Alice Cooper: Devil on My Shoulder, Gebunden
Devil on My Shoulder
- A Memoir
- Publisher:
- Hachette Book Group USA, 10/2026
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780306838026
- Item number:
- 12646815
- Volume:
- 352 Pages
- other:
- 16-page 1C insert prints @ LSC
- Release date:
- 6.10.2026
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 32.96* |
Blurb
The definitive autobiography from Alice Cooper, the Godfather of Shock Rock and one of the world's more iconic musicians with a career spanning six decades.
In the beginning Alice Cooper was the name of a rock group. Then my stage name. And then a monster. Now I've written a book that tracks Alice's evilution, how he and I became almost fatally intertwined, and how I've tamed him at last. After over thirty records and sixty-plus years, the story of Alice Cooper has become a tangle of embellishments, elaborations and outright fabrications, that I think it's time to sort reality from myth: the slaughtered chickens, the bans and record burnings, the evangelical terrors, Ouija boards and poltergeists, resurrections and revenge from the grave, the cross-dressers, thieves, drug addicts and hopeless alcoholics, the house fires and car crashes---all will be revealed for what they really were.
I'm also coming clean about the extent of my addictions, my blackout years, the creative process fuelled by alcohol, drugs and round-the-clock TV, my scramble to the top of the pile and the terrible slide back down. I want to talk about the origin of Cold Ethyl, the guillotine and the dead babies, the best and worst of my reviews, my feelings of guilt and regret after people got hurt or died, what life was like on the road until the wheels came off the bus, what a romantic I am at heart and how I've stayed married for half a century even after my wife came at me with a frying pan.
And I want to talk about God. Don't worry, I'm not gonna bang you on the head with a Bible, I just want to describe how it is that I found Him dwelling in me. Alice, that inveterate liar, was a voice in my ear for so long, whispering lies and sweet nothings, pretending to be my better conscience and my inspiration, pretending to be me, that I think it's only right to present both sides of the story: the angel on one shoulder, the devil on the other.
Biography
Alice Cooper, geboren 1948 in Detroit, Michigan, als Vincent Damon Furnier, gilt als einer der Wegbereiter des Schockrock. Er polarisierte die Gesellschaft durch provokante Liedtexte und durch Auftritte mit viel Make-Up und gigantischen Bühnenshows. Besonders durch provozierende und aufwändige Inszenierungen auf der Bühne, deren Höhepunkt oft die gespielte Exekution des Sängers war, wurde Alice Cooper bekannt. Zahlreiche Musiker und Bands (Ozzy Osbourne, Kiss, Marilyn Manson, Lordi, u.a.) wurden maßgeblich durch Coopers Musik und seine Show beeinflusst. Für seine finanzielle Unterstützung bekam Cooper von der Grand Canyon University in Phoenix (Arizona) den Ehrendoktortitel "Doctor of Music" verliehen. Heute tourt Alice Cooper mit seiner Band immer noch durch die Welt, bestreitet fast 80 Gigs pro Jahr und sieht zu, wie seine Fans jünger werden. Aber die meiste Zeit ist Alice auf dem Golfplatz. Mit seiner Leidenschaft für das Golfspiel war er Vorreiter für einen Trend, der inzwischen die jungen Leute erfasst hat, ganz zu schweigen von den Stars der heutigen Musik- und Filmszene wie z.B. Justin Timberlake oder Chris O'Donnell.
