#ALICE COOPER Billion Dollar Babies 1973

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"[THE ALBUM] WAS REFLECTING THE DECADENCE OF A TIME WHEN WE WERE LIVING FROM LIMOUSINE TO PENTHOUSE..."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a March 1973 Rolling Stone print/promotional ad for the "Billion Dollar Babies" LP, the sixth studio album by American hard rock/shock rock band ALICE COOPER, and released on February 25, 1973.

PIC #2: A concert poster for the "Billion Dollar Babies" 1973 continental U.S. tour, spanning 48 concerts in total. That's nearly one concert for every U.S. state!

"It was reflecting the decadence of a time when we were living from limousine to penthouse to the finest of everything including… well, the finest of everything. We couldn’t believe people were actually paying us to do this. We would have done it for free, because we were just a garage band who happened to be at the right place at the right time."

-- ALICE COOPER on "Billion Dollar Babies" being their most decadent album

BDB/FUN/TRIVIA FACT: A partial list of props from the tour, which required 40 tons of equipment, included a dentist’s drill, a surgical table for a sawing-in-half machine, four whips, six hatchets, 22,000 sparklers, 300 baby dolls, 58 mannequins, 14 bubble machines, 28 gallons of bubble juice, 6,000 mirror parts and 250,000 packages of bubble bath. As Cooper said at the time, “the sicker you kids get, the greater shows we’ll have for you.”

Sources: https://rockandrollglobe.com/rock/generation-landslide-alice-coopers-billion-dollar-babies-at-50, Heritage Auctions, & The Wayback Machine.

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«On this date in 1973: Alice Cooper's "Billion Dollar Babies Holiday Tour" wrapped up at Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo, New York, with support from special guests ZZ Top. It was the final American show for the original Alice Cooper band.»

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Dennis Dunaway (w/ Chris Hodenfield): Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs!: My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group (2018)

I’m still sore at Vincent Furnier for virtually erasing Michael Bruce from 2014's idiotically-named Super Duper Alice Cooper documentary (I think Bruce was mentioned ONCE near the very end!), and I was almost as pissed at original Alice Cooper band bassist Dennis Dunaway for being seemingly complicit with that crap.

But Dunaway quickly sought to redeem himself by setting the record straight with his memoirs, Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs!: My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group, in which he brought Bruce back into the picture, along with lead guitarist Glen Buxton (R.I.P.) and drummer Neal Smith, while taking Vincent/Alice to task for his sins.

As such, this book provides an engaging first-hand account of the original quintet's High School origins in Phoenix AZ, their protracted dues-paying throughout the late '60s, and meteoric ride through the early '70s, when Alice Cooper -- the band -- somehow became unlikely mega-selling superstars as theatrical and shock-rock pioneers.

As I'd hoped, the book only vaguely addresses the solo career Furnier embarked on after taking the Alice Cooper name for himself, but I do wish Dunaway had spared more than a few, cursory lines to his ill-fated post-A.C. project with Bruce and Smith, Billion Dollar Babies, and '77's flawed but collectible Battle Axe LP.

Nevertheless, whether you're a diehard or a casual Alice Cooper band fan like myself, this book provides a far more absorbing, detailed, and believably human account of this influential group's adventures and misadventures than the aforementioned puff-piece documentary.

Featured Records:

Alice Cooper: Love it to Death (1971)

Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies (1973)

Billion Dollar Babies: Battle Axe (1977)

Buy from: Amazon

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No dia 3 de Janeiro de 1973, Alice Cooper lançava "Hello Hooray" como single do álbum Billion Dollar Babies. A faixa alcançou a 35ª posição na parada de sucessos Billboard Hot 100.

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Alice Cooper- Billion Dollar Babies (Hard Rock, Glam Rock) Released: March 1973 [Warner Bros. Records] Producer(s): Bob Ezrin

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Alice Cooper: Slick Black Limousine 7” U.K. Flexi-Disc (1973)

Double-sided Flexidisc Given Away With The February 1973 issue of New Musical Express Magazine.

Side Two Comprises Extracts From The Then-Forthcoming LP "Billion Dollar Babies".

Made In England

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Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies (1973)

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Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies. 25/02/1973.

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Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies (1973) (Full Album)

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April 21st 1973 Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies went to number one on the US album charts.

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"MORE TEXTURES AND BOMBAST THAN ACTUAL HARD ROCK, "BDB" IN RETROSPECT IS A STRANGE COLLECTION OF HIGHLY POLISHED PERFORMANCES."

PIC(S) INFO: Relaeased 50 years ago earlier this year -- Spotlight on the "Billion Dollar Babies" LP, the sixth studio album by American rock band ALICE COOPER, and released in March 1973 under the Warner Bros. label. The album became the best selling ALICE COOPER record at the time of its release, hit number one on the album charts in both the US and the UK, and went on to be certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. 

RECORD OVERVIEW: "If first impressions are key, then the look alone of the "Billion Dollar Babies" LP made it an instant classic. A prime artifact from the days when the music business spent lavishly on complicated and expensive album art, the package was designed like a wallet. Outside was a large gold coin with a baby's head encircled by embossed diamonds against a bright-green snakeskin-patterned background. Inside were pop-out trading cards and an oversized billion-dollar bill picturing the band. The inner sleeve has lyrics on one side and the band, dressed in white, looking hilariously perplexed by their surroundings, petting white rabbits among stacks of paper money while Cooper holds an infant whose eyes are ringed by the same black makeup design he wore onstage.

After the long, wearying struggle to succeed followed by endless touring and boundless adulation, Alice Cooper the band was both peaking and coming apart in 1973. Having recently released "Killer" (1971) with its singles "Be My Lover" and "Under My Wheels," and a follow-up, "School's Out" (1972), whose LP came packaged in a pair of women's panties, conditions were ripe for these early progenitors of shock, schlock, and glam rock to fashion one lasting achievement yet to be.

Guitarists Glen Buxton and Michael Bruce (who also plays keyboards), drummer Neal Smith, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and Vince Furnier (a.k.a. Alice Cooper) recorded BDB from August 1972 through January 1973 at the Cooper Mansion in Connecticut with a mobile recording unit, as well as in Morgan Studios, London, and The Record Plant in New York City. The engineers were Shelly Yakus, Frank Hubach, Robin Black, Peter Flanagan, Jack Douglas, and Ed Sprigg. Guitarists Mick Mashbir, Dick Wagner, and Steve Hunter (the latter two would be prominent in Alice Cooper's solo career) and keyboardist Bob Dolin provided extra support.

More textures and bombast than actual hard rock, BDB in retrospect is a strange collection of highly polished performances. Upon closer listen, piano parts are a subtle but surprisingly essential part of the arrangements. Never loud or overdriven guitars, sometimes keening, aid in the album's high-camp zeitgeist."

-- STEREOPHILE, "ReDiscoveries #5: Alice Cooper's "Billion Dollar Babies," by Robert Baird, published May 30, 2023

Sources: www.stereophile.com/content/rediscoveries-5-alice-coopers-billion-dollar-babies, Pinterest, Classic Bands, Wikipedia, various, etc...

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 6pm ET: Feature LP: Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies (1973)

Billion Dollar Babies is the sixth studio album by American rock band Alice Cooper, released in February 23, 1973 by Warner Bros. Records. The album became the best selling Alice Cooper record at the time of its release, hit number one on the album charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom, and went on to be certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The…

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Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies [50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition] 2024 Warner ————————————————— Tracks LP One: 01. Hello Hooray 02. Raped and Freezin’ 03. Elected 04. Billion Dollar Babies 05. Unfinished Sweet 06. No More Mr. Nice Guy 07. Generation Landslide 08. Sick Things 09. Mary Ann 10. I Love the Dead

Tracks LP Two: Live 1973 01. Hello Hooray 02. Billion Dollar Babies 03. Elected 04. I’m Eighteen 05. Raped and Freezin’ 06. No More Mr. Nice Guy 07. My Stars 08. Unfinished Sweet 09. Sick Things 10. Dead Babies 11. I Love the Dead

Tracks LP Three: Live 1973 [continued] 01. School’s Out 02. Under My Wheels 03. Coal Black Model T 04. Son of Billion Dollar Babies (Generation Landslide) [outtake] 05. Hello Hooray [single version] 06. Billion Dollar Babies [single version] 07. Elected [single version] 08. Mary Ann [single version] 09. Slick Black Limousine —————————————————

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February 26, 1973: The Alice Cooper band released Billion Dollar Babies.

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