Alice Cooper - The Studio Albums 1975 - 1978 (Vinyl 5LP Box Set)

Alice Cooper The Studio Albums 1975 - 1978 on 5LP Box Set: Includes the First Four Solo Studio Albums, Plus a Bonus Disc of Rarities and Singles.

Alice Cooper’s 1975 platinum-certified solo debut, Welcome to My Nightmare, was the first of eight studio albums and the beginning of a new chapter in a legendary career that has haunted music for half a century. Rhino covers the early years in a new set featuring Cooper’s first four solo albums with a selection of rarities.

The Studio Albums 1975-1978 is available July 31 on 5LP Box Set. The albums include Welcome to My Nightmare (1975), Alice Cooper Goes to Hell (1976), Lace and Whiskey (1977), and From the Inside (1978). An album of bonus material adds seven tracks, including single versions of “Welcome to My Nightmare” and “You and Me.” (this LP is cut at 45RPM.)

After the original Alice Cooper band redefined rock with global anthems like “School’s Out” and “I’m Eighteen,” Cooper went solo in 1975 with Welcome to My Nightmare. Produced by Bob Ezrin, the concept album exploring a child’s nightmares was certified platinum, peaking at #5 on the Billboard 200. It was followed by a TV special, a groundbreaking theatrical world tour, and a concert film. Its concept continued a year later on the gold-certified Alice Cooper Goes to Hell, which introduced his biggest-selling single, “I Never Cry.”

Cooper shifted gears in 1977 on the platinum-certified Lace and Whiskey, adopting the persona of the bumbling, hard-drinking private investigator Maurice Escargot. It featured the Top 10 ballad “You and Me.” His fourth album in four years, 1978’s From the Inside is a concept album co-written with Bernie Taupin that draws directly from Cooper’s recent experience in an asylum. Produced by David Foster, the album includes the hit single, “How You Gonna See Me Now,” which peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100.

With a career spanning nearly six decades, Cooper has sold more than 50 million albums, headlined numerous sold-out tours, and fundamentally influenced the trajectory of hard rock and heavy metal. A cultural icon and 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Cooper continues to evolve as a creative force. He hosts the long-running national radio show “Alice’s Attic with Alice Cooper” and recently debuted “The Cooper Club,” a line of golf apparel. This October, he will release his long-awaited autobiography, Devil on My Shoulder, offering an unfiltered look at one of the most enduring careers in music history.