Billion Dollar Babies

With Billion Dollar Babies, Alice Cooper refined the raw grit of their earlier work in favor of a slightly more polished sound (courtesy of super-producer Bob Ezrin), resulting in a mega-hit album that reached the top of the U.S. album charts. Song for song, Billion Dollar Babies is probably the original Alice Cooper group's finest and strongest. Such tracks as "Hello Hooray," the lethal stomp of the title track, the defiant "Elected" (a rewrite of an earlier song, "Reflected"), and the poison-laced pop candy of "No More Mr. Nice Guy" remain among Cooper's greatest achievements. Also included are a pair of perennial concert standards – the disturbing necrophilia ditty "I Love the Dead" and the chilling macabre of "Sick Things" – as well as such strong, lesser-known selections as "Raped and Freezin'," "Unfinished Sweet," and perhaps Cooper's most overlooked gem, "Generation Landslide."

The original Alice Cooper band broke up in 1974 after releasing seven great albums. The lead singer Vincent Furnier started his remarkable solo career in 1975 and he adopted Alice Cooper as his name. In 1977, three former members of the Alice Cooper band formed a band called Billion Dollar Babies…

Noted hard rockers Billion Dollar Babies have a well-earned reputation as one of Sweden’s most entertaining and explosive live acts. Over the last decade and more than 200 concerts all over Europe, including some of the biggest festivals in Sweden, fans have learned to expect nothing less than the best from the band. Hailing from Falun in the middle of Sweden, Billion Dollar Babies started as the unruly brain-child of lead singer Frankie Rich, early 2005. The idea was to redraw the map to fit the band’s own designs and nobody else’s. All considerations as to what was considered hip went out the window. Heavily influenced by big spectacle US rockers such as Kiss, W.A.S.P, Marilyn Manson and Alice Cooper, the band created their own standard for live shows and album sound…

Billion Dollar Babies is the sixth studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 1973. 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 album was heavily praised by such critics as Robert Christgau, Greg Prato of allmusic, and Jason Thompson of popmatters, but Rolling Stone gave the album only two and a half stars.

The Billion Dollar Babies were the band put together by Neal Smith, Dennis Dunaway and Michael Bruce in 1977 after it became clear that wasn't going to return to the original after 'Welcome To My Nightmare' was so successful. The only two members of the original missing from this lineup is Glen Buxton & Alice himself.