STEVEN - COOP! The Australian Alice Cooper Show

John Lydon called this the nastiest song he'd ever heard, at the time.

LUNEY TUNE - COOP! The Australian Alice Cooper Show

The definitive Teenage Rebellion song! Enjoy!

SCHOOLS OUT - COOP! - The Australian Alice Cooper Show

Insane social commentary! A tribute to a classic!

THE BALLAD OF DWIGHT FRY - COOP! The Australian Alice Cooper Show

©1973 R. Kemp
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Hello Hooray" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Rolf Kempf, and first recorded by Judy Collins on her 1968 album Who Knows Where the Time Goes. Its most famous rendition was by the band Alice Cooper, who covered it on their 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies. The Alice Cooper version was released as a single (now spelled "Hello Hurray"), and reached #35 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also saw success internationally, reaching #6 on the UK Singles Chart, #6 in the Netherlands on the MegaCharts, #13 on Germany's Media Control Chart, #14 on the Ireland chart, #16 on the Austria chart and #95 on Australia's ARIA chart

HELLO HOORAY! - The Australian Alice Cooper Show

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© 1973 Alice Cooper / Michael Bruce / Reggie Vinson
"Billion Dollar Babies" is the title track taken from the album Billion Dollar Babies. It was released in July 1973, months after the album had been released. The track is a duet between Alice Cooper and Scottish musician Donovan, who provides the falsetto and high harmony vocals. BMI lists the composers of "Billion Dollar Babies" as Alice Cooper, Michael Bruce and Reggie Vinson (a session guitarist who had worked with the Alice Cooper band previously). 
Some sources list the composers as Cooper, Bruce, drummer Neal Smith, and "R. Reggie", the latter being an allusion to Vinson's nickname "Rockin' Reggie Vinson".

The Billion Dollar Babies album was the second to last recorded by the original Alice Cooper band, before singer Alice Cooper went solo. Legal complications ensued; all five Alice Cooper band members had shared ownership of the band's name. 
Alice Cooper Band members Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, and Neal Smith, along with additions Bob Dolin, Stu Daye and Mike Marconi recorded as Billion Dollar Babies. The band Billion Dollar Babies released only one album, 1977's Battle Axe, before disbanding.

BILLION DOLLAR BABIES - The Australian Alice Cooper Show

The song that started it all. 
Bob Ezrin thought they were singing 'I'm Edgy'!

They weren't.

©1971

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"I'm Eighteen"
Single by Alice Cooper
from the album Love It to Death
B-side	"Is It My Body"
Released	November 11, 1970 (US)

    April 23, 1971 (UK) [1]

Recorded	1970
Genre	

    Hard rock[2][3] glam rock[4]

Length	2:59
Label	

    Straight Warner Bros.

Songwriter(s)	

    Alice Cooper Michael Bruce Glen Buxton Dennis Dunaway Neal Smith

Producer(s)	Bob Ezrin
Alice Cooper singles chronology
"Shoe Salesman"
(1970) 	"I'm Eighteen"
(1970) 	"Caught in a Dream"
(1971)
Audio sample
0:18

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"I'm Eighteen" is a song by rock band Alice Cooper, first released as a single in November 1970 backed with "Is It My Body". It was the band's first top-forty success—peaking at number 21—and convinced Warner Bros. that Alice Cooper had the commercial potential to release an album. The song and its B-side feature on the band's first major-label album Love It to Death (1971).

An arpeggiated guitar riff and aggressive vocal performance power the anthem. The lyrics describe the anxiety that comes with being "in the middle" of childhood and adulthood. It began as an eight-minute jam that young Canadian producer Bob Ezrin persuaded the band into tightening into a tight three-minute rocker.

The song was the Alice Cooper Group's breakthrough, and left a considerable influence on hard rock, punk, and heavy metal. Joey Ramone wrote his first song for the Ramones based on the chords to "I'm Eighteen", and John Lydon auditioned for the Sex Pistols by miming to the song. Bands such as Anthrax have covered the song, and Kiss settled out of court for plagiarism of the song over the 1998 track "Dreamin"

Personally, We just tried to cover a version we saw on youtube where Alcie just goes off his nut at the end.. it is one of the most insane pieces of Rock Art I have personally ever seen. 
Dave Hudson  - 

His epitaph should read; Thank God for Alice Cooper.

I'M EIGHTEEN - COOP! The Australian Alice Cooper Show

MY STARS - Coop! The Australian Alice Cooper Show

DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH - COOP! The Australian Alice Cooper Show

©1973 Alice Cooper / Michael Bruce
Cooper wrote the song lyrics about the reactions of his mother's church group to his stage performances, saying that there were worse things that he could do with his life, and that the "gloves were off now."

NO MORE MR NICE GUY - The Australian Alice Cooper Show

KILLER - Coop! The Australian Alice Cooper Show

Written for his wife Sheryl while in detox and then she even appeared in the video clip with him. They are gorgeous together but seriously; this period in time nearly destroyed him!

Big credits here to my band:
Jason Anderson Bass
Ashley Miller Keyboards
Chris Anthony Guitars
Richard Poray Guitars
Steven Smith Drums
Shelley Hudson & Cindy Brown Backing Vocals
2023 No rights reserved we don't own this and it's just for fun, done because we love Alice Coopers music.

How U Gonna See Me Now - COOP!(The Australian Alice Cooper Show)

ONLY WOMEN BLEED - COOP! The Australian Alice Cooper Show

BE MY LOVER - The Australian Alice Cooper Show

This is just a cover.
©1973 Alice Cooper / Glen Buxton / Michael Bruce / Dennis Dunaway  Neal Smith

ELECTED - COOP! The Australian Alice Cooper Show

IS IT MY BODY

early 80s Alice.
This song is about forced conformity. Alice was looking for a new sound. The song was written by David Carron (1949–85)

CLONES (WE'RE ALL)CooP! The Australian Alice Cooper Show

Welcome to My Nightmare is an album by Alice Cooper, released in March 1975. It was Alice Cooper's first solo album (all previous Alice Cooper releases were band efforts)and his only album for the Atlantic Records label in North America. everywhere else it was released on the ABC subsidiary Anchor Records (also his only album for that label). One of the first great concept albums of the 70s, played in sequence; the songs form a journey through the nightmares of a child named Steven.

It inspired a TV special, a worldwide concert tour in 1975 and his Welcome to My Nightmare concert film in 1976. The ensuing tour was one of the most over-the-top excursions of that era.

Most of Lou Reed’s band joined Cooper for the original recordings.
The cover artwork was created by Drew Struzan for Pacific Eye & Ear. Rolling Stone would later rank it ninetieth on the list of the "Top 100 Album Covers Of All Time".

Famed horror movie star Vincent Price provided a monologue in the song "Devil's Food".

The ballad "Only Women Bleed", released as a single, is a song originally composed by guitarist Dick Wagner for his late-1960s band The Frost, with a new title provided by Cooper and revised lyrics written by Wagner and Cooper.

The song "Escape" was a rewrite of a song originally recorded by The Hollywood Stars from the album "Shine Like a Radio" - The Great Lost 1974 Album. Shelved at first in '74, it was finally released in 2013. The remastered CD version adds three alternate version bonus tracks. There's something to seek out...!
The Alice Cooper band broke up by Spring of 1974, with Cooper beginning work on his first solo project.
Cooper intended the music to be more theatrical than the previous glam-rock focused records.
Cooper hired Bob Ezrin, who had produced four previous Cooper records, to collaborate with him. Ezrin, Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner had all performed on the Alice Cooper Group’s 1973 Billion Dollar Babies album, produced by Ezrin.

Subsequently, Ezrin produced and performed on Lou Reed’s 1973 concept album Berlin, including Hunter, Wagner, and Tony Levin.

Reed’s band on his following live album Rock 'n' Roll Animal was composed of Hunter, Wagner, Prakash John, and Pentti Glan. Ezrin and Cooper hired all four members of Reed’s live band, plus Levin, to work on Cooper’s new album.

Wagner and Ezrin would co-write the majority of the tracks with Cooper.
DID YOU KNOW?!
In July 1975 Alice fell off stage in front of an audience of 17,000.
He puts this down to his drinking at the time.
He had 15 stitches to his head. Three days later he collapsed on stage after 25 minutes, after ignoring doctors advice.

WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE - COOP! The Australian Alice Cooper Show

The classic ballad from the genius mind of Alice Cooper. Modern entertainment owes so much to Alice. This is our tribute.

I NEVER CRY - COOP! The Australian Alice Cooper Show

Track 1 from Alice Cooper's third album “Love It to Death” released in 1971 ©Straight/Warner Bros. Records.  Written by Michael Bruce

CAUGHT IN A DREAM

POISON - COOP! The Australian Alice Cooper Show

UNFINISHED SWEET - COOP! The Australian Alice Cooper Show

LOST IN AMERICA - COOP! The Australian Alice Cooper Show

©1973 A Cooper M Bruce D Dunaway N Smith G Buxton.
The future belongs to our young people. 
Brats in Battalions, ruling the streets. 
This is one of the rare songs by Alice Cooper using an acoustic guitar and harmonica. 
Cooper played the original harmonica track.
Our version has our Pocket Rocket Cindy Brown on the blues harp - She did a smashing job too!
Drums Steven Smith
Bass Jason Anderson
Electric guitar Richard Poray
Vocals & Acoustic guitar Dave Hudson

GENERATION LANDSLIDE - The Australian Alice Cooper Show

One of our favourite tracks to play! If you ask me; they wrote it when they went tripping in the Mexican desert. Such a funny story within the song.

ALONE & FREEZING - COOP! The Australian Alice Cooper Show

SICK THINGS - COOP! The Australian Alice Cooper Show

It had to be done! Only ever played live on the Welcome to My Nightmare tours from 1975 to 1977. Nobody else has ever covered this piece. Rock on!
Ashley Miller PIANO CLAVINET BRASS SYNTH ORGAN BACKING VOCALS
Jason Anderson BASS GUITAR
Richard Poray LEAD GUITAR
Steve Smith DRUMS
Shelley Hudson & Cindy Brown BACKING VOCALS
Dave Hudson Lead Vocals

The Interlude from WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE into SOME FOLKS - The Australian Alice Cooper Show

in progress
one guitar to go and some percussion!

Wish you were here

WISH U WERE HERE - The Australian Alice Cooper Show

FEED MY FRANKENSTEIN - COOP! The Australian Alice Cooper Show

NURSE ROZETTA

I NEVER CRY

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