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Three additional guitarists (including longtime band friend Mick Mashbir and New York-based session musicians Dick Wagner & Steve Hunter) were retained to cover for Buxton, who suffered from alcohol use disorder-related pancreatitis throughout the sessions. Guitarists Glen Buxton and Michael Bruce both used Gibson SGs for the album. The album was produced by Bob Ezrin with Gerry Lyon as assistant in New York, Connecticut and London. Other sessions were held at Morgan Studios in London, where singer Donovan contributed to the album by singing on its title track. To achieve certain vocal sounds and echoes, microphones were run through rooms of various sizes and a greenhouse. The first recording sessions for the album took place in Greenwich, Connecticut, in a mansion called the Galesi Estate. 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.ĭrummer Neal Smith has said that the album can be traced back to the song "Caught in a Dream" from the album Love It to Death (1971). Lyrics cover topics and themes such as necrophilia, dental fear, horror, and sexual harassment. Songs were recorded in both the state of Connecticut and London, England. 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. The album became the best selling Alice Cooper record at the time of its release, hit number one on the album charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom, and went on to be certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Billion Dollar Babies is the sixth studio album by American rock band Alice Cooper, released in 1973.