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Alice Cooper hits back at Gene Simmons’ claim that “rock is dead”: “Kids are learning hard rock right now”

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Alice Cooper has bit back at Gene Simmons after the KISS bassist recently claimed that rock music is “dead”.Simmons first courted controversy with similar comments in 2014, and doubled down on the remarks in a new interview which arrived last month.“Rock is dead.

And that’s because new bands haven’t taken the time to create glamour, excitement and epic stuff,” Simmons told Gulf News.“I mean, Foo Fighters is a terrific band, but that’s a 20-year-old band.

So you can go back to 1958 until 1988. That’s 30 years. During that time, we had Elvis [Presley], The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones, on and on.”He went on to suggest that popular bands exist, but that doesn’t mean they’re “iconic and legacy and for all-time”.

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