Alice Cooper

Desert Island Discs: Archive 2005-2011 by BBC

Nov 21, 201036:17Society & Culture

Kirsty Young's castaway is the rock musician Alice Cooper. As a teenager he says it was British music that he tuned in to - listening to The Beatles, The Yardbirds and The Who. He realised that while rock music had many...

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