HE was born Vincent Furnier but the world knows and loves him as Alice Cooper. "The only person who calls me Vince is Keith Richards," admits the American shock rock icon. "He'll say, 'Vinnie, Vinnie, how long has it been since you had a drink?' "And I'll reply, 'More than 30 years'. And he goes, 'Ah, begs the question, why???' " There was a time, however, when Alice was a match for the Rolling Stones rogue when it came to hellraising. Let's go back to one Christmas Eve in the early Seventies when rabble-rousing anthems like School's Out and Elected were delivering teenage kicks years before the punk explosion. Alice and his band of renegades were playing cavernous Madison Square Garden in New York City. It may have been bitterly cold outside but the heat was rising inside one of America's most hallowed music venues. "At the end of the show, Santa Claus came on stage and took a big bow," remembers the frontman who still wears trademark ghoulish black eye make-up. "So we just beat the hell out of him." As you did in those days . . . except that all the local newspapers had a giant sense of humour bypass. THE… Read full this story
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