“Little Fighter” by White Lion

"Little Fighter" led the charge for Big Game, White Lion's 1989 album, as its first single, and it's the sound of the American-Danish glam metal band with its heart on its sleeve. Mike Tramp and Vito Bratta wrote it; Tramp sings lead, Bratta plays guitar, and James LoMenzo and Greg D'Angelo hold down bass and drums. Michael Wagener produced, recorded and mixed it.

The song honors the Rainbow Warrior, the Greenpeace boat that French intelligence destroyed while it sat docked in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1985. The Big Game liner notes print the lyric with a dedication to the boat's memory, and the ship itself turns up at the end of the video. The single climbed to number 52 on the Billboard Hot 100 and did better on the Mainstream Rock chart, reaching number 12.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.