Alice Cooper
Bruce was a guitarist, keyboard player and backing vocalist for the original Alice Cooper group (Vince Furnier aka Alice Cooper/Michael Bruce/Glen Buxton/Dennis Dunaway/Neal Smith). He co-wrote many of the hit songs with some or all of the other members of the band. Many times, Michael already had lyrics and music written for a song. The lyrics would then be reworked by Alice. Two examples of this process are "Halo of Flies" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy". There are several Bruce-only credited songs including "Be My Lover" from Killer. Bruce also sang lead vocal on the majority of "Sing Low, Sweet Cheerio" on the first album Pretties For You and all of "Below Your Means" and "Beautiful Flyaway" on the follow-up Easy Action, prior to the band's breakthrough album Love It to Death on the Warner Bros. label; Love It to Death was the first Alice Cooper album produced by Bob Ezrin (Pretties For You was produced by Frank Zappa and Ian Underwood; Easy Action was produced by David Briggs who worked with Neil Young). The Alice Cooper group released five more albums (Killer, School's Out, Billion Dollar Babies, Muscle of Love and Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits) before taking a break from touring in 1974; Several of the members wanted to record their own solo albums. Welcome to My Nightmare would prove to be the most successful of these solo ventures.
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