Mar. 1, 2016

VINYL RECAP: EPISODE THREE – ALICE COOPER IN GOLF WHITES MAKES IT ALL WORTHWHILE

SOURCE – THEGUARDIAN.COM

EXCERPT:

“…Unlike previous weeks, the Stars in their Eyes treatment of the greats – this week, Alice Cooper – proved one of the episode’s strongest strands. Not least because Dustin Ingram does a passable impersonation and because it was delicious to see creepy Clark get his comeuppance. Plus the sight of Alice Cooper in golf whites is as funny in a questionable prestige drama as it is in real life. Most of all, he had an arc of his own rather than just a cameo, taking down the American Century schmuck with wit and gusto.

The joke, of course, is that for all his guys-together protests, the real Vincent Furnier would take Clark’s advice to the letter just two years later, ditching the band and keeping the name Alice Cooper as a solo artist. He later explained: “It got very basically down to the fact that we had drawn as much as we could out of each other. After 10 years, we were pretty much dry together.” Here’s solo Alice performing I Love the Dead, the song we saw the band soundcheck, years later.”

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