Pride

White Lion Album

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White Lion  - Pride  Album

Pride is the second studio album by the American-Danish glam metal band White Lion, released on June 21, 1987, by Atlantic Records. The album featured the two top ten hits "Wait" and "When the Children Cry". It peaked at number 11 on the Billboard 200 and remained in the Billboard Top 200 for a full year, selling two million copies in the US alone

The recording process of the album took six weeks and the album was produced by Michael Wagener. The album's first single, "Wait", was released on June 1, 1987, but did not make waves until MTV began airing the music video in January 1988, seven months after its release, pushing the single to #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. In August 1988, more than a year after the album's release, the second single "Tell Me" also featuring a music video hit #58. Pride's third single, a gentle acoustic ballad titled "When the Children Cry", made it all the way to #3, again with heavy MTV rotation of the music video. The album peaked at #11 on the album charts. Pride would remain on the top 200 Billboard album charts for a full year.

The success of "When the Children Cry" would eventually push sales of Pride over the two million mark in the US, achieving double platinum status.[1] In addition, guitarist Vito Bratta was recognized for his instrumental talents by racking up Best New Guitarist awards with both Guitar World magazine and Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazine.

When they were going to record the drums, Vito played the solo to the song "wait" as a backing track at the same time, which they would play again later but the producer was so pleased that they kept that recording as he was unsure that Vito could do better. Michael Wagener has told in interviews that he got goosebumps when he heard Vito play the solo that time. They also had to borrow an older Fender stratocaster that once belonged to Jimi Hendrix to record another solo on the record.

In 1986, they first recorded a few songs in Frankfurt, in the same studio as "Fight to survive". But on returning home, they chose to ignore these songs and instead record a brand new record instead in Los Angeles. These demo songs can be found on "Pride take one ´86" and the later Anthology album.

In an interview with drummer Greg D`angelo, he says that the first demo songs had the same raw sound as the first record, but they took a chance on recording and releasing the record with the new, slightly more commercial sound and it turned out to be perfect.