Rare Alice Cooper Photos!

If you came here from Facebook or Twitter, you may be expecting this to be an April Fool's Day joke, like my previous post - perhaps pictures of a little girl named Alice Cooper. Some of you might be expecting legitimate photos of the Alice Cooper, the great seventies shock rocker.  Whatever you expected upon clicking on the social network link you came from, remember - YOU ASKED FOR IT! :-D

These are actual photos of Alice Cooper, from 1978. That's not the joke. The joke is what they show Alice Cooper doing!

In the first picture, a cheesily mustachioed Alice is about to dunk in his face in a cream pie, and with so much force that he appears ready to engage in mortal combat with it.

In the second picture, Alice lifts his head up gingerly after dunking his face, he and his moustache still involved in a death match with the cream pie.  Alice is almost down for the count but not out. Meanwhile, ironically, a boxing match is airing on a television set.

Finally, in the third picture, Alice has plopped his face back into the pie.  The fight is over - the pie wins!!  

There are not Photoshop creations. In fact, they're stills from the disastrous 1978 Beatles-inspired movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which starred the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton. In the movie, Alice plays a villainous hypnotist trying to help an evil rock band - which is not played by the Bee Gees! - take over the world.  Most of the characters in this movie were named for characters in Beatles songs, but Alice's character was given the inexplicable awful-pun name of Father Sun.

So how did Alice end up in the pie?  Barry Gibb threw him into it.

Alice's scene would make even less sense if I tried to explain the context of it.  

Happy April Fool's Day. :-D