Alice Cooper was a patient at the Cornell Medical Center, a sanitarium located near the city of White Plains in Westchester County, New York.
At 29-years-old, Cooper was undergoing treatment for alcoholism. “This was pretty much at the height of my career,” he says. “But in that hospital, none of the other patients had any idea who Alice Cooper was.
And the reason for that was very simple. The other patients were all insane!” Drying out in a ward populated by patients with severe mental disorders was an experience that Cooper describes as: “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and beyond!” And out of this experience came the inspiration for one of the greatest albums of his entire career.
The recovery he made at Cornell would prove only temporary: he would relapse after one year, before finally conquering his addiction in 1983.
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