Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict [B1575]

2007 HCDJ 1st edition in nice clean condition. The man who invented shock rock tells the amazing and, yeah, shocking story of how he slayed his thirsty demons-with a golf club. It started one day when Cooper was watching a Star Trek rerun between concerts, bored and drunk on a quart-of-whiskey-a-day habit; a friend dragged the rocker out of his room and suggested a round of golf. Cooper has been a self-confessed golf addict ever since. Today he and his band still tour the world, playing some one hundred gigs a year . . . and three hundred days out of that year, Cooper is on the course.

Alice Cooper, Golf Monster is Cooper's tell-all memoir; in it he talks candidly about his entire life and career, as well as his struggles with alcohol, how he fell in love with the game of golf, how he dried out at a sanitarium back in the late '70s, and how he put the last nails in his addiction's coffin by getting up daily at 7 a.m. to play 36 holes. Alice has hilarious, touching, and sometimes surprising stories about so many of his friends: Led Zeppelin and the Doors, George Burns and Groucho Marx, golf legends like John Daly and Tiger Woods . . . everyone is here from Dalí to Elvis to Arnold Palmer. This is the story of Cooper's life, and also a story about golf. He rose from hacker to scratch golfer to serious Pro Am competitor and on to his status today as one of the best celebrity golfers around-all while rising through the rock 'n' roll ranks releasing platinum albums and selling out arenas with his legendary act.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Absolutely loved it! Great storytelling, what a fascinating life Alice has lived!! Highly recommend!"; "An in depth look into the life of Alice Cooper and his music career and his love of golf. Full of great stories of his time growing as a musician and life as a young man. The book also offers hope for anyone struggling with addiction!"; "Seeing the man performing an amazing show at 77 years old made me incredibly curious of how he kept at it. The book gives you a good enough idea of who the man behind the makeup is and why he does what he does so well."; "This book is humorous, inspiring, devastating and everything you think Mr. Cooper isn't. His life story includes the fact that Christianity and gold saved his life. And if that doesn't intrigue you further, I'd be surprised. A very good read."