Alice Cooper Announces His Autobiography

Veteran shock rocker Alice Cooper has written a star-studded autobiography, due out in October

Alice Cooper has written a memoir! The man his mum named Vincent Furnier will release Devil On My Shoulder on October 8 through Ebury Spotlight in the UK and Da Capo in the US, with Cooper embarking an an eight date book tour in the UK as well. Covering the full span of Cooper’s 60 year music career, the book promises to explore both “the deeply religious sober man behind the mask and the Godfather of Shock Rock who wears a snake around his neck”, as per the official Alice Cooper website.

We can also expect a wealth of famous names to crop up, with the book promising “witty, intimate anecdotes” about the likes of Salvador Dalí, Bob Hope, John Lennon, Groucho Marx, Vincent Price, Frank Sinatra, Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Jim Hendrix, Gerald Ford, Andy Warhol, Tiger Woods.

But, as the press release tells us, “…he’s also an acute observer of dysfunction and despair, wildness and criminality, urges and addictions, transgressions and human goodness. And so he tells his story from both perspectives: angel on one shoulder, devil on the other.”

In a statement, Cooper said, “I’ve written this book to track Alice’s ‘evilution’, and how I’ve tamed him at last. Just as he and I became almost fatally intertwined, the story of Alice Cooper after over thirty records and sixty-plus years has become a tangle of embellishments, elaborations and outright fabrications, and I think it’s time to sort reality from myth.”

And if you find yourself in the UK this October, you can catch Alice talking about the book and fielding audience questions at the following venues:

October 11: Cardiff New Theatre
October 12: Cambridge Corn Exchange
October 13: London Palladium
October 14: Brighton Dome
October 16: Manchester Opera House
October 17: Stockton Globe
October 19: Glasgow Pavilion Theatre
October 20: Wolverhampton Civic Hall

Tickets are available from AEG.