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The 2016 election season has been possibly one of the most bizarre and contentious in recent history, and it just got weirder, because Alice Cooper is running for president. (But if the Republican Party can put a former reality star on its presidential ticket, maybe an aging '70s heavy-metal rocker isn't really that weird.)
The Alice Cooper for President campaign has actually been around since 1972, the year Richard Nixon was re-elected.
"Back then, to promote the brand of Alice Cooper, we always tried to do things that infuriated parents because we thought that would be the fastest path to getting their children to like us," said Shep Gordon, Cooper's longtime manager and author of They Call Me Supermensch: A Backstage Pass to the Amazing Worlds of Film, Food, and Rock'n’Roll.
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