"The first time I met Donovan we were recording 'Billion Dollar Babies' in London at Morgan Studios, and we realised we needed a British voice that was going to mimic my voice, and I said "who's here in the studio?" and they said "Donovan's next door" and I went "aww this will be great cause he's got that great British voice. So I walked straight in to the studio and he was doing something and I said "Donovan, I'm Alice Cooper, c'mon.. it's time to sing rock'n'roll. you know, because his songs were always nice and they were wonderfully written songs, and he'd had like eight #1s in a row or whatever, and I said "sing this". So he did the talking part, "we go dancing nightly in the attic..." he had so much fun doing that song. Then I said "now you've got to sing it, and I'll do the talking"

That record went straight to #1, and it was really fun to have Donovan on that. I like the idea of taking someone out of their comfort zone and putting them in a place they didn't normally go to."

"He was downstairs and I was upstairs at Morgan Studios when he was doing 'Billion Dollar Babies, and he came down and said "hello" and I went up and said "hello" to him." recalls Donovan at his 'Songwriter's Hall Of Fame' induction in 2014. "I had heard this track and he said "do you wanna put a vocal on it" and I said "sure, but it's so big and so bouncy and so loud, I think I'm going to have to get into a falsetto!' No one believed it was me, but it went to #1 didn't it, so me and Alice are fast friends now."

"I am experimental. I will try combinations that others won't and have a lot of fun doing it," he explained during an earlier interview. "Word came up that a band was downstairs and that they would love to meet me. I went down there and Alice had a guitar player in his band that was playing a little bit like Keith Richards and I thought that was fascinating."

Once he figured out his approach, "I went in and sang this piercing falsetto and sang, 'Billion Dollar Babbbbieeeees.' I can do things with my voice like that," Donovan continued. "Alice said, 'That’s it, man. Let’s record.' I think I did about half the vocals on that song. I have met Alice again over the years. It was really extraordinary to be a part of that song. 'Billion Dollar Babies' went to No. 1. I also did the talking part on the song: 'We go dancing nightly in the attic.' It was all like a horror movie; it was all tongue-in-cheek. I love Gothic mysteries. It has that spookiness."