Alice Cooper: “Ballad of Dwight Fry/I Love the Dead” live w/on-screen lyrics

Presented in its original 16:9 format, upscaled to HD. Captured during the “Brutally Live” tour in 2000. Venue: Labatt's Hammersmith Apollo in London, England. Includes the infamous guillotine designed by “The Amazing Randi”, Canadian-American Stage Magician/Author (1928-2020, RIP). Dwight Frye Trivia: “Fry” is actually an incorrect spelling of his name, which is “Frye”. Cooper may have intentionally dropped the trailing “e” as a hedge against a possible lawsuit, although he has publicly stated the song is a tribute to the actor. Frye specialized in the portrayal of mentally unbalanced characters in many early horror films, the most well-known being “Renfield” in the classic 1931 version of “Dracula” with Bela Lugosi, and later that same year as the hunchbacked assistant “Fritz” in “Frankenstein” with Boris Karloff. Despite the implications of the song, Frye did not descend into madness. He died of a heart attack in 1943 at the age of 44, while traveling on a bus in Hollywood. His final resting place is Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, California.