Little_Fighter_(song)

Little Fighter (song)

Little Fighter (song)

1989 single by White Lion


"Little Fighter" is a song by American-Danish glam metal band White Lion and was the first single released from the 1989 album Big Game.[2]

Quick Facts Single by White Lion, from the album Big Game ...

The song charted at #52 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #12 on the Mainstream Rock chart[3] in the United States, and #65 in Canada.

Rainbow Warrior

The end of the song's music video features the Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior which was destroyed by the French intelligence service while docked in a harbor in Auckland, New Zealand in 1985, and which served as the inspiration for the Steven Seagal film On Deadly Ground. In 1989, a fundraising double album was released entitled Greenpeace Rainbow Warriors. In the liner notes for the Big Game album, the lyrics for "Little Fighter" state "In Memory of the Rainbow Warrior".[4] [5] [6]

Versions and Covers

The song was re-recorded in 1999 on the album Remembering White Lion (also released as Last Roar in 2004) and a live version was released in 2005 on the live album Rocking the USA.

The song was covered by punk band Death by Stereo on the Punk Goes Metal album, released on August 1, 2000. This was first album released in the Punk Goes... compilation series created by Fearless Records, featuring covers of heavy metal songs performed punk rock bands.

In 2011, it was covered by Red City Radio on a split with The Gamits.

In 2023 Mike Tramp re-recorded "Little Fighter" for the "Songs of White Lion" album, the song was re-released as a single.[7]

Track listing

  1. "Little Fighter" - 4:23
  2. "Let's Get Crazy" - 4:52

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

More information Chart (1989), Peak position ...

References

  1. "Top 50 Glam Metal Albums". Metal Rules. Archived from the original on November 26, 2017. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  2. "White Lion singles". Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  3. "story of White Lion's 'Little Fighter'". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
  4. "White Lion Little Fighter". Hair Metal. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
  5. "Billboard Top Album Rock Tracks - August 5, 1989" (PDF). Billboard. Billboard. August 5, 1989. p. 16. Retrieved December 25, 2021.



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