Stage Name Stories: Alice Cooper

Born: Vincent Furnier

What's in a Name: Original band the Spiders switched their name to Alice Cooper, conjured, according to the record company, through a Ouija board encounter with a medieval witch of the same name. In 1974, Furnier legally adopted the name, keeping it for his solo career.



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