Alice Cooper - Bed of Nails

What this video is

Released in 1989 as the fourth single from Alice Cooper's massively successful comeback album Trash, 'Bed of Nails' arrived at the peak of the MTV glam-metal era. Co-written by Cooper, Desmond Child, Kane Roberts, and Diane Warren, the song represents the polished, hitmaker-assisted sound that defined Cooper's commercial resurgence. The single charted at #38 in the UK but was not released in the US, reflecting the…

Why it matters

A defining artifact of late-1980s theatrical hard rock and the MTV glam-metal crossover moment. The video exemplifies how Alice Cooper's foundational shock-rock visual language — props, bondage imagery, theatrical costuming — was repackaged through the high-production lens of the MTV era, bridging…

The director

Nigel Dick (born 21 March 1953, Catterick, North Yorkshire, England) is a British-American music video director and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He studied architecture at the University of Bath before entering the record industry at Stiff Records. He…