Vincent Damon Furnier has put new meaning to the phrase taking your work home. The Detroit native renamed himself Alice Cooper after his successful rock band of the same name rose to stardom.

The original group, comprised of guitarist Mike Bruce, guitarist Glen Buxton, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith, moved to California in 1968 and signed with Straight Records, releasing their debut album Pretties for You in 1969. A move back to Detroit after a somewhat failed Los Angeles following, the groups third album, 1971's Love it to Death, proved successful, producing #21 hit single "Eighteen" and going gold. Their breakthrough record, 1972's School's Out, sold over a million copies and peaked at number two on the charts, proving that Alice Cooper was becoming a rock icon.

However, just a year later the group parted ways after another unsuccessful album, and Furnier, now officially named Alice Cooper, moved on to his solo career. The rest of the guys, under the name Billion Dollar Babies, released another album with the hit "No More Mr. Nice Guy," but reached little success without their headliner. Both Bruce and Smith recorded solo albums, which were never released. Meanwhile, Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits, released in 1974, made the Top Ten Hits.

For his first solo album, Cooper hired Lou Reed's backing band from Rock 'N' Roll Animal and Welcome to My Nightmare proved that Cooper still had the guts to perform up to his former glory. His second album came at a time when Cooper's alcoholism proved paramount, which he then commercialized on his rehab stint by releasing 1978's From the Inside. The early 80's proved that hard rockers were moving on from an era of theatrics, as Cooper only returned to the spotlight with 1989's Trash after a few on screen cameos in horror film. Cooper began releasing album after album into the most recent millennium, his more recent Along Came a Spider in 2008.