Episode 9: Alice Cooper - Alice Cooper Goes to Hell

After Welcome to My Nightmare, and especially a hit single with "Only Women Bleed", Alice Cooper as a solo artist was continuing the same success as he had with the band called Alice Cooper.  The problem was that success was catching up with him in the form of alcoholism, sapping both his health and his creativity.  Still, guitarist Dick Wagner and producer and keyboard player Bob Ezrin managed to keep Alice going through the end of the '70s.  A second ballad, "I Never Cry", kept him on the charts, even if his second solo album was a warning of things to come.