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Alice Cooper believes many contemporary male artists lack the glamour and over-the-top theatricality of being a rock star.
“It’s been a really funny thing now. All the girls are doing the big productions,” Cooper said in a recent interview. “Shakira, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga — it seems like all the girls decided to do it big these days.”
The 66-year-old shock rocker said he’s been impressed with Lady Gaga’s creativity and image.
“Lady Gaga said to me, ‘Thanks for letting me steal your show.’ And I said, ‘The funny thing is, your show is nothing like mine,’” he said. “But what we do is more similar than you can imagine. We both created characters and have written for the character.”
Cooper’s wild style can be seen in his documentary, “Super Duper Alice Cooper,” out on DVD next week. The highly stylized film chronicles the singer’s life from being the son of a preacher to the creation of his onstage character to the ups and downs of his five-decade career.
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Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora drew on his own past in debuting a song at a forum on drug abuse Tuesday.
The event, at a high school arena in Toms River, New Jersey, was aimed at raising awareness about the abuse of heroin and prescription painkillers along the Jersey shore.
Sambora, a New Jersey native, unveiled a song he wrote called “Lighthouse,” about providing hope to people mired in addiction. He acknowledged he once abused drugs but said he’s clean now.
“I got firsthand experience,” he told reporters before the event. “I never did heroin, but obviously I did other stuff.”
He told the audience,”I wanted to do something optimistic, a beacon of light and hope. Everyone needs that light when they’re far off the shore.”
