TESTIMONIES: Yes, It’s True, Alice Cooper is a Follower of Jesus
Technically, HillFaith is on vacation through the Labor Day weekend, but when I watched Pastor Greg Laurie’s interview with Alice Cooper — yes, that Alice Cooper of hard rock/heavy metal fame — I knew this one had to get posted today.
Cooper epitomized the hard-core essence of hard-rock/heavy metal music in the late 1960s and much of the 1970s. The concerts were wild, the pre-parties were wild, the post-parties were wild, it was party/booze/sex/drugs.
But one morning Cooper woke up, looked around, his eyes were opened to the stark reality about himself, and he recognized what he needed more than anything else was the saving grace of Jesus Christ.
The following video of Cooper and Laurie is a bit long for HillFaith at just over 30 minutes, but I guarantee every section of it is worth your time, especially if you want to know what it was “really like” in those days and why today this legend of heavy metal is talking about Jesus: