Alice Cooper at 77 – and how he is deaf, alone and petrified by hell

Nowadays Cooper remains a fixed value of rock, even if the logistics of his characteristic phase racks have become more complicated.

Cooper, born Vincent Furner in 1948, first emerged as a teenage musician in the 1960s before taking over the Alice Cooper Persona in 1968.

The character is designed to stand out between a sea of garage tires, with horror theater in the act and the transforming furniture in a gothic anti -hero.

But despite his shock-rock reputation, Cooper is now a reformed Christian and sober after decades of fighting addiction.

“I enjoy life,” he said in an interview in Bologna, Italy. “So many of my brothers in rock are now dead and in the ground. I will continue until I am too fat, stupid and arched to perform.”

His voice bears the weight of decades – and the loss of friends such as Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Keith Moon.

He said about going the distance in Rock: “I discussed this with Marilyn Manson. I discussed it with Nicolas Cage. Playing the dark role, but don’t let it consume you. That didn’t make it: Jim Morrison, Keith Moon, Jimi Hendrix … This was my brothers and I watched them.