Thursday, April 12. 1973
University Daily Kansan
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Not Before and After Pictures, Just an Example of Alice Cooper's Antics Group to present the bizarre in their production "Billion Dollar Babat"
Blood, Bubbles and Baby Dolls Props for Cooper Spectacular
By MARLENE SELLBERG Kansan Reviewer
What show would need one guillotte, one dentist's chair, one surgical table, one anesthetic table, two hatchets, 22,000 sparklers, 33,000 program books, 10,000 patches, 300 baby dolls, 85 mannequins, 42 bubble machines, 28 gallons of light bulbs and 6,000 mirror parts?
Alice Cooper's "Billion Dollar Babies," named after his latest album.
But you shouldn't be surprised. This is type of Alice Cooper and his life style. It's not a story about him.
The group established themselves in seven countries and has been named the best international band by England's trade magazine, Sounds.
Cooper does big h show in an Erector-set type castle and uses lights and action for each song. All productions are directed by Andy, a body, a wizard, magician and escape artist.
When Cooper performs at 8 p.m. Sunday in Allen Field House he will throw a presentation of dollars worth of posters to the audience and use thousands of packages of bubble soap.
One production of the song "Unfinished
Sweet" will bring out a dancing tooth,
a seven-foot toothbrush and a six-foot tube of
toothpaste.
Another part of the show will have the Amazing Randy cut Alice in half, spilling gallons of stage blood. To add to the general phasmagoric atmosphere, there will be burning sparklers reflected in mirrors and constantly ascending bubbles.
All these strange and bizarre song productions will be climaxed by the most strange and bizarre of them all. During the concert, he would stand manhandled and then-gullowed. His chipped-off head is raised high to the audience only to have his revitalized corpse spring into life, wave the American flag and shout with rage to Kate Smith's "G God Bless America."
This exhausting but fantastic show has been in the making for seven years. The tour covers 50 North American cities and 12 international cities, total any other group has made on one tour.
Cooper has said Billion Dollar Babies was a reflection of the group's success and was a total representation of the members' true selves. He said a by-product of the affluent
Harvard Prof To Talk Tonight
Daniel Bell, sociologist, author and educator, will present a Vickers Lecture series address entitled "Is America Sick?" at 7:30 tonight in Wodroud Auditorium.
Bell is a recognized scholar on American political and economic philosophy and has been on the faculty of Harvard University since 1969.
An educator for more than 28 years, he is the author of several books, including "The End of Ideology," his best known work.
society has allowed them to overindulge.
The "Billion Dollar Babies" album had sold over a million dollars worth before it was released. On Jan. 10, the first single off the album, "Hellow Hurray," was released as part of the beginning of a gigantic campaign that has brought the song to top national ratings.
An electric sign in Times Square was rented to keep tug of the song's success.
rented to keep track of the song's success. All other songs on the album were written by the group. Highlights are "Raped and Freezin", a song about a hitchhiking boy who gets picked up by a woman, raped and dumped naked naked in Chihuahua, Mexico:
"Elected," n. confession of Cooper's fantasy of running for president, "Billion Dollar Babies," a description of Cooper's sexual pleasure and "Sick Things," a Bella lappi test.
All these songs will be presented in his show.
Warner Brothers has made pillows, T-shirts, special invitations, mobiles and coins with a black-eyed baby on them advertising Billion Dollar Babies.
for the Greatest Show on Earth, or at least the most deserving of a gaped mouth, check out Alice Cooper and Billion Dollar Babies.
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