Vincent Damon Furnier, alias Alice Cooper, was born on February 4, 1948 in
Detroit, Michigan. He miraculously survived peritonitis at the age of 11, and
soon turned to music: with his first band, successively named The Earwigs, The
Spiders and The Nazz, they played the repertoire of their idols, The Beatles and
The Rolling Stones. In 1968, the band reappeared in Los Angeles as Alice Cooper,
with Glen Buxton (guitar), Michael Bruce (rhythm guitar), Dennis Dunaway (bass)
and Neal Smith (drums). Alice Cooper's controversial personality gradually
became one of the band's main attract...