By Steve Newton
I did the second of my four interviews with Alice Cooper in November of 1987, when he was touring behind his new album, Raise Your Fist and Yell.
That album wasn’t very good, but it did feature a song called “Prince of Darkness”, which was also the name of a John Carpenter-directed horror flick released less than a month earlier.
Turns out Cooper had a recurring cameo in that film where he played a murderous vagrant–or “street schizoid”, as Cooper called him–who kills some nerdy doctor in a rather unique way.
The year before, when I’d interviewed Cooper for the first time, we’d talked about his bloodthirsty performance in another low-budget horror flick called Monster Dog, so it was fun to hear about his latest cinematic shenanigans.
Have a listen:
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Have to respectfully disagree. RYFAY is one of my favorite Alice albums. That album is terrific.