Devil on his shoulder...

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Week 43, up and at 'em, kind of...

Breakfast and then out to The Gyle for our pensioner flu vaccinations...

Picked up a couple of new light bulbs for the upstairs rooms, after the laptop room's gave up the ghost yesterday...

Before...

After...

Worth it!

A Monday...

...of which the next few hours were spent mucking about but not getting this up to date for the Dublin trip and the weekend just past...

We did enjoy a couple of episodes of the first ever series of (the best version of) "Poirot" (with David Suchet), plus home made chicken soup and some chicken on a roll (after last night's, erm, chicken)...

Then, down the hill and on to the bus to that Glasgow...

Too late in the day really for any record shop trawling so, we headed to The Merchant for drinks...

...and, from there, on to Rishi's...

...for a top tea of unpictured pakora and a Lamb Karai...

...and a Chicken Jahlfrezi...

...with Naan and rice...

Yum...

Around 6:45, to the Pavillion Theatre for an Evening with Alice Cooper, in conversation re his new Autobiography ("Devil on My Shoulder"), receiving a copy each as we entered...

The pre-show (and between "sets") included a slide show, soundtracked by Alice's personal picks from across his and the original group's discography...

Here are a few...

Getting along nicely with wife Sheryl...

The original band...

Second from the left in the picture above, from their 1st LP, "Pretties For You", is Lead Guitarist Glen Buxton (composer of the famous opening riff from "School's Out") - who passed away on this very day back in 1997, aged just 49...

With then long-time girlfriend Cindy Lang, John Lennon, and Lennon's then girlfriend, May Pang (who later married Tony Visconti)...

Lemmy...

The group's final iteration of The Nazz, before becoming Alice Cooper...

The Spiders, with John Tatum and John Speer - pre Michael Bruce & Neal Smith...

Vincent Price...

Getting along well with his daughter, Calico...

Dave Grohl...

Jeff Beck...

Joe Perry & Johnny Depp...

Ozzy Osbourne...

The originals back together, with Jack Black...

Frank Sinatra...

Sylvester Stallone...

Steve Tyler, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page...

The original band were great fands of the Yardbirds, once supporting them in Arizona by going on and playing a covers set comprised entirely of Yardbirds songs...

Mr Price again...

Andy Warhol...

Cindy Lang bought Alice a Warhol print "Electric Chair" for $2,500 and it was forgotten about for years before being found rolled in a tube in a warehouse of old props...

It's worth around $12m...

But, although an authentic original, it's unsigned...

James Randi - serial debunker - the magician's magician, The Amazing Randi...

Creator of the guillotine...

Warhol again...

Bernie Taupin...

Having a the best tine with his wife and daughter...

Welcome to my Nightmare...

Salvador Dali...

With his mum and dad...

The originals with producer Bob Ezrin...

Alice and Bob more recently...

Outside "The Copper Mansion", Connecticut - since burned down...

Mae West and Roger Moore...

With the GTOs...

The original Hollywood Vampires...

Liza Minelli...

With his mum and dad in the late 70's...

Early 80's - the Blackout years...

With Kane Roberts, the comeback...

Bringing London traffic to a stand-still...

Paul McCartney, Joe Perry & Bob Ezrin...

With sister Nickie in 1964...

The first performance, miming, with Beatle wigs...

Vincent Price again...

Dali...

Groucho Marx...

Ringo Starr...

A full house...

...was treated to two 50 minute sessions of interview (with Billy Sloan), book readings and some Q&A with members of the audience to round things off...

Was it as good as a performance?

It was different from a performance but every bit as enjoyable...

Certainly a night to remember for a 54 year long Alice Cooper afficionado...

Highlight of the Day: Alice Cooper of course...

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