Don’t give up on Alice Cooper just yet, as the legendary musician has stated that retirement “doesn’t exist” in his vocabulary.
Although Alice Cooper is getting up there in age, the 72-year-old rocker doesn’t seem to be keen on retiring in the near future, as he revealed in a recent interview.
Chatting with Heather Brown on KZZK radio show Rock Road Home, the iconic musician was asked if he’d been thinking more on retirement, and if the current pandemic made him think about retiring more seriously.
“Not in the least,” he responded. “That word doesn’t exist in my vocabulary. A long, long time ago, I said if I come into your town and put on a show and nobody shows up, well, then I know I’m done. That hasn’t happened.”
Even though he notes that it’s not yet his time to call it quits, he is still surprised to be where he is at today, noting that not only is he still making music, but that he’s touring with two separate bands.
“At 72, I was not expecting to be in two touring bands. And the [Hollywood] Vampires are just like my band — everybody in that band are best friends. You’ve got Johnny Depp, Joe Perry and myself — three alpha males — and we’ve been together six years and I have never heard one argument. Everybody just goes, ‘Okay. Good idea. Let’s try that.'”
If it wasn’t enough to be touring in not one but two bands while in his 70s, Cooper also released a new single last month titled ‘Don’t Give Up’, which was released as a hopeful tune to get us through the hard times we currently face.
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“It’s a song about what we’ve all been going through right now and about keeping our heads up and fighting back together.”
Check out ‘Don’t Give Up’ by Alice Cooper:
