"I Never Cry" | ||||
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Single by Alice Cooper | ||||
from the album Alice Cooper Goes to Hell | ||||
B-side | "Go to Hell" | |||
Released | July 1976 | |||
Length | 3:44 | |||
Label | Warner Bros. | |||
Songwriter(s) | Alice Cooper, Dick Wagner | |||
Producer(s) | Bob Ezrin | |||
Alice Cooper singles chronology | ||||
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"I Never Cry" is a song by Alice Cooper. It was originally released on his Alice Cooper Goes to Hell album in 1976.
The song was written by Cooper and Dick Wagner. The song reached number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number nine on Cash Box in January 1977. In Canada, it spent two weeks at number five.
On an episode of his radio show broadcast on November 23, 2009 Cooper stated that "I Never Cry" was his biggest selling single, though he did not supply evidence The song was, however, his only gold record in the US besides his comeback hit in 1989, "Poison". "I Never Cry" was written about Cooper's experience with alcoholism, which one year later sent the performer into rehab. He called the song "an alcoholic confession".