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From the Inside is the fourth solo studio album by American rock singer Alice Cooper, released in December 1978 by Warner Bros. Records. It is a concept album about Cooper's stay in a New York asylum due to his alcoholism.
Each of the characters in the songs were based on actual people Cooper met in the asylum.
Among other collaborators, the album features three longtime Elton John associates: lyricist Bernie Taupin, guitarist Davey Johnstone and bassist Dee Murray.
From the Inside was hardly Alice Cooper's best-selling or most accessible album.
An intensely personal account of his recovery from substance abuse, it tends to be one of his most abstract efforts and lacks the immediacy of Billion Dollar Babies, Welcome to My Nightmare, or Alice Cooper Goes to Hell.
There are no rock anthems here à la "School's Out" or "18" and no celebrations of shock value like "I Love the Dead" or "The Black Widow."
Instead, the singer honestly documents the way he confronted his demons and emerged victorious. Sometimes, this introspective effort is too self-indulgent and intellectual for its own good, but at its best as on "How You Gonna See Me Now", From the Inside is as riveting as it in inspiring.
The lead single from the album was the power ballad "How You Gonna See Me Now", which peaked at No. 12 in the US Hot 100 chart. A music video was also created for it. The 'Madhouse Rocks Tour' in support of From the Inside lasted from February to April 1979 and saw all songs from the album as regular parts of the setlist except "Millie and Billie", "For Veronica’s Sake" and "Jackknife Johnny".
Side A
A1. From the Inside (3:55)
A2. Wish I Were Born in Beverly Hills (3:38)
A3. The Quiet Room (3:52)
A4. Nurse Rozetta (4:15)
A5. Millie and Billie (with Marcy Levy) (4:15)
Side B
B1. Serious (2:44)
B2. How You Gonna See Me Now (3:57)
B3. For Veronica’s Sake (3:37)
B4. Jackknife Johnny (3:45)
B5. Inmates (We’re All Crazy) (5:03)
Musicians
- Alice Cooper – vocals
Addiotional musicians
- Dick Wagner – lead guitar
- David Foster – keyboards
- Davey Johnstone – lead guitar, backing vocals
- David Hungate – bass
- Dee Murray – bass
- Dennis Conway – drums
- Fred Mandel – keyboards
- John Pierce – bass
- Jim Keltner – percussion
- Jay Graydon – guitar
- Lee Sklar – bass
- Michael Ricciardella – drums
- Marcy Levy – co-lead vocals (track 5)
- Steve Lukather – guitar
- Robbie King – keyboards
- Rick Shlosser – drums
- Rick Nielsen – guitar
- Bill Champlin, Kiki Dee, Flo & Eddie, Tom Kelly, Bobby Kimball, Sheryl Cooper, The Totally Committed Choir – backing vocals
Additional personnel
- David Foster – producer
- Humberto Gatica, Keith Olsen, David De Vore, Tom Knox, Howard Steele – engineers
- Jay Graydon, Steve Porcaro – synthesizer programing
- Frank DeCaro – strings conductor
- Alan Dockery – photography
- Lauren Kinde – front sleeve photo
- Pacific Eye and Ear – album concept and design
Notes
Release: 1978
Format: LP, Vinyl
Genre: Rock
Label: Warner Bros. Records
Catalog# WB 56577
Vinyl: Goed (VG)
Cover: Goed (VG)
Prijs: €10,00
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