Welcome To My Nightmare: Fifty Years Of Alice Cooper

Martin Popoff WYMER PUBLISHING

Large-format coffee-table chronology from prolific writer.

It’s never a good sign when a book loses you in its author’s introduction, but Welcome To My Nightmare manages with room to spare. To an Alice Cooper fan, the words “The classic Alice albums from Love It To Death through Muscle Of Love generally sound like crap” is nothing other than fighting talk. Frankly, if that’s the way you feel, write a book about someone else.

But of course, Martin Popoff already has. Before ‘celebrating’ Alice in print, he’s written books about Rush, Queen, Ramones, Rainbow, Dio, Floyd, Sabbath, Maiden, Purple, BÖC, The Clash etc and enough bulky, subjective metal guides to choke a horse.

Anyway, the Cooper story’s told in chronological order, with quotes from Alice, his bandmates and associates, but that it’s told by a writer who thinks Killer, School’s Out and Billion Dollar Babies “generally sound like crap” makes it very hard for any Cooper connoisseur to take it entirely seriously.