White Lion’s stunning Fight To Survive was originally recorded in February 1984. It was a record that really sounded like no other before or since.
Sure, it had Bonham-esque drums and Van Halen-style power chords. But it was also dark, heavy and topped with the distinctive hint-of-an-accent vocals of a Danish-born frontman who only a few years before had been a member of a hugely successful pop band back home in his native Copenhagen. However, due to record label shenanigans, Fight To Survive wouldn’t hit the racks until November 1985 as a Japanese import, after the quartet had lost a mega-bucks deal with Elektra.
