After the commercial flop of 1974’s Muscle Of Love, Alice Cooper developed stars in his once spidery eyes, left his loyal band and set off for greener solo pastures. An Alice Cooper Band album, Battle Axe, was already being written, and would have most likely have been scuttled had the band (minus Glen Buxton) not rallied, bringing in hot-shot guitarist Mike Marconi to fill in and carrying on with a dizzy-brained futuristic rockwarrior concept. The resulting 1977 album went nowhere, but remains a pleasant slice of mid-70s AOR in the Angel/ Hollywood Stars vein, anchored by hooky nuggets like would-be singles Too Young and Rock N’ Roll Radio, which might have had a fighting chance had they been growled and crooned by hard-hearted Alice.