In 1981 Alice Cooper shot a TV Special in Paris for the french audience. It`s never been aired in the UK or US. This scarce program is now available on DVD.
Basically the show starts out as a series of "videos" for tracks from "Flush The Fashion" and "Special Forces" albums plus some older classics. This exceptional show was recorded in Paris in December 1981 just before the start of the "Special Forces"european tour. All the first songs of this broadcast were filmed in several characteristic and typically touristic places of the french city : le Sacré-Coeur church (Montmartre district), la Rue Saint-Denis (the hot district), Pigalle (the Moulin Rouge district), the George Pompidou Museum also called Centre Beaubourg etc... Other places of shootings were however less conventional : a breakage of cars in border of the ring road (peripheral), in the parisian subway or in famous "Abattoirs de La Villette" (slaughterhouse) which ought to become later a cultural park in Paris.
Shots would have been made in the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral but they finally didn't appear in the show. Maybe it was about the song "Go To Hell", finally shot at the Sacré Cœur church.

After a brief and hilarious Alice's self interview (where Vincent Damon Furnier meets Alice Cooper !) the show is changing into a live in the studio setting for the second half. Some of the old tracks were re-recorded for the special. This second part of "Alice Cooper in Paris" was shot in the television studios of Boulogne and offers for the occasion some Alice Cooper's classics "live".
The sound recording of the performance was made on the spot, then Alice Cooper and Special Forces' band made a very funny playback on these recordings ("School's Out" take is really a must !).
The versions of all these Alice Cooper's Special Forces songs remain thus officially unreleased to this day in any format. The Alice Cooper show was aired on the french channel then called Antenne 2 (today France 2) in 1982 on the 14th of january. The show was presented within the very first broadcast of the famous french TV show "Les Enfants Du Rock".

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Ce show exceptionnel de Alice Cooper fut enregistré à Paris en décembre 1981 juste avant que ne commence la tournée européenne de "Special Forces". Toutes les premières chansons ont été filmées dans des lieux caractéristiques et typiquement touristiques de la capitale française : Le Sacré Cœur, la rue St Denis, Pigalle, le Centre George Pompidou à Beaubourg etc... D'autres endroits de tournages furent cependant moins conventionnels : une casse de voitures en bordure du périphérique, dans le métro ou dans de célèbres abattoirs parisiens. Des prises de vue auraient été effectuées à la cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris mais elles n'apparaissent pas dans le show. Peut-être s'agissait-il de la chanson "Go To Hell" dont les prises définitives furent tournées au Sacré Coeur.
Après une brève auto-interview d'Alice (où Vincent Damon Furnier rencontre Alice Cooper !), la deuxième partie de "Alice Cooper À Paris" peut commencer. Elle fut tournée aux studios de télévision de Boulogne et présente pour l'occasion des morceaux "live" de Alice Cooper. La prise de son des titres fut effectuée sur place, puis, Alice Cooper et son groupe firent un play-back sur ces enregistrements. Les versions de toutes ces chansons de Alice Cooper & Special Forces sont donc inédites en album. Ce show Alice Cooper fut diffusé sur la chaine Antenne 2 (actuelle France 2) le 14 Janvier 1982. Il fut présenté dans le cadre de la toute première émission "Les Enfants Du Rock".

1. INTRO (with "You And Me" in the background) (2.27) - 2. GENERATION LANSLIDE '81 (3.40) - 3. UNDER MY WHEELS (2.59) - 4. CLONES (3.33) - 5. PAIN (4.10) - 6. SEVEN AND SEVEN IS (2.54) - 7. PRETTIEST COP IN THE BLOCK (3.29) - 8. YOU'RE A MOVIE (0.30) - 9. MODEL CITIZEN (3.36) - 10. COLD ETHYL (3.53) - 11. ONLY WOMEN BLEED (3.27) - 12. GO TO HELL (3.32) - 13. ALICE COOPER'S SELF INTERVIEW in french (2.30) - 14. VICIOUS RUMOURS live (3.36) - 15. EIGHTEEN live(3.12) - 16. BILLION DOLLAR BABIES live (3.57) - 17. SCHOOL'S OUT live (3.32) - 17. WHO DO YOU THINK WE ARE live (3.42)