Lace and Whiskey

Lace and Whiskey is the 10th studio album by Alice Cooper, released in May 1977. After many years of portraying a dark and sinister persona Alice Cooper decided to try something new and donned the persona of a heavy drinking comic PI named "Maurice Escargot" - a fictional character in the same vein as Inspector Clouseau. Cooper is pictured as Escargot on the back cover of Lace and Whiskey, which was still a rock-based album but was stylistically influenced by Cooper's love for 1940s and 1950s music. The album only peaked at #42 in the US. Its lead single, "You and Me", was an easy listening ballad which provided Cooper with his last US top-ten single for another 12 years. "(No More) Love at Your Convenience", a disco-inspired pop song,...