{"id":38327,"date":"2026-11-13T11:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T16:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/?p=38327"},"modified":"2026-11-13T11:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T16:22:36","slug":"me-alice-the-autobiography-of-alice-cooper-by-alice-cooper-as-told-to-steven-gaines-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/me-alice-the-autobiography-of-alice-cooper-by-alice-cooper-as-told-to-steven-gaines-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Me, Alice: The Autobiography of Alice Cooper By Alice Cooper As Told To Steven Gaines&#8221; Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"38327\" class=\"elementor elementor-38327\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-151af21 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"151af21\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d7980d9\" data-id=\"d7980d9\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6fd27eb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6fd27eb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>One of my favorite singer\/songwriter\/performers Alice Cooper released his first &#8220;autobiography&#8221; in 1976.<\/p><p>It is called &#8220;Me Alice: The Autobiography Of Alice Cooper By Alice Cooper As Told To Steven Gaines&#8221;.<\/p><p>I first heard about this book some time after I became a fan of Alice.<\/p><p>I never have been able to find a physical copy of it that is affordable.<\/p><p>Although recently, I did finally find it transcribed on a Russian website.\u00a0 True story.<\/p><p>So, I could not resist reading it since I doubt I will ever be able to own a physical copy.<\/p><p>I have read many autobiographies (my favorite type of book), and I really enjoyed it.<\/p><p>Alice now says the book is a work of fiction (I saw a picture online which I have included below, as reference, with Alice&#8217;s autograph that he personalized to someone saying &#8220;Lies Lies Lies&#8221;) and maybe it is.\u00a0 But that doesn&#8217;t mean it is not worth reading.\u00a0 And who knows.\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s all true.\u00a0<\/p><p>Regardless, if you are a fan like I am or just a fan of rock autobiographies, this is a must read if you can find it.<\/p><p>It only goes up to 1976 and he&#8217;s done A LOT since then, but again, it is a great read, it still covers a lot of ground (lots of wild rock and roll stories), and I cannot recommend it enough.<\/p><p>The photo of both the book cover and inscription I mentioned above I found on Google Images.\u00a0 Hopefully I can someday own a physical copy and put my own pictures on here, but I just wanted to have them here as reference.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8ac6ec1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"8ac6ec1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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It is called &#8220;Me Alice: The Autobiography Of Alice Cooper By Alice Cooper As Told To Steven Gaines&#8221;. I first heard about this book some time after I became a fan of Alice. I never have been able to find a physical copy of it that is affordable. Although recently, I did finally find it transcribed on a Russian website.\u00a0 True story. So, I could not resist reading it since I doubt I will ever be able to own a physical copy. I have read many autobiographies (my favorite type of book), and I really enjoyed it. Alice now says the book is a work of fiction (I saw a picture online which I have included below, as reference, with Alice&#8217;s autograph that he personalized to someone saying &#8220;Lies Lies Lies&#8221;) and maybe it is.\u00a0 But that doesn&#8217;t mean it is not worth reading.\u00a0 And who knows.\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s all true.\u00a0 Regardless, if you are a fan like I am or just a fan of rock autobiographies, this is a must read if you can find it. It only goes up to 1976 and he&#8217;s done A LOT since then, but again, it is a great read, it still covers a lot of ground (lots of wild rock and roll stories), and I cannot recommend it enough. The photo of both the book cover and inscription I mentioned above I found on Google Images.\u00a0 Hopefully I can someday own a physical copy and put my own pictures on here, but I just wanted to have them here as reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-book-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38327"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38337,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38327\/revisions\/38337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}