10 Greatest Career Resurrections In Rock History

Given how reserved the music buying public was in the '70s, it's a miracle that Alice Cooper even managed to see success at all. While coming together under the wing of Frank Zappa, it felt like the notoriety alone drove the band to the top of the charts, with as many people focusing on the antics as they were singing along to tracks like School's Out and I'm Eighteen. That's the band though...how about Alice as a solo star?

Up until this point, Alice Cooper had always been a rock and roll act with a stellar frontman, but after Muscle of Love, the rest of the band decided to go their separate ways, leaving Alice himself on his own for the first time. Looking to go for broke, Alice and manager Shep Gordon laid everything on the line with Welcome to My Nightmare, putting every last dime they had into making the album.

This was the last do or die moment for Cooper, which made the afterglow that much sweeter when Nightmare became one of the biggest draws of his entire career. Being as much about macabre horror as the sticky as hell hooks, this was Cooper taking everything he had before and amplifying it that much further, which arrived with a vengeance once the live tour kicked in. After years of hiding in plain sight, this was the all natural nightmare that we all wanted to see.