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Alice Cooper Says ‘You Do not Need to Be Drunk to Be a Rocker’ (Unique)theinsiderinsight

  • Alice Cooper, who has been sober for 42 years, launched an alcohol-free cocktail, the Intercourse, Medicine, Rock & Dry Cocktail, with WhistlePig
  • The icon, 76, says that he preferred the concept of “outwitting whiskey,” which was his beverage of selection when he drank
  • Cooper says “rock ‘n’ roll is extra of an angle” — and nobody has ever known as him a “wimp” for not ingesting

Nobody rocks fairly like Alice Cooper. However because the shock rock icon, 76, tells PEOPLE solely, “You do not have to be drunk to be punk.” 

Cooper — who has been sober for 42 years — tells PEOPLE, “Once I used to drink, my drink was whiskey and Coca-Cola. I was the Dean Martin of rock ‘n’ roll. There was all the time a drink in my hand.”

Now the drink is non-alcoholic, the product of a partnership with WhistlePig: The Sex, Drugs, Rock & Dry Cocktail is an alcohol-free maple quaint that comes paired with a rye-infused vinyl of Cooper’s album, Breadcrumbs, with 100% of proceeds going to Giving Kitchen, which supplies help to meals service staff.

Alice Cooper.

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“I like the concept of truly outwitting whiskey, as a result of it had a maintain on me for fairly a very long time,” Cooper tells PEOPLE, explaining that  “the concept of outwitting it and laughing in its face” appealed to him.

The ”Faculty’s Out” singer tells PEOPLE that when he first received sober, buddies who may “socially drink” would keep away from alcohol round him, however as he shared, “I went, ‘Guys, It is totally different with you. You guys can have a drink, two drinks, after which go away it. Once I was ingesting, I needed to have one other one and one other one and one other one and one other one.’ If you happen to’re in my state of affairs, I can not have any alcohol.”

Since getting sober, Cooper tells PEOPLE, “I’ve completely no need to ever put alcohol in my mouth once more, or any drug.”

And abstaining from alcohol hasn’t ruined his rockstar status.

“However I’ve by no means as soon as had anyone come as much as me and go, ‘Wow, what a wimp,’ “ he says, saying that whereas sobriety “feels like it might be anti the character of rock ‘n’ roll …  rock ‘n’ roll is extra of an angle. You do not have to be drunk or excessive to be a rocker, you realize. It is simply an angle.”

That’s modified because the ‘70s, he tells PEOPLE, saying, “you did not rent a man except he was excessive or ingesting with you.”

“[But] The [Rolling] Stones wouldn’t be round in the event that they have been nonetheless doing what they have been doing within the ’70s, and neither would I,” says Cooper, who begins his Too Close for Comfort world tour on Jan. 31.

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Johnny Depp and Alice Cooper carry out with the Hollywood Vampires.

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“Get together like a rock star, that was all the time the phrase,” the “Poison” singer continues. “All of us went via that. All of my buddies died at 27. You recognize, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin— I used to take a seat and drink with them and get excessive with them.”

Now, as Cooper says, his fellow rockers are all sober. “Johnny Depp is my guitar participant within the Hollywood Vampires. We’re all sober and he is sitting there and he has an alcohol-free Heineken. And he is vaping. So he is received phony cigarettes and phony alcohol, and I informed him he was gonna have a phony coronary heart assault.”

When requested about his iconic cameo in 1992’s Wayne’s World — which lampooned the wild rock star life-style — Cooper says it’s “a takeoff on a Hollywood model of what occurs backstage” which “died within the ’80s, however sure, it was the everlasting celebration backstage.”

Lately, he says, “the medication backstage are nonetheless there — besides they’re Bengay, Advil, Tylenol. All of the rockstar medication at the moment are at Walgreens.”

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