How This '80s Hard Rock Band's Unlikely Cover of a 'Minor' R&B Hit Put Them on the Map

For their Snakebite EP in 1978, the band recorded a cover of "Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City," which had been a ...
American Songwriter

Whitesnake Is Not Hair Metal (and Here Are 10 Underrated Cuts to Prove It)

The band’s hair metal phase was a profitable one, resulting in the multiplatinum LPs Whitesnake and Slip of the Tongue. Those releases made them megastars, but alienated many earlier fans (not to ...
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David Coverdale Wants to Make Farewell Album With Former Whitesnake Members

David Coverdale has an idea to record one final Whitesnake album with several former members of the hard rock band back on the record. That's what the iconic 72-year-old Whitesnake lead singer told ...
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This ‘80s Power Ballad Got a Second Life—But It Almost Didn’t Happen

It's been nearly 40 years since Whitesnake took the music world— and MTV— by storm. On October 10, 1987, the English rockers hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with their breakout U.S. hit “Here ...
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Here he goes again: David Coverdale on who was supposed to be the 'original Whitesnake woman,' turning down 'American Idol,' what happened to his Jaguar and the one line he ...

The Totally ‘80s podcast just aired a big two-part episode all about power ballads, and understandably, the special guest is David Coverdale, the big voice of two of that big decade’s biggest ballads, ...
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Bernie Marsden, Guitarist for Whitesnake and Co-Writer of Hit ‘Here I Go Again,’ Dies at 72

Bernie Marsden, guitarist for Whitesnake who co-wrote some of the late ’70s and early ’80s glam-rock band’s biggest hits, has died. He was 72. The British axe-man died Thursday, according to a Friday ...