Alice Cooper has admitted that he didn’t suppose he’d dwell to see previous the age of 30, however is now decided to maintain going for so long as attainable.
The shock rocker lately introduced that the Alice Cooper Band’s authentic lineup would reunite for the primary time in over 50 years to launch a brand new album, The Revenge of Alice Cooper, which is able to characteristic work by late guitarist Glen Buxton.
Scheduled for launch on 25 July, the document was produced by Bob Ezrin, who labored with the band on a few of their traditional Seventies albums together with Love It To Dying, Faculty’s Out and Billion Greenback Infants.
“I’m nonetheless touring full blast on the age of 77 like I at all times have,” Cooper stated in an interview with The Times. “Though none of us thought [in the beginning] that we might even get previous 30 years of age.
“However I haven’t had a drink in 42 years, I’m not taking any medication, I by no means smoked cigarettes and loads of this has to do with being fortunately married for 50 years and having an incredible household the place everyone has married the fitting folks.”
Becoming a member of him on the album are authentic members Michael Bruce (guitar), Dennis Dunaway (bass), Neil Smith (drums), and Gyasi Hues (guitar), with contributions from Buxton, who died in 1997, on the music “What Occurred to You” and a remix of “Return of the Spiders” from their 1971 album Straightforward Motion.
As he prepares to embark on a collection of exhibits this yr, together with at London’s O2 Area and the Utilita Area in Cardiff, Cooper defined that he thrives on proving folks mistaken.
“Everyone asks what retains you going and everyone expects at 77 for Alice to stand up there and cellphone it in as a result of he’s not capable of transfer round very a lot,” he stated.
“And hey, Mick Jagger is 4 years older than me and he’s nonetheless killing it up there. I’m defiant about this: I would like Alice to stand up there and once they get in I would like them to say, ‘Are you kidding me? He can’t be 77’.
“That’s what drives me ahead. If I can’t play Alice the identical approach I performed Alice 40 years in the past I shouldn’t be up there. However I don’t suppose Alice Cooper is completed having his day but.”
“None of them has modified a lot as an individual,” Ezrin informed Billboard of his expertise recording the band’s new music.
“Clearly everybody’s older and extra mature and extra settled, however after we all get collectively and I watch the interaction between them, it’s like they only walked out of highschool and had been hanging out within the native cafe.
“They simply revert to kind. They revert to who they had been as children once they first bought collectively… and make music collectively like they did 50-some years in the past.”
