Freddie and Alice Cooper.

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Stelios 02 November 2014 15:03 · Member since December 2004

There is a photo of them together. Did their roads met at any point, or with any member of Queen whatsoever?
Both used rock&theatrics so i dont find it unlikely if there was mutual appreciation.

By the way i saw the new documentary "Super Dooper Alice Cooper" and its quite fascinating.

photo of them: http://www.socialphy.com/posts/images-pics/4605/Freddie-Mercury-with-Friends-I-_.html

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Barry Durex 02 November 2014 15:12 · Member since March 2010

I think Alice has a soft spot for Queen, he often plays their songs on planet rock and has even drawn a picture of Freddie.
You can find the picture on this thread:-
http://discuss.queenonline.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2461&start=45>

Brian has played live with Alice also.

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Stelios 02 November 2014 15:45 · Member since December 2004

^^^ Great ! Found this interview witn Alice and Brian : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuM8MVzY6vg

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Barry Durex 02 November 2014 16:24 · Member since March 2010

Brian has played live with Alice also.

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*goodco* 02 November 2014 16:27 · Member since October 2002

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-sZRSoBB2E

not the first time Brian played with Alice

btw, Alice Cooper song and album titles have been the most influential for Queen/solo tracks;-)

Killer->Killer Queen
No More Mr. Nice Guy->Mr. Bad Guy
Titanic Overture->Overture Piccante
Living->Living On My Own
I'm Going Home->I'm Going Slightly Mad, Guide Me Home
Be My Lover->Your Kind Of Lover
Levity Ball->Dreamer's Ball
Easy Action->Action This Day
Love It To Death->Death On Two Legs, Love Kills
Crazy Little Child->Crazy Little Thing Called Love
It's Hot Tonight->Hot Space, Tonight
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah->Yeah
Gutter Cat vs. Jets->Delilah

and quite a few more

Thanks for the image link.

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winterspelt 02 November 2014 17:45 · Member since May 2007

*goodco* wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-sZRSoBB2E

not the first time Brian played with Alice

btw, Alice Cooper song and album titles have been the most influential for Queen/solo tracks;-)

Killer->Killer Queen
No More Mr. Nice Guy->Mr. Bad Guy
Titanic Overture->Overture Piccante
Living->Living On My Own
I'm Going Home->I'm Going Slightly Mad, Guide Me Home
Be My Lover->Your Kind Of Lover
Levity Ball->Dreamer's Ball
Easy Action->Action This Day
Love It To Death->Death On Two Legs, Love Kills
Crazy Little Child->Crazy Little Thing Called Love
It's Hot Tonight->Hot Space, Tonight
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah->Yeah
Gutter Cat vs. Jets->Delilah

and quite a few more

Thanks for the image link.

I think you are going way too far... You are jumping to the conclusion that just because the track names are similar, they are somewhat inspired by him.

Then I guess they were inspired by Frank Zappa too:

Motherly Love -> Mother Love

Any Way the Wind Blows -> Bohemian Rhapsody (because, you know, any way the wind blows!)

Love of my Life -> Love of my Life (!!!)

You Didn’t Try to Call Me -> Call Me

God Bless America -> God Save the Queen

and so on...

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brians wig 02 November 2014 18:15 · Member since August 2007

Barry Durex wrote:

You can find the picture on this thread:-
http://discuss.queenonline.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2461&start=45

Or just skip having to search through the thread and go direct:

http://awesomepeoplehangingouttogether.tumblr.com/post/9225721625/freddie-mercury-and-alice-cooper

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brians wig 02 November 2014 18:17 · Member since August 2007

IS this forum messed up or what these days?
Everytime I quote someone, something weird happens with the resultant post....

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The Real Wizard 02 November 2014 18:35 · Member since August 2002

If the last thing in the quote is a link it gets all messed up. It's been like this for ages (or even since day one).

Solution - press enter to create a line break between the link and the [/ QUOTE ] tag and you'll be good to go.

These basic functional flaws should not exist on a forum used by thousands of people (and solved by one of them who isn't a moderator)... but nobody asked my opinion.

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Stelios 02 November 2014 20:41 · Member since December 2004

brians wig wrote:

Barry Durex wrote:

You can find the picture on this thread:-
http://discuss.queenonline.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2461&start=45

Or just skip having to search through the thread and go direct:

http://awesomepeoplehangingouttogether.tumblr.com/post/9225721625/freddie-mercury-and-alice-cooper

Barry Durex was referring to the drawing of Freddie by Alice Cooper, not the photo of the two of them together. That one was on my original post as a link as well.

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master marathon runner 03 November 2014 01:37 · Member since July 2008

This post reminds me of an amusing anecdote in my personal Queen history.
A couple of weeks after seven seas of rhye's release, I walked into my local to meet my mates and one of them addressed me: "you'll know, - is Alice Cooper in that group Queen?"
They had been debating the fact,after ,Queen's TOTP debut, one of them swearing down that Freddie was Alice, complete with rapier ! (Fred's mike stand)

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gerry 03 November 2014 04:40 · Member since February 2009

yeah Freddie's make up and costumes were similar to Alice cooper in 1974.
They could have been twins at birth by the way they both looked in the 70s !

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Apocalipsis_Darko 03 November 2014 10:04 · Member since July 2013

I talked with Alice Cooper, and told me he loves Queen and also Freddie was a good friend, but he always was talking to his wife! hilarious! Is because the Alice's wife studied classic dance and loves opera.

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Stelios 08 November 2014 07:22 · Member since December 2004

^^^ haha...very Freddie !

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*goodco* 08 November 2014 21:49 · Member since October 2002

winterspelt wrote:

*goodco* wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-sZRSoBB2E

not the first time Brian played with Alice

btw, Alice Cooper song and album titles have been the most influential for Queen/solo tracks;-)

Killer->Killer Queen
No More Mr. Nice Guy->Mr. Bad Guy
Titanic Overture->Overture Piccante
Living->Living On My Own
I'm Going Home->I'm Going Slightly Mad, Guide Me Home
Be My Lover->Your Kind Of Lover
Levity Ball->Dreamer's Ball
Easy Action->Action This Day
Love It To Death->Death On Two Legs, Love Kills
Crazy Little Child->Crazy Little Thing Called Love
It's Hot Tonight->Hot Space, Tonight
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah->Yeah
Gutter Cat vs. Jets->Delilah

and quite a few more

Thanks for the image link.

I think you are going way too far... You are jumping to the conclusion that just because the track names are similar, they are somewhat inspired by him.

Then I guess they were inspired by Frank Zappa too:

Motherly Love -> Mother Love

Any Way the Wind Blows -> Bohemian Rhapsody (because, you know, any way the wind blows!)

Love of my Life -> Love of my Life (!!!)

You Didn’t Try to Call Me -> Call Me

God Bless America -> God Save the Queen

and so on...

Never jumped to any conclusion. It was all tongue-in-cheek, hence the wink and 'Gutter Cat' 'inspiration reference.

I simply happened to notice a ton of similarities between the artist's title tracks, whether it was one word or more.
There's over 50 Alice->Queen/solo
Is It My Body->Body Language, A Human Body, Is It Me?
Woman Machine->Machines, and so on.

And then there's the 20 or so Queen->Alice
Princes of the Universe->Prince Of Darkness
Gimme The Prize->Gimme
You and I->You and Me
It's Late->It's Much Too Late....

All for fun. Just like the Zappa references. Thanks for those.

One track that cannot be debated as to being influential:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4J2-1E40Nc

Soundtrack title and closing track in the first line of lyrics, and he even had a video done that was used as an outline for the movie;-)

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