The American hard-rocker Alice Cooper is back in force with "Detroit stories", a 27th album which pays homage, with big guitar riffs, to the city where he was born.

Guest of Émilie Mazoyer on Thursday evening in "Musique!", The singer-songwriter tells of his hope for rock's soon return to the forefront of the world music scene.

INTERVIEW

As famous for her looks as for her raging hard-rock, Alice Cooper is releasing her 27th studio album, titled

Detroit Stories

.

A record that he presents on Thursday evening on Émilie Mazoyer 

Musique's program!

, from his home in Arizona.

According to the singer and musician, if rock is losing its wings in recent years in the world of music, this musical genre is far from having said its last word.

Alice Cooper even predicts the imminent arrival of many new rock groups, a music which is for him always linked to the rebellion of the youth. 

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"There will always be groups like the Foo Fighters, and Alice Cooper, and Aerosmith", guarantees the singer-songwriter, who feels no embarrassment to self-cite as a benchmark rock band, before embarking on predictions.

"And I think a new wave of young rock bands is going to be coming."

If the musician and singer is so sure of himself, it is because rock has always known how to renew itself since its "invention" by guitarist Rosetta Tharpe at the very beginning of the 1960s.

"Rock has no expiration date"

"When you create a rock group, it's to rebel against the previous generation," then theorizes Alice Cooper.

"We started hard rock at the end of the 1960s, and we got over every fad, every possible change."

According to him, rock "is a musical style which has no expiration date".

He also takes as an example groups with impressive longevity.

Including his.

"That's why the Rolling Stones are still here, and so are we, and the Guns 'N' Roses too. Classic rock bands are still here." 

Alice Cooper says she hopes to be right about her prediction of the imminent emergence of a "young generation of rockers".

In any case, he has one certainty: "This music will never die."