It was a concept album that was based on the nightmare of a child named Steven, featuring narration by classic horror movie film star Vincent Price, and serving as the soundtrack to Cooper's new stage show, which now showcased more theatrics than ever, including an 8-foot-tall (2.4m) furry Cyclops which Cooper decapitated and killed. on spelling) was the apostle. Ether Moroni Furnier Age 63 Born Wednesday 26 Mar 1924 Died 13 Dec 1987 Start a FameChain Other Partners Professional Partners Ether Furnier Siblings Brother Lonson Furnier Brother Vincent Furnier Other Partners Professional Partners Siblings Ella Mae Furnier Age 92 Born Wednesday 16 Sep 1925 Start a FameChain His Other Children Children Together Whereas the Community of Christ has retreated largely from the BOM, the Bickerton folk have charged ahead with it! The album deals with issues of faith, temptation, alienation and the frustrations of modern life, and has been described as "a young man's struggle to see the truth through the distractions of the 'Sideshow' of the modern world". 31 in the UK. [citation needed], During this period Cooper was also recognized and awarded in various ways: given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003;[90] in May 2004 he received an honorary doctoral degree from Grand Canyon University. There was an error deleting this problem. Ether Moroni Furnier and his wife Ella Mae Furnier were born in Detroit, Michigan. Alice Cooper, real name Vincent Damon Furnier, (born February 4, 1948, Detroit, Michigan, United States), an American rock musician who pioneered a theatrical form of heavy metal music performance that fused onstage horror dramatics with a raw dynamic sound, earning him the moniker "the godfather of shock rock." . [60], Cooper recorded a music video for the "Poison" B-side "I Got a Line on You" after the song was featured on the soundtrack to Iron Eagle II (1988). [21] They chose the name "Alice Cooper" largely because it sounded innocuous and wholesome, in humorous contrast to the band's image and music. He has the nice home and boat in Newport, but his marriage has fallen apart and his kids no longer live with him. GT: I'm glad you mentioned that. Place of death. His grandfather was like one of the apostles. Ether M. Furnier; dad of rock star Alice Cooper Funeral services for the Rev. The church was officially organized during this conference although not legally incorporated until 10 June 1865. [7] After[citation needed] the band broke up, Furnier legally changed his name to Alice Cooper and began a solo career in 1975 with the concept album Welcome to My Nightmare. Alice Cooper's real name is Vincent Damon Furnier, born in Detroit, Michigan. U.S., General Land Office Records, 1776-2015. "Everyone decided they needed a rest from one another", said manager Shep Gordon at the time. [161], Every four years since releasing his single "Elected" in 1972, Cooper has satirically run for president. [64], In 1991, Cooper released his nineteenth studio album Hey Stoopid featuring several notable rock musicians guesting on the record. Born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, USA on 26 March 1924 to Thurman Sylvester Furnier and Birdie M Furnier. Perhaps there was some bit of mormonism in him that endured throughout his life, though I dont know that anyone has any solid basis for an argument either way. I heard that Cooper was a Sunday school teacher at a big seeker-sensitive type church in Arizona. [84], A continuation of the songwriting approach adopted on The Eyes of Alice Cooper was again adopted by Cooper for his seventeenth solo studio album Dirty Diamonds, released in 2005. Billboard 200 album charts. The Rev. Two years later he was sustained a Prophet and President of the Church with counselors Charles Brown and Beorge Barnes. [76], Cooper made a guest appearance on a 2001, 3rd-season episode of That '70s Show, "Radio Daze" in which he partakes in a game of Dungeons & Dragons. However, we dont need an un-converted Mormon following the norms of the world to be the face of the church. It would be the first of 11[fn 5] Alice Cooper group and solo albums produced by Ezrin, who is widely seen as being pivotal in helping to create and develop the band's definitive sound. Geez, that's a good reason right there to vote for Bush. [21], In 1968, the band learned that Todd Rundgren also had a band called Nazz, and found themselves in need of another stage name. [117] Cooper featured as a co-headliner with Deep Purple and Edgar Winter for several tour dates from August to early September 2017. [119] Reviews were positive, with The New York Times' critic Noel Murray praising "Alice Cooper's magnificently scenery-chewing performance" as a "startling moment of clarity,"[120] and Lorraine Ali of the Los Angeles Times describing his performance as, "Weird? I dont know where people get the idea that God loves everyone equally comes from, but it certainly doesnt come from their careful study of the scriptures. "[24], The classic Alice Cooper group lineup consisted of Furnier, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, rhythm guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith. He has produced numerous hits for the country. Vincent was bitten by the rock and roll bug early on; by 16, he'd formed a band, The Earwigs, for a school talent show. In the film, Depp's character Barnabas Collins, assumes his name to be that of a woman, describes Alice as the ugliest woman he has ever seen. Failed to remove flower. [87] The performance represented a reconciliation between the two artists; Cooper had previously taken issue with Manson over his overtly anti-Christian on stage antics and had sarcastically made reference to the originality of Manson's choosing a female name and dressing in women's clothing. [fn 7], On July 1, 2007, Cooper performed a duet with Marilyn Manson at the B'Estival event in Bucharest, Romania. "[157] Although he originally did not speak publicly about his religious beliefs, Cooper was later vocal about his faith as a born-again Christian. You have chosen this person to be their own family member. His father was a preacher by the name of Ether Moroni Furnier for The Church of Jesus Christ, based in Monongahela, Pennsylvania. Happy trails, Cowboy. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. Guitarists Tommy Denander and Tommy Henriksen contributed most of the guitars. We are NOT Mormons but we acknowledge the Book Of Mormon as additional scripture. Good luck to you. As manager of this memorial you can add or update the memorial using the Edit button below. His father was Ether Moroni Furnier, an evangelist in The Church of Jesus Christ . Please take this as an observation and not criticism you are easily offended. [3] He has drawn equally from horror films, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a macabre and theatrical brand of rock designed to shock audiences. She wrote about it in her autobiography Roseanne: My Life as a Woman, pages 51-53. They are STRONG believers in the Book of Mormon as are LDS. Birdie was born on July 27 1889, in Pennsylvania, USA. I seem to remember him saying they believed he was a fallen prophet. He probably originate from the 12,000 version. He is one of the country's skillful artists, who is a Grammy Award nominee, which he received for his album A Billion Dollar Babies. In flipping through it noticed this guy's senior ambition: "A million seller record". When I first checked out Cooper's Web sites, I found out his father's name was Ether Moroni Furnier. (1962) starring Bette Davis: "In the movie, Bette wears disgusting caked makeup smeared on her face and underneath her eyes, with deep, dark, black eyeliner." High school: Cortez High School in Phoenix, Arizona [17][18] Following a series of childhood illnesses, he moved with his family to Phoenix, Arizona, where he attended Cortez High School. In recognition of the work he has done in helping other addicts in the recovery process, Cooper received in 2008 the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award at the fourth annual MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert in Los Angeles. Vincent Damon Furnier is popularly known as Alice Cooper, is a rock singer in the United States. Even so, Im absolutely blown away by your stubborness. alice cooper and johnny depp t-shirts. Around this time Glen Buxton left Alice Cooper briefly because of waning health. You are trying to enforce the unenforceable. We accept the unadulterated book which is an accompaniment to the Bible and a history of the natives upon this land of America. ", "Interview with Alice Cooper on late musician Glen Campbell", "Matt Groening's Bongo Comics Presents a Fright-Filled Funfest that Will Rock the Night Away This Halloween", "Dynamite to Launch 'Alice Cooper' Comic Book Series in September", "Alice Cooper and the Tome of Madness Online Slot by Play'n GO Play For Free & Real", "ALICE COOPER, IRON MAIDEN, DEF LEPPARD Among Winners At CLASSIC ROCK ROLL OF HONOUR Awards", "ALICE COOPER To Be Honored At SPIKE TV's SCREAM AWARDS", "ALICE COOPER Presented With 'Lifetime Achievement' Award At TEXAS FRIGHTMARE WEEKEND", "REVOLVER GOLDEN GODS AWARDS 2011 Winners Announced", "OZZY OSBOURNE, ALICE COOPER, KORN, DEF LEPPARD Honored At KERRANG! Cooper was active in his church at ages 11 to 12. "[43] The success of Welcome to My Nightmare marked the final breakup of the original members of the band, with Cooper collaborating with their producer Bob Ezrin, who recruited Lou Reed's backing band, including guitarists Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter, to play on the album. His father's name is Ether Moroni Furnier and his mother's name is Ella Mae Furnier. There have been rumors that Alice Cooper had become a Reformed Christian because apparently he attended an RC Sproul conference when he was coming back to considering the Christian faith. Besides his son, the Rev. Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. Jay Evenson, who is the Deseret News' editorial page editor and teaches an opinion writing class at BYU, interviewed him once. we all dont think the same, and I like to hear diverse points of view. [48], In 1978, a sobered Cooper used his experience in the sanitarium as the inspiration for his semi-autobiographical studio album From the Inside, which he co-wrote with Bernie Taupin, known for his work with Elton John; it spawned yet another US Top 20 hit ballad, "How You Gonna See Me Now". In 2017, they appeared on two tracks they co-wrote on Alice's solo studio album Paranormal, released in July, and in November they joined his current live band for five tour dates in the United Kingdom. Ether Furnier Bio Details. [citation needed], On seeing shock rock pioneer Arthur Brown performing his US number two hit "Fire" in 1968, Cooper states, "Can you imagine the young Alice Cooper watching that with all his make-up and hellish performance? With respect to my Friends marriage, let me first say you misuse and mis-understand the term judging others. This is a carousel with slides. The US Constitution prohibits the President and Vice President from residing in the same state, so Joseph sent Sidney on a mission to his home state of Pennsylvania to establish residency. [71], During his absence from the recording studio, Cooper toured extensively every year throughout the latter part of the 1990s, including, in 1996, South America, which he had not visited since 1974. The band's mix of glam and increasingly violent stage theatrics stood out in stark contrast to the bearded, denim-clad hippie bands of the time. Alice Cooper as we all know was raised in the Bickertonite church in which his father and grandfather were very prominent members. there is nothing wrong with politics, but this post is apolitical, so I am a bit disappointed that some people want to pick fights on a topic that was purposely designed to avoid fights. I dont see a lot of Hollywood types meeting those conditions. We are a restoration Church. He was named after one of his uncles and the writer Damon Runyon. How do we create a person's profile? Another Zappa-signed act, the all-female GTOs, who liked to "dress the Cooper boys up like full size Barbie dolls," played a major role in developing the band's early onstage look. Resend Activation Email. http://www.ldsfilm.com/actors/Roseanne.html. When John Lennon and Harry Nilsson used to argue politics, I was sitting right in the middle of them, and I was the guy who was going 'I don't care.' [69] Concurrent with the release of The Last Temptation was a three-part comic book series written by Neil Gaiman, fleshing out the album's story. [35], The group's 1971 tour featured a stage show involving mock fights and gothic torture modes being imposed on Cooper, climaxing in a staged execution by electric chair, with the band sporting tight, sequined, color-contrasting glam rock-style costumes made by prominent rock-fashion designer Cindy Dunaway (sister of band member Neal Smith, and wife of band member Dennis Dunaway). Anyway, most of you know that Rigdon and Young excommunicated each other. He is also a songwriter and musician. Finally, I got a T-shirt that said, 'No, I am not Eddie Haskell.' Cooper's grandfather Thurman Sylvester Furnier served as an apostle for the church. He is Evangelical Christianity by religion. In 1917 Thurman Sylverter Furnier became an apostle in the Bickerite religion, and many years later in 1965 he briefly became president of said religion. By the time he became an infamous outlaw, I cant imagine he could regularly attend church and keep his life. Ether Moroni Furniermarried Ella Mae McCartt. He was a Baptist minister and a retired engineer for Goodyear Aerospace Corp. Cooper, who grew up in Phoenix and whose real name is Vincent Furnier, canceled two dates in Wisconsin on his worldwide concert tour to attend the memorial ser-vices. The Savior asked us to Judge not unrighteously, but make (a directive) righteous judgments. I cant imagine the pressure that LDS celebrities have to face. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. He has earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Glendale Community College. And quite frankly even that is suspect because everyone judges just how Mormon you are(I.E) How many rules do you follow, do you drink Coke, etc. Flush the Fashion, produced by Roy Thomas Baker, known for his work with Queen and the Cars, had a thick, edgy new wave musical sound that baffled even longtime fans, though it still yielded the US Top 40 hit "Clones (We're All)". Alice Cooper got married to Sheryl Goddard in 1976. If you are looking for more information about his life then read this post till the end. and was his last studio release for six years, though during this period the live album A Fistful of Alice (1997)[70] was released, and in 1997 he lent his voice to the intro track of Insane Clown Posse's The Great Milenko. However, the band's 1974 feature film Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper (consisting mainly of 1973 concert footage with 'comedic' sketches woven throughout to a faint storyline), released on a minor cinematic run mostly to drive-in theaters, saw little box office success. [96], Cooper appeared on the British TV series Room 101 where a balloon model of him was featured. While no one has found written evidence that J.Smith said the Constitution would hang by a thread (as Mr. Spector has mentioned) it has been quoted by so many other apostles and prophets that it would be ridiculous to disregard it. He was one of my all time heroes. Sidneys Rigdons Church of Jesus Christ of the Children of Zion disintegrated within a decade after his death. I quoted the scripture verbatim and I think it is pretty clear. Alice Cooper's manager, Shep Gordon, also received an award. Even with The Nightmare scoring a nomination for 1984's Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video (he lost to Duran Duran), it was not enough for Warner Bros. to keep Cooper on their books. The church is justifying us being bias and judging gay, lesbian and transgenders individuals and then used the Bible and the BOM to do it. Besides his son, the Rev. Most of you have probably dismissed the myth as complete hogwash. Its one of the things I appreciated about the Osmonds they werent perfect, but they understood that they were representing the Mormon people. For as their laws and their governments were established by the voice of the people, and they who chose evil were more numerous than they who chose good, therefore they were ripening for destruction, for the laws had become corrupted If this is not a perfect description of the current political environs I dont know what is. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. The current First Presidency is Dominic Thomas, Paul Palmieri, and Robert Watson. Photos larger than 8Mb will be reduced. Icon Award at Kerrang! Am I right? 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Thats the difference which makes them Mormons. Cooper was subsequently signed to MCA Records, and appeared as guest vocalist on Twisted Sister's song "Be Chrool to Your Scuel". He was named after his uncle, Vincent Collier Furnier, and the writer Damon Runyon. We like to build people up, only to tear them down just for sport of it, because it makes us feel better about our own lives . Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. It cant be easy every day for someone to face a career drought when those 5 little words seem like such a simple alternative. [72], In 1999, the four-disc box set The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper appeared, which contained the authorized biography[73] of Cooper, Alcohol and Razor Blades, Poison and Needles: The Glorious Wretched Excess of Alice Cooper, All-American, written by Creem magazine editor Jeffrey Morgan. In other words, if both Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon had stayed in Illinois, the electors from Illinois couldnt vote for both of them. Alice Cooper was born with the name Vincent Damon Furnier in Detroit, Michigan. I remember his final article. Alice Cooper was born with the name Vincent Damon Furnier in Detroit, Michigan. If they refuse to say certain words or wear certain clothing, then they lose work. Mr. Furnier is survived by his wife, Ella; a daughter, Nickie; two brothers; and two grandchildren. From: the Arizona Republic (a Phoenix, AZ newspaper)Thursday, December 17, 1987Page# 41. [122], Cooper released his twenty-first solo studio album, Detroit Stories, on February 26, 2021. [153] But Cooper clarified his comments, telling USA Today, "What I was meaning was that because we're almost always together, at home and on the road, that if something did happen to either of us, we'd most likely be together at the time. Around this time, fed up with Californians' indifference to their act, they relocated to Pontiac, Michigan, where their bizarre stage act was much better received by Midwestern crowds accustomed to the proto-punk styles of local bands such as the Stooges and the MC5. If they play a character that uses colorful language or wears revealing clothing, then they face backlash by their LDS community. An unrehearsed stage routine involving Cooper, a feather pillow, and a live chicken garnered attention from the press; the band decided to capitalize on the tabloid sensationalism, creating in the process a new subgenre, shock rock. Try again later. Theres a lot more information on the website. The best and most recent example of this is Prop 8 in California. [46], Such was the immense success of Cooper's solo project that he decided to continue as a solo artist, and the original band became officially defunct. 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