Alice Cooper's Devil on My Shoulder memoir becomes No.1 best-seller
It has climbed to the top of the Sunday Times non-fiction chart
Alice Cooper’s autobiography Devil on My Shoulder has stormed to the top of global book charts.
Released back on 8th October, Devil on My Shoulder climbed to Number 1 on the UK’s prestigious Sunday Times non-fiction bestseller list this week after entering the list at Number 7 last week.
Over in the US and Canada, the memoir entered the NY Times non-fiction chart at No.4, the Toronto Globe & Mail non-fiction best-seller list at No.9, and Publishers Weekly’s non-fiction bestseller list at No.3.
Last night (20th October), Alice completed his rapturously received, 7-date Devil on my Shoulder UK spoken word tour in Wolverhampton.
Hosted by Arthur Brown, Claire Sturgess and Billy Sloan, the tour saw Alice regale stores from his unparalleled career as the Godfather of Shock Rock.
A synopsis of Devil on my Shoulder reads:
‘There are two, seemingly irreconcilable, Alice Coopers - the murderous, morally corrupt theatrical character who threatened the moral fibre of the western world… and the man who plays him, a sober pastor’s son who has been happily married for 50 years. Along the way, the two became schizophrenically intertwined. And in a haze of pioneering rock n roll, alcohol, drugs, iconic songs and wild gigs, guillotines, slaughtered chickens, legendary friends, rumours, snakes, Ouija boards, surrealism, house fires and car crashes - they nearly killed each other.’
“Alice is still on tour around the world today, a proper senile delinquent playing hundreds of gigs every year, while I myself am reformed. And with the benefit of hindsight and a certain maturity, I’d like to describe our journey to Hell and back together, because it’s not only rock stars who can lose their way.”
‘In the Sixties and early Seventies, Alice Cooper was simply a rock group, but as their lead singer, Vincent Damon Furnier, developed his modern-day Grand Guignol character, Alice Cooper became his stage name. Then, on a wave of global success, he legally changed it to his own.’
“I was born Vincent Damon Furnier but, seduced by my character’s reputation, changed my name legally to Alice Cooper, and in the process lost sight of who I really was. The mild-mannered, all-American boy I’d once been became a monster and a mortal danger to himself.”
‘With a career spanning six decades, Alice's story features witty, intimate anecdotes featuring Salvador Dalí, Bob Hope, John Lennon, Groucho Marx, Vincent Price, Frank Sinatra, Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Gerald Ford, Andy Warhol, Tiger Woods, to name a few, but he's also an acute observer of dysfunction and despair, wildness and criminality, urges and addictions, transgressions and human goodness. And so he tells his story from both perspectives: angel on one shoulder, devil on the other.’
“Me and Alice were getting creative with the truth long before the Age of Fake News. Now, after over thirty records and sixty-plus years of fibs and fabrications, I think it’s time to sort the truth from the rumours and lies.”
Published by Ebury/Penguin/Random House in the UK, Alice Cooper’s Devil on My Shoulder is available to buy on Hardback, Ebook and audio download formats now RIGHT HERE.