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Alice Cooper and PopMaster

Alice Cooper picks the Tracks of My Years in an interview first broadcast in 2017. There's the daily love song, record and album of the week plus PopMaster.

Alice Cooper, the legendary architect of shock-rock, chooses the Tracks of My Years with music from Chuck Berry and The Beatles. His chat with Ken was first broadcast in 2017 and came at the time he was releasing his twentieth solo album entitled 'Paranormal'. It famously featured three tracks performed by the "classic" line-up of the Alice Cooper band - Neal Smith, Dennis Dunaway and Michael Bruce without Glen Buxton, who sadly died in 1997, plus Larry Mullen Jr. from U2, Roger Glover from Deep Purple, Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top, Swedish songwriter and session guitarist Tommy Denander, Tommy Henriksen, Steve Hunter and more.

Born Vincent Damon Furnier in 1948, Alice's remarkable career spans over fifty years and continues to rattle the cages and undermine the status quo, surprising fans and exuding danger. His stage shows feature numerous props including pyrotechnics, guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, reptiles, baby dolls and duelling swords. He has drawn equally from horror films, vaudeville and garage rock to pioneer a macabre and theatrical brand of rock designed to shock. The current pandemic has put his love of touring on hold, but he hopes to return all things being well in 2021.

Ken also has the daily love song, record and album of the week plus another round of the hugely popular music quiz PopMaster. If you'd like to get in touch with the show email Ken.Bruce@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Tue 18 Aug 2020 09:30

Music Played

  • Stevie Wonder

    Part-Time Lover

    • Stevie Wonder - Song Review.
    • Motown.
  • Jason Derulo

    Take You Dancing

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Belinda Carlisle

    Heaven Is A Place On Earth

    • A Place On Earth - Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin.
  • Years & Years

    King

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 90 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Kygo & Tina Turner

    What's Love Got To Do With It

    • Golden Hour.
    • Columbia.
  • George Michael

    Outside

    • George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen.
    • Epic.
  • Bruno Mars

    24K Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Billy Ocean

    We Gotta Find Love

    • One World.
    • Sony Music.
  • Frida

    I Know There's Something Going On

    • (Single).
    • Epic.
    • 3.
  • Carpenters

    I Won't Last A Day Without You

    • The Carpenters - Yesterday Once More.
    • A&M.
  • Record of the Week

    • McFly

      Happiness

      • Young Dumb Thrills.
      • BMG Rights Management (UK).
  • Gotye

    Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.
  • Don Henley

    The End Of The Innocence

    • Don Henley - The End Of The Innocence.
    • Geffen.
  • Anne-Marie

    To Be Young (feat. Doja Cat)

    • (CD Single).
    • Major Toms.
  • Queen

    Radio Ga Ga

    • Queen - Greatest Hits II.
    • Parlophone.
  • Kylie Minogue

    Say Something

    • DISCO.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd..
  • Peter Gabriel

    Solsbury Hill

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
  • Bon Jovi

    Do What You Can

    • 2020.
    • Island.
  • Album of the Week

    • Erasure

      Shot A Satellite

      • The Neon.
      • Mute.
  • Vanessa Williams

    Colours Of The Wind

    • (CD Single).
    • Walt Disney.
  • Keith Urban

    Superman

    • The Speed Of Now Pt. 1.
    • Capitol Nashville.
  • Be Bop Deluxe

    Ships In The Night

    • Remember The 70's.
    • EMI.
  • Tracks of My Years

    • The Beatles

      You Won't See Me

      • Rubber Soul.
      • Parlophone.
      • 3.
    • Chuck Berry

      Too Much Monkey Business

      • More Monkey Business From Catalogue Marketing (Various Artists).
      • Universal.
  • Jamie Cullum

    Don't Give Up On Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
  • Yazz & The Plastic Population

    The Only Way Is Up

    • Wanted (Deluxe Edition).
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 010.

Broadcast

  • Tue 18 Aug 2020 09:30