It doesn't matter how many drugs I take, I'm not fulfilled. This isn't satisfying. There's a spiritual hunger going on. Everybody feels it. If you don't feel it now, you will. Trust me. You will... Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's the real rebellion.

" The band mistakenly assumed he meant 7 o'clock in the morning. Cooper is credited with helping to shape the sound and look of heavy metal. The success of this tour helped support the growing recognition that the classic Cooper songs were exceptionally clever tuneful and unique.

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. The band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies. Furnier's solo career as Alice Cooper adopting the band's name as his own name began with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare; in 2011 he released Welcome 2 My Nightmare his 19th album as a solo artist and his 26th album in total.