Alice Cooper (Photo: Ralph Arvesen)
Rock star Alice Cooper moved from Detroit to Arizona when he was 12. He's now 73.
But he still has great affection for the Motor City, telling Adam Graham of The Detroit News:
"I've lived in California and Arizona for 60 years, and when people ask me, 'where are you from?' I say Detroit. That's a badge of honor for me."
Cooper, aka Vincent Damon Furnier, thius Friday releases his latest album, "Detroit Stories," a tribute to his native Detroit.
Graham writes:
The album didn't start out as an homage to Detroit. Cooper and his longtime producer Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd, Kiss) were looking to follow up 2017's "Paranormal" with a set of 12 or 13 "really good hard rock songs," Cooper says. It was then suggested they record in Detroit, given Cooper's connection to the city and its hard rock history, which became writing in Detroit as well, and then recording with all Detroit players.
"It was like OK, that's the concept then," says Cooper, on the phone earlier this month from his home in Phoenix. But he and Ezrin loosened up on the hard rock focus: "We write about all different kinds of Detroit, not just the hard rock, but the blues and Motown as well."
