A new version of “Billion Dollar Babies” is on the way as Alice Cooper‘s delightfully subversive sixth album returns in all its snakeskin glory for an extended 50th-anniversary celebration. After hitting No. 1 on the album charts in America and the U.K. in 1973, the record remains a highwater mark for the original lineup, featuring hits like “No More Mr. Nice Guy” and “Elected”.

“Billion Dollar Babies: Trillion Dollar Deluxe Edition” will be available from Rhino on March 8 on 3-LP and 2-CD. Both feature a newly remastered version of the original album, along with bonus material, including studio outtakes, single mixes, and an electrifying 1973 concert recording. In the vinyl edition, the gatefold cover faithfully replicates the original’s textured snakeskin wallet design and comes complete with a $1 billion dollar bill tucked inside.

The single version of “Elected” from the upcoming set is available today digitally.

An instant smash when it was released in March 1973, “Billion Dollar Babies” delivered a theatrical mix of hard rock and glam laced with macabre lyrics that explored wealth, decadence, and fame’s darker side. Newly remastered, the platinum-certified album sounds better than ever. The set also features outtakes (“Coal Black Model T”),single mixes (“Mary Ann”),and “Slick Black Limousine”, which originally came out on flexi-disc within an issue of the British rock paper New Musical Express.

The “Trillion Dollar Deluxe Edition” also features a live show recorded in Texas in April of 1973, during the “Billion Dollar Babies” tour. The powerful performance includes live versions of many of the album’s tracks, highlights including “Elected” and “Hello Hooray”, along with several of the band’s earlier hits, including “I’m Eighteen” and “School’s Out”.

The LP and CD versions both come with an oral history of the album and the bonus tracks by the surviving band members — Alice Cooper, Dennis Dunaway, Michael Bruce and Neal Smith — and Bob Ezrin, who produced the album. (Sadly, guitarist Glen Buxton died in 1997)

In the notes, Cooper recalls writing “I Love The Dead” and “Sick Things”. He says: “We were writing those songs looking at each other, and every time we’d write a line I’d say, ‘Oh, this is gonna kill them. Oh, they’re gonna hate us on this one.’ But at the same time, it was almost like an Edgar Allan Poe short story when you listen to ‘I Love The Dead’. I tried to write that the way Vincent Price would sing it.”

“Billion Dollar Babies: Trillion Dollar Deluxe Edition” LP track listing:

LP One

Side One

  1. Hello Hooray
    02. Raped And Freezin’
    03. Elected
    04. Billion Dollar Babies
    05. Unfinished Sweet

Side Two

  1. No More Mr. Nice Guy
    02. Generation Landslide
    03. Sick Things
    04. Mary Ann
    05. I Love The Dead

LP Two

Side One

  1. Hello Hooray– Live, 1973
    02. Billion Dollar Babies – Live, 1973
    03. Elected – Live, 1973
    04. I’m Eighteen – Live, 1973
    05. Raped And Freezin’ – Live, 1973
    06. No More Mr. Nice Guy – Live, 1973

Side Two

  1. My Stars– Live, 1973
    02. Unfinished Sweet – Live, 1973
    03. Sick Things – Live, 1973
    04. Dead Babies – Live, 1973
    05. I Love The Dead – Live, 1973

LP Three

Side One

  1. School’s Out– Live, 1973
    02. Under My Wheels – Live, 1973
    03. Coal Black Model T – Outtake
    04. Son Of Billion Dollar Babies (Generation Landslide) – Outtake

Side Two

  1. Hello Hooray– Single Version
    02. Billion Dollar Babies – Single Version
    03. Elected – Single Version
    04. Mary Ann – Single Version
    05. Slick Black Limousine

CD Track Listing

CD One

  1. Hello Hooray
    02. Raped And Freezin’
    03. Elected
    04. Billion Dollar Babies
    05. Unfinished Sweet
    06. No More Mr. Nice Guy
    07. Generation Landslide
    08. Sick Things
    09. Mary Ann
    10. I Love The Dead

CD Two

  1. Hello Hooray– Live, 1973
    02. Billion Dollar Babies – Live, 1973
    03. Elected – Live, 1973
    04. I’m Eighteen – Live, 1973
    05. Raped And Freezin’ – Live, 1973
    06. No More Mr. Nice Guy – Live, 1973
    07. My Stars – Live, 1973
    08. Unfinished Sweet – Live, 1973
    09. Sick Things – Live, 1973
    10. Dead Babies – Live, 1973
    11. I Love The Dead – Live, 1973
    12. School’s Out – Live, 1973
    13. Under My Wheels – Live, 1973
    14. Coal Black Model T – Outtake
    15. Son Of Billion Dollar Babies (Generation Landslide) – Outtake
    16. Hello Hooray – Single Version
    17. Billion Dollar Babies – Single Version
    18. Elected – Single Version
    19. Mary Ann – Single Version
    20. Slick Black Limousine