ALICE COOPER CONFIDENTIAL is the profusely illustrated ultimate Alice Cooper book, written by Alice's authorized biographer. In 1992, veteran CREEM Magazine rock critic Jeffrey Morgan was chosen to write the authorized biography of Alice Cooper, which appeared in the Warner Bros. box set The Life And Crimes Of Alice Cooper. Now, decades later, Jeffrey Morgan unseals his confidential Coop files in this full color hard cover coffee table size book to reveal previously unpublished interrogations, rare incriminating photographs, and hysterical fan letters-plus other ghastly horrors too shocking to mention here. No wonder Alice doesn't look happy. He's read ALICE COOPER CONFIDENTIAL!
Alice Cooper Confidential
ALICE COOPER CONFIDENTIAL
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
DEDICATION
How To Use This Book • Although presented in a traditional linear fashion, Alice Cooper Confidential by Jeffrey Morgan is not meant to be experienced as such; it is designed to be dipped into at random. For within, you will find a plethora of entry points; where you begin depends on which gilded path you choose to follow. Strictly speaking from a undeviating perspective, inside you will find:
RENFIELD AND ME • This is the true story of how “The King Of All VCRs” met “The King Of All Words” in 1983. The telephone is ringing and… No, that’s not really true. It actually began in 1969 when I bought my first Alice Cooper album. Over a decade later, that fan-fueled fate train really began to pick up steam when I reviewed Flush The Fashion in the September 1980 issue of CREEM. Three years later, everything came screeching to a head-on collusion when I wrote a follow-up article titled You’re A Riot, Alice in the May 1983 Metal Music issue of CREEM Close-Up. That’s when the telephone rang.
DEAR ALICE… • In 1969, at age fifteen, I optimistically drew, in pencil and ink, on two twelve-inch squares of cardboard, the front and back covers for a proposed John and Yoko album titled Time Peace, mailed it to them at Apple Corps on Savile Row in England — and I received a reply back in the mail.
Welcome To His Nightmare Actual Fan Letters To Alice Cooper • The following letters are authentic and reproduced verbatim. Renfield’s comments and replies are in italics.
THE CHICKEN COOP • I know, I know. But if you think some of those messages were sad, that’s nothing compared to this next awful offering. Because this truly is an even sadder story. But it’s a story that must be told, if only as a cautionary tale to warn what can happen when fandom turns feral.
THE EXEGESIS EXHIBITS • Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls! Children of all ages! Welcome! Don’t be shy! Step right up! Jeffrey Morgan is the name and writing is the game, which is why I’m grievously humbled to be the official authorized biographer of the most spectacular death-defying entertainer of all time, rock’n’ roll’s foremost legendary statesman of outrage, that malignantly macabre culprit, the one and only Alice Cooper!
PHOTOGRAPHED BY NASH THE SLASH
THE COOP CONVERSATION • We close with this previously unpublished tête-à-tête from 2009, wherein the authorized biographer of two (count’em) two Hall Of Fame rockers talks to one inductee about the other inductee. So sit back and relax as the stars of our show have a casual chit-chat about how things were, way back at the very beginning. No, really, do stop me if you’ve heard this one before but, the telephone is ringing…
AFTERWORD • Ironic that a guy that knows how to structure a sentence together is writing a book about the kids in the back of the class.
THANK YOU KINDLY
Rock 'n' Roll’s Most Entertaining Writer JEFFREY MORGON
