Alice Cooper will release a new box set featuring his first four solo albums with a selection of rarities on July 31.
The Studio Albums 1975-1978 is available in 5LP and 5CD configurations exclusively at rhino.com. 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."
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.
The gold-certified Alice Cooper Goes to Hell 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 No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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