Violation (album)

Violation
Studio album by Starz
Released	1977
Recorded	1977
Studio	Record Plant and A&R Recording, New York City
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	36:00
Label	Capitol
Producer	Jack Douglas
Starz chronology
Starz (1976) Violation (1977) Attention Shoppers! (1978)

Violation is the second studio album by the American band Starz, released in 1977. ^[1] The single "Cherry Baby" peaked at number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1977. ^[2] It was the band's highest-charting single.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	8/10 [4]
Record Mirror	[5]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide	[6]

The New Rolling Stone Album Guide gave the album zero stars. ^[6] Martin Popoff, in The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's Debauched Decade, called Violation a "proto-hair metal semi-classic". ^[7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Starz, except as noted.

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Cherry Baby"		3:47
2.	"Rock Six Times"		3:15
3.	"Sing It, Shout It"	Jon Parrot, Sean Delaney	5:10
4.	"Violation"		4:26

Side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Subway Terror"	3:45
2.	"All Night Long"	3:26
3.	"Cool One"	3:40
4.	"S. T. E. A. D. Y."	5:25
5.	"Is That a Street Light or the Moon?"	3:06

2005 CD edition bonus tracks

No.	Title	Length
10.	"Do It with the Lights On" (demo version)	3:34
11.	"Cool One" (demo version)	3:22
12.	"Rock This Town" (demo version)	2:47

Personnel

Starz

• Michael Lee Smith – vocals
• Richie Ranno – guitar
• Brendan Harkin – guitar
• Pieter "Pete" Sweval – bass
• Joe X. Dube – drums

Production

• Jack Douglas – producer
• Jay Messina – engineer
• Sam Ginsberg, Dave Martone – assistant engineers

References

1. Lanham, Tom (December 16, 2005). "Starz: Band that should have made it makes comeback". Oakland Tribune. Music. p. 1.
2. "Billboard Hot 100™". www.billboard.com. Retrieved August 18, 2025.
3. Henderson, Alex. "Starz Violation review". AllMusic . Rovi Corporation . Retrieved February 23, 2013.
4. Popoff, Martin (October 2003). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 1: The Seventies. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 253–254. ISBN   978-1894959025.
5. Brown, David (April 30, 1977). "Albums: Starz – Violation" (PDF). Record Mirror . London: Spotlight Publications Ltd. p. 22. ISSN   0144-5804. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 23, 2023. Retrieved December 7, 2023– via World Radio History.
6. The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1983. p. 487.
7. Popoff, Martin (2014). The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's Debauched Decade. Quarto Publishing Group USA. p. 24.