Over the past half a century, Alice Cooper has perfected the role of rock's greatest heel. Every night onstage, he mimes fighting and killing his costumed stagehands while singing dark-hued hits like "I'm Eighteen" and "School's Out" until he gets his comeuppance when he's strapped to a life-sized guillotine.
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