billion dollar baby revisited
Bob Greene, a contributing editor to Esquire, writes a Chicago Tribune column that is nationally syndicated.
billion dollar baby revisited
Bob Greene, a contributing editor to Esquire, writes a Chicago Tribune column that is nationally syndicated. He is also the author of eight books. His 1974 Billion Dollar Baby (currently out of print) is probably the best book ever written about a rock ’n’ roll tour. Greene recently spoke to CREEM about his experiences with Alice Cooper.
When I talked to Alice, he said he hadn ’t read the book. But I always thought the book was part of the reason the band broke up.
I don’t know that they broke up because of the book. They were obviously in the process of breaking up during the tour. They were having a lot of problems while I was seeing them. And I saw the band sort of disintegrating before my eyes. They just didn’t get together very much on the road with Alice. It was always like the other guys were just a step below. I don’t think the book broke the band up, but it may have hastened it.