In 1968 the band adopted the name Alice Cooper-a name Furnier later adopted as his own-and presented a story that it came from a 17th-century witch whose name they learned from a session with a ouija board. The band released a few singles and went through a few name changes before settling on a lineup with guitarist Glen Buxton, guitarist and keyboardist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith. The album has come to be seen as a foundational influence on hard rock, punk, and heavy metal several tracks have become live Alice Cooper standards and are frequently covered by other bands.ĭetroit-born vocalist Vincent Furnier co-formed the Earwigs in the mid-1960s in Phoenix, Arizona. Ezrin and the Coopers continued to work together for a string of hit albums until the band's breakup in 1974. The Love It to Death tour featured an elaborate shock rock live show: during "Ballad of Dwight Fry"-about an inmate in an insane asylum-Cooper would be dragged offstage and return in a straitjacket, and the show climaxed with Cooper's mock execution in a prop electric chair during "Black Juju". soon replaced it with a censored version. The original album cover featured the singer Cooper posed with his thumb protruding so it appeared to be his penis Warner Bros. The album's second single, " Caught in a Dream", charted at No. 94. After its release in March 1971, Love It to Death reached No. 35 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and has since been certified platinum. that Alice Cooper had the commercial potential to release an album.
The single "I'm Eighteen" achieved top-forty success soon after, peaking at No. 21.
A young Bob Ezrin was enlisted as producer he encouraged the band to tighten its songwriting over two months of rehearsing ten to twelve hours a day. The band moved to Detroit in 1970 where they were influenced by the aggressive hard rock scene.
The loose, psychedelic freak rock of the first two albums failed to find an audience. The album's best-known track, " I'm Eighteen", was released as a single to test the band's commercial viability before the album was recorded.įormed in the mid-1960s, the band took the name Alice Cooper in 1968 and became known for its outrageous theatrical live shows. It was the band's first commercially successful album and the first album that consolidated the band's aggressive hard-rocking sound. Love It to Death is the third studio album by American rock group Alice Cooper, released in March 1971.
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