Has had songs on soundtracks for the movies Flash Fearless Meets the Zorg Women (Songs: "I'm Flash" and "Space Pirates"); Friday the 13th, Part VI (1986) (Songs: "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)", "Teenage Frankenstein" and others); Wayne's World (1992) (Song: "Feed My Frankenstein"); Dazed and Confused (Song: "School's Out"); Shocker (1989) (Song: "Shockdance"); and The Decline of Western Civilization: Part II (The Metal Years) (1988) ("Under My Wheels" With Axl Rose, Slash and Izzy).
Alice and his original band made the song "Man With the Golden Gun" intended for the James Bond movie of the same, but the movie producers deemed Alice "too controversial" and went with another song of the same title sung by Lulu for the movie. The Alice version of "Man With the Golden Gun" appears on the band's 1974 album, "Muscle of Love"
Once belonged to the exclusive Hollywood club the "Hollywood Vampires" in the mid to late 70s.
Born at 10:33pm-EST
Graduated from Cortez High School in Phoenix, Az.
Lived with Cynthia Lang from 1968-76. She sued for community property.
In 1998 opened up his own restaurant right in Downtown Phoenix called "Cooperstown". Also planning to open another one in Ohio in the year 2000.
He is an avid golfer, and has participated in several celebrity tournaments.
Co-owner of Alice's Cooperstown in downtown Phoenix, Arizona.
December 2, 2003 - he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It's situated at the corner of Orange Drive and Hollywood Boulevard by the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
Is the subject of the song 'Why Must I Be Sad?' by They Might Be Giants
Was granted an honorary PhD (Doctor of Performing Arts) from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona (2004).
When the giant letters of the famous "HOLLYWOOD" sign had to be replaced with new letters in 1978, a fund-raising party was held, with the old letters being auctioned off at around $28,000 each. Hugh M. Hefner hosted the event and bought the "H", while Warner Brothers bought the "W". Alice bought an "O" in memory of the late Groucho Marx, with whom he had been very good friends. The check was painted on a big piece of the old sign and endorsed by Alice.
While Cooper was playing a stadium show in the 1970s, a fan threw a live chicken on stage. Cooper, who's from Detroit and unfamiliar with farm animals, generally assumed that since the chicken had wings, it would be able to fly. So he grabbed the chicken and tossed into the air, thinking it would fly out of the stadium, when in fact it went straight down into the crowd, who ripped the bird to pieces. The parts were thrown back on stage, and the headlines later claimed that Cooper bit the head off the chicken, and drank its blood. Frank Zappa later advised Cooper not to tell the real story, simply because "everybody loves it!".
Doesn't seem to mind mocking his own "scary" image in the media; young people who appear with Alice act unafraid of him, while he pretends fright at ordinary things.
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