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Alice Cooper Helped Kill The Hippie Movement

07/18/2014
. (Classic Rock) Alice Cooper says his band put an end to the hippy movement and gave rock music the kick up the arse it desperately needed. The shock rocker recalls the reaction to the band in the 1970s and says that, for the first time in years, music was fun again.

He also discusses the 70s attitude to drugs and compares it to today's more educated views on substance abuse. He tells In The Studio: "We were such a shock to the system. I always say that we were the band that drove the stake through the hear of the love generation. Everybody was so tired of peace and love and that whole San Francisco thing that all of a sudden here was this breath of fresh air.

"Everything that the hippies didn't believe in. Alice Cooper was celebrating sexuality and androgyny and horror and all of this put together. It was fun. For the first time in a long time music was not political, it was fun. But the music has to stand up years from now, even after they forgot what we did on stage. more on this story

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