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Alice Cooper Blows His Wad Scenes From An Impending Conquest

Scene: February, 1965. An upper middle-class dwelling in suburban Phoenix, Arizona.

June 1, 1973
Ben Edmonds

“Alice Cooper... I thought it was gonna be like Judy Collins or something. It was the most revolting thing I’ve ever seen. Yon shoulda been there...”

Scene: February, 1965. An upper mid1 dle-class dwelling in suburban Phoenix, Arizona. As with most American homes during that period of time, all Sunday evening activity stopped dead for the Ed Sullivan Show, a TV variety hour that did its damnedest to see that everybody walked away satisfied. Nothing but family entertainment: actors reading passages of inspirational verse, amazing Italian families who could fly through the air with the greatest of ease, standup comedians who appeared once and were never heard from again, and maybe even an occasional taste of unobjectionable acne-rock.

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