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‘It was a perfect creative machine’: An oral history of Alice Cooper’s ‘Killer’ at 50
Alice Cooper and his bandmates had been working toward the mainstream breakthrough they enjoyed with “I’m Eighteen,” the hit single that drove the success of their third album “Love It to Death,” through some pretty lean years.
As Neal Smith, their drummer, recalls, “The early days in Topanga Canyon, we were freaking starving. We barely had money for beer. And believe me, if it came down to beer or food, then beer would win.”
Now they’d finally tasted success — a Top 40 album and single, better gigs, a little more beer money.
“A lot of people have hit albums,” Cooper says.
The trick is what you do with that momentum on the follow-through.
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“Can you hit it out of the park with that one?” Cooper asks.
The answer — a resounding yes — arrived a little less than nine months later, on Nov. 27, 1971.
“Killer” more than lived up to the promise of their previous release.
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