In the beginning there was a band, and that band was called Alice Cooper. After being discovered by Frank Zappa, and originally hailing from Phoenix, Arizona, via Los Angeles and Detroit, The Alice Cooper band eventually nudged into the mainstream rock arena with the LPs "Love It To Death" and "Killer", eventually finding worldwide success with the "School's Out" (1972) and "Billion Dollar Babies" (1973) albums. Following "Muscle Of Love" in the 1974, the original Alice Cooper band took a break to consider solo projects outside of the band. The plan had been for the original Alice Cooper band to regroup and record in 1977, but by this time the name of the band had become very much synonymous with its lead singer - Vincent Furnier - who now had very much morphed into Alice as far as the public were concerned. The "solo" Alice record "Welcome to My Nightmare" had firmly separated Alice Cooper the singer from Alice Cooper the band. Rather than abandon the intended album, drummer Neal Smith, guitarist Michael Bruce and bassist Dennis Dunaway joined forces with lead guitarist Mike Marconi and Alice Cooper keyboard player Bob Dolin, and signing to Polydor records, fashioned the abandoned Alice Cooper band album into "Battle Axe", calling themselves Billion Dollar Babies, a very deliberate nod to their previous incarnation.
The Power Of Rock
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