Removed from the big stages and relieved of nearly all his theatrical props, Alice Cooper still had plenty of cards up his sleeve when he played a one-off gig in London’s most celebrated basement dive. A guest cameo from Johnny Depp, who turned up towards the end of the show to play guitar on I’m Eighteen and School’s Out was a pretty cool touch.
Bespectacled and wearing an English golf cap, Depp couldn’t have looked less like Jack Sparrow, but that didn’t deter Cooper from marking the actor’s arrival with an amusing anecdote about Keith Richards, the man otherwise known as the fictional pirate captain’s father.
Cooper was in an unusually loquacious mood. “I’m talking to you because I’m not Alice tonight,” he told the