoopid
1994 -The Last Temptation
2000 -Brutal Planet
2001 -Dragontown
2003 -The Eyes of Alice Cooper
2005 -Dirty Diamonds
2008 -Along Came a Spider
2011 - Welcome 2 My Nightmare
Álbuns ao vivo
1. The Alice Cooper Show (1977) (EUA #131)
2. Live at the Whiskey A Go-Go, 1969 (1991)
3. A Fistful of Alice (1997)
4. Brutally Live (CD+DVD set 2003)
5. Live at Cabo Wabo '96 (2005)
6. Live at Montreux 2005 (CD+DVD set 2006)
7. Theatre Of Death: Live At Hammersmith (2009) CD. Lançado em 2010.
Videografia
* Good To See You Again (1974) DVD e VHS
* Alice Cooper: The Nightmare (1975) VHS
* Welcome To My Nightmare (1976) DVD e VHS
* Alice Cooper and Friends (1977) VHS
* The Strange Case of Alice Cooper (1979) VHS
* The Nightmare Returns (1987) DVD e VHS
* Video Trash (1989) VHS
* Alice Cooper Trashes The World (1990) DVD e VHS
* Prime Cuts: The Alice Cooper Story (1991) DVD e VHS
* British Rock Symphony (2000) DVD e VHS
* Brutally Live (2000) DVD e VHS
* Live At Montreux 2005 (2006) DVD e VHS
* Theatre Of Death: Live At Hammersmith (2009) DVD. Lançado em 2010.
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