Rock legend Alice Cooper has revealed he was writing songs with Aerosmith’s Joe Perry when a naughty ghost kept pinching their gear.
The singer – who has albums called Paranormal and Raise the Dead – admitted he was stunned when he was later told he was in the haunted house which inspired a famous horror flick.
Alice, 75, said: “In 1984 I was going to do a horror movie [Monster Dog ] in Spain, and Joe and I were going to write some songs for it.
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“So we went up to my manager’s house in Copiague, New York, and things kept going missing: my harmonica, Joe’s strings.
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“Later, at dinner, it sounded like somebody was moving furniture in the basement.
“It wasn’t like in the movies where people say: ‘Let’s get flashlights and go down there.’ We were out of there.
“I called Shep [Gordon, manager] and he goes: ‘Oh yeah, The Amityville Horror was written about that house.’
“I was like: ‘And you were going to tell me when?’”
Alice, real name Vincent Furnier, is heading back on tour with pal Joe and movie star Johnny Depp in rock outfit Hollywood Vampires and told how he broke the ice with band-mate Johnny Depp after his messy court case with ex-wife Amber Heard.
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He laughed: “I hadn’t seen Johnny or Joe for three and a half years. We finished the last tour and Covid happened.
“So I walked into the dressing room, saw Johnny and said: ‘Sooooo… What’s new? Did I see you on television or something.’
“Then I told him: ‘I either have the best or the worst idea of all time… You and Amber should do a remake of The War Of The Roses. It’d be a bloodbath. Every day there’d be something in the paper about somebody throwing a shoe or something. Then to make it go over the top, have Brad [Pitt] and Angie [Jolie] as your lawyers.’
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“He started laughing and then he went: ‘That’s not a bad idea’.”
Alice also told Classic Rock magazine that quitting booze and drugs saved his life and his career.
He added: “There wasn’t one human being on the planet that thought we’d get past 30 years old.
“In fact, when I turned 30 all my friends clubbed together and got me a wheelchair. I never thought of getting to 75.
“But I quit drinking and taking drugs very successfully, I’ve been happily married for 47 years, so all the stress is out of my life.”
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