music concerts, from electric chairs and guillotines to reptiles and even baby dolls.Of course, there was also that one infamous gig incident with a chicken that has become etched into rock history - although not all of the gory details were true.To celebrate the musician's 74th birthday, Daily Star has dug into the wild life of Alice Cooper.Like many of his fellow rock stars, the School's Out singer struggled with alcohol abuse back in the day, and his booze battle peaked in the 1970s and early 80s.He opened up about his alcohol addiction in his audiobook - Who I Really Am: Diary of a Vampire - where he explained he tried "many cures, lots of different doctors, lots of different methods, nothing worked."Cooper, who was born Vincent Damon Furnier, confessed he used to cry before playing his shows as he knew how much he would need to drink in order to finish the gig.He said: "It just kept getting worse.
I loved doing the show, I hated doing the show. I loved my life, but I hated my life. I could be so much better than this.The singer went on: "I was drinking more and more.
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