LOS ANGELES, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Shock rocker Alice Cooper will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame in Los Angeles Dec. 2.
The occasion also marks the 25th anniversary of Cooper's 1978 campaign to restore the decaying Hollywood sign by donating $27,777 to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce for one of the O's to be restored. Cooper dedicated the restored letter to his good friend Groucho Marx, who said that Cooper was the last great hope for vaudeville.
Cooper's gold and platinum albums include "Love It To Death," "Billion Dollar Babies," "Welcome To My Nightmare," and "Trash," featuring such anthems as "Eighteen," "Elected," "School's Out," and "No More Mr. Nice Guy," as well as the classics "Only Women Bleed" and "Poison."
One of the first rock stars to have his own Marvel comic in the '70's, Alice's 1994 album, "The Last Temptation," was a multimedia event, released in conjunction with a trilogy of Marvel comics, based on the concept of the album, done in collaboration with noted comic author Neil Gaiman, best-known for his "Sandman" series.
Cooper has appeared (with Mike Myers, Helen Hayes, Mae West and Gene Wilder, among others) in movies and television, including, most notably,"Wayne's World," "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare," "Roadie," "John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness," and "Something Wilder."
Alice also pioneered music video on television with his ABC network special "Welcome To My Nightmare," featuring Vincent Price, in 1975.
