During an interview with Scott Munro at Classic Rock, shock rock legend Alice Cooper discussed copycat artists and his early success in the UK. An excerpt is available below:

The rock icon credits outspoken moral crusader Mary Whitehouse with his success in the UK in the 1970s.

Cooper: “When she decided to ban us, we couldn’t have asked for anything better than that. Every time they would try to ban us, the British public was behind us. They’d say, ‘You can’t tell us what we can and can’t see.’ School’s Out went to No.1 and we sold out every ticket we had. We couldn’t have planned it any better. I give the British a lot of credit for my success because they got what I was doing first.”

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KISS, Alice Cooper, Def Leppard, Sammy Hagar, Paul Rodgers, Cheap Trick, Heart, The Who’s Roger Daltrey, ELO legend Jeff Lynne and many more have recorded Paul McCartney songs exclusively for The Art Of McCartney, a long awaited and very special project celebrating one of the most universally acclaimed songwriters of all time, Sir Paul McCartney. With backing provided by McCartney’s long time band, classic tracks such as Maybe I’m Amazed, My Love, The Long And Winding Road, When I’m 64, Let It Be, Helter Skelter, Eleanor Rigby, Live And Let Die have been recorded by some of the world’s greatest artists. The Art of McCartney will be released on November 18th.

Alice Cooper’s cover of The Beatles classic “Eleanor Rigby” is now available for download at theartofmccartney.com/.

A fan of The Beatles since before he was ever performing Alice has been quoted as saying, "We were way influenced by The Beatles' music, by the great songwriting of Lennon and McCartney. If you ask Ozzy and Steven Tyler the same thing, you'll find that there's a lot of melody in what we all do. We're always going to be a little more horse-powered than the Beatles were, but we always referred back to those melody lines."

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The Art Of McCartney is the brainchild of Los Angeles producer, Beatles and McCartney fanatic, Ralph Sall, who has driven this project from conception to delivery. Sall met and worked alongside Paul in 2003 when they revived a song from the 1971 Ram sessions for a movie soundtrack. Ralph then asked Paul and his publishing company if they would support his making this album to honour him. They came back with Paul’s own blessing and thumbs aloft for the project to go ahead.

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