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Alice Cooper's 1975 platinum-certified solo debut, Welcome to My Nightmare, was the first of eight studio albums and the beginning of a new chapter in a legendary career that has haunted music for half a century. <br/>Rhino covers the early years in a new set featuring Cooper's first four solo albums with a selection of rarities. <br/><br/>After the original Alice Cooper band redefined rock with global anthems like "School's Out" and "I'm Eighteen," Cooper went solo in 1975 with Welcome to My Nightmare. <br/><br/>Produced by Bob Ezrin, the concept album exploring a child's nightmares was certified platinum, peaking at #5 on the Billboard 200. It was followed by a TV special, a groundbreaking theatrical world tour, and a concert film. <br/><br/>Its concept continued a year later on the gold-certified Alice Cooper Goes to Hell, which introduced his biggest-selling single, "I Never Cry." <br/><br/>Cooper shifted gears in 1977 on the platinum-certified Lace and Whiskey, adopting the persona of the bumbling, hard-drinking private investigator Maurice Escargot. <br/><br/>It featured the Top 10 ballad "You And Me." His fourth album in four years, 1978's From the Inside is a concept album co-written with Bernie Taupin that draws directly from Cooper's recent experience in an asylum. <br/><br/>Produced by David Foster, the album includes the hit single, "How You Gonna See Me Now," which peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100.