No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll

No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll
Studio album by Alcatrazz
Released 1983
Recorded Rockshire Studios
Genre Heavy metal
Length 41:20
Label Polydor
Producer De Novo / Rockomo Music, BMI
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Alcatrazz chronology
No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll
(1983)
Live Sentence
(1984)

No Parole From Rock 'n' Roll (1983) was the first album released by Graham Bonnet's Alcatrazz. It spent seven weeks on the Billboard chart, peaking at #128. Considered by many to be the best Alcatrazz release and launched Yngwie J. Malmsteen into a glittering solo career. Most famous for the single "Island In the Sun" and "Jet To Jet". Other notable offerings are "Hiroshima Mon Amour" for which a video was shot (an excerpt for which was seen on the Channel 4 TV progamme The Tube), "General Hospital" and "Incubus", a solo by Yngwie J. Malmsteen he continued to play during his solo career. It has always had a strong following in Japan and songs from which can still be found in Karaoke bars today.

Track listing

All songs by Yngwie Malmsteen and Graham Bonnet, except where it's noted.

  1. "Island in the Sun" - 3:55 (Malmsteen/Jimmy Waldo/Bonnet)
  2. "General Hospital" - 4:49 (Malmsteen/Waldo/Bonnet)
  3. "Jet to Jet" - 4:27
  4. "Hiroshima Mon Amour" - 4:00
  5. "Kree Nakoorie" - 6:10 (Malmsteen/Waldo/Bonnet)
  6. "Incubus" - 1:24 (Malmsteen)
  7. "Too Young to Die, Too Drunk to Live" - 4:20
  8. "Big Foot" - 4:06
  9. "Starcarr Lane" - 3:53 (Malmsteen/Waldo/Bonnet)
  10. "Suffer Me" - 4:16

Personnel