17 Things Only Alice Cooper Fans Will Understand

By Jack Morrell /

6. His Manager Is As Awesome As He Is, And Nearly As Famous

Shep Gordon, manager and svengali, has represented Alice for nearly fifty years. He€™s one of the most fearsome and respected men in the music industry, and the subject of a 2014 documentary entitled Supermensch: The Legend Of Shep Gordon, directed by Mike Myers (the guy behind the Austin Powers movies, not the giant masked serial killer). The man knows everyone, and everyone loves him: when I worked for Alice at his Halloween shows a few years ago, I was more nervous about meeting Shep than I was Alice.