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ALICE COOPER

Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors and baby dolls, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal that was designed to shock.

Alice Cooper was originally a band that started recording in the late 1960s, consisting of Furnier (who also went by the name Alice Cooper) on vocals and harmonica, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and drummer Neal Smith. The original Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit "I'm Eighteen" from the album Love it to Death, which was followed by the even bigger single "School's Out" in 1972. The band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies.

Furnier's solo career as Alice Cooper began with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare. In 2008 he released Along Came a Spider, his 18th solo album, 25th overall (spanning both band and solo eras). Expanding from his original Detroit rock roots, over the years Cooper has experimented with many different musical styles, including conceptual rock, art rock, glam metal, hard rock, new wave, pop rock, soft rock, experimental rock, heavy metal, and industrial rock. In recent times he has returned more to his garage rock roots.

Alice Cooper is known for his social and witty persona offstage, The Rolling Stone Album Guide going so far as to refer to him as the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer". He helped to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and has been credited as being the person who "first introduced horror imagery to rock'n'roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre". Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur and, since 2004, a popular radio DJ with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper.

On VH1's "100 Greatest artists of Hard Rock", Cooper was ranked #20.

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Track Listing: (DISC 1:), (DISC 2:), (DISC 3:), (DISC 4:), 1. Don't Blow Your Mind, 1. He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask) - (previously unreleased, demo version), 1. Hello, Hooray, 1. It's Hot Tonight, 2. Elected - (single version), 2. He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask) - (Movie Mix, previously unreleased, from "Friday The 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives"), 2. Hitch Hike, 2. You and Me - (single version), 3. Billion Dollar Babies, 3. I Miss You, 3. Teenage Frankenstein, 3. Why Don't You Love Me, 4. Freedom, 4. Lay Down and Die, Goodbye - (original version), 4. No More Mr. Nice Guy, 4. No Time for Tears - (previously unreleased), 5. Because - (from "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"), 5. I Love the Dead, 5. Nobody Likes Me - (previously unreleased, demo version), 5. Prince of Darkness, 6. From the Inside - (single version), 6. Levity Ball - (previously unreleased, studio version), 6. Slick Black Limousine, 6. Under My Wheels - (from "The Decline Of Western Civilization, Part II: The Metal Years"), 7. How You Gonna See Me Now, 7. I Got a Line on You - (from "Iron Eagle II"), 7. Reflected, 7. Respect for the Sleepers - (previously unreleased, demo), 8. Mr. and Misdemeanor, 8. Muscle of Love, 8. Poison, 8. Serious, 9. No Tricks, 9. Refrigerator Heaven, 9. Teenage Lament '74, 9. Trash, 10. Caught in a Dream - (single version), 10. Only My Heart Talkin', 10. Road Rats - (from "Roadie"), 10. Working Up a Sweat, 11. Clones (We're All), 11. Hey Stoopid - (single version), 11. I'm Eighteen, 11. Man With the Golden Gun, The, 12. Feed My Frankenstein, 12. I'm Flash, 12. Is It My Body? 12. Pain - ("Flush The Fashion" version), 13. Ballad of Dwight Fry, 13. Fire - (B-side of "Love's A Loaded Gun"), 13. Space Pirates, 13. Who Do You Think We Are - (single version), 14. Look at You over There, Ripping the Sawdust from My Teddybear - (previously unreleased, demo), 14. Lost in America, 14. Under My Wheels, 14. Welcome to My Nightmare - (single version), 15. Be My Lover, 15. For Britain Only, 15. It's Me, 15. Only Women Bleed - (single version), 16. Cold Ethyl, 16. Desperado, 16. Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn) - (Spookshow 2000 Mix, previously unreleased), 16. I Am the Future - (single version, from "Class Of '84"), 17. Dead Babies, 17. Department of Youth, 17. Is Anyone Home? - (live), 17. Tag, You're It, 18. Escape, 18. Former Lee Warmer, 18. Killer, 18. Stolen Prayer, 19. Call It Evil - (previously unreleased, demo), 19. I Love America, 19. I Never Cry, 20. Go to Hell, 20. Gutter Cats Vs. The Jets, 20. Identity Crisises - (previously unreleased, from "Monster Dog"), 21. School's Out - (single version), 21. See Me in the Mirror - (previously unreleased, from "Monster Dog"), 22. Hard Rock Summer - (previously unreleased, from "Friday The 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives")