Alice Cooper Joins Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Detroit Shock Rocker Vincent “Alice Cooper” Furnier received notice late last night that he and his Billion Dollar Babies will be amongst The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2011 inductees during a ceremony to be held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City March 14^th, I guess that even the RARHOF themselves want to stay away from Cleveland. The 62 year old Detroit Native joins an ever growing list of Michigan Made (born and/or raised) Artists and Groups that now number 24. Take into account the number of individuals contained in the 14+ Groups that are members of the HOF, and that number grows to 60 some Michigan Made musicians! For one city to account for just shy of 10% of all “people”, nearly 10% of all “individuals”, and over 10% of all “groups” named to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is simply astonishing, considering this is not exclusive to just the US, but freakin WORLDWIDE!! Anyone who doesn’t believe that our city is home to rock & roll, well let’s just say, go ahead and move to LA, we’ll welcome you back once they ran you through the ringer!

 

Cooper states in his latest interview about his induction, that he believes “that the motor city scene was instrumental in our style and longevity. I’m so proud to say that I’m from Detroit”. Cooper left for Arizona in his early teens, but returned home a few years later with his band to finally hit the big time in the mid 70’s. “It was Detroit who kept screaming for us to turn it up. So we did” explains Cooper, “it’s where we belong” refereeing to Detroit. Cooper hasn’t thought much about the ceremony but figures “we’ll play School’s Out and Eighteen, the two anthems I figure most people will want to hear.”

 

Check out the list of Michigan Made artist/groups who’ve already been inducted below-

Alice Cooper			Iggy Pop & The Stooges
Madonna			Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Del Shannon			Glen Frey (Eeagles)
Jason Newstead (Metallica)			Parliament Funkadelic
Little Willie John			Al Green
Martha & The Vandellas			Wilson Pickett
John Lee Hooker			Hank Ballard
Hollan, Dozier, & Holland			The Four Tops
The Temptations			Stevie Wonder
Berry Gordy Jr.			The Supremes
Aretha Franklin			Smokey Robinson
Jackie Wilson			Bill Haley

Cooper states in his latest interview about his induction, that he believes "that the motor city scene was instrumental in our style and longevity. I'm so proud to say that I'm from Detroit". Cooper left for Arizona in his early teens, but returned home a few years later with his band to finally hit the big time in the mid 70's. "It was Detroit who kept screaming for us to turn it up. So we did" explains Cooper, "it's where we belong" refereeing to Detroit. Cooper hasn't thought much about the ceremony but figures "we'll play School's Out and Eighteen, the two anthems I figure most people will want to hear."

Check out the list of Michigan Made artist/groups who've already been inducted below-