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'''Alice Cooper''' is an American rock singer, songwriter and broadcaster 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''' is an American rock singer, songwriter and broadcaster 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. | ||
[[File:610x.jpg|thumb|right|Manson and Cooper in 2007.]] | [[File:610x.jpg|thumb|right|Manson and Cooper in 2007.]] | ||
| − | On [[2007/07/01 Bucharest, Romania|July 1, 2007]] Cooper performed a duet with [[Marilyn Manson]] on [[Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)]] at the B'Estival event in Bucharest, Romania. The performance represented a reconciliation between the two artists; Cooper had previously taken issue with Manson over his overtly anti-Christian onstage antics, which included tearing up bibles, and he had sarcastically made reference to the originality of Manson's choosing a female name and dressing in women's clothing. Cooper and Manson have been the subject of an academic paper on the significance of adolescent antiheroes. | + | On [[2007/07/01 Bucharest, Romania|July 1, 2007]] Cooper performed a duet with [[Marilyn Manson]] on Manson's "[[Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)]]" and Cooper's "I'm Eighteen" at the B'Estival event in Bucharest, Romania. The performance represented a reconciliation between the two artists; Cooper had previously taken issue with Manson over his overtly anti-Christian onstage antics, which included tearing up bibles, and he had sarcastically made reference to the originality of Manson's choosing a female name and dressing in women's clothing. Cooper and Manson have been the subject of an academic paper on the significance of adolescent antiheroes. |
[[Category:Musical groups]] | [[Category:Musical groups]] | ||
Revision as of 10:32, 19 February 2010
Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and broadcaster 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.
On July 1, 2007 Cooper performed a duet with Marilyn Manson on Manson's "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" and Cooper's "I'm Eighteen" at the B'Estival event in Bucharest, Romania. The performance represented a reconciliation between the two artists; Cooper had previously taken issue with Manson over his overtly anti-Christian onstage antics, which included tearing up bibles, and he had sarcastically made reference to the originality of Manson's choosing a female name and dressing in women's clothing. Cooper and Manson have been the subject of an academic paper on the significance of adolescent antiheroes.
