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ARC-0288

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Alice Cooper Posters

1973

4 (Linear feet)

The Alice Cooper Posters consist of two promotional posters from 1973 for the Alice Cooper Fan Club with all five members of the band pictured and the Billion Dollar Babies tour. The posters provide a glimpse into the image Alice Cooper projected to their fans and the public. Seen in a broader context, the posters provide insights to how rock bands of the early 1970s promoted themselves and the graphic styles of the time.

Before the world heard of KISS, the New York Dolls, Marilyn Manson or Ozzy Osbourne, there was Alice Cooper, the original shock-rock band. With their penchant for ghoulish stage shows and a gender-bending wardrobe, this five-man group brought the element of theater to the world of rock--that alone securely cemented their stature as innovators, yet they backed up their penchant for outrage with rock-solid music. Beyond the visuals, Alice Cooper was a musical powerhouse, incorporating melodic hooks and complex progressive-rock passages into a foundation of catchy, riff-driven hard rock delivered in Cooper's menacing, take-no-prisoners voice. Many of their songs--including "I'm Eighteen," "Under My Wheels," "Be My Lover" and "School's Out"--remain anthems of the classic-rock era. It's impossible to imagine the attitude of punk rock, the theatricality of New Wave, or the style and sound of hair metal and latter-day punk bands without Alice Cooper's precedent. They influenced acts from Guns n' Roses and Green Day to the Sex Pistols and Marilyn Manson. Even flamboyant latter-day indie-rockers like Of Montreal owe a debt to Alice Cooper.

Acquisition Note: The Alice Cooper Posters were received by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. as a gift from Dennis Dunaway on February 11, 2011.

Citation: [Identification of Item], Alice Cooper Posters, Library and Archives, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.

Processing Information: Processed by James A. Kohler, Project Archivist. Completed February 7, 2012. Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS and local processing manual.

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