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"Seventeen" is a single released by the American rock band Winger, from their album Winger. Released in 1988, the song charted at No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100.

"Seventeen"
Single by Winger
from the album Winger
B-side	"Poison Angel"
Released	November 1988
Studio	Atlantic Studios, New York City
Genre	Glam metal[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Length	4:05 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" (1989)

The B-side for this single was the album cut "Hangin' On."

The song was named the 87th best hard rock song of all time by VH1.[7]

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 that he wasn't aware that it was illegal for an adult to have sexual relations with a seventeen-year-old.[8]

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."[9]

Track listing

7" and cassette single

Canadian 7" single

CD single

Charts

Chart (1989)	Peak Position
US Billboard Hot 100[10]	26
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[11]	19

See also

• List of glam metal albums and songs

References

На других языках

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- [en] Seventeen (Winger song)

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[es] Seventeen (cancion)

Seventeen es un sencillo lanzado por la banda estadounidense heavy metal Winger, de su álbum Winger. Lanzada en 1988, la canción apareció en el número 26 en Billboard Hot 100. A pesar de su sonido pop metal, Kip Winger señala que la melodía es musicalmente una canción de metal progresivo y que en realidad es bastante difícil tocar y cantar simultáneamente. Junto con "Headed for a Heartbreak", "Madalaine" y "Go To Hell", es la canción más popular de Winger por la cual son más recordados.

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