“All anyone wanted to hear was awful new wave garbage like Elvis Costello and The Police. Rock groups like ours were strangled us to death”: The rise and fall of Starz, the 70s rockers who should been the next Kiss

Starz posing for a photograph in 1977.

Starz were the great lost American hard rock band of the 1970s, beloved by everyone from Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx to Metallica’s Lars Ulrich. In 2008, guitarist Richie Ranno, drummer Joe X Dubé and singer Michael Lee Smith looked back on a band who snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.