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Their Satanic Majesties Request...
(Comics Forum - 1994)

What strange madness is this! Alice Cooper, the demon lord of hard rock nightmares and Neil Gaiman, auteur of all things dark and terrible, have made music and comic book history with their multi-media collaboration, "The Last Temptation". Michael...

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Interview
(HM - 1994)

Video shoots are always fairly tedious events to attend, but when an artist is based out of town — Alice lives in Arizona — it"s one of the few opportunities for LA-based press to get face-to-face interviews. And so Alice came to town for the day to shoot...

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Hanging With Mr.Cooper - Alice, That Is
(Sassy - 1994)

ONE TOKE OVER THE LINE Last year I went to a Grateful Dead concert. Yeah, we did a little pot. It was not a big deal... until a girl I knew from my hometown came over to talk to me. She handed me her pipe and we toked a little more. Recently...

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News Report
(Kerrang! - January 1, 1994)

Alice Cooper releases a new album in March. Several songs have been co-written by Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell. The album is already completed, but its release has been delayed by work on a video-game which ties in with the album! Guests on...

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The Last Temptation Of Alice
(Kerrang! - March 26, 1994)

Ol' black eyes is back! Yeah, it's he who dies for a living - Alice Cooper! Set for a June release, big Al's new studio opus (his 20th!) is titled 'The Last Temptation'. And it's business as unusual for the Coop! "It's really gonna be the first real concept album...

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Alice Unchained
(Foundations - April 25, 1994)

Vincent Furnier is good at being himself, but he's always been at his best when playing Alice Cooper, a role he's been starring in for over twenty years. Long before Gene Simmons spit out his first drop of blood, long before Motley Crue shouted at the...

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Adulation
(Access - May 1994)

Alice Cooper, vanguard of morality? The first clue was 1991's Hey Stoopid, a work that entreated young people not to commit suicide. In The Last Temptation, 10 classic Cooper songs chronicle a boy's fight against Evil. It even comes...

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Alice Cooper
(M.E.A.T. - May 1994)

Moral and Alice Cooper used in the same breath? Could the king of shock rock be turning over a new stone in his life? Well, that may be just what's happening with his latest Sony release, The Last Temptation — a concept album conceived by the...

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The Last Temptation Of Alice
(Metal Hammer - May 1994)

Legendary goremeister Alice Cooper makes his return to the scene with the release of a new album, 'The Last Temptation', through Epic Records on June 6. It's his first album since1991's 'Hey Stoopid'. A Single, 'Lost In America', will be released...

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Interview
(Popular - May 5, 1994)

I can't compete with CNN, that channel is much more impacting than my shows Glam's nostalgics will be happy. After those Kiss, Twisted Sister and T.Rex homage's recently done, this month we give you interviews with Alice Cooper and Kiss (yes, them...

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The Cooped Crusader!
(Kerrang! - May 7, 1994)

ALICE COOPER, the indestructible rocker who makes Captain Scarlet look like an insurance risk, will have - as previously revealed in Mayhem! - a graphic novel (posh for 'comic book') included with his forthcoming album 'The Last Temptation'...

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The Dark Knight Returns....
(RAW - May 11, 1994)

Heavy Metal's original bad guy, Alice Cooper, is about to launch a multi-media album-comic book-video blitz for 'The Last Temptation Of Alice Cooper', his latest, maddest project! And Soundgarden's Chris Cornell is in tow! Chris Smith feels...

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News Report
(Kerrang! - May 14, 1994)

Alice Cooper lifts the first single from forthcoming LP 'The Last Temptation' on May 16. Entitled 'Lost In America', the single will be released through Epic and will be available on seven-inch, 12-inch and CD. 'Hey Stoopid' (live) will appear on all formats...

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Alice Cooper Star Seeker's Guide to Planet Hollywood
(People - May 18, 1994)

The only place left to see stars is Planet Hollywood, according to Alice Cooper. "This is really the only Hollywood thing left, the only thing the stars go to," the rocker, a partner in the Hawaii Planet Hollywood, said at the opening of a new franchise in...

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Lost In America Single Review
(Kerrang! - May 21, 1994)

Alice Cooper, whose new album 'The Last Temptation', is released through Epic in June, will be represented in a lookalike form on ITV's 'Stars In Their Eyes' on May 21! Chris Pavlou, frontman with legendary '80s Glam Rockers Aunt May, will be...

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Alice, You Still Matter!
(RAW - May 25, 1994)

Yet another major album release reviewed bigger and better than anywhere else! Mick Wall is sucked into 'The Last Temptation', Alice Cooper's brand new platter! Screw the concept, the really important message this album has to convey is that Alice...

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Face Off
(Faces - June 1994)

Leave it to Alice Cooper to expand on his visual presentations as an artist in a conceptual form. His latest record, The Last Temptation, not only grabs your ears, but provides you with a comic book for a further interpretation of its theme...

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The good old Alice is back
(Heavy Mental - June 1994)

Alice Cooper's new album, The Last Temptation, is a good old fashioned concept album. The story revolves around young Steven's struggle with many different temptations and was written by Alice Cooper and comic book writer, Neil Gaiman....

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Oh fuck... It's Alice!
(Metal Hammer - June 1994)

THE title of Alice Cooper's new album, 'The Last Temptation', is an apt one on this particular occasion. Video shoots are invariably tedious events to attend, and the growing temptation is to do a runner from the soundstage where Alice is shooting...

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Alice Cooper: Schlock Rocker Finds God
(Network - June 1994)

Not too many things can stop traffic in downtown Toronto. During his last promotional visit here (to push 1991's Hey Stoopid), however, Alice Cooper's rooftop gig did just that. And now he has the goods to do it again. ...

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Last Temptation Album Review
(Toronto Star - June 1994)

Speaking of songs, this is the strongest collection of tunes by the worthy snake-charmer in quite a year, bringing to mind comparisons of his early '70s heyday. Credit goes to one his legion of new rock admirers, Soundgarden's Chris Cornell...

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News Report
(Los Angeles Times - June 5, 1994)

[Keanu] Reeves' mother was British, his father was a geologist of Chinese-Hawaiian descent (Keanu means "cool breeze over the mountains" in Hawaiian), and his family bounced from Beirut to Australia to New York City before settling in Toronto, Canada...

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Alice, What's The Matter?
(Kerrang! - June 11, 1994)

I can think of other things far more tempting than the latest Alice Cooper offering, to be honest. And I fear that only die-hard Coop freaks will fully appreciate the finer elements of the album. As a concept records go, this baby is a big sluggish. Still, it is...

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Ghoul-rocker is all charm
(Toronto Star - June 14, 1994)

Toronto — The man they call Alice can still pack 'em in. The leather-and-denim crowd from tattooed headbangers to kid-toting housewives, squeezed into HMV's huge flagship store on Yonge Street to rub shoulders with '70s ghoul-rocker Alice Cooper...

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Welcome to Alice's nightmare
(Toronto Star - June 15, 1994)

Even a shock rocker has his limits, and for mayhem master Alice Cooper it came at the end of a street punk's gun in a Los Angeles diner. "We consider guns normal now in America, and they shouldn't be normal," Cooper, 46, said during a visit to...

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Coop Killer!
(Kerrang! - June 18, 1994)

The nightmare continues! Alice Cooper, Rock legend and alleged chicken murderer, is back with a killer new album - his best for two decades! Ray Zell scoops all the hottest Coop poop as Alice admits: "I look 400 years old!" and wonders: "Am I...

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Last Temptation Album Review
(People - June 20, 1994)

Alice Cooper's glory days as the king of early-'70s shock rock may be long gone, but he still commands respect in fairly hip circles, as evidenced by the participation here of alternative whippersnappers Don Fleming (leader of power pop act...

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Old Poker Player Still In The Game
(Montreal Gazette - June 29, 1994)

Alice Cooper: I'd like to think we haven't lost our edge. He's been a cartoon since 1969. Now meet Alice Cooper, comic book. His name long since changed to infect the innocent, Vince Furnier is no stranger to altered identity. The human...

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Alice Through The Windshield
(Toronto Eye - June 30, 1994)

The Last Temptation, the 22nd Alice Cooper concoction, is what happens when Vincent Furnier's unassailable alter ego collides with modern-day mass counterculture -- which means the well-hyped collaborations with Chris Cornell (Soundgarden) and...

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Welcome Back To His Nightmare
(Top - July 1994)

The Last Temptation forges rock'n'roll showman supreme Alice Cooper and renowned comic book writer and creator of Sandman Neil Gaiman in a project that takes their respective talents to another level. Alice Cooper's latest "concept"...

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In The Dock
(RAW - July 6, 1994)

Alice Cooper — You have been accused of the following. That it is a blatant gimmick to give away a comic with your new album, 'The Last Temptation'. Absolutely guilty! I love blatant gimmicks! There's nothing worse than a subtle gimmick. We've given...

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Last Temptation Album Review
(Rolling Stone - July 14, 1994)

If you went to high school in the '70s, Alice Cooper's "I'm Eighteen" and "School's Out" became part of your life. Cooper dirges like "Desperado" and "Muscle Of Love" used dense Black Sabbath rumbling to rock in ways no '80s or '90s art-metal...

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Last Temptation Album Review
(Billboard - July 16, 1994)

Fear not the concept-album specter: Cooper has spun a dark, comic-book story of temptation in its various manifestations that is also, at bottom, just a fine spin. "The Last Temptation," which boasts a Marvel comic-book retail companion, mixes...

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It's Me Review
(Kerrang! - July 23, 1994)

It's him, alright. Dear God, what have we done? We've taken Vince Furnier's schlock Rock alter ego and handed it a succession of manufactured Metal anthems to keep the doddering old tart alive. 'Lost In America' was pretty cool...

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Three Names That Mean Business
(Herald Sun - July 29, 1994)

It was a unique gathering, but, with all respect, not of the minds. This was a meeting of the oddly named. There in one room were three adult males with the unmasculine monickers of Alice, Molly and Shirley. The gathering of the clan occurred at Nine...

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The Last Temptation Of Alice Cooper
(Metal Edge - August 1994)

Three years since his last release, 1991's platinum Trash, shock rock-meister Alice Cooper is back with The Last Temptation, a concept album that follows a storyline illustrated in a three-part Marvel Comics series, the first installment of which...

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Tape That!
(Metal Hammer - August 1994)

1.The Beach Boys 'I Get Around' "When I was a kid, that was the ultimate dream - to have your own car, have your friends and just cruise the streets. There are certain songs that still stand up after all these years. You hear them on the radio and you just turn...

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Something Wicked This Way Comes
(RIP - August 1994)

Vincent Furnier, the man behind the makeup, is a nice man and honorable artist. His alter ego, "Alice Cooper," is as dangerous and surly as ever. His father has been James Thurber's Walter Mitty, his mother Bette Davis in What Ever Happened To Baby...

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A Clown Like Alice
(Herald Sun - August 7, 1994)

A five-minute cameo in the movie Wayne's World brought Alice Cooper to a whole new generation of fans. Scarcely a day goes by without someone flinging themselves at his feet and chanting "We are not worthy, we are not worthy!" as did the stars of...

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It's Me Single Review
(Billboard - August 20, 1994)

Cooper shows a softer, more romantic side on this acoustic-pop moment from the new album, "The Last Temptation." He conjures up earnest, appealing imagery with lyrics that are sugary and quasi-poetic. Album rock radio will find the crisp...

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Hotter Than July
(Metal Edge - September 1994)

Tentatively slated to begin a national tour in late summer, Alice Cooper will be doing scatter surprise dates until then in support of The Last Temptation, plus autograph signing parties and a possible late night...

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Nothing Is Sacred
(Hit Parader - October 1994)

In the light of what passes for 'entertainment' in rock circles these days, it's kind of hard to imagine that at one time Alice Cooper was unquestionably King Of Outrage. Back in the late '60's and early 70's, Cooper and his band of hard rockin'...

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Behind The Scenes At It's Me
(Metal Edge - October 1994)

Just back from a whirlwind promotional tour of Europe, Alice Cooper went before director Wayne Isham's camera at Hollywood's Cine Video to film sequences for 'It's Me' the romantic ballad from The Last Temptation. On this...

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Alice And Sammy Get Cookin'!
(RAW - October 26, 1994)

Sammy Hagar and Alice Cooper are among the celebrity chefs who will be lending their culinary expertise to Miami's Big Feast On The Beach charity feed on November 4-6. All proceeds raised will go to charities such as the March Of Dimes and the...

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Trouble At T' Mill!
(Kerrang! - October 29, 1994)

Whisperings heard in the streets this week say that the Epic record label has been doing some house cleaning, dropping veteran Alice Cooper and less venerable Arcade - who are fronted by ex-Ratt man Stephen Pearcy. Reports that Infectious...

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Alice Cooper
(Australian Record Collector - November 1994)

The story begins in Detroit on 4th of February 1948. Born Vincent Damon Furnier so to Ether and Ella Furnier, Alice's career started during his school days of 1962 at Cortez High miming Beatles tunes in his band called The Earwigs...

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Hobby Shop
(Hit Parader - December 1994)

Alice Cooper has only one real interest in his life. He may play around at golf, or fool around with acting, but when he gets right down to it, his hobby, his music and his life are all virtually one and the same. So when we approached...

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A Golf Enthusiast?!
(Riff Raff - 1995)

Veteran rock 'n' roll thespian Alice Cooper, who recently had all his major hits released by Epic under the title 'Classicks', is glad society has become more tolerant in the 1990s. Now, the man who's known more for playing with snakes, can openly admit...

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Alice is Back
(Penthouse - January 1995)

Alice Cooper brought his Welcome To My Nightmare extravaganza to Australia in 1967 and transformed sports grounds around the country into dark, uncomfortable zones. In his only Australian tour, Cooper displayed the quintessential...

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News Report
(Kerrang! - January 14, 1995)

...finally, AC seems to be unhappy with his own situation with Epic, and it would seem that he is negotiating his way out of his deal. Hollywood Records, part of the giant Disney conglomerate, have emerged as the company to whom he is most likely to...

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News Report
(Kerrang! - January 21, 1995)

Alice Cooper has parted company with Epic Records. The rock legend - whose last LP 'The Last Temptation' was hailed as a remarkable return to form - intends to hook up with Us-based Hollywood Records, but has yet to sign a contract....

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News Report
(In Press - February 1, 1995)

Alice Cooper has officially split with Epic. Word has it he will sign with the Hollywood label. Rumours also have it that Alice will reunite his old band with people like bassist Dennis Dunaway, drummer Neal Smith and later guitarist Dick...

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Go ask Alice
(Toronto Sun - March 1995)

This week, every scrap of information we could lay our hands on and squeeze into this space, including the definative word on the chronically delayed Alice Cooper box. ALICE COOPER: All right, here's the story, straight from Cooper's manager Toby...

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News Report
(Toronto Sun - March 7, 1995)

Alice In Sitcom Land: Alice Cooper has shot a TV guest spoton the Gene Wilder series Something Wilder. The episode, tentatively scheduled to air on March 14, has Cooper playing himself and becoming Wilder's next door neighbor. Hijinks...

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Alice Cooper
(Vox - May 1995)

Vincent Damon Furnier (for it is he) always set himself up as a bogeyman, but panned out as the cartoon figurehead of schlock rock. His initial shows featured simulated hangings, decapitations, electrocutions and all kinds of props that might...

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Alice's Last Stand
(Kerrang! - June 10, 1995)

"Special Versions of Alice Cooper's 'The Last Temptation' LP came with a free comic book. There were apparently two more to collect. But I've hunted everywhere for them without any luck. Any ideas where they can be found and at what price...

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News Report
(Metal Hammer - July 1995)

That enduring rocker and one-man sustainer of the eyeliner industry Alice Cooper has split from his record label, Epic, and is rumoured to be set to sign a new deal with Hollywood Records, whose company president is Alice's old A&R man...

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News Report
(Kerrang! - September 1995)

The legendary Trash rocker will release a compilation album titled 'Classicks' via Epic on October 30. The full track listing is: 'Poison', 'Hey Stopid', 'Feed My Frankenstein', 'Love's A Loaded Gun', 'Stolen Prayer', 'House Of Fire', 'Lost In America', 'It's...

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Clancy and Co.
(Arizona Republic - October 4, 1995)

Alice Cooper is lending his name to local charity. The rock star will be at a benefit party at Planet Hollywood on Oct. 29. Cooper, a Valley resident, is a frequent PH customer. Info: 954-7827. Earlier the same day, Cooper will host the eighth annual ...

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Monsters Of Rock
(Kerrang! - October 7, 1995)

Alice Cooper was, frankly, boring. Without being to callous, the stage schtik came across as dated, the songs uninspired and Alice's pink plastic pants quite fucking frightening...much more so than the whipping of the blow-up doll and the ol' West...

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Classicks Album Review
(Kerrang! - October 21, 1995)

When this sort of thing happens, the words "contractual obligation" spring to mind. There is no real point in releasing this compilation album, as it certainly doesn't offer an accurate representation of Alice Cooper's star-studded career. It's very...

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Classiks
(Metal Hammer - November 1995)

With someone whose been making music - ranging from great, through indifferent to downright dreadful - for 25 years, it can't have been easy to put together this Best Of collection, more because of what to leave off it than what to put on it. Sadly...

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Idol Chatter
(RIP - November 1995)

After his last Epic Records project, Klassicks, shock-rock king Alice Cooper signed with Hollywood Records, whose president, Bob Pfeifer, coincidentally had signed Alice to Epic in the first place. While avid and rabid fans champ at the bit for new...

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Classicks Album Review
(Q Magazine - December 1995)

Surviving the stigma of the deliberately mis-spelt album title, this latest collection brings together the polar opposites of Cooper's career in a mascara-smeared 60-minute special. Surviving drug, alcohol and golf, he kickstarted a somewhat moribund period...

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