The Irish Times

‘It was tribal and sexual’: Alice Cooper on the debauchery of Detroit rock

When the shock-rocker returned in the 1960s, he found a paradise of unsegregated rock’n’roll

Tue Mar 02 2021 - 06:00

Zappa: Love or hate him, Frank Zappa deserves respect

Alex Winter’s documentary portrait of the musician should win over the most resistant

Fri Feb 19 2021 - 05:00

Suzi Quatro: ‘If he’d done that backstage he’d have been singing soprano for the rest of his life’

The ‘quintessential rock chick’ on fame, sexual harassment and fighting her corner

Mon Jan 25 2021 - 06:00

Suzann Pettersen brings the dreaded ‘C’ word back up

Golf is a game of honesty and integrity but apparently Donald Trump doesn’t think so

Wed Jan 31 2018 - 12:00

Alice Cooper: ‘Larry Mullen is the only drummer to ask me for my lyrics’

The self-proclaimed executioner of the last taboos of the Western world on his Irish blood, not drinking – and finding religion

Wed Nov 08 2017 - 05:00

Rock star Alice Cooper discovers Warhol classic after 40 years

Silkscreen from Death and Disaster series sat in storage among other artefacts

Mon Jul 24 2017 - 19:44

Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell died by suicide, police say

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page among those to pay tribute to Seattle grunge artist

Thu May 18 2017 - 22:05

Rory McIlroy must tell us if Trump is golf’s Commander-in-Cheat

Golf superstar can save face if he spills the beans on US president’s iffy golf etiquette

Wed Feb 22 2017 - 15:11

Red Hot Chili Peppers: The Getaway album review - more tired than fired

Thu Jun 16 2016 - 21:15

Taylor Swift wins album of the year at the Grammys

Swift also wins Grammys for best pop vocal album for 1989 and best music video for Bad Blood

Tue Feb 16 2016 - 11:50

Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon review

"Party time . . . Excellent": Who'd have guessed? In Mike Meyers' documentary, one of the great masters of rock'n'roll PR comes up smelling of roses

Fri Jul 18 2014 - 00:37

Sex, drugs & a rocker with a soul - Alice Cooper's old hippie handler gets his own movie

It all began when a young Jimi Hendrix enquired: “Are you Jewish? You should become a manager.” Five decades later, Shep Gordon has few regrets as he looks back on one of the most successful careers in rock’n’roll

Fri Jul 18 2014 - 00:00

Screen by screenwest

This year’s South By Southwest film festival features winning movies in ‘Chef’, with Jon Favreau, Dustin Hoffman and Robert Downey jnr, ‘Frank’, with Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson; Mike Myers’s ‘Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon’; and ‘The Legend of Shorty’, about the cartel boss Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman

Sat Mar 22 2014 - 01:00