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“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

Two top 10 hits and two million album sales couldn't save them

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"I said, 'This is our last show.' He said OK. We never, ever talked about why it was so easy to break up the band." The curious story of the thinking man's hair metal band, and where it all went wrong

Two million sales. A dizzying rise. And a cataclysmic fall

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“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

Two top 10 hits and two million album sales couldn't save them

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Two top 10 hits and two million album sales couldn't save them

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"We had a deal one day and it was gone the next, but we still had the money in the bank": The dashed hopes and early trauma of White Lion

White Lion's second album Pride went double platinum, but debut Fight To Survive was a different story altogether

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"More in common with classic European hard rock than many of their peers": Mike Tramp matures like fine wine on Songs Of White Lion II

Former White Lion frontman Mike Tramp digs deep on second retro set

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The 40 best AOR vocalists of all time

Celebrating the finest, most velvet-throated singers to ever belt out a power ballad

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Meet the daredevil guitarist taking on Vito Bratta's hair-raising White Lion solos – and winning his hero's approval

Mike Tramp sideman Marcus Nand reveals what it's like to step into the shoes of one of '80s shred's most revered players, how he struck up a friendship with his idol, and what makes Bratta distinct from every other virtuoso

Guitar World

Six classic rock bands who "went grunge" and lived to tell the tale

Grunge swept all aside as it barrelled in from Seattle, and some bands preferred to jump the bandwagon rather than stand in the way and get mown down

Louder

"We had to die" - A history of The Grunge Wars, told by those who were there

Three decades ago, GN’R’s Use Your Illusion and Nirvana’s Nevermind were released just two weeks apart, setting two musical cultures against each other. We asked combatants from both sides: who won the war?

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Mike Tramp ramps up the poignancy as he revisits the Songs Of White Lion

Songs Of White Lion finds Mike Tramp revisiting the group’s best-known songs with a muscular backing band

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