| Welcome to My Nightmare | ||||
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 Cover art by Drew Struzan | ||||
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| Released | February 28, 1975[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1974–1975 | |||
| Studio | Soundstage (Toronto); Record Plant East, Electric Lady and A&R Studios (New York City) | |||
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| Length | 43:19 | |||
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| Producer | Bob Ezrin | |||
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Welcome to My Nightmare is the debut solo studio album by American rock musician Alice Cooper, released on February 28, 1975 by Atlantic Records. A concept album, its songs played in sequence form a journey through the nightmares of a child named Steven. The album inspired the Alice Cooper: The Nightmare TV special, a worldwide concert tour in 1975, and his Welcome to My Nightmare concert film in 1976. The tour was one of the most over-the-top excursions of that era. Most of Lou Reed's band joined Cooper for this record. Welcome to My Nightmare is his only album under the Atlantic Records label in North America; internationally, it was released on the ABC subsidiary Anchor Records (also his only album for that label).
The cover artwork was created by Drew Struzan for Pacific Eye & Ear. Rolling Stone would later rank it ninetieth on the list of the "Top 100 Album Covers of All Time".[4] Famed horror film star Vincent Price provided a monologue in the song "Devil's Food". The song "Escape" was a rewrite of a song by the Hollywood Stars from their shelved album Shine Like a Radio – The Great Lost 1974 Album, which was finally released in 2013.[5][6] The ballad "Only Women Bleed", released as a single, is a song originally composed by guitarist Dick Wagner for his late-1960s band the Frost, with a new title provided by Cooper and revised lyrics written by Wagner and Cooper.[7] The remastered CD version adds three alternate version bonus tracks.
A sequel concept album, Welcome 2 My Nightmare, was released in 2011.
- ^ "BPI".
- ^ "Rolling Stone's Best Glam Rock Albums of All Time".
- ^ "Great Rock Discography". p. 170.
- ^ "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Album Covers". Rate Your Music. November 14, 1991. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
- ^ "MorleyViews: Kim Fowley (Part One)". AntiMusic.com.
- ^ "Shine Like a Radio: The Great Lost 1974 album". Light In The Attic Records.
- ^ Weber, Barry. "Only Women Bleed – Alice Cooper : Listen, Appearances, Song Review". AllMusic. Retrieved May 13, 2013.