WhiteSnake

Whitesnake are an English rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale (formerly of Deep Purple). The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple but by the mid 1980s Whitesnake had moved away from the early blues influenced hard rock to a more commercial heavy metal style.

David Coverdale founded Whitesnake in 1977 in North Yorkshire, England. The core line-up had been working as his backing band The White Snake Band on the White Snake album tour and they retained the title before officially being known as Whitesnake. They toured with Coverdale as his support band and for both of the solo albums he released, White Snake and Northwinds, between exiting Deep Purple and founding Whitesnake. During the band's early years their music was primarily blues rock.

Whitesnake recorded the EP Snakebite which was released in 1978 and included a cover of a Bobby "Blue" Bland song "Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City," which became the first hit from the band. The EP had some success in the UK and subsequent reissues of this EP included four bonus tracks from Coverdale's second solo album Northwinds produced by Roger Glover. A blues rock/R&B debut album Trouble, was released in the autumn of 1978 and peaked at #50 in the UK album charts. Whitesnake toured Europe to promote the album and their first live album Live at Hammersmith was recorded on this tour and released in Japan in 1979. Whitesnake released Lovehunter in 1979, which courted controversy due to its risqué album cover by artist Chris Achilleos, which featured an illustration of a naked woman straddling a coiled snake.

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After a period of inactivity Whitesnake officially went on hiatus in 1991. Coverdale recorded the album Coverdale and Page, with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page in 1992, which was released by EMI in UK and Geffen in USA during March 1993 and immediately became a platinum seller. The Coverdale-Page tour which followed failed to attract ticket sales outside of Japan and was cancelled. Immediately Robert Plant's management announced a solo USA tour utilizing the existing Coverdale and Page dates already booked but this plan was scrapped. Page eventually toured as Page and Plant with Robert Plant and Coverdale revived Whitesnake.

In March 2008 Whitesnake played at the Rock2Wgtn two day festival, which also featured Ozzy Osbourne, Kiss, Poison, Alice Cooper and Lordi, with special effects by the Academy Award winning WETA Workshop. In April 2008 the band released their tenth studio album, Good to Be Bad, which reached #5 in the UK album chart.During the summer of 2008 Whitesnake headlined a UK tour along with Def Leppard[8], with Black Stone Cherry opening the UK arena shows in June and Thunder opening the July shows.

Artist: Whitesnake
Genre: Hard rock, heavy metal, blues-rock, glam metal
Country: Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England


Albums:
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1978 - Trouble 

1979 - Lovehunter 

1980 - Ready An' Willing

1981 - Come An' Get It 

1981 - Come an' Get It 

1982 - Saints & Sinners 

1984 - Slide It In 

1987 - Whitesnake (1987) (20th Anniversary Special Edition)

1989 - Slip Of The Tongue (20th Anniversary Edition) 

1989 - Slip Of The Tongue (Special Edition)

1997 - Restless Heart 

2008 - Good To Be Bad 

David Coverdale:
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1977 - Whitesnake (Remastered 2000)

2000 - Into The Light {EMI 0946357960 2 5}

2000 - Whitesnake - Northwinds (1976-1977) (2CD) {PUR340D}