ALICE COOPER
“DARK, DANGEROUS, MORE BLOOD…” MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES
When ALICE COOPER and his band arrived in Detroit in 1969, they found their natural home: “Freaky people doing freaky things with a big powerful sound!” As Cooper prepares for a spiritual return to his roots on his new album, Peter Watts winds the clock back to the Motor City’s wild heyday – where Motown, high-energy rock’n’roll and radical politics ruled and Cooper unleashed the full power of his shocking “improv, guerrilla theatre”.
88 • UNCUT • MARCH 2021
