This Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Big Game, the third studio album from Danish/American rockers White Lion. After the success of their sophomore effort -- 1987's double-platinum-selling Pride, which featured Top 10 hits "Wait" and "When the Children Cry" -- Big Game was only a slight letdown. It reached #19 on the Billboard album charts and went gold in the U.S.
While Big Game didn't have any of the big hits that Pride had, it is still a very solid album. White Lion is undoubtedly a member of the hair band genre, but what those of us familiar with their music know is that the subject matter of White Lion's songs was not typical of the hair band genre. Don't let the perfect teeth, teased hair, rhinestone-studded jackets, and yellow leather pants fool you into thinking these were just vapid rockers signing only about booze and trim. Many of the band's songs have politically and socially charged undertones, including "Little Fighter" off of Big Game.
"Little Fighter" is a great, catchy rock song, which peaked at #52 on the Billboard Hot 100. It is about a Greenpeace boat called Rainbow Warrior, which was used by Greenpeace to campaign against nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean, including testing by France. It was in Auckland, New Zealand on July 10, 1985, when two French secret service agents set off two explosive devices on the hull of the boat, sinking it and killing one of the people on board. France was eventually ordered by an international tribunal to pay Greenpeace over $8 million, and the remains of the boat were moved to some islands in New Zealand and now serve as a dive wreck and artificial reef.
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