ALICE COOPER

The mystery of D. B. Cooper ranks up there with mysteries such as the Loch Ness Monster or the sleeping fits of Kalachi village, and refers to an incident on the twenty fourth of November of 1971, where a man operating under the alias Dan Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 plane midflight, halfway between Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. His intent was to demand two hundred thousand dollars in ransom for the safe return of the passengers. Such a vast sum, equivalent to over a million in todays money, was eventually extorted and collected. After collecting the money, Dan Cooper parachuted and vanished. Not a single passenger or member of crew was injured in any way. The plane itself was intact. The money, and the hijacker, seemed to have disappeared into thin air. A manhunt began immediately in the area where Dan Cooper had descended, the Federal Bureau of Investigation opened their own case file and the media leapt onto the story like vultures. However despite constant searches, neither man nor money emerged.

The definitive autobiography from Alice Cooper, the Godfather of Shock Rock and one of the worlds 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 Ive written a book that tracks Alices evilution, how he and I became almost fatally intertwined, and how Ive 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 its 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.Im 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 or died, what life was like on the road until the wheels came off the bus, what a romantic I am at heart and how Ive stayed married for half a century even after my wife came at me with a frying pan.And I want to talk about God. Dont worry, Im not gonna bang you on the head with a Bible, I just want to describe how it is that I found Him dwelling in me. Alice, that inveterate liar, was a voice in my ear for so long, whispering lies and sweet nothings, pretending to be my better conscience and my inspiration, pretending to be me, that I think its only right to present both sides of the story: the angel on one shoulder, the devil on the other.

The man who invented shock rock tells the amazing and, yeah, shocking story of how he slayed his thirsty demonswith a golf club. It started one day when Cooper was watching a Star Trek rerun between concerts, bored and drunk on a quart-of-whiskey-a-day habit; a friend dragged the rocker out of his room and suggested a round of golf. Cooper has been a self-confessed golf addict ever since. Today he and his band still tour the world, playing some one hundred gigs a year . . . and three hundred days out of that year, Cooper is on the course.Alice Cooper, Golf Monster is Coopers tell-all memoir; in it he talks candidly about his entire life and career, as well as his struggles with alcohol, how he fell in love with the game of golf, how he dried out at a sanitarium back in the late 70s, and how he put the last nails in his addictions coffin by getting up daily at 7 a.m. to play 36 holes. Alice has hilarious, touching, and sometimes surprising stories about so many of his friends: Led Zeppelin and the Doors, George Burns and Groucho Marx, golf legends like John Daly and Tiger Woods . . . everyone is here from Dali to Elvis to Arnold Palmer.This is the story of Coopers life, and also a story about golf. He rose from hacker to scratch golfer to serious Pro Am competitor and on to his status today as one of the best celebrity golfers aroundall while rising through the rock n roll ranks releasing platinum albums and selling out arenas with his legendary act.