Alice Cooper Reunites With Original Bandmates For First Album in 50 Years
Alice Cooper has reunited with the original members of his 1970s rock band, the Alice Cooper Group, for their first album in more than 50 years.
The singer, 77, teamed up with guitar player Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith for the upcoming album The Revenge of Alice Cooper, according to Ultimate Classic Rock.
There will also be a cameo from late guitarist Glen Buxton on the track "What Happened to You," via a resurrected demo tape, the outlet noted.
The original “shock rock” band made their album debut in 1969 with Pretties for You, followed by the hit follow-ups School’s Out (1972) and Billion Dollar Babies (1973). The group split up in 1974.
While Buxton died in 1997, the surviving band members have reunited several times over the years. Per Cooper’s official website, the OG band reunited for a private gig at a record store in Dallas, Texas, in 2015. They also played a mini-set at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in 2017.
In 2019, Cooper told Billboard he had no feelings about the 50th anniversary of his band’s debut album, Pretties For You. “I am not nostalgic at all. I never look back,” he said at the time. “I will sit there and go, ‘Yeah, that happened, and that happened and that was really good and that was really great and that was really fun,’ and then I go, ‘But wait ’til you see the next one.’”
“I think that any artist should always think that their next album and their next song and their next show is gonna be the best one they ever did,” the rock legend added.
The Revenge of Alice Cooper will be released on July 25, but the first single, "Black Mamba," will drop on Cooper's syndicated radio show, Alice's Attic, on April 22.
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