WHEN METAL HIT THE HEADLINES
ALICE COOPER SHOCKS THE UK
Decades before becoming the born again, golf-loving grandfather of rock, the general public found Alice Cooper genuinely scary. Prominent anti-fun campaigner Mary Whitehouse was so terrified, she complained about his 1972 anthem School’s Out airing on Top Of The Pops. As Alice subsequently pointed out, this inadvertently propelled the song to No.1 in the charts. Fifteen years later, it was Cooper’s graphic horror-inspired stage show that was the target of Labour politician David Blunkett. Of course, that didn’t do Alice’s career any harm either and he’s been merrily having his head lopped off on these shores ever since.