Alice Cooper Gets His Star

Cooper started out in the mid-'60s playing garage rock in Phoenix, Arizona (still home base for the rocker, with his popular Alice Cooperstown restaurant), but his appeal quickly spread beyond the music world. Though his hits were many -- "I'm Eighteen," "School's Out," and "Welcome To My Nightmare" among them -- it was his assaultive stage show that really put Alice into the headlines. Filled with macabre theatrics, Cooper's concerts (which incorporated such props as gallows and guillotines, boa constrictors and bloody baby dolls) became pop culture legend in the 1970s.

Naturally, Hollywood came calling and Alice began popping up in sometimes quirky/sometimes creepy cameos in films like Sextette, Prince Of Darkness, and Wayne's World. So it's only fitting the Tinseltown would finally deem Alice "worthy" of a spot on the Hollywood Boulevard sidewalk. Cooper's star -- the 2,243rd on the Walk Of Fame -- sits outside the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel, between Gene Autry's and Hugh Hefner's.

Alice arrived for the ceremony in full makeup and recalled earlier days struggling to make a living in the music business in Hollywood. "We would walk over the names of Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, and Bela Lugosi, never, ever thinking that our names would ever be on the Walk Of Fame. This is quite a privilege to be here," noted Cooper.

"I promise every time I walk down this street I will polish that little star." Rhino gave the Coop its ultimate honor a few years ago when it issued the career-spanning boxed set The Life And Crimes Of Alice Cooper. The 4-CD collection stretches from songs by his mid-'60s outfit The Spiders to the 1999 remix of "Hands Of Death" with Alice acolyte Rob Zombie.