Christopher Borrelli | Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO — Alice Cooper, the former Vincent Furnier, former high school track star, former resident of Detroit and Chicago, did not die this week at 75. Despite a half-century of horrifyingly playful onstage executions, he was not hanged, beheaded, impaled or electrocuted.
Indeed, when I asked if the man once synonymous with shock would even get noticed today, he replied quickly: “No, the audience is shock proof now.” If Alice Cooper is shocked by anything, it’s “that we’re not shocked by these daily mass shootings. It’s not healthy.” Shock, in its many shapes and moods — goading, campy, creative, violent — has been such a recurring theme in the career of Alice Cooper, you may also be shocked to learn:in the “Hollywood” sign in Los Angeles: “It was the 75th anniversary and it was falling apart, so I started a campaign: Each letter cost $27,000 . I bought the ‘O’ for my good friend Groucho.” As in Marx.for three years. “We lived in Lake Point Tower, ‘83 to ‘85.