Rock star opulence came to an explosive head in 1973 when the Alice Cooper Group hit #1 on the U.S. and worldwide charts with 'Billion Dollar Babies,' their sixth and most successful album. Produced by Bob Ezrin, it is also one of the best rock 'n' roll records of all time, and the subsequent tour became the biggest rock production to date. Capitalizing on the album's themes of good-old decadence and horror, the show climaxed with a guillotine execution of Alice. The album and the tour made the band into the world's preeminent pied pipers of teenage trash culture.
