Alice Cooper’s Third Memoir Becomes No. 1 Bestseller as the Most Accurate Account of the Rock Star’s Life

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After decades of larger-than-life tales, Alice Cooper ‘s latest memoir is the most accurate depiction of the rocker that fans have gotten so far, despite his reputation as a self-described unreliable storyteller.

Born Vincent Damon Furnier, the Godfather of Shock Rock revisits his life and career in Devil On My Shoulder , a 464-page memoir published Oct.

6, which he also narrates for the audiobook.

The memoir quickly became an international bestseller, topping charts across The New York Times, Amazon and The Sunday Times.

Cooper told Billboard that 90% of the stories in his third book are true, marking a change from his 1976 autobiography, Me, Alice: The Autobiography of Alice Cooper , which he dismissed as “a drunken rant,” and affirms that this account is more reliable.

“Nobody really pushed Me, Alice ,” Cooper recalled.

“Nobody pushed Golf Monster .

They were kind of OK, and they were fun.

But this was the book we actually took a lot of time on.” Cooper explained that the goal of his 2026 tome is not to invent a persona — since he’s already done that — but to reckon with the man behind it.

THIRD MEMOIR 'Devil on My Shoulder: A Memoir' by Alice Cooper No.

1 Bestseller $16.12 Buy Now at amazon $29.50 Buy Now at barnes & Noble $30.29 $32.50 7% off Buy Now at bookshop.org The “School’s Out” singer’s third memoir comes in hardcover, paperback, ebook and audiobook options — the latter narrated by Cooper himself.

Across the pages of Devil On My Shoulder , Alice Cooper revisits the addiction he battled in the ’70s and ’80s that eventually led to his sobriety, his return to Christianity and the tension between his stage character and the real him.