Snarky answer: Because Christians, by virtue of having faith in Christ, are automatically forgiven for any and all sins they commit. Alice Cooper could rape and murder 10,000 nuns and orphans and he would still go to heaven, whereas the most noble, altruistic Buddhist is doomed to burn in hell forever. Them’s the breaks, sorry.
Less snarky answer: As others have said, it’s an act. Some Christian sects may take umbrage with his stage antics, but obviously, Alice himself does not.
Similarly, Tom Araya of Slayer is a practicing Roman Catholic. In the documentary Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey, he says the horror imagery of Slayer’s music is mere fantasy, only a stage act, and doesn’t conflict with his faith at all. (However, he did hem and haw when the interviewer asked why his new album was entitled God Hates Us All…)
Try turning this around. If Cooper was an atheist, and a Christian suggested that it would be impossible for Cooper to be a decent, moral person given the kind of music he makes, what would be your reaction? Now, why would your reaction to that idea change because Cooper is a Christian? If it’s possible for an atheist to write songs about murder, chaos, and evil without actually supporting those things, then it’s equally possible for a Christan to write those songs without supporting them. Cooper’s whole stage act is a goof. Just because someone is a Christian, it doesn’t mean he can’t have a sense of irony.
Depending on your definition of “rock star” the motto of Simon LeBon from Duran Duran is “flirt, don’t squirt.” His wife (who was one of the original 80s supermodels) is known to come up and grab him by the scrotum and give a squeeze if she thinks he’s taking the flirting too far. They’ve been married 25 years this month.
That jibes with my experience of him at after-concert parties, he flirts and leers (has a preference for cleavage-y blondes) but doesn’t take anyone off in a dark corner and goes upstairs alone.
Pat Boone has admitted that early in his career as a pop star & before he became a Charismatic Christian he was unfaithful to his wife on occasion.
Vince Furnier has been a born-again Christian maybe 20 years now. When he made his commitment to Christ, he apparently had some concerns as to whether he should still portray Alice, but IIRC it was his father agreeing that it was like an actor doing a role & that Alice always got executed for his crimes at the end of the show which convinced Vince that he could keep up the act.
The Alice Cooper character is theater. It’s like Vincent Price or Christopher Lee playing horror characters. It’s also campy and tongue in cheek. It’s never serious. I don’t see any contradiction between Furnier’s stage act and his private faith. It’s not like he’s really advocating Satan worship or criminal behavior for real when he’s on stage.
Truth be told, it might not be so hard to be faithful if you were engaging in regular relations with the undisputed most attractive woman on the planet.
Sometimes it takes more time to charter a flight than to hop on the next commercial flight (our flight was notably not full). I can’t imagine why otherwise; I don’t buy the carbon footprint thing for a second.
Doubtful. We’re talking about a man who decided that he couldn’t perform for a while without his little army drab military hat, but lost it. So before a concert the next night in Italy, had someone go buy a duplicate hat in Los Angeles, buy it a first class seat and had it flown in said seat to him in Italy. Not via a courier, he bought a commercial, same day, first class international seat *for a $9 hat *from an army/navy surplus store in Compton. Then a driver went to the airport to retrieve it for him in a limo.
Getting back to the OP, what about Randy Bachman? Throughout his time with the Guess Who, he and Burton Cummings were on opposite sides of the ‘Sex, Drugs and Rock’n’Roll’ philosophy. Randy was in favour of only one of those three, and Cummings seemed determined to take Randy’s share of the sex and drugs.
At any rate, he has been married to Denise McCann since 1982. There’s nothing I’ve found so far that indicates he had a thing for groupies while with any of his bands.
He’s way too young to be in the running, but Brandon Flowers of the Killers is a Mormon and married his high school sweetheart. Most people, myself included, are surprised to find out the dude’s a Mormon. He named his first kid Ammon after the Book of Mormon prophet, and states that religion is very important to him.
