No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll

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No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll

Studio album by

Alcatrazz

Released

October 1983

Studio

Rocshire Studios, Anaheim, California Skyline Studios, Topanga, California

Genre

Heavy metal

Length

41:20

Label

Rocshire (US)
RCA (Europe)

Producer

Dennis Mackay, Andrew Trueman

Alcatrazz chronology

No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll
(1983)

Live Sentence
(1984)

Singles from No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll

"Island in the Sun" / "Hiroshima Mon Amour"
Released: 1983

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	10/10^[2]

No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll is the first album by American heavy metal band Alcatrazz led by veteran singer Graham Bonnet, released in 1983. It spent seven weeks on the Billboard 200 albums chart, peaking at No. 128.^[3] The album precipitated guitarist's Yngwie Malmsteen solo career, and is most famous for the single "Island in the Sun".

Track listing

Side one

"Island in the Sun" (Yngwie Malmsteen, Jimmy Waldo, Graham Bonnet) - 3:55
"General Hospital" (Malmsteen, Waldo, Bonnet) - 4:49
"Jet to Jet" (Bonnet, Malmsteen) - 4:27
"Hiroshima Mon Amour" (Bonnet, Malmsteen) - 4:00
"Kree Nakoorie" (Malmsteen, Waldo, Bonnet) - 6:10

Side two

"Incubus" (Malmsteen) - 1:24 (instrumental)
"Too Young to Die, Too Drunk to Live" (Bonnet, Malmsteen) - 4:20
"Big Foot" (Bonnet, Malmsteen) - 4:06
"Starcarr Lane" (Malmsteen, Waldo, Bonnet) - 3:53
"Suffer Me" (Bonnet, Malmsteen) - 4:16

2011 & 2015 Reissue bonus tracks (instrumental demos)

"Island in the Sun" - 3:47
"General Hospital" - 4:10
"Jet to Jet" - 4:11
"Hiroshima Mon Amour" - 3:23
"Kree Nakoorie" - 5:18
"Incubus" - 1:43
"Too Young to Die, Too Drunk to Live" - 3:42
"Big Foot" - 3:54
"Starcarr Lane" - 4:29
"Suffer Me" - 3:25

Personnel

Graham Bonnet – vocals
Yngwie Malmsteen – guitar
Jimmy Waldo – keyboards, backing vocals
Gary Shea – bass, backing vocals
Jan Uvena – drums, backing vocals

Production

Dennis Mackay – producer, mixing
Willie Harlen – engineer, mixing
Nick Newton – logo design
Bad Samuels – art direction
Mark Sokol – artwork
Andrew Trueman – management

References

^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Alcatrazz No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2013-04-04.
^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 16. ISBN 978-1894959315.
^ "No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll Billboard Albums". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2013-04-04.^{[dead link‍]}

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Studio albums	No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll Disturbing the Peace Dangerous Games Born Innocent
Live albums	Live Sentence AWOL in Hollywood Live in Tokyo Live '83
Compilations	The Best of Alcatrazz
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