Arizona Republic
Alice Cooper spends his latest album, "Detroit Stories," paying tribute to a city that looms large in Cooper legend for obvious reasons.
First and foremost, he was born there.
And although he met the other founding members of the Alice Cooper group in Phoenix, where his family moved when he was 12, the Cortez High School track star and his bandmates were sharing a farmhouse on the outskirts of Detroit when they recorded "I'm Eighteen," their breakthrough single.
They'd moved to Detroit after several years in California, where they cut their first two albums for Frank Zappa's Straight Records.