Alice Cooper, continuing and kicking...

Seventy-five is an auspicious age for any rock star-especially if you're one who cavorts with snakes and gets your head chopped off every night on stage. Alice Cooper turned 75 in February, but the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame shock rock pioneer is still more active and working harder than artists a third of his age. He released a new studio album (his 29th) - Road, recorded with his regular touring band and longtime producer Bob Ezrin-at the end of August, following deluxe reissues of his Killer (1971) and School's Out (1972) classics and a new mix of 1973's chart ­topping Billion Dollar Babies.

Alice Cooper also came up with a new stage show he debuted at the end of April and has been on the road all year since, both on his own (including the Freaks on Parade 2023 tour with Rob Zombie and a support slot on Def Leppard and Motley Crue's The World Tour) and with the Hollywood Vampires, the all-star collective with Johnny Depp and Aerosmith's Joe Perry that launched during 2013.

Other projects he maintains include his Solid Rock Teen Centers in Phoenix, AZ where he resides, and Mesa, AZ and his "Nights With Alice Cooper" radio show that's currently on hiatus due to an ownership change with his syndicator but that he hopes to bring back in the near future. The road has been a long one, but Cooper is happy to keep it under his wheels for the foreseeable future...