Watch: HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES Joined By THE ROLLING STONES' RONNIE WOOD At European Tour Kick-Off

HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES kicked off their first tour in more than three years Wednesday night (August 12) at The O2 Arena in London, United Kingdom.

Named for a pack of famous musicians that legendary rocker Alice Cooper used to drink with in the early 1970s, including John Lennon and Keith Moon, HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES consist of AEROSMITH's Joe Perry, actor Johnny Depp and Cooper, along with producer and songwriter Tommy Henriksen.

HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES' 23-song set in London included Cooper's "School's Out" and AEROSMITH's "Livin' On The Edge", along with covers of THE WHO's "Baba O'Riley", AC/DC's "Highway To Hell" and THE VELVET UNDERGROUND's "Venus In Furs".

Joining HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES on stage at the end of the night was THE ROLLING STONES' Ronnie Wood, who came up for renditions of THE STONES' "Brown Sugar" as well as the blues standard "Train Kept A-Rollin'", which AEROSMITH covered on its 1974 album "Get Your Wings".

"We now bring out the most deadly British vampire," Cooper told the audience about Wood.

As part of the summer 2026 European tour, HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES will also perform at Cardiff Castle for the Depot Live series, Scarborough Open Air Theatre, Glasgow's OVO Hydro, Manchester's AO Arena, Birmingham's Utilita Arena, Colchester Castle Summer Series and Live At The Piece Hall in Halifax between August 12 and 22. They will then travel across mainland Europe between August 25 and September 2, playing in Nuremberg, Paris, Cologne, Hamburg, Milan and Este.

Cooper, Perry and Depp first came together to record in 2015, bonding over a shared love of their favorite songs and a desire to celebrate their "dead, drunk friends" by playing the songs of the fallen heroes. Riotous performances ensued around the world.

Six years ago, Cooper told Billboard about his chemistry with Depp and Perry: "That's a very odd thing about this. You've got three alpha males who are used to running the show, and all of a sudden, three guys are sitting there with zero arguments. The whole thing is, 'Okay, let's try that.' Every time they would send me a track with scratch vocals on it, if I worked on it and chopped it up and did my thing, it would turn into an Alice song. I took my fingerprints off of it. I would hear the song and say, 'Let's do it as it was written.' My instinct might be to say that this part goes too long or the intro goes too long, but that's what makes it interesting."

Regarding HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES' decision to record a second album as a follow-up to 2015's "Hollywood Vampires", which debuted at No. 43 on the Billboard 200, Cooper said: "We looked at each other and went, 'Let's do another album, but let's make this one original.' And just like that, Johnny was writing, Joe was writing, Tommy was writing, I was writing … and we just all kind of put it together while I was on tour. Tommy produced it, and the next thing you know, we had an album. The cool thing about it is that it doesn’t sound like an Alice album, it doesn't sound like an AEROSMITH album: It sounds like a HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES album."

HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES released their first live album, "Live In Rio", in June 2023 via earMUSIC. The LP was recorded when the HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES played their biggest and most legendary gig in front of more than 100,000 fans at the Rock In Rio festival in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil in September 2015.