American rock singer, musician and songwriter Alice Cooper has always known how to delight my senses with his great songs. Everyone who has seen one of his concerts knows what I am talking about. With a career spanning over 4 decades, he has become the ultimate rockstar.

My favorite song by Alice Cooper is without a doubt Poison. The song was released as a single in 1989 and was featured on Trash, Cooper’s 18th studio album. Not long after its release, Poison became an instant hit and drove people crazy with its killer beat and deep lyrics.

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The song was produced by Desmond Child, who also co-wrote it with Cooper and John McCurry. Poison speaks about a powerful love that feels like poison. Many people related to this song, this being one of the reasons why it peaked on the first positions of many charts, such as:

• U.S. Billboard Hot 100: 7th position
• UK Singles Chart: 2nd position
• Australian Singles Chart: 3rd position
• Austria Singles Chart: 3rd position
• Norwegian Chart: 3rd position
• Yugoslav Chart: 1st position

The initial music video for Poison showed Cooper being chained to a bizarre mechanism. While he was singing, a ghostly woman loomed over him. However, this video was censored and music channels were not allowed to show it during the day because the woman in the video only wore a blue thong. Those video portions were redone and the video is still played nowadays on many music channels.

Throughout the years, Poison was remixed and covered by various artists, such as German group Groove Coverage, Finnish singer Tarja Turunen, South African singer Nicholis Louw, and the bluegrass band Hayseed Dixie. However, no one manages to perform it like Alice Cooper, which is why this track remains one of the artists’ best songs ever. Any my favorite one, for that matter.

Here are the music lyrics for Poison:

Your cruel device,

Your blood like ice.

One look could kill,

My pain, your thrill.

I wanna love you, but I better not touch (don’t touch)

I wanna hold you, but my senses tell me to stop

I wanna kiss you, but I want it too much (too much)

I wanna taste you, but your lips are venomous poison

You’re poison runnin through my veins

You’re poison, I don’t wanna break these chains.

Your mouth, so hot

Your web, I’m caught

Your skin, so wet

Black lace on sweat

I hear you callin and it’s needles and pins (and pins)

I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name

Don’t wanna touch you, but you’re under my skin (deep in)

I wanna kiss you, but your lips are venomous poison

You’re poison runnin through my veins

You’re poison, I don’t wanna break these chains

Poison

One look (one look), could kill (could kill),

My pain, your thrill.

I wanna love you, but I better not touch (don’t touch)

I wanna hold you, but my senses tell me to stop

I wanna kiss you, but I want it too much (too much)

I wanna taste you, but your lips are venomous poison

You’re poison runnin through my veins

You’re poison, I don’t wanna break these chains

Poison

I wanna love you, but I better not touch (don’t touch)

I wanna hold you, but my senses tell me to stop

I wanna kiss you, but I wanna too much (too much)

I wanna taste you, but your lips are venomous poison

Yeah

Well I don’t wanna break these chains

Poison

Runnin deep inside my veins

Burnin deep inside my veins

Poison

I don’t wanna break these chains

 

Lyrics source: AZ lyrics

Alice Cooper is a music legend that will forever remain in the history of rock music as one of the greatest musicians of all time. He was and still is an inspiration for numerous rock bands that are just getting started. This is why it was quite shocking for the while world to hear 64-year old Cooper covering a track by the infamous pop star Lady Gaga. Lady Gage has given her seal of approval to the rockstar’s version of her hit single Born This Way. This happened at Cooper’s concert in Biloxi, Mississippi, on June 8, 2012. Even though the two share no similarities regarding the musical genre they approach, they are both theatrical and love giving extravagant performances.

In fact, their unusual strange performances represent one of their trademarks. Cooper motivated his decision by explaining that he prepared the song having the youth crowd in mind. Since the average age at one of his concerts is 15 to 25, he figured that he should give the crowd a song of their generation. He also stated that Born This Way could actually be a rock song and that it just needed a different attitude. In order to make the performance seem more real, he prepared his stage prop Frankenstein’s monster to look like Gaga. Cooper explained that he was not making fun of Lady Gaga, he just uses the 14-foot Frankenstein in the show and figured the audience will love it. And they loved it indeed. It may be hard to believe that Cooper’s fans would be appealed by the rockstar getting “inspired” by Gaga, since heavy rock and pop do not mingle.

It seems that when it comes to Alice Cooper, everything goes. In fact, Cooper and Gaga are friends in real life. In a recent interview, the rockstar stated that Gaga is his modern version because she understands the concept. She created a character called Lady Gaga and she wrote songs for her just like he writes songs for Alice. He added that just like him, she is a totally different person offstage. Lady Gaga is also an avid fan of heavy metal and hard rock music, which may be the reason behind their friendship. Alice Cooper continued by saying that Gaga can sing, write, and play the piano, so she is not just a queen of costumes. Still, hearing one of the legends of rock music covering a track by Lady Gaga is at least weird.

Alice Cooper is one of the most renowned musical figures of all time. He is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician that has rose to fame in the 1960s. With a career spanning on over 4 decades, this rockstar has managed to become a living rock legend. Not only is he renowned for his 26 studio albums, 46 singles, 8 live albums, 21 compilation albums, 12 video releases, and an audiobook, but also for his controversial stage shows. Despite making use of features such as electric chairs, guillotines, boa constrictors, baby dolls, and fake blood, his stage performances are truly spectacular. Since his career has always been in the spotlight, here are some interesting trivia information that perhaps people do not know about this rockstar.

He was born on February 4, 1948, in Detroit, Michigan, his birth name being Vincent Damon Furnier. Believe it or not, he is the son of a minister. Even though he seems to have quite a rebellious nature, Cooper settled down in 1976, when he married ballerina instructor and choreographer Sheryl Cooper. They are still together and have 3 children: daughter Calico Cooper, son Dash, and daughter Sonora Rose. Before raising a family, Cooper was part of the exclusive Hollywood club the “Hollywood Vampires”. Regarding his education, Cooper graduated from Cortez High School in Phoenix, Arizona, and was granted an honorary PhD from Grand Canyon University in the same city. Many people wonder how is this rockstar in his personal life, what does he like, what does he enjoy, what are his passions. Well, despite all the horror make-up, pet snakes and wild image, he is just a regular guy.

Cooper likes to play golf. He is quite a vivid player and has participated in numerous tournaments. This may hard to believe, but Alice Cooper is actually a huge fan of Australian pop-star Kylie Minogue. She should be thrilled with the fact that one of the world’s greatest music legends is her fan! He is also a big fan of The Simpsons and he enjoys watching this show whenever he gets the chance to. Cooper also enjoys collections cars and antique watches. These are all pretty expensive collections, but lucky for him, he can afford it. Alice Cooper loves his wife a lot, which is why he wears a silver bracelet on his left wrist that only his wife Sheryl has the key to. Clearly, rockstars can also be romantic!

Alice Cooper is one the most famous American rock singers and songwriters, with a large contribution to the genre and to the start of other rock bands. Born in 1948, in Detroit, under the real name, Vincent Damon Furnier, Alice Cooper first came into the music stage as part of the Alice Cooper band, in 1969. He continued with a solo career under this name and has, since, developed in other show-business areas, such as film (with cameos) and radio (the Nights with Alice Cooper show). He is credited to have started and influenced the careers of many other musicians and to have initiated the usage of props in rock performances, like guillotines, dolls and fake blood. His extravagant appearance is matched by his unique voice and the live shows he puts on.

So far, Alice Cooper has had a prolific career and is still going strong, releasing 26 studio albums, 21 compilations and 8 live albums. His next expansions to other fields led him into having a film career and a live radio show. Welcome 2 My Nightmare, released in 2011, is his latest album, that has turned into a live tour, like many other albums before. Alice Cooper is a rock legend for many, as, through his persona and his acts, he managed to make a mark in rock history. The music he writes deals with rock themes, such as death, horror, violence and blood, but has a originality of its own and a personal, subjective image of these frequently used symbols. The performances show cased by Alice Cooper are based on the element of shock, as most rockers tend to express themselves. Concert appearances feature leather outfits and a specific make-up for his eyes, props that come to complete the lyrics of his songs or to delight and frighten spectators at the same time. Alice Cooper uses all ranges of baby-dolls, snakes and torture means (for example, electric chairs), all these accompanied and usually covered in blood.

Alice Cooper continues to shock and thrill music lovers all over the world with his albums and live performances. His legendary rock status shall be maintained for a long time, as he is still going strong restlessly and setting up a career and a rock status that will not be an easy act to follow. The contribution he has had to rock history spans over four decades and continues to entertain fans and attract others to the genre, which makes Alice Cooper one of the most famous rock legends of all time.