Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper

Billion Dollar Babies, the Alice Cooper band's sixth album, hit the racks on Warner Bros. in February 1973 and caught the group at the very top of its game: number one in both the US and the UK, certified platinum, and the biggest seller they had had. Bob Ezrin produced it, with sessions split between Connecticut and London, and the lineup was the classic five: Vincent Furnier as Alice out front, Glen Buxton on lead guitar, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar and keyboards, Dennis Dunaway on bass and Neal Smith on drums.

It's a gleefully sick record, hard rock with glam greasepaint smeared all over it, and its subjects run from horror and a terror of the dentist to necrophilia and sexual harassment. No More Mr. Nice Guy, Elected and the title track are the ones radio still reaches for. The tour that followed broke box-office records the Rolling Stones had held, and the band split the next year.

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