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Alice Cooper remembers when she almost died hanged on stage

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Alice Cooper remembers when she almost died hanged on stage

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Alice Cooper reminisced about the night she nearly died during a rehearsal for the tricks of her show. The test for the false hanging number was held at Wembley Stadium, London, England, in 1988.

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The number of the hanging worked for years until finally passing near to end in tragedy.

Read what he said:

“Everything has its stress limit and after doing so many shows, I never thought about changing the wire. You know, I figured it’ll last forever. The wire snaps. I could hear the rope hit my chin and in an instant I flipped my head back.

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“That must’ve been a fraction of a second because if it caught my chin it would have been a different result. It went over my neck and gave me a pretty good burn. I went down to the floor and pretty much blacked out.”

Despite the fright, Alice Cooper never thought of leaving the tricks out of her shows. “When I go to the circus and there’s a guy locked up with 12 tigers, there’s always a chance one of the tigers will not understand the message.” When you see a guy with a tight rope, he knows he can witness a tragedy in a second. I wanted this in my show: that what you’re seeing is the last night of Alice Cooper, ” he said.

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