"We played the Toronto Peace Festival with John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and the Doors. While we were on, somebody from the audience threw a chicken on stage. I'm from Detroit, I'm not a farm kid. I figured a chicken had wings, it'll fly away. So I took the chicken and threw it and it didn't fly. It went into the audience. Blood everywhere. The next day, everybody's reading, 'Alice Cooper rips chicken's head off, drinks blood.' Zappa called me. He said, 'Whatever you did, keep doing it.' To this day, wherever I'm booked the ASPCA is usually there, too."
This event eventually turned to legend, and even now the spirit of the Chicken lives on in the Cooper camp. We have lots of rubber chickens on the road with us, most of them were thrown onstage during shows. This page is dedicated to the original chicken, and the tragic humor that is his legacy. Check back often to see new arrivals to Coop's Coop, and if you come to a show, bring a chicken! You never know, it might just travel the world with us... And for God's sake, don't bring a live chicken!