Cherry Red Records has set a June 26 release date for the five-CD box set "White Lion: All You Need Is Rock 'N' Roll - The Complete Albums 1985-1991". Mainly active in the 1980s and early 1990s, WHITE LION released its debut album, "Fight To Survive", in 1985. The band had its breakthrough with the double-platinum-selling "Pride" album, which produced two Top 10 hits: "Wait" and "When The Children Cry". The band continued its success with the third album, "Big Game", which achieved gold status. By the time WHITE LION released its final album, 1991's "Mane Attraction", alternative rock was in the ascendancy, leading to a swift decline of the so-called "hair metal" scene in terms of sales, popularity, radio play, and most importantly, relevance. "White Lion: All You Need Is Rock 'N' Roll - The Complete Albums 1985-1991" track listing: Disc One - "Fight To Survive" (1985) 01. Broken Heart 02. Cherokee 03. Fight To Survive 04. Where Do We Run 05. In The City 06. All The Fallen Men 07. All Burn In Hell 08. Kid Of 1000 Faces 09. El Salvador 10. The Road To Valhalla Disc Two - "Pride" (1987) 01. Hungry 02. Lonely Nights 03. Don't Give Up 04. Sweet Little Loving 05. Lady Of The Valley 06. Wait 07. All You Need Is Rock N Roll 08. Tell Me 09. All Join Our Hands 10. When The Children Cry Bonus tracks: 11. Wait (Extended Remix) 12. When The Children Cry (Edit) 13. All You Need Is Rock N Roll (LP Version With Intro Edit) 14. All You Need Is Rock N Roll (Short Version) 15. Tell Me (Edit) Disc Three - "Big Game" (1989) 01. Goin' Home Tonight 02. Dirty Woman 03. Little Fighter 04. Broken Home 05. Baby Be Mine 06. Living On The Edge 07. Let's Get Crazy 08. Don't Say It's Over 09. If My Mind Is Evil 10. Radar Love 11. Cry For Freedom Bonus track: 12. Cry For Freedom (Edit) Disc Four - "Mane Attraction" (1991) 01. Lights And Thunder 02. Broken Heart 03. Leave Me Alone 04. Love Don't Come Easy 05. You're All I Need 06. It's Over 07. Warsong 08. She's Got Everything 09. Till Death Do Us Part 10. Out With The Boys 11. Blue Monday 12. Farewell To You Bonus track: 13. Lights & Thunder (Edit) Disc Five - Live: Ritz – New York (1988) 01. Hungry 02. Don't Give Up 03. Lonely Nights 04. Sweet Little Loving 05. Broken Heart 06. Fight To Survive 07. Tell Me 08. All Join Our Hands 09. Wait 10. Lady Of The Valley 11. The Road To Valhalla 12. All You Need Is Rock N Roll 13. When The Children Cry 14. Little Fighter (Live In Rehearsal 1991) 15. When The Children Cry (Live In Rehearsal 1991) 16. Don't Give Up (Live In Rehearsal 1991) A year ago, ex-WHITE LION frontman Mike Tramp revealed in an interview that he had apologized to guitarist Vito Bratta for trying to resurrect his former band without his onetime songwriting partner and bandmate. The Danish-born singer hasn't played with Bratta since WHITE LION performed its last concert in Boston in September 1991. In the 29 years since WHITE LION broke up, Bratta's public profile has been virtually nonexistent, while Tramp has remained active, recording and touring as a solo artist and with the bands FREAK OF NATURE, THE ROCK 'N' ROLL CIRCUZ and, more recently, BAND OF BROTHERS. Tramp also attempted to revive WHITE LION with the 2008 album "Return Of The Pride", featuring new members. Two years later, Tramp ceded ownership of the name WHITE LION to Bratta in an out-of-court settlement. Speaking to SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation", Tramp said that he and Vito are once again on speaking terms following his ill-fated attempt to bring back WHITE LION more than a decade ago. "I have, over the past couple of years, been the one out there basically both admitting and apologizing that the only thing that I never planned to do in my career and wanted to do was go back and rehash a version of WHITE LION that had nothing to do with WHITE LION, nothing to do with the guys that played in the band," Mike said. "Mike Tramp's heart was not in it. It was just a moment of weakness, not believing enough in my solo albums. [You listen to] some guys saying, 'Hey, if you put a new WHITE LION together, you can play festivals and get much more money.' And then you fall for that and you engage in it and you go out there, and then you realize it's not what you wanna do. And then, of course, Vito did not want the name WHITE LION to be used without him being in the band. And it actually took a couple of years for me to really understand how much it meant to Vito. And when Vito one day told me in one of these conversations… First of all, he told me, 'Mike, I'm not against you. I just don't wanna turn YouTube on and see the title 'WHITE LION live in so and so,' and somebody doing 'When The Children Cry' solo and it's not me. WHITE LION was you and me, it was our band, we wrote the songs. That is the memories I want for the rest of my life.' And when he told me that, I had tears in my eyes and I totally understood it, because I had also gotten to that point that when we closed WHITE LION, we felt that this is where we wanted to stop it. There was something, going into the '90s, that didn't agree with the things we were looking at, and we wanted to somehow end it on a higher level than something that would not represent us in the future. But it just took many years to really understand it." Asked if he understands why Vito doesn't want to play music professionally anymore, Mike said: "Yes, I do, because there are actually times when I also don't feel like doing it anymore. When all the magic around us, the stuff that made us fall in love with rock and roll — first of all, our heroes, then the industry, then the touring stuff — when all of that was really exposed that it was a two-faced kind of thing, that the people we thought loved us — and I'm not talking about the fans; I'm talking about the people that made money from us, and stuff like that — turned their back on us and stabbed us in the back, it really ripped us apart. And maybe it's just that I came from a different background than Vito, that I maybe was a little bit stronger or just of a different nature that I just fought back, but Vito just said, 'I just don't wanna deal with this.' And I understand now — I understand it from every conversation that I have with him." Tramp also once again closed the door on a possible WHITE LION reunion, saying: "I can't be Mike Tramp 1988. I can't sing like that, and I'm not going up on stage and doing a half-assed job, which most of the bands out there are doing."
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