The Alice Cooper Show
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{{Infobox album
| name = The Alice Cooper Show
| type = live
| artist = Alice Cooper
| cover = The Alice Cooper Show.jpg
| alt =
| released = December 1977
| recorded = August 19–20, 1977
| venue = The Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas
| studio =
| genre = Glam rock, hard rock
| length = 39:38
| label = Warner Bros.
| producer = {{flatlist|
| prev_title = Lace and Whiskey
| prev_year = 1977
| next_title = From the Inside
| next_year = 1978
| misc = {{Singles
| name = The Alice Cooper Show
| type = live
| single1 = School's Out
| single1date = June 1978{{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Alice+Cooper&titel=School%27s+Out+%28Live%29&cat=s|title=Alice Cooper singles}}
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r4525|pure_url=yes}}
| rev2 = Music Week
| rev2Score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite news|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1977/Music-Week-1977-12-17.pdf|title=Review: Alice Cooper — The Alice Cooper Show|work=Music Week|date=December 17, 1977|access-date=March 10, 2021|page=51|via=American Radio History|issn=0265-1548}}
| rev3 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
| rev3score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{Cite book |editor-last1=Brackett |editor-first1=Nathan |editor-link1=Nathan Brackett |editor-last2=Hoard |editor-first2=Christian |editor-link2=Christian Hoard |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |year=2004 |location=New York |publisher=Fireside Books |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |edition=4th |pages=11–13}}
}}
The Alice Cooper Show is a live album by Alice Cooper, released by Warner Bros. in December 1977.
It was recorded live in Las Vegas at the Aladdin Hotel on August 19 and 20, 1977, during Cooper's "King of the Silver Screen" United States tour. Before doing the gig that would become this album, Alice Cooper was exhausted from constant touring, recording and drinking. Contractual obligations resulted in him being heavily pressured into doing it.Alice Cooper Golf Monster (2007) ISBN 978 1 84513 358 0 p124-125 Alice states "Whenever a fan comes to me with this album to sign, I tell them I hate this album".Alice Cooper Golf Monster (2007) ISBN 978 1 84513 358 0 p125 The TV special Alice Cooper and Friends featured live footage from that tour.
The Alice Cooper Show was rereleased in 1987 on CD, digitally in 2005, and on 180-gram vinyl in 2013.
Track listing
{{tracklist
| headline = Side one
| title1 = Under My Wheels
| length1 = 2:35
| writer1 = Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, Bob Ezrin
| note1 = from Killer, 1971
| title2 = I'm Eighteen
| length2 = 5:00
| writer2 = Alice Cooper, Glen Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Neal Smith
| note2 = from Love It to Death, 1971
| title3 = Only Women Bleed
| length3 = 5:57
| writer3 = Cooper, Wagner
| note3 = from Welcome to My Nightmare, 1975
| title4 = Sick Things
| length4 = 0:59
| writer4 = Cooper, Bruce, Wagner
| note4 = from Billion Dollar Babies, 1973
| title5 = Is It My Body
| length5 = 2:36
| writer5 = Cooper, Buxton, Dunaway, Bruce, Smith
| note5 = from Love It to Death, 1971
| title6 = I Never Cry
| length6 = 2:46
| writer6 = Cooper, Wagner
| note6 = from Alice Cooper Goes to Hell, 1976
}}
{{tracklist
| headline = Side two
| title7 = Billion Dollar Babies
| length7 = 3:18
| writer7 = Cooper, Bruce, Smith
| note7 = from Billion Dollar Babies, 1973
| title8 = Devil's Food"/"The Black Widow
| length8 = 5:52
| writer8 = Cooper, Dick Wagner, Bob Ezrin, Vincent Price, Kelly Jay
| note8 = from Welcome to My Nightmare, 1975
| title9 = You and Me
| length9 = 2:25
| writer9 = Cooper, Wagner
| note9 = from Lace and Whiskey, 1977
| title10 = I Love the Dead"/"Go to Hell"/"Wish You Were Here
| length10 = 6:38
| writer10 = Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin
| note10 = from Billion Dollar Babies/Alice Cooper Goes to Hell, 1973, 1976
| title11 = School's Out
| length11 = 2:39
| writer11 = Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith
| note11 = from School's Out, 1972
}}
Personnel
;Musicians
- Alice Cooper – vocals
- Steve Hunter – guitar
- Dick Wagner – guitar, vocals
- Prakash John – bass, vocals
- Fred Mandel – keyboards
- Whitey Glan – drums
;Production
- Pete Carlson – engineer
- Brian Christian – producer
- Bob Ezrin – producer
- Shep Gordon – executive producer
- Lee Herschberg – remastering
- Dick Wagner – director
Charts
| class="wikitable"
!Chart (1977) !Peak |
| Australian (Kent Music Report){{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=92}}
|align="center"|29 |
| US Billboard 200
|align="center"|131 |
References
{{Reflist}}
Further reading
- {{Cite magazine|author=Steven Gaines|date=January 19, 1978|title=Alice Comes Alive|magazine=Circus|page=36–37|publisher=Circus Enterprises Corporation|location=New York|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_circus_1978-01-19_173/page/n37/mode/2up|issn=0009-7365|url-status=live|access-date=April 18, 2025}}
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