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Check this one out if you can.
Alice knew how to separate kids from their money. Just do something that irritates their parents.
I saw your post after I posted mine, and that is pretty much what I got, even as a teenager-he was in the business to produce shock value.
As I said in my post above, I thought his song “I love the dead” was exactly that kind of thing, even when I heard it as a teenager. It was so over the top and outrageous, he knew kids would snicker and laugh at it, and parents would be outraged and offended by it.
I have always liked Alice Cooper, and any time I heard him interviewed outside his stage persona, it jibed with my impressions of him.