📰 Geishas Peel For Alice – Article : Jan.1974

Circus Magazine, January 1, 1974 This one‑page feature in Circus Magazine documented Alice Cooper’s promotional trip to Tokyo, where local geishas participated in a staged photo‑op that played into the band’s flair for theatrical spectacle. The piece blended travel‑press novelty with Circus’s bold rock‑magazine tone, highlighting the group’s global reach and Japan’s enthusiastic embrace of their shock‑rock persona.

Geishas Peel For Alice In Japan

When Alice Cooper arrived in Tokyo, Japan recently for a promotional visit and TV special, he was greeted at the airport by a reception of 5000 Nipponese fans who tore at his hair and clothes. One particularly loyal fan presented Alice with a 9-foot boa constrictor named "Moische, Moische," which means "Hello, Hel-lo." Two hundred journalists gather-ed at the Akasaka Prince Hotel the next day for the largest press conference ever held for an entertaining personality in Tokyo. During the conference Alice received as a present several Geisha girls who attended him for the entirety of his five-day stay in Japan. The Geishas performed such tasks as peeling grapes and feeding them on toothpicks to the Muscleman of Love and entertaining him with little stories and dances which are supposed to make the listener mellow and ready for an evening's pleasure.