In the latest issue of “Metal Hammer” magazine, Alice Cooper talked about creating a band and show that would terrify parents. He remembers seeing his parents’ reaction to The Rolling Stones.
Alice Cooper said “the Rolling Stones came and I got the reaction from my parents that these guys were scruffy, they could be drug addicts – that appealed to me. I looked at them and thought, ‘If I ever get a band together, I’m gonna make these guys look like choirboys!’”
Cooper was asked what other artists he saw that had an impact on him, “I was seven when I first saw Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show and we were so used to doo-wop music when I was a kid, all of a sudden we didn’t know if Elvis was the hero or the villain, but I knew my parents liked him,” Cooper recalls, “The second time was when we saw the Beatles – we all went, ‘Wow look at that hair, look at the boots, look at the suits! These songs are the best songs I’ve ever heard!’
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If terrifying parents was his goal, then job well done Alice! After all, he is known as the “Godfather Of Shock Rock”.
-- Doug O’Brien