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"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 1999) are also featured in the film. The song features the famous "ki-ki-ki ma-ma-ma" (admittedly 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"〔(''Prince of Darkness'' ) at Allmusic.〕 and said to "perfectly enscapulate the ''Friday the 13th'' films and the era in which they came to prominence."〔(Alice Cooper: The Man Behind the Mask!" ), an article at X-Entertainment.〕 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. A demo version of the song, with a slightly rockier and much more upbeat feel, as well as the final release version, were featured in the four-disc retrospective boxed set ''The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper'', which chronicles Cooper's career. The song was also available on a compilation album of songs from his two late-1980s MCA albums, ''Constrictor'' and ''Raise Your Fist and Yell'', entitled ''Prince of Darkness''.〔 The song has been covered by some other artists. Finnish metal band Children of Bodom recorded a version in 2002, but it was never released, and "He's Back" has been performed live by another Finnish metal band, Lordi.〔(YouTube - Lordi He is back (man behind mask) and monster man )〕 In addition, the song was covered by One Man Army and the Undead Quartet, which was released on the Swedish death metal group's 2007 album ''Error in Evolution''. A reference to the song is made in the 2005 ''Friday the 13th'' tie-in novel ''Friday the 13th: Hate-Kill-Repeat''; while attending a party, a character notices that the song being played is by Alice Cooper and that the premise of it involves "something about a man behind a mask". ==Music video== The song is well known for its music video, which combines clips from ''Jason Lives'' with original footage featuring Cooper performing the song and Jason Voorhees (played, as he is in the film, by C. J. Graham) menacing teenagers at a midnight showing of ''Jason Lives''. This video is not present on any of the DVD releases of the film. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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