April 7th, 1988 - the night we almost lost Alice!
It was during the ''Raise Your Fist And Yell' tour when tragedy nearly happened, and Alice hung himself for real while rehearsing the execution on stage at Wembley Stadium
With guidance from stage magician James Randi, he wore a harness connected to thick piano wire hanging from the rafters to hoist himself up. This wire was supposed to keep the actual noose...
Alice said:
"When I go to the circus and there’s a guy in a cage with 12 tigers, there’s always a chance that one of the tigers didn’t get the message. When you see a guy on a tight wire, you know that there may be a second you witness a tragedy. I always wanted that in our show: What they’re seeing could be the last night of Alice Cooper."
Regular readers of this thread will know that this particular stunt had been pulled off hundreds of times before without a hitch. However, Alice
'never even thought about changing the wire...' "You know, I figured it’ll last forever," he said
Then suddenly, while he was practicing the stunt, he heard a snap. The wire broke and the rope hit his chin.
"In an instant I flipped my head back. That must’ve been a fraction of a second because if it caught my chin it would have been a different result. It went over my neck and gave me a pretty good burn. I went down to the floor and pretty much blacked out."
Fortunately, Cooper’s quick-thinking saved his life. He was able to slip his neck out of the rope and tumble onto the stage. He was unconscious, but still breathing at the time,
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