Billion Dollar Babies

Billion Dollar Babies
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 27, 1973
RecordedAugust 1972 – January 1973
Studio
Genre
Length40:51
LabelWarner Bros.
ProducerBob Ezrin
Alice Cooper chronology
School's Out
(1972)
Billion Dollar Babies
(1973)
Muscle of Love
(1973)
Singles from Billion Dollar Babies
  1. "Elected"
    Released: September 6, 1972
  2. "Hello Hooray"
    Released: January 3, 1973
  3. "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
    Released: March 16, 1973
  4. "Billion Dollar Babies"
    Released: July 11, 1973

Billion Dollar Babies is the sixth studio album by American rock band Alice Cooper, released on February 27, 1973 by Warner Bros. Records.[1][2] The album became the best selling Alice Cooper record at the time of its release, hitting number one on the album charts in the United States and the United Kingdom, and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

The album has been retrospectively praised by such critics as Robert Christgau, Greg Prato of AllMusic, and Jason Thompson of PopMatters, but The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004) gave the album only two and a half stars.

Songs were recorded in both the state of Connecticut and London, England. Lyrics cover topics and themes such as necrophilia, dental fear, horror, and sexual harassment. At 40 minutes and 51 seconds, it is the longest studio album the band has ever released; this does not count any of Cooper's solo albums.

  1. ^ "Alice Cooper timeline".
  2. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. Canongate Press. p. 170. ISBN 9780862415419.