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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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George

Alice Cooper was the original man-in-makeup!!
he has an awesome music taste and sense of humour

(another story of how he got the name is that he heard of an image of a small cute 10 year old girl carrying a hatchet behind her back and that lead to the shock-rock idea)

December 12 2009 at 8:57 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
drwoowoocl2001

Certainly an American original!

November 30 2008 at 1:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
babydoll

Has and always will look just like shit.

November 28 2008 at 1:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
NaeNae

Bah, whimp. :D I grew up as a kid a big fan of Alice, still am. Good music and a good sense of humor.

November 18 2008 at 10:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
laugh297

i saw it and flinched.. if i was a little kid and saw his picture i would probably cry lol

lmfao

November 18 2008 at 5:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dd

another freak!

May 11 2008 at 5:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom

Everyone knows that's just crazy record company talk. Don't go making me doubt the veracity of the rest of your pun-laden factoids!

April 21 2008 at 7:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply