His Freaks on Parade Tour with Rob Zombie is in Tinley Park this weekend. No. 4 on our list is his correspondence with Ann Landers.
Alice Cooper performs at Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre on Oct. 7, 2021 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Alice Cooper, the former Vincent Furnier, former high school track star, former resident of Detroit and Chicago, did not die this week at 75. Despite a half-century of horrifyingly playful onstage executions, he was not hanged, beheaded, impaled or electrocuted. He just released “Road,” his 22nd solo album, and plays Tinley Park on Sept. 1, and when we spoke the other day, he said, though he was 75, he has no plans to retire and can perform these days “with more energy than I had in the ‘70s.
Indeed, when I asked if the man once synonymous with shock would even get noticed today, he replied quickly: “No, the audience is shock proof now.
His grandfather was an evangelist, his father was a pastor. He was not close to the church throughout his red-hot ‘70s infamy, but eventually returned: “Some songs, on a Christian level, I won’t do now. At the same time, I look back at songs like ‘I’m Eighteen’ and ‘School’s Out,’ and they’re general, you know? There’s nothing. There was nothing satanic even back in the old days. I have probably 20 songs about avoiding Satan. My Christian background was always there somewhere.
Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper’s Freaks on Parade 2023 Tour is 6 p.m. Sept. 1 at the Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre, 19100 S. Ridgeland Ave., Tinley Park; tickets $25-$356 at
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