1- Alice Cooper was born February 4, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan.
2- His father was a preacher in The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite) headquartered in Monongahela, Pennsylvania.
3- He has English, Huguenot French, Irish, Scottish, and Sioux ancestry.
4- In 1964, 16-year-old Furnier was eager to participate in the local annual Letterman’s talent show, so he gathered fellow cross-country teammates to form a group for the show. They named themselves the Earwigs.
5- The legend is that the name “Alice Cooper” came from a session with a Ouija board, largely chosen because it sounded innocuous and wholesome, in humorous contrast to the band’s image and music.
6- Cooper is known for his social and witty persona offstage, with The Rolling Stone Album Guide calling him the world’s most “beloved heavy metal entertainer”.
7- Alice Cooper was active in his church at the ages of 11 and 12.
8- He was nominated for a Grammy Award for Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn) in 1997.
9- A legion of children watched the Muppet Show on television, with Kermitt, Miss Piggy, Fozzy Bear, and more entertaining them weekly. Each week, a new guest star was on the show, from Mark Hamill appearing as Luke Skywalker to Bob Hope, Julie Andrews and more. However, one week Alice Cooper appeared on the show. He was put into skits with monsters and sang his hit song “Welcome to My Nightmare,” scarring kids everywhere.
10 – Alice Cooper owns a restaurant in Phoenix called Cooper’stown. The motto: “Where jocks and rock meet.”
11- In 1973, avant-garde artist Salvadore Dali turned Alice Cooper’s likeness into the world’s first 3D holographic sculpture.
12 – The fact that Alice Cooper was the original shock rock icon was really just an accident when it originally started. The incident that started it all happened at the Toronto Peace Festival, a concert that also included John Lennon and The Doors. During the show, someone in the audience threw a live chicken on the stage. Cooper thought the chicken could fly and tossed it into the air. It landed in the crowd and died, blood spraying everywhere. The incident spread like wildfire, with everyone embellishing what happened, and a legend was born.
13- He wrote sports and feature articles for his school under the pseudonym “Muscles McNasal.”
14- He is credited with helping to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and has been described as the artist who “first introduced horror imagery to rock’n’roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre”.
15- Alice Cooper had a pet snake named Julius Squeezer that died after being bitten by a rat.
16- In 2001 the International Horror Guild gave him a living legend award.
17- Alice Cooper’s “shock rock” reputation apparently developed almost by accident at first. 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, shoc
18- Alice Cooper set a 24-mile cross-country running record in high school.
19- Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur, and, since 2004, a popular radio DJ with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper.
20- Cooper’s legendary stage show involves live snakes, straight jackets, corpses, and other horror movie-styled props–not to mention fog machines and dramatic lighting, of course. Stage shows concluded with Cooper’s “public execution” by various means, including electric chair, gallows, and guillotine.
21- It’s not so much that the band was called The Earwigs that is interesting, as they changed their name to The Spiders after a short time. What makes this first band that Cooper was part of so interesting is that they didn’t know how to play any instruments. Instead, the man who became a shock rock icon was part of a band that dressed up like The Beatles and mimicked The Beatles in their performances.
Sources: https://www.uselessdaily.com/world/alice-cooper-trivia-47-fun-facts-about-the-singer/#ixzz58VAvwCCn
http://www.songfacts.com/facts-alice_cooper.php
https://www.axs.com/5-things-you-didn-t-know-about-alice-cooper-43434