A colourful BRAVO magazine spread featuring stage photography, pop‑news snippets, new single announcements, and editorial commentary in a collage‑style layout.

A guillotine, a beer can, a theatre full of empty seats — and a band preparing to conquer the world with a show too outrageous to ignore.

A white‑clad tableau of decadence and danger — Billion Dollar Babies arrives not as a record, but as a theatrical declaration of rock‑and‑roll excess.

A brief but significant Billboard announcement marking the start of Alice Cooper’s massive 1973 American tour, opening March 5 in Rochester, N.Y.

A front‑page snapshot of Alice Cooper at their theatrical peak — a band preparing for a record‑breaking tour while navigating illness, pressure, and the release of Billion Dollar Babies.

A horror‑themed glam spectacle wrapped in snakeskin packaging, Billion Dollar Babies is praised for its orchestration, theatricality, and taboo‑breaking lyrics.

A secondary excerpt underscoring the article’s central theme: Alice Cooper as a performer who embraced spectacle without losing sight of the humour, humanity, and relentless work that fuelled the band’s rise.

secondary excerpt emphasising Ronson’s emergence as a solo force — a guitarist stepping confidently into the spotlight with a new album, a national tour, and a sound that carried the spirit of glam into 1975.

Published February 24, 1973, this Record Mirror centre‑spread presents Alice Cooper in full stage regalia: dark makeup, leather, menace, and charisma. The feature celebrates Cooper as the era’s most notorious performer — a glam‑horror showman whose concerts blurred the line between rock, theatre, and nightmare

A stark, atmospheric Popswop portrait capturing Alice Cooper in a contemplative pose — a quiet counterpoint to the theatrical chaos of the band’s stage persona.