DEVIL ON MY SHOULDER

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 become a tangle of embellishments elaborations and outright fabrications that I think it s time to sort reality from myth the slaughtered chickens the bans and record burnings the evangelical terrors Ouija boards and poltergeists resurrections and revenge from the grave the cross dressers thieves drug addicts and hopeless alcoholics the house fires and car crashes all will be revealed for what they really were I m also coming clean about the extent of my addictions my blackout years the creative process fuelled by alcohol drugs and round the clock TV my scramble to the top of the pile and the terrible slide back down I want to talk about the origin of Cold Ethyl the guillotine and the dead babies the best and worst of my reviews my feelings of guilt and regret after people got hurt o