It’s the duet you didn’t know you needed until right now: Judas Priest legend Rob Halford and Alice Cooper have combined their considerable forces on a new Christmas single.
Money raised by My Christmas List by Rock For Children will benefit Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Teen Centers, a non-profit organisation that provides teenagers with after-school training in sound engineering, lighting, staging and video production.
The song itself is an upbeat rock’n’roll romp in which Cooper and Halford inform Santa Claus of the kind of things they’d like to receive for Christmas, which include “a rocket balloon that can fly to the moon” and a “12-string can I can play in a band”.
There’s also a spoken word section in which Alice suggests that a child could ask for “a pet dragon for your yard with fiery breath that plays a mean guitar, or a creepy cool tree that can grow ice cream bars with flavours like vanilla …