Alice Cooper has announced the release of his definitive autobiography, ‘Devil on my Shoulder’, published by Ebury Spotlight on 8th October 2026. This long-awaited autobiography finally lifts the lid on one of the greatest lives in music.
Building on over sixty years of rock folklore, Cooper will support the book’s launch with an intimate UK speaking tour. Each evening will feature the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee in conversation with a special guest moderator, followed by an audience Q&A, offering fans a rare glimpse behind the greasepaint and guillotines. We were lucky enough to see Alice perform with The Stranglers and Wayne Kramer’s MC50 a few years ago, read our review here.
There are two, seemingly irreconcilable, Alice Coopers – the murderous, morally corrupt theatrical character who threatened the moral fibre of the western world… and the man who plays him, a sober pastor’s son who has been happily married for 50 years. Along the way, the two became schizophrenically intertwined. And in a haze of pioneering rock n roll, alcohol, drugs, iconic songs and wild gigs, guillotines, slaughtered chickens, legendary friends, rumours, snakes, Ouija boards, surrealism, house fires and car crashes – they nearly killed each other.
With a career spanning six decades, Alice’s story features witty, intimate anecdotes featuring true legends such as Salvador Dalí, Bob Hope, John Lennon, Groucho Marx, Vincent Price, Frank Sinatra, Erroll Flynn, Bette Davis, Jim Hendrix, Gerald Ford, Andy Warhol, Tiger Woods, to name a few, but he’s also an acute observer of dysfunction and despair, wildness and criminality, urges and addictions, transgressions and human goodness. And so he tells his story from both perspectives: angel on one shoulder, devil on the other.
Alice Cooper’s ‘Devil on my Shoulder’ Book Tour stops off at Brighton Dome on Wednesday 14th October.
Members pre-sale: Thursday 12th March, 10am | General on-sale: Friday 13th March, 10am. Tickets can be booked in person or online here.
Photo credit: Mike Tudor.
