Born Vincent Damon Furnier on February 4, 1948, famous American rock singer, songwriter and musician Alice Cooper has a career that has stood the test of time. In fact his career spans over four decades. If you’ve ever had the privilege of attending one of his stage shows, you were probably both shocked and amazed at his use of guillotines, fake blood, electric chairs, snakes such as boa constrictors and even baby dolls being used as gruesome props.

Alice Cooper is the epitome of heavy metal shows designed to shock. In the beginning Alice Cooper was a band that was made up of Furnier on lead vocals and harmonica, Glen Buxton as lead guitarist, rhythm guitarist Michael Bruse, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar and Neal Smith on drums. The groups first hit was the 1971 song “I’m Eighteen” from the album “Love It To Death. After that came the huge hit “Schools Out” in 1972. Their 1973 album “Billion Dollar Babies” propelled the group to commercial status.

In 1975 Furnier assumed the band’s name as his own stage name when he released his concept album “Welcome to My Nightmare.” Over the years, Cooper has released solo albums in several different musical styles such as art rock, new wave, hard rock and pop rock just to name a few. Most seem him as the world’s most beloved heavy metal entertainer. He played a huge role in shaping the look and sound of heavy metal rock and introduced horror imagery to rock n’ roll totally transforming the music industry.