Article: NEW COOPER ALBUM A GRIM TALE FOR TEENS.(ACCENT)

Byline: GARY GRAFF Knight-Ridder

After 25 years of mock beheadings, lynchings, baby doll hacking, snake fondling and corpse caresses, Alice Cooper declares that he's ``given up the shock business.''

``I can't keep up with CNN,'' Cooper explains. ``I can't shock an audience like CNN can. That stuff's real.''

But that doesn't mean that Cooper born Vincent Furnier in Detroit 46 years ago is abandoning the world of horror. On July 12 he released ``The Last Temptation,'' an album-comic book package that finds Cooper rocking into the realm of reality to celebrate its release.

With songs that recall Cooper's spate of '70s hits, the ...

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