Alice Cooper: The Nightmare

1975 television special

Alice Cooper: The Nightmare

Video by

Alice Cooper

Released| 1975 TV Special
1983 VHS & Betamax
2017 DVD
Genre|

* Fantasy
* Hard rock
* Heavy metal
* Shock rock

Length| 66 mins
Label| Warner Home Video
Alice Cooper chronology
| Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper
(1974)  | Alice Cooper: The Nightmare
(1975)  | Welcome to My Nightmare
(1976)

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Alice Cooper: The Nightmare was a conceptual television special showcasing the music of the Welcome to My Nightmare album by Alice Cooper. It originally broadcast in North America on April 25, 1975, by ABC.[1]

In the TV special, Alice Cooper stars as "Steven" who is trapped in a nightmare he can't wake up from and tries to escape. Vincent Price also appears throughout the special, starring as the "Spirit of the Nightmare". The special features the Welcome To My Nightmare album in its entirety, with the addition of the song "Ballad of Dwight Fry" from the album Love It to Death by the original Alice Cooper band.

In 1983 the TV special was released on VHS and Betamax home video in the US.

The TV special was released on DVD/Blu-ray titled Welcome to My Nightmare: Special Edition on September 8, 2017, which also serves as a re-release of the 1976 concert film Welcome to My Nightmare.[2]

## Trivia[edit]

* This special won an Emmy in 1976 for Outstanding Achievement in Video Tape Editing for a Special.[3]
* Its home video release gained a Grammy Awards nomination for Best Video Album in 1984[4] (it lost to Duran Duran).
* When it was originally broadcast on television in 1975, the lyrics to "Only Women Bleed" were slightly changed.[5] A portion of this version is featured on the Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts video, which was initially released in 1991.

## Track listing[edit]

1. "Welcome to My Nightmare"
2. "Devil's Food"
3. "Some Folks"
4. "Only Women Bleed"
5. "Cold Ethyl"
6. "The Black Widow"
7. "Years Ago"
8. "Department of Youth"
9. "Years Ago (Reprise)
10. "Steven"
11. "The Awakening"
12. "Ballad of Dwight Fry"
13. "Escape"
14. "The Awakening (Reprise)"
15. "Credits"

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Alice Cooper: The Nightmare (1975) (TV)". IMDb. Retrieved 2007-04-04.
2. ^ "Alice Cooper's 'Welcome to My Nightmare Special Edition' Coming to DVD".
3. ^ "Alice Cooper: The Nightmare (1975) (TV)". IMDb. Retrieved 2007-04-04.
4. ^ Sherman, Dale (2009). The Illustrated Collector's Guide to Alice Cooper, 10th Anniversary Edition. Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc. p. 172\. ISBN 978-1-894959-93-3.
5. ^ Sherman, Dale (2009). The Illustrated Collector's Guide to Alice Cooper, 10th Anniversary Edition. Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc. p. 171\. ISBN 978-1-894959-93-3.

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* Alice Cooper
* Chuck Garric
* Tommy Henriksen
* Glen Sobel
* Ryan Roxie
* Nita Strauss

* Original band members
* Former solo band members

Studio albums|

| with Alice Cooper (band)|

* Pretties for You
* Easy Action
* Love It to Death
* Killer
* School's Out
* Billion Dollar Babies
* Muscle of Love

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as Alice Cooper (solo)|

* Welcome to My Nightmare
* Alice Cooper Goes to Hell
* Lace and Whiskey
* From the Inside
* Flush the Fashion
* Special Forces
* Zipper Catches Skin
* DaDa
* Constrictor
* Raise Your Fist and Yell
* Trash
* Hey Stoopid
* The Last Temptation
* Brutal Planet
* Dragontown
* The Eyes of Alice Cooper
* Dirty Diamonds
* Along Came a Spider
* Welcome 2 My Nightmare
* Paranormal
* Detroit Stories
* Road

with Hollywood Vampires|

* Hollywood Vampires
* Rise

Live albums|

* The Alice Cooper Show
* Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival 1969, Volume IV
* A Fistful of Alice
* Brutally Live
* Live at Montreux 2005
* Live from the Astroturf

Singles|

* "Reflected"
* "I'm Eighteen"
* "Caught in a Dream"
* "Under My Wheels"
* "School's Out"
* "Elected"
* "Hello Hooray"
* "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
* "Billion Dollar Babies"
* "Halo of Flies"
* "Teenage Lament '74"
* "Only Women Bleed"
* "Department of Youth"
* "Welcome to My Nightmare"
* "I Never Cry"
* "You and Me"
* "How You Gonna See Me Now"
* "Clones (We're All)"
* "7 and 7 Is"
* "I Am the Future"
* "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)"
* "Teenage Frankenstein"
* "Freedom"
* "Poison"
* "Bed of Nails"
* "House of Fire"
* "Only My Heart Talkin'"
* "Hey Stoopid"
* "Love's a Loaded Gun"
* "Feed My Frankenstein"
* "Lost in America"
* "It's Me"
* "Brutal Planet"
* "Gimme"
* "Keepin' Halloween Alive"

Compilations
and box sets|

* School Days: The Early Recordings
* Greatest Hits
* Prince of Darkness
* Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival 1969, Volume IV
* Classicks
* The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper
* Mascara and Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper
* The Definitive Alice Cooper
* The Essentials: Alice Cooper
* Hell Is
* School's Out and Other Hits

Videography|

* Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper
* The Nightmare
* Welcome to My Nightmare
* Alice Cooper and Friends
* The Strange Case of Alice Cooper
* The Nightmare Returns
* Alice Cooper Trashes the World
* Brutally Live
* Live at Montreux 2005
* Super Duper Alice Cooper

Tours|

* Operation Rock & Roll
* Masters of Madness Tour

Related articles|

* Discography
* Filmography
* Nights with Alice Cooper
* The Hollywood Vampires

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