Trivia / Alice Cooper

• Black Sheep Hit: Cooper had four straight Top 40 hits in the 1970s with soft, introspective pop ballads - "Only Women Bleed", "I Never Cry", "You and Me" and "How You Gonna See Me Now". "I Never Cry" is even Cooper's only Gold-selling single aside from his late-career smash "Poison".
• Covered Up: Julie Covington's version of Only Women Bleed was a big single hit in the UK and is better known there than Alice Cooper's original, which is on the LP Welcome To My Nightmare. People are genuinely surprised that Cooper, not somebody like Covington or Helen Reddy, wrote the song.
• Creator Backlash: After reaffirming his Christian faith he started to view his more sexually explicit and sleazy songs as this. As a result every song from Trash, minus "Poison," was dropped from the live show after the Alice Cooper Trashes the World tour with only a few subsequent tours featuring an additional song from the album.
• Missing Episode: The Flush the Fasion, Special Forces, Zipper Catches Skin, and DaDa albums, for Alice himself. He was so deep in the throes of alcoholism in the early 80s that he says he has no memory of recording them. He sobered up for good soon after recording DaDa.
• Never Work with Children or Animals: When Alice Cooper started out, he was at a concert and someone threw a live chicken on to the stage. Alice didn't know much about farm animals and grabbed the chicken and threw it back into the audience thinking that the chicken would just fly away. Instead the chicken fell into the audience, who destroyed the poor bird. The next day, Frank Zappa called him asking if it was true that he killed a live chicken on the stage and drank its blood. Alice said no and explained what really happened. Zappa told him to never share that story and say yes, he killed the chicken and drank its blood. (Some time later, manager Shep Gordon admitted he brought the chicken.)
• Referenced by...:
  • While chilling in his basement, Quicksilver listens to "Hello Hooray" in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
  • Young Sheldon:
    • In "A Suitcase Full of Cash and a Yellow Clown Car", President Hagemeyer says that she's always had a strange attraction to Alice Cooper.
    • In "A Launch Party and a Whole Human Being", Mandy considers naming her baby Alice. Georgie likes the name, until Mandy explains that she doesn't intend the baby to have Cooper for her last name.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Originally recorded the theme song for The Man with the Golden Gun, but was dumped in favor of Lulu.
  • He had album-themed shows planned for both Goes to Hell and Welcome 2 My Nightmare ala the original Welcome to My Nightmare tour but neither panned out, the former due to illness and the latter due to lower-than-expected album sales.

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