“In the ’80s,MTVbuttered our bread. But after Kurt Cobain wore his grandfather’s sweater in the video forSmells Like Teen Spirit, there was no place on MTV for bands like us and Mötley Crüe”: The life and death of the thinking person’s hair metal band

White Lion in 1987.

In the summer of 1988, New York-based rock band White Lion were flying high.

Their second album, Pride, had sold a million copies, and they were on a huge US tour opening for AC/DC.