Alice Cooper reflects on his extraordinary career, the shock-rock legacy that changed live performance, and how artists like Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson carried that spirit into a new era. He explains why his own style was always about entertainment, storytelling, and leaving audiences thrilled.He also dives into the dark themes of Brutal Planet, revisits classics like I'm Eighteen and School's Out, and pays tribute to producer Bob Ezrin. Most powerfully, Alice speaks candidly about over...

The definitive autobiography from Alice Cooper, the Godfather of Shock Rock and one of the world's most iconic musicians with a career spanning six decades.In the beginning, Alice Cooper was the name of a rock group. Then my stage name. And then a monster. Now I’ve written a book that tracks Alice’s evilution, how he and I became almost fatally intertwined, and how I’ve tamed him at last. After over thirty records and sixty-plus years, the story of Alice Cooper has...

Get the photo-illustrated inside story of how David Bertolino built the magical haunted kingdom that sparked an entire eerie industry.A Hollywood extravaganza in rural New England filled with haunted houses, museums, a circus, movie stars, and more, Spookyworld turned Halloween into a season-long celebration. During its original twelve-year run, Spookyworld sparked a new phenomenon, bringing us haunted mansions and scary stories that would shape the world of horror...

The story of seminal Ann Arbor punk rock band the Stooges, told through original interviews with the band members and associates.If the MC5 were Detroit's political spokesmen for the disenchanted youth of the 1960s, then the Stooges were the loutish kids, heckling from the back of the room. While conventional wisdom says they could barely play their instruments, the Stooges left an indelible mark on the world of punk rock, and the band's initial three albums—The St...

Initiation, Human & Solar articulates a graded map of spiritual unfoldment, situating individual discipleship within a planetary and solar economy of consciousness. Bailey surveys the initiatory thresholds, the constitution of the spiritual Hierarchy, the Rays and their psychological coloring, and the disciplines—ethical, meditative, and ceremonial—by which candidates prepare. Its prose is schematic and didactic, favoring numbered sequences, technical terms, and correspondences that link m...

President Barack Obama’s mother, S. Ann Dunham, was an economic anthropologist and rural development consultant who worked in several countries including Indonesia. Dunham received her doctorate in 1992. She died in 1995, at the age of 52, before having the opportunity to revise her dissertation for publication, as she had planned. Dunham’s dissertation adviser Alice G. Dewey and her fellow graduate student Nancy I. Cooper undertook the revisions at the request of Dunham’s daughter, Maya S...

The man who invented shock rock tells the amazing and, yeah, shocking story of how he slayed his thirsty demons—with a golf club. It started one day when Cooper was watching a Star Trek rerun between concerts, bored and drunk on a quart-of-whiskey-a-day habit; a friend dragged the rocker out of his room and suggested a round of golf. Cooper has been a self-confessed golf addict ever since. Today he and his band still tour the world, playing some one hundred gigs a year . . . and three hund...

Ed Hall interviews the legendary singer, songwriter and actor Alice Cooper, about everything from having a girl's name to on-stage hangings.

The mystery of D. B. Cooper ranks up there with mysteries such as the Loch Ness Monster or the sleeping fits of Kalachi village, and refers to an incident on the twenty fourth of November of 1971, where a man operating under the alias Dan Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 plane midflight, halfway between Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. His intent was to demand two hundred thousand dollars in ransom for the safe return of the passengers. Such a vast sum, equivalent to over a million in...

Given the militarism of the Empire and Nazi Germany, why did postwar West Germany experience massive waves of peace protest in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1980s? How have postwar peace movements shaped German political culture? Will the cultural norms that frown on the use of military force constrain foreign policy in the new, unified, Germany? In Paradoxes of Peace, Alice Holmes Cooper traces the evolution of peace movements in West Germany (1945-90) and in united Germany since 1990. Cooper exa...

‘Mark is one of the most indomitable yet gentle spirits I’ve ever met. He will always be one of my favorite artists I’ve ever worked with. And someday when I grow up, I want to be just like him.’ – Alice Cooper‘This book is a puzzle. The outside frame pieces are about me, but the picture wouldn’t be complete without the perspectives of all the people telling you about me.’ – Mark VolmanMark Volman has led a storied life, a...

Initiation, Human and Solar delineates the graded path of discipleship, from probation to adeptship, within a theosophical cosmology linking human evolution to the life of a Solar Logos. In didactic, tabulated prose, Bailey profiles the planetary Hierarchy, the Masters of Wisdom, rays, devas, and solar angels, proposing initiation as an exact science of consciousness oriented to group service. Alice A. Bailey (1880–1949), a British-born esotericist who moved beyond the Theosophical Society...