Alice Cooper (eBook)

The Godfather of Shock & Roll

Gary Graff (Autor)

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2025 | New Edition
208 Seiten
Motorbooks (Verlag)
978-0-7603-9495-3 (ISBN)

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This value-priced reissue of Alice Cooper at 75 (2023) celebrates the godfather of shock rock with expert commentary, hundreds of images, and an illustrated timeline.Pythons, guillotines, stage bloodwith his concoction of vaudeville, horror film tropes, and three-chord rock 'n' roll, Alice Cooper invented a genre. Let veteran rock journalist Gary Graff and Detroit rock writer Gary Graff be your guide to Cooper's extraordinary career through the lens of 75 career accomplishments, events, and collaborations. This exquisite volume features:Stunning concert and candid offstage photographyImages of memorabilia, including gig posters, vinyl record sleeves, ticket stubs, and period adsAn Alice Cooper timelineThrough seven-and-a-half decades, Graff covers it all: Cooper's childhood in Detroit and Arizona and early garage bands the Earwigs and the SpidersAll 28 studio albums, including those as frontman of Alice Cooper the bandA selection of his greatest singles, like the classic-rock standards ';I'm Eighteen,' ';School's Out,' and ';Welcome to My Nightmare'Collaborations with artists including Slash, Johnny Depp, Wayne Kramer, and moreAssociations with notable guitarists, including Glen Buxton, Nita Strauss, and OrianthiNonmusical passions like classic cars and, of course, golfHis relationship with wife and entertainment accomplice, SherylTireless charity workBeginning with his 1969 debut LP Pretties for You and continuing through his latest release, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Alice Cooper is regarded as one of the most influential performers and musicians in hard rock and heavy metal, influencing countless acts both visually and musically. This book is your unprecedented retrospective of Cooper's career from teenage garage rocker to international star and celebrity.The result is a unique and lavishly produced celebration of the iconic and beloved rock star.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.1.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 350 color & b-w photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Schlagworte: 1970s • 1980s • 2024 tour • Adventures • Album • Alice Cooper • Arizona • Art Rock • aspiring • Band • Behind the Scenes • BEST OF • billion dollar babies • bio • Biography • bob ezrin • Book • Career • CDs • Chicken • Christmas • coffee table • collectible • collector's item • Dennis Dunaway • Detroit • Earwigs • easy action • eighties • Electric Chair • Experience • Father's day gift • fistful • for fans • for summer • Frank Zappa • gallows • Garage Rock • Gift • giftable • Glam • glen buxton • Golf • Guillotine • guillotines • Hanukkah • Heavy metal • hey stoopid • Holiday • hollywood vampires • Illustrated • im eighteen • Industrial • Inside Story • Johnny Depp • Laurel Canyon • Life • Makeup • Memorabilia • Men • michael bruce • music • musician • Nazz • neal smith • New Wave • nita strauss • no more mr nice guy • orianthi • Phoenix • present • present for dad • pretties for you • Psychedelia • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame • rock and roll history • Schools out • Secret Santa • Seventies • shep gordon • shock • Snakes • Spiders • Stories • Vaudeville • Vince Furnier • welcome to my nightmare • white elephant • yankee swap
• ISBN-10: 0-7603-9495-4 / 0760394954
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-9495-3 / 9780760394953