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"We had expected empty rooms, possibly even bottles of urine, but from the first night everyone knew the words." The sudden rise, spectacular fall and slow road to recovery of America's great lost AOR band

Despite falling record sales and changes in the musical landscape, Tyketto stayed true to their style. Now, with a new album on the way, they’re finding a new audience

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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

Louder

“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

Louder

"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

Louder

Man dies after car crashes into pub and bursts into flames following police chase

A driver in his twenties was killed in the crash into the White Lion pub in Heywood

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“White Lion was on tour with Aerosmith, and I wanted to switch from Strats and see what Steinberger was all about…”: Vito Bratta on why he made the leap to his iconic ’88 Steinberger GM2T

The former White Lion axe-slinger on how a newfound love of the hi-tech – and a desire to stand apart from Eddie Van Halen –led to an all-new guitar that found its way onto the cover of Guitar World in 1989

Guitar World

“It was all automatic Eddie Van Halen comparisons. I wanted something different”: Vito Bratta explains why he switched from Stratocasters to his iconic Steinberger

The shred trailblazer recalls how links to EVH's Frankenstein – and a fondness for high-tech gear – prompted his switch to a headless alternative in the '80s

Guitar World

The 40 best AOR vocalists of all time

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

Louder

“People would tell me, ‘Oh, you sound and play just like Eddie Van Halen.’ It got under my skin enough that I called Eddie”: Vito Bratta, one of the definitive ’80s shredders, looks back on a career of world-beating solos with White Lion

The legendary White Lion guitarist sits down for a rare interview to share the stories behind the solos, what it’s like to record with Jimi Hendrix’s Strat plugged into Leslie West’s Marshall, and why his recording career began with disappointment

Guitar World

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

“A f**king disaster”: Vito Bratta says White Lion’s debut album left him “devastated” – here’s why

The virtuoso doesn't harbor too many fond memories of White Lion's 1985 LP Fight to Survive, and that's partly because of the guitar tracks that made it onto the final album

Guitar World

Vito Bratta recorded White Lion’s All You Need is Rock 'n' Roll with Jimi Hendrix’s black Stratocaster – and Leslie West’s Marshall amp

West's 100-watt Mountain Marshall is still owned by Bratta, who got his hands on the fabled Strat through Al Kooper – who was gifted the guitar by Hendrix himself

Guitar World

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Louder

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

Nottingham Post

Closed Beeston pub gets a makeover - but locals aren't happy

The white lion statue is now green

Guitar World

Vito Bratta names 11 guitarists who shaped his sound

The virtuoso behind White Lion’s platinum rock sound pays dues to the players who showed him what to do on guitar (and what not to do), and recalls an emotional encounter with Eddie Van Halen

Daily Mirror

Drivers AVOID one of UK's most daring roads with accidents 'every week' on 'Devil's Bend'

People living in the idyllic village of Bracmote in Nottinghamshire have urged drivers to slow down and be careful after a number of crashes on a "dangerous" road

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Vito Bratta recounts emotional meeting with Eddie Van Halen: "I was touched enough to where I had to leave the room, go to the bathroom, and cry"

"I got a lot of s**t from people who said I was aping his style," the White Lion legend told Guitar World in a recent interview. "He didn’t agree"

Louder

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

Nottingham Post

'Charming' Bramcote pub to remain open as owner looks for new long-term landlord

The White Lion in Bramcote's previous tenant left last year, with owners Greene King still searching for a replacement. The pub has been kept open during the search.

Nottingham Post

'Great sadness' as licensees to leave Beeston pub after just over a year

They need to focus on the pubs that are doing well

The Independent UK

The best beer gardens in England

The best outdoor spaces to enjoy a tipple during the heatwave

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Best beer gardens in England

The best outdoor spaces to enjoy a tipple during the heatwave

Bristol Post

Clifton's White Lion pub offers the best views in Bristol but you pay a pretty penny for it

It didn't stop people flooding in

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