State of Shock is the fifth solo studio album by American rock musician Ted Nugent. It was released in May 1979 by Epic Records. State of Shock closed a decade in which Nugent took his hard-rocking wildman persona to the top of the charts. Although the album reached the U.S. Top 20 and quickly went gold, it is Nugent's first solo album not to attain a platinum certification. The best known track remains the album opener "Paralyzed", which was performed live on a 1980 episode of the TV show Fridays, and turned up again a year later on Great Gonzos! The Best of Ted Nugent. Other highlights include "Saddle Sore" and "Alone", a rare power ballad for him, sung by Charlie Huhn. A live show from this era is captured on the 1997 archive release Live at Hammersmith '79. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_o...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)