I appreciate an audience that reacts to the music, even if they jump on stage and try to beat us up, I think that's a fantastic reaction. I think that they're really hearing something then.

" 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.