Alice Cooper to join US presidential race

The 68-year-old has enjoyed a fan base for decades, and while his announcement comes as both Trump and Clinton face faltering campaigns, it might not be completely serious.

His platform - unveiled on a campaign website on Monday - revealed the challenger's priorities:

"So, if you're looking for a candidate with a platform that matters, vote Alice Cooper, the man with the plan to tackle the hot button, contentious and provocative issues on the minds of the real America and Britain:

1. Getting Brian Johnson back in AC/DC

2. A snake in every pot

3. No more pencils, no more books

4. Adding Lemmy to Mt. Rushmore

5. Rename Big Ben "Big Lemmy"

6. Groucho Marx on the $50 bill

7. Peter Sellers on the £20 note

8. Cupholders required for every airplane seat

9. Ban on talking during movies in movie theatres

10. Ban on taking selfies, except on a designated National Selfie Day

Cooper's campaign website so far consists of selling merchandise and reissuing his band's 1972 song "Elected."

The song - a hit during Richard Nixon's successful re-election campaign - ends with a politician promising, "Everybody has problems / And personally, I don't care."

Another musician - rap superstar Kanye West - has said he will run for president in 2020.

Cooper - the voice behind youth anthems such as "I'm Eighteen," "School's Out" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy" - has in the past described himself as apolitical, although hinted at Republican sympathies in 2004.

Cooper pioneered a grandly theatrical brand of hard rock drawing equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock.