Simplicity

 Alice Cooper – born Vincent Damon Furnier in 1948 – doesn’t like to mix politics with rock & roll. "I don’t look at Bono, Sting and Bruce Springsteen as political. I see them as being humanitarian. I’ll contribute to anything humanitarian; helping people who can’t help themselves.” Am I the only one who finds it disturbing that the godfather of shock rock is seventy-three this year? Maybe it’s because it puts my own age a little too close to seventy-three for comfort. He went on to say, “When musicians are telling people who to vote for, I think that’s an abuse of power. You’re telling your fans not to think for themselves, just to think like you. Rock & roll is about freedom, and that’s not freedom. I want my shows to take you as far away as possible from politics. It’s supposed to be an escape from the world we’re living in.”