Tour
The tour for this album, dubbed "Live in the Flesh," was notorious in Europe for its graphic violence and theatricality. The show included many of Cooper's old favourites, such as the gallows, but offered new theatrics such as impaling a person with a bike (This was also seen in John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, which Cooper himself had a cameo role in, playing a vagrant who kills one of the characters). Most of the tour's more violent acts were heavily inspired by the horror movies of the time, by including graphic onstage deaths and larger amounts of stage blood. Cooper has been said to be a big fan of these movies.
The show was seen to so be violent that the German government forced Cooper to remove some of the more graphic parts of the show. A Member of Parliament in the UK, David Blunkett, appealed to have the show banned altogether from the country, but his attempt was unsuccessful.
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