Originating in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1964, "Alice Cooper" was originally a band with roots extending back to a band called the Earwigs, consisting of Furnier on lead vocals and harmonica, Glen Buxton on lead guitar, and Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar and backing vocals. By 1966, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar joined the three and Neal Smith was added on drums in 1967. The five named the band "Alice Cooper", and Furnier eventually adopted it as his stage pseudonym. They released their 1969 debut studio album with limited chart success. Breaking out with the 1970 single "I'm Eighteen" and the third studio album Love It to Death, the band reached their commercial peak in 1973 with their sixth studio album, Billion Dollar Babies. After the band broke up, Furnier legally changed his name to Alice Cooper and began a solo career in 1975 with the concept album Welcome to My Nightmare. Over his career, Cooper has sold well over 50 million records.
Cooper has experimented with a number of musical styles, mainly hard rock, glam rock, heavy metal, and glam metal, but also new wave (1980–1983), art rock on DaDa (1983), and industrial rock on Brutal Planet (2000) and Dragontown (2001). He helped to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and has been described as the artist who "first introduced horror imagery to rock 'n' roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre". He is also known for his wit offstage, with The Rolling Stone Album Guide calling him the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer". Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur, and, since 2004, a radio disc jockey (DJ) with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper.
Full Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper
Band studio albums
Pretties for You (1969)
Easy Action (1970)
Love It to Death (1971)
Killer (1971)
School's Out (1972)
Billion Dollar Babies (1973)
Muscle of Love (1973)
Solo studio albums
Welcome to My Nightmare (1975)
Alice Cooper Goes to Hell (1976)
Lace and Whiskey (1977)
From the Inside (1978)
Flush the Fashion (1980)
Special Forces (1981)
Zipper Catches Skin (1982)
DaDa (1983)
Constrictor (1986)
Raise Your Fist and Yell (1987)
Trash (1989)
Hey Stoopid (1991)
The Last Temptation (1994)
Brutal Planet (2000)
Dragontown (2001)
The Eyes of Alice Cooper (2003)
Dirty Diamonds (2005)
Along Came a Spider (2008)
Welcome 2 My Nightmare (2011)
Paranormal (2017)
Detroit Stories (2021)
Road (2023)
Because
Alice Cooper Lyrics
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Because the world is round
Because the wind is high it blows my mind
Because the wind is high
Love is old, love is new
Love is all, love is you sweetie
Because the sky is blue it makes me cry
Because the sky is blue
These lyrics from Alice Cooper's song "Because" express the singer's feelings of awe and wonder at the natural world around him. The opening line, "Because the world is round it turns me on," speaks to the cyclical nature of life and the idea that everything is interconnected. The repetition of the phrase "Because the world is round" reinforces this idea and suggests that the singer finds beauty in the fact that everything is part of a larger whole.
The next two lines, "Because the wind is high it blows my mind/Because the wind is high," continue the theme of natural phenomena eliciting strong emotional responses. The wind, which is often associated with change and freedom, inspires the singer to think beyond his everyday experiences and consider the mysteries of existence.
Line by Line Meaning
Because the world is round it turns me on
The circularness of the world is incredibly invigorating to me.
Because the wind is high it blows my mind
The strength of the wind really amazes and impresses me.
Love is old, love is new
Love is timeless and can last forever, regardless of its age.
Love is all, love is you sweetie
Love is everything and exists in every connection, especially in our relationship, my dear.
Because the sky is blue it makes me cry
The beauty of the blue sky is so profound and emotional that it can bring tears to my eyes.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: John Lennon, Paul McCartney
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@thomwmckay
I recently took my copy of this album to an Alice Cooper meet & great to be signed... He got a kick out of seeing it... He told me the reason they decided to do the album was to get the opportunity to work with legendary Beatles producer George Martin... Alice did the first cut just like John had done, which led Martin to say "That's great, but I'd like to hear how Alice Cooper would sing it" to which Cooper (very matter of factly)replied "Ok, I'll show you how Alice Cooper would sing it!" ...Thanks for the post, Great Song!
@rubenmarrufo9188
it's funny that you say that because what you just said Alice just said word for word on a radio station he hosts out here in Arizona. Freakin awesome 🤘🏼💀🤘🏼
@stevenmaginnis1965
Love is all, love is YOU, sweetie! :-D
@davidspethman5454
@@stevenmaginnis1965 i always add the sweetie in thebeatles version now 😀
@stevenmaginnis1965
@@davidspethman5454: LOL!
@shawfestify
Justin Bateman (the actor) hosted a show on SiriusXM radio, so I'm driving I just heard some random guy say, Alice Cooper is singing Because, by the Beatles, backed up by the Bee Gees, playing the Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band--and I cranked it up and said, COUNT ME IN BITCHES! I cranked that baby in the car...and even in the decades-long CovidYear, my heart was goddam glad for 3 full minutes! Thank you, baby jesus, radio gods. (And then afterward I found out it was that actor, "playing whatever the hell I want" on the radio, like Tom Morello does on XM each week. Morello KILLS IT, because he's the Holy Shit guitarist from Rage Against the Machine, who is STill raging, in 2020. He has his 96 year old mother on the show with him because...Respect.
I loved this song, and it made me go back and listen to the original. I've been waking up from my nightly psychosis covid-time dreams with various old Beatles songs, etc in my head on my ride back from Mars or whatever I'm doing in my dream that day. Today it was "A Girl Like You" (1994), by Edwyn Collins--I swear I have not heard that song in 10 years, but my mind...has been blown, by Covidyear, and /"because the wind is high"/it blows my mind
Peace out, my fellow human beings, may you all live and prosper until we meet again at the great, What Comes Next! Democrats, Trump Party, extinct GOP, Libertarian, Communist Chinese, Brits, South Africaans, Ethiopians, and Venezuelans, we all find out we are 99.99% THE SAME PERSON, after all the silliness, heartbreak and cruel inequity of life is gone like the scent of smoke on the breeze. Until then, ¡vía con Dios!
@magneto7930
Alice being Alice, and Bee Gees being Bee Gees, and unusual combination but they sound great!
@gandalfshakur8235
Ironic Genius through n' through. Man those Bee Gees were the kings of harmony while Alice Cooper was the king of some other realm.
@jayeginn5963
The BeeGees harmonies are ff-ing perfect.
@ShadesBelow03
My three-year-old son really likes this movie, although this scene creeps him out a bit. I played this song for him when we were listening to the soundtrack album, and not only did he sing all of the words, he did it exactly the way Alice does here, and it was a total laugh-riot!