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". Record Mirror . London: Spotlight Publications Ltd. p. 22. ISSN   0144-5804.
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.