LONDON (AP) _ A quarter-century into his career as a shock rocker, Alice Cooper says he’s still doing shows that pit good against evil, but notes that “the devil doesn’t ever beat God.”
Cooper told reporters in Britain, where he’s performing this week, that his father was a pastor and his grandfather was an evangelist. He, however, was the prodigal son “who ran away out into the world and became the poster boy for everything wrong and then came back.”
Early in his career, Cooper says he became immersed in his evil image, but now it’s just a character he plays on stage in sort of a “morality play.” In real life, Alice Cooper says he likes to golf and is happily married to a woman whose father is a pastor.