Seventeen (Winger song)

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"Seventeen"
Seventeen Winger.jpg
Single by Winger
from the album Winger
B-side "Poison Angel"
ReleasedFebruary 1988 [1]
Studio Atlantic Studios, New York City
Genre Glam metal [2] [3]
Length4:05
4:47 (Extended version in the Rock Band 4 DLC)
Label Atlantic
Songwriter(s) Kip Winger, Reb Beach, Beau Hill
Producer(s) Beau Hill, Roy Moore
Winger singles chronology
"Madalaine"
(1988)
"Seventeen"
(1988)
"Headed for a Heartbreak"
(1987)

"Seventeen" is a single by American rock band Winger from their debut album Winger. Released in 1989, the song charted at No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was named the 87th best hard rock song of all time by VH1. [4]

Contents

The B-side for this single was the album cut "Poison Angel".

Background

According to Kip Winger, he took inspiration from the Beatles song, "I Saw Her Standing There", which contains the lyric, "Well she was just seventeen / If you know what I mean / And the way she looked / Was way beyond compare" and was not aware that age Seventeen is underage in some jurisdictions. . [5]

Winger said guitarist Reb Beach wrote the main riff when he was about 15, but was unsure how to use it. However, Winger had an idea, and wove it into the song. He said they were trying to rip off a Led Zeppelin song with "weird syncopation" on the verse, though he cannot remember which song it was anymore — probably "The Crunge" or "Walter's Walk". He also stated, "The thing I like about 'Seventeen' is that time and time again I've seen cover bands try to play it and there's no one I've ever seen be able to play that riff correctly. That song is very deceiving because it's cocky on the melody end and it's musically a difficult song for average bands to play, because it's all this intricate picking and a lot of riffs and syncopations and singing and playing that song has always been a challenge." [6]

Track listing

7" and cassette single
Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Seventeen"4:02
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Poison Angel"3:22
Canadian 7" single
Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Seventeen" (Radio Edit)3:35
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Poison Angel"3:22
CD single
No.TitleLength
1."Seventeen" (Radio Edit)3:35
2."Seventeen" (LP Version)4:04

Charts

Chart (1989)Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 [7] 26
US Mainstream Rock ( Billboard ) [8] 19

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