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Speaker 1: From the United States of America and possibly from Transylvania

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Speaker 1: as well. I don't know who have you got for us.

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Speaker 2: I have brought in Alex Cooperlex, Alice Cooper.

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Speaker 1: Oh sugar, really, come on one job?

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Speaker 2: Shut up?

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Speaker 1: Meg? How are you? Mate? Alice? Where are you? I

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Speaker 1: haven't got him on the phone.

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Speaker 2: There is Phil, how are you?

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Speaker 1: The new single is called I'm Alice and it's out now.

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Speaker 1: The new album Road will be out on August twenty five.

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Speaker 1: By my reckoning, you must have released over thirty albums.

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: Back in the day, we used to do two albums

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Speaker 2: a year and then you would tour the rest of

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Speaker 2: the time. While you were on tour, you were writing

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Speaker 2: the next album, so there was never any downtime. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know. Now it seems like the way that music

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Speaker 2: is it is hitting a flux right now, where you

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Speaker 2: do an album every four years or something, which is

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Speaker 2: kind of lazy.

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, of course, Well you know what I

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Speaker 1: like because I'm a big Vinyl fan, and I remember

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Speaker 1: back in the day when I was at school, I

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Speaker 1: had welcome to my Nightmare, and now to go and

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Speaker 1: find the album. Even with inflation, the cost of vinyl.

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Speaker 1: It's probably three times more expensive.

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Speaker 2: Do you know that vinyl went up eighty five percent

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Speaker 2: last year in sales.

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Speaker 1: They should reduce the price of albums so you're not

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Speaker 1: paying fifty sixty bucks for a record, So that that

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Speaker 1: will continue for people to go out and actually own

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Speaker 1: that experience.

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Speaker 2: I agree with that. And on top of it, you're

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Speaker 2: finding more people buying record players. Now you're finding more

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Speaker 2: people buying stereos and it's mostly kids, Yeah, who are

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Speaker 2: tired of buying air. They go online and they buy

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Speaker 2: a song and they don't get anything.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's right, they just get the song.

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Speaker 2: You know, in our day, we would buy the album

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Speaker 2: and you see who produced it and who played on it,

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Speaker 2: and what the lyrics were. You owned a piece of

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Speaker 2: the band.

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Speaker 1: Well, I remember when I used to go out and

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Speaker 1: buy the Kiss albums when they first came out. You'd

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Speaker 1: go to the record shop. That in itself would be

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Speaker 1: an experience, and then you'd take it home and you'd

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Speaker 1: put it on the end of your bed and you'd

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Speaker 1: wake up in the middle of the night and have

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Speaker 1: a look over it. You know, that whole sort of

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Speaker 1: tactile experience that you know, hopefully you'll come back again.

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Speaker 2: I think that this generation revolting against the last generation.

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Speaker 2: I think the last generation was so high tech and

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Speaker 2: digital that this next generation is going we don't want

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Speaker 2: any part of that. We would rather put the record

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Speaker 2: on the turntable and put the needle down on the

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Speaker 2: record and hear it.

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Speaker 1: We talk about keeping up with the current trends in music,

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Speaker 1: but also you keep the retro feel as well. You

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Speaker 1: have a foot I think in both camps.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think I can help that. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's one of those things where I am an old

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Speaker 2: school rocker and I still believe that every song should

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Speaker 2: be guitar driven. So I surround myself with great guitar players.

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Speaker 1: Given the amount of experience that you've got in the

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Speaker 1: music industry, but dealing with people who are new to

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Speaker 1: the industry that don't have the sort of back catalog

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Speaker 1: of the history of that you've got, do you sometimes

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Speaker 1: feel like you have to go, Okay, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: do it your way, even though I know my way

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Speaker 1: is actually going to be more successful.

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Speaker 2: No. Actually, I love the way that it pushes me

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Speaker 2: in that direction.

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Speaker 1: The reason I think you have such an enduring career

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Speaker 1: is the fact that you A you're a nice guy,

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Speaker 1: but B that you still love doing it, that you

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Speaker 1: still have the hunger. And that's what I guess in

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Speaker 1: Jewish more than anything else, it really is.

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Speaker 2: You know, I listened to what's going on, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I listened to young bands, and I go, I get

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Speaker 2: what they're doing, but I don't get their attitudes. I

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Speaker 2: don't understand why young bands don't want to be outlawt.

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Speaker 1: Nineteen seventy five, you fell off stage on the Welcome

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Speaker 1: to My Not mid tour. You broke six ribs.

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Speaker 2: You know, that was one of those things where it

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Speaker 2: had nothing to do with alcohol either, because I was

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Speaker 2: totally sober on stage. I tripped on a wire and

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Speaker 2: fell like twelve feet into the audience and I hit

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Speaker 2: a photographer on the way down. And when I did,

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Speaker 2: I broke the six ribs. I had twenty eight bitches

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Speaker 2: in my head and still finished six more songs before

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden they started passing out.

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Speaker 1: Do you still have people getting down on the hands

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Speaker 1: and knees and got and went out worthy every day?

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Speaker 2: Every single day? And if I'm at an airport it's

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Speaker 2: even more. It's like three times a day in an airport.

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Speaker 1: Well, there'd be some people from overseas who may see

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Speaker 1: that happen and go he must be some kind of

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Speaker 1: prince or king. Yeah, Alice, it's a pleasure to talk

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Speaker 1: to you, my friend. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate that all.

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Speaker 1: Alex Cooper's brand new album is called Road. The new

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Speaker 1: single I'm Alice is out now. The album will be

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Speaker 1: out in August twenty five. And this is perfect for

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Speaker 1: you know, kids away Alice. Cooper's got a new song

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Speaker 1: aut What what do you Want