Alice Cooper
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Killer, released in November 1971, was the fourth album from the original Alice Cooper band line-up of singer Alice Cooper, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, rhythm guitarist/keyboardist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith. But it was the group's second album to crystallize the hard rock sound for which Cooper would become known. This newly remastered Deluxe Edition features the original album on CD 1, including the chart entries "Under My Wheels" (No. 59 on the Hot 100) and "Be My Lover" (No. 49), plus alternate takes of "You Drive Me Nervous," "Under My Wheels," and "Dead Babies." The second CD has the previously unreleased live set at Puerto Rico's Mar y Sol Pop Festival recorded on April 2, 1972. Captured before the band re-entered the studio to record School's Out, the show features that album's "Public Animal # 9" as well as most of Killer and selections from Love It to Death including "I'm Eighteen." Also available on 3 LPs.