1986 Alice Cooper – He’s Back (The Man Behind The Mask) (UK:#61)
“He’s Back (The Man Behind The Mask)” is a song by American shock rock musician Alice Cooper. It was released as the lead single from his 1986 album Constrictor, and the theme song of Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, a slasher film and sixth part of the Friday the 13th film series released in the same year. The song is heard various times throughout the film and in the end credits. Two other songs, “Teenage Frankenstein” (also from Constrictor) and “Hard Rock Summer” (which remained commercially unreleased until its inclusion on The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper in 1999) are also featured in the film.
The song features the famous “ki-ki-ki ma-ma-ma” (in its popular misheard version, “ch-ch-ch, ha-ha-ha”) sound effect, a trademark of the Friday the 13th series.
“He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)” was a minor chart success, popular among fans of Cooper’s later work and enthusiasts of slasher films. It has been called “strangely new wave-ish” and said to “perfectly enscapulate the Friday the 13th films and the era in which they came to prominence.”
The 7″ single featured a “live” version of “Billion Dollar Babies” as its B-side. The 12″ single featured “Billion Dollar Babies (Recorded Live)” as well as a haunting “live” version of “I’m Eighteen”. Both versions were in fact originally recorded in the studio for the Alice Cooper a Paris TV special in 1982 during the Special Forces era, which were remixed in 1986 with crowd noise to resemble “live” recordings.
Album
Constrictor is the ninth solo studio album by American rock musician Alice Cooper. It was released on September 22, 1986, by MCA Records. After a hiatus from the music industry after the release of DaDa, Cooper remained in seclusion for three years. He starred in Monster Dog, a horror film for which he wrote two […]
Musicians
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Produced By
Michael Wagener
Songwriters
Alice Cooper
Kane Roberts
Tom Kelly
Charts
US:# –
UK:#61