Alice Cooper has once again stated that he does not intend to retire, explaining that his stage character has stayed the same age for more than five decades.
The 78-year-old singer, real name Vincent Damon Furnier, spoke to Mick Brown for The Telegraph newspaper. «Of course, Alice is a fictional character, so he doesn’t have an age. I don’t know how old Alice is, but on stage he’s the age he was in 1973», he said. «If I ever look different, if I put on 100 kilos, I would never play Alice. And if I can’t do the show with the same energy I had then, the same goes. I’ll never do anything half-baked, because then it wouldn’t be Alice».
He then mentioned that the rockers who are still on stage in the 70s bracket, such as Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones and Rod Stewart, are the ones who live it for their whole lives: «We’ll do it until we can’t, because there’s no better job».
He had said the same thing back in November 2025 on SiriusXM’s «Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk», when asked whether he would ever do a farewell tour. «Retirement isn’t even in my vocabulary», he had said, lumping in McCartney, Ringo Starr, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart — people who keep going not out of financial need. He also mentioned Bob Dylan, who plays 200 shows a year.
In the same interview he said he never lost his voice because he sings in the middle register, while he attributed his health on the road to abstaining from alcohol and drugs from the early 1980s, to never having smoked, to long-distance running and to his 50-year marriage to Sheryl Cooper. His book «Devil On My Shoulder» comes out on 6 October in the US from Da Capo.
See also: Nita Strauss: Returning to Alice Cooper’s band for Las Vegas and Dee Snider: «Farewell tours and bands without original members are shit».
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