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The reunited Alice Cooper Group is preparing for this to publish “The Revenge of Alice Cooper” on July 25th. The band’s first album in 50 years, which contains the surviving original members. And with “Wild Ones” they gave another foretaste of the plate. The song follows the first single of the album, “Black Mamba”.
Reunited Alice Cooper Group goes to the studio for the rapid new “Wild Ones” video
Inspired by “The Wild One” from 1953 with Marlon Brando, song and video capture the rebellious spirit of the cult classic. With scenes of a motorcycle on the open street and flying birds. The recordings on the street are combined with studio scenes from the band, in which they import the song and show the relaxed chemistry between the musicians while absorbing the stirring track.
New video shows chemistry of the original members
“Yeah, We’Re the Wild Ones, We live in Every Town/We Own the City Streets, We Rule the Underground/There is no cagin ‘Us, You’ll Suffer If You Try,” sings Cooper Rau in one of the stanzas. “We got the rage in US, Cause IT Makes Us Feel Alive.”
The 14 songs, comprehensive album, also contains a posthumous appearance by the original guitarist Glen Buxton, who died in 1997, in the form of the previously unpublished song “What happened to you”. The box set edition will also contain a rediscovered 1970 version of “Return of the Spiders”, which was re-mixed by producer Bob Ezrin. As well as “Titanic Overunderture”, which combines vintage recordings with newly recorded passages.
Tour with Judas Priest planned in autumn
In an interview with the US industry magazine “Billboard”, the 77-year-old says about his late Reunion plate that the recordings had felt as if no time had passed and the band just continued. “As if it were our next album after ‘Muscle of Love’. Simply like that. Isn’t that strange after 50 years? Suddenly everything fits together again.”
This autumn Cooper will go on a co-headliner tour through 22 North American cities with Judas Priest. In July the “shock rocker” also toured Germany and Switzerland.