Alice Cooper: "There wasn’t one human being on the planet that thought we’d get past thirty years old"

Alice Cooper leaning on a car wearing a 'Detroit' t-shirt

There’s no ‘off’ switch on Alice Cooper. Even as the legendary shock-rock icon, Hollywood Vampire and consummate master of the macabre attended his recent 75th birthday party – hosted by Poison songwriter Desmond Child in Nashville – his mind kept wandering to the minutiae of his next tour. 

“I’m the Ziegfeld of rock,” he says. “It’s all about the show. All I can think is: ‘Will that thing work in the second song?’”