American Musicians of French Descent - Kurt Cobain, Dave Mustaine, Alice Cooper, Jeff Buckley, Jojo, Carly Simon, Alison Krauss, Solange Knowles (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 67. Chapters: Kurt Cobain, Dave Mustaine, Alice Cooper, Jeff Buckley, JoJo, Carly Simon, Alison Krauss, Solange Knowles, Phil Anselmo, Zooey Deschanel, Izzy Stradlin, Colbie Caillat, Shelley Fabares, Clare Fischer, Stewart "Dirk" Fischer, Paul Doguereau, Nanette Fabray, Veronique Chevalier, Tina Weymouth, Bobby Charles, China Forbes, Johnnie Allan, David LaFlamme. Excerpt: Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician 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 was originally a band consisting of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and drummer Neal Smith. The original Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit "I'm Eighteen" from the album Love it to Death, which was followed by the even bigger single "School's Out" in 1972. The band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies. Furnier's solo career as Alice Cooper, adopting the band's name as his own name, began with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare. In 2008 he released Along Came a Spider, his 18th solo album. Expanding from his original Detroit rock roots, over the years Cooper has experimented with many different musical styles, including conceptual rock, art rock, hard rock, new wave, pop rock, experimental rock and industrial rock. Alice Cooper is known for his social and witty persona offstage. The Rolling Stone Album Guide goes so far as to call him the world's m...