New York, NY (September 30, 2008)—Alice Cooper, appearing on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson last night, was the victim, yet again, of corporate meddling in his rock’n’roll. It’s called censorship and Cooper, currently promoting his Along Came A Spider (SPV) album, has met this particular beast numerous times during his 40-year career.
Back in 1972, legendary British campaigner for ‘morality & decency’, Mary Whitehouse, tried to get Alice banned from performing in the UK – Cooper subsequently sent her flowers thanking her for the publicity! In 1975, Alice Cooper starred in an ABC special Welcome To My Nightmare starring Vincent Price, which also caused the ABC censors to cut out all the violence that had been included in the originally delivered film.
Along Came A Spider tells the story of a serial killer and as part of the live-performance of “Vengence is Mine” Alice intended to re-enact a piece of his video by picking a female victim from the audience to choke with a silk scarf. (Both the album version of the song and the video feature ex-Guns‘n’Roses guitarist Slash.) What viewers saw was a truncated version of the performance – the “murder” of an audience member was just too much for CBS-TV’s censors (although Ferguson loved it).
The full and uncensored version of the new 3-song video, including “Vengeance is Mine”, can be seen on MySpace.com/AlongCameAVideo as well as YouTube.com/SPV and Imeem.com/AliceCooper from Wednesday, October 1st.
Back in 1972, legendary British campaigner for ‘morality & decency’, Mary Whitehouse, tried to get Alice banned from performing in the UK – Cooper subsequently sent her flowers thanking her for the publicity! In 1975, Alice Cooper starred in an ABC special Welcome To My Nightmare starring Vincent Price, which also caused the ABC censors to cut out all the violence that had been included in the originally delivered film.
Along Came A Spider tells the story of a serial killer and as part of the live-performance of “Vengence is Mine” Alice intended to re-enact a piece of his video by picking a female victim from the audience to choke with a silk scarf. (Both the album version of the song and the video feature ex-Guns‘n’Roses guitarist Slash.) What viewers saw was a truncated version of the performance – the “murder” of an audience member was just too much for CBS-TV’s censors (although Ferguson loved it).
The full and uncensored version of the new 3-song video, including “Vengeance is Mine”, can be seen on MySpace.com/AlongCameAVideo as well as YouTube.com/SPV and Imeem.com/AliceCooper from Wednesday, October 1st.
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