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We all have a song that changed us, which took our brain and smashed it into a thousand tiny pieces, only to rearrange it in an entirely new way. In a recent interview, Alice Cooper named the song that did that for him. Below, we take a look at how the music of The Beatles changed Cooper’s life entirely.

Alice Cooper is as synonymous with American rock music as the Les Paul guitar. With his raspy wail and theatrical stage shows, Cooper helped forge heavy metal aesthetics, drawing from horror and vaudeville to create a new form of rock music, which embraced the camp and the obtuse to great effect. Today, he is regarded as the godfather of shock-rock.

Cooper was born in 1948 and grew up on a diet of spiritual music and classic blues. He recalls that Chuck Berry’s ‘Maybellene’ was the first song he ever heard: “I lived in Detroit and my parents were very much into music. My Dad was a big band guy. I remember my uncle coming over and putting a 45 on and it was Chuck Berry. I thought it was the greatest thing I’d ever heard. Chuck Berry was the basis of everything that we do and the greatest lyricist of all time –he could tell a story in three minutes. That’s how I learned to write.”

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