“We were doing four sets a night, really, really slogging,” Richardson remembers. Photograph: Leni Sinclair/Getty ImagesOver in Los Angeles, as the 60s stretched out, the original Alice Cooper band were flailing. And then they found out that I was from Detroit, and we were immediately a Detroit band. I think the first Alice Cooper album was really Love It to Death.”Love It to Death spawned the first national hit for Alice Cooper, I’m Eighteen, and they were off on a new trajectory. “It was like flying 150 miles an hour in a Corvette.”• Detroit Stories by Alice Cooper is out now on earMUSIC.

Source: The Guardian February 26, 2021 06:00 UTC