The legendary singer has been energetic by way of 7 many years, from the 60s to the 20s, and even on the age of 75, continues to launch sensible materials, together with the most recent single, ‘Welcome to the Present’, which is the third single off his newest highly-anticipated launch, ‘Highway’. That includes his touring band, a quintet of rock specialists, Cooper has spent the previous few months laborious at work recording the album whereas touring, and we will lastly see the fruits of his and his band’s labour when ‘Highway’ releases come August twenty fifth.

Vincent Furnier, now often called Alice Cooper, has a profession that may’t be summed up in a single paragraph (however I’ll do my greatest). In 1964, a 16-year previous Furnier took half in a letterman’s expertise present at his highschool, gathering future band mates Glen Buxton and Dennis Dunaway to carry out with him – that is thought to be the beginning of Furnier’s 60-year lengthy historical past in music. The band was often called the Earwigs initially, then the Spiders, then Nazz, then lastly named themselves Alice Cooper in 1968, a reputation reportedly chosen with the assistance of an Ouija board. As a result of Furnier was the frontman for Cooper, he was often known as Alice Cooper – a lot in order that he ultimately modified his authorized title to Alice Cooper in 1969. The band debuted in the identical 12 months, and later topped the charts in 1973 with ‘Billion Greenback Infants’. They broke up quickly after then, with Cooper the person releasing his first of two dozen (to date) albums, ‘Welcome To My Nightmare’, in 1975. Since then, he has change into a family title, and continues to make music along with his new solo band, together with his newest work – ‘Highway’, and its most up-to-date single, the sensible monitor, ‘Welcome To The Present’.

The aptly named monitor will get its title from Cooper, who describes it as ‘telling the viewers the present is able to go’. Produced by longtime pal Bob Ezrin and that includes his solo band mates on the backing monitor, Cooper’s newest monitor continues his iconic gritty, old style sound that introduced him a lot fame within the 70s, with a contemporary contact added to the music to create an excellent combine for anybody to hearken to. This is only one snippet of Cooper’s new album – the entire thing shall be obtainable quickly, on August twenty fifth. For now, you possibly can hearken to the monitor by way of the video included beneath. Keep tuned for extra updates on ‘Highway’.

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