ROCK CALENDAR: February 4, 1948 was born to king and founder of shock rock Ellis Cooper

ROCK CALENDAR: February 4, 1948 was born to king and founder of shock rock Ellis Cooper

This "bad boy", whose main purpose at concerts was to scare and shock the respectable gentlemen who accidentally wander to his concerts, is very colorful. Rivers of artificial blood, the furniture on stage - guillotines and electric chairs, walkers of all types – so that half of the audience just run away with concerts in horror and disgust, but the remaining took it with a Bang!

As a child, his name was Vincent, and he was a decent boy from a family of hereditary clergy of the Protestant Church. But then the devil seduced him with the music of the Beatles and the painting of Salvador Dali, who intricately intertwined in his immature brains and raised such a musical monster. Not just in his head was born the idea to give the ensemble the name of a fictional heroine-a medieval witch Alice Cooper, who according to legend was executed by burning at the stake, and her spirit in the XX century moved into Vincent and now broadcasts from the stage. Ellis started a rumor that he was at concerts ripping off the heads of chickens and drinking their blood directly from the throat. It was so disgusting that caused sincere interest of the public.

In a musical sense, the horrors have won a long time music and the Beatles were not even smell – monotonous metal, loud, and creepy stories. For me he only liked one song from this period is widely publicized hit Billion Dollar Babies (1973).

But in the 80s the musical life of a rock star at the time – sex, drugs, alcohol – finally rolled Sivko violent and he went to the clinic for rehabilitation. That is because Western mentality, damn it – our would have ocmer would imagine from cirrhosis of the liver, and this has calculated the odds and galsnost and he went to heal! For your money! Came out – and again, like a horse! Now and then all in Russia wonder why the Rolling stones are still alive, drunk, probably triple the norm in life... just Need the time to recuperate and not a glass of vodka, as is customary in some Northern countries... But I digress, I actually talk about music. So, after he was released from the hospital, it was the enlightenment – it has cooled to blood and ghouls, and began to write good music, what no one expected, especially me. And the guy went back to the mountain, although his old look, he's not abandoned, just fear him – not the main thing.

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