Alice Cooper recently had an interview and he revealed that he assumed The Beatles would remain as a group had John Lennon not been assassinated in 1980. As for the reason, Alice showed their friendship bonds and told how John would react when someone spoke ill of Paul:
“Here’s the thing about them. When they were after each other’s throats, when it came to the breakup and all that stuff, if anybody in the ‘Vampires’ back in those days — that was our drinking club — if anybody said anything bad about Paul, John would take a swing at you. Because that was his best friend.”
Cooper also mentioned how Paul reacted if anyone spoke badly about Lennon:
“If anybody said anything about John to Paul, Paul was not like that, but Paul would walk out of the room; he’d just walk out. Because you are not allowed to talk about their best friends. They were best friends no matter what was going on in the whole thing.”
Alice Cooper frontman shared his opinions about how McCartney and Lennon gradually diversed in their worldviews:
“One went one way and one went the other. I think John wanted to be more political; Paul was not into that that much. John was always trying to get me into politics, and I said, ‘John, you’re trying to save the world. I’m just trying to entertain them.'”
In a separate interview, Alice Cooper also revealed that he is heavily influenced by The Beatles, and appreciated them more than he appreciated Queen:
“It was the first one that totally knocked me out because I’d never heard anything like that before. We were listening to the Beach Boys and the Four Seasons, and all of a sudden, here’s this band coming along with all this hair and Beatle boots and these suits, and they were singing these songs that you could hear them one time, and you knew them. I’ve always said this, and people might disagree with me, but it’s easier to write something like ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ than it is to write something like ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand.’ I’m still pretty sure they’re aliens. I don’t think they’re from this planet.”
You can listen to the whole interview below.
