Original Album Remastered A1 Hello Hooray 4:17A2 Raped And Freezin’ 3:20A3 Elected 4:08A4 Billion Dollar Babies 3:43A5 Unfinished Sweet 6:21B1 No More Mr. Nice Guy 3:07B2 Generation Landslide 4:31B3 Sick Things 4:22B4 Mary Ann 2:19B5 I Love The Dead 5:12Live In Houston, Texas, April 28, 1973 C1 Hello Hooray 3:05C2 Billion Dollar Babies 3:48C3 Elected 2:29C4 I’m Eighteen 4:51C5 Raped And Freezin’ 3:14C6 No More Mr. Nice Guy 3:08D1 My Stars 7:32D2 Unfinished Sweet 6:01D3 Sick Things 3:17D4 Dead Babies 2:59D5 I Love The Dead 4:21E1 School’s Out 4:48E2 Under My Wheels 4:09Outtakes E3 Coal Black Model T (Outtake) 4:27E4 Son Of Billion Dollar Babies (Generation Landslide) (Outtake) 3:44Single Versions F1 Hello Hooray (Single Version) 3:03F2 Billion Dollar Babies (Single Version) 3:03F3 Elected (Single Version) 3:43F4 Mary Ann (Single Version) 2:20F5 Slick Black Limousine (Single Version) 4:26

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“Hello Hooray,” a new version of BILLION DOLLAR BABIES, is on the way as Alice Cooper’s delightfully subversive sixth album returns in all its snakeskin glory for an extended 50th-anniversary celebration. After hitting #1 on the album charts in America and the U.K. in 1973, the record remains a highwater mark for the original lineup, featuring hits like “No More Mr. Nice Guy” and “Elected.”

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BILLION DOLLAR BABIES: “TRILLION DOLLAR” DELUXE EDITION (3LP)features a newly remastered version of the original album, along with bonus material, including studio outtakes, single mixes, and an electrifying 1973 concert recording. The gatefold cover faithfully replicates the original’s textured snakeskin wallet design and comes complete with a $1 billion dollar bill tucked inside.

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An instant smash when it was released in March 1973, BILLION DOLLAR BABIES delivered a theatrical mix of hard rock and glam laced with macabre lyrics that explored wealth, decadence, and fame’s darker side. Newly remastered, the platinum-certified album sounds better than ever. The set also features outtakes (“Coal Black Model T”), single mixes (“Mary Ann”), and “Slick Black Limousine,” which originally came out on flexi-disc within an issue of the British rock paper New Musical Express.

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The “TRILLION DOLLAR” DELUXE EDITION also features a live show recorded in Texas in April of 1973, during the “Billion Dollar Babies” tour. The powerful performance includes live versions of many of the album’s tracks, highlights including “Elected” and “Hello Hooray,” along with several of the band’s earlier hits, including “I’m Eighteen” and “School’s Out.”

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This 3xLP version comes with an oral history of the album and the bonus tracks by the surviving band members – Alice Cooper, Dennis Dunaway, Michael Bruce, and Neal Smith – and Bob Ezrin, who produced the album. (Sadly, guitarist Glen Buxton died in 1997)

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In the notes, Cooper recalls writing “I Love The Dead” and “Sick Things.” He says, “We were writing those songs looking at each other, and every time we’d write a line I’d say, `Oh, this is gonna kill them. Oh, they’re gonna hate us on this one.’ But at the same time, it was almost like an Edgar Allan Poe short story when you listen to `I Love The Dead.’ I tried to write that the way Vincent Price would sing it.”

BILLION DOLLAR BABIES (50TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION)