ALICE COOPER: Video Footage, Photos From ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Induction Ceremony

March 15, 2011

Legendary rocker Alice Cooper was inducted into the 2011 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame last night (Monday, March 14) at New York City's Waldorf Astoria. Cooper came to the event wearing bloody clothes and draping a yellow boa constrictor over his shoulders.

Cooper was inducted by recent touring partner Rob Zombie, who said during his introduction, "Alice Cooper invented the rock show. Before Alice Cooper, there was no rock show. They're more than a band. They were more like a murderous gang of drag queens — in a good way."

Cooper and the original Alice Cooper band played "Eighteen", "Under My Wheels" and "School's Out", after which Alice gave his acceptance speech, "We've always been a hard-rock band," he said. "We just wanted to decorate it a little bit differently." He also saluted guitarist Glen Buxton, who died of complications from pneumonia in 1997, calling him "the heart and soul of the band, as black and dark as it may be."

Check out photos from last night's Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony:

Wire Image:

* Press Room
* Show
* Dinner
* Backstage And Audience

Film Magic:

* Press Room
* Show

Alice recently told The Pulse Of Radio that the importance of Alice Cooper to the theatrical side of '70s rock can never — and should never — be undervalued or underestimated. "Y'know, you can't ignore Alice. When you say '70s, and you say (David) Bowie, and Elton (John),and you say. . . y'know, you can't say KISS without saying Alice. That whole era of theatrical rock — you really can't mention that era without mentioning Alice. I don't know how you can keep pretending like we didn't happen. I mean, we were like the beginning of all that! And on top of that, if we were just the beginning and didn't — and weren't successful, if would be different — but, I mean, we had 14 top 40 singles, we sold 50 million albums — very hard to ignore Alice."

Highlights of the 2010 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame will air on Sunday, March 20 on the Fuse network.

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"Eighteen" performance clip:

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