Alice Cooper (born February 4, 1948), birthname Vincent Furnier, is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans five decades. With a stage show that featured guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood and boa constrictors, Cooper drew equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock music that would come to be known as shock rock.[LINK: http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/cooper_alice/bio.jhtml] Artist bio by Rock critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine of All Music Guide hosted at VH1.com "Alice Cooper" was originally a band name with frontman Vincent Furnier portraying the lead persona. In 1974 Furnier legally changed his name to Alice Cooper and launched a solo career. Since their first single release in 1965, when the band was known as "The Spiders", the original Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with