Search - Artist/Band: Whitesnake

• Band Name: Whitesnake
• Formed: 1977
• Originated From: London, England
• Decades Active: 1970,1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Rock
• Styles: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Pop-Metal, Hair Metal, Arena Rock
• Moods: Aggressive, Raucous, Sleazy, Brash, Rebellious, Rousing, Sexual, Theatrical, Hedonistic, Party/Celebratory, Rambunctious, Rowdy, Sentimental

Title	Release
30th Anniversary Collection	06/09/2008
Good to Be Bad WA	04/22/2008
All For Love	2008
Gold	06/27/2006
The Definitive Collection WA	02/07/2006
Rock Breakout Years: 1987	10/11/2005
The Early Years WA	02/10/2004
The Silver Anniversary Collection WA	05/20/2003
Best	04/22/2003
Best of Whitesnake [EMI] WA	03/24/2003
Best of Sunburst Years	11/19/2002
Here I Go Again: The Whitesnake Collection WA	10/29/2002
Winning Combinations: Whitesnake & Scorpions	07/23/2002
20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Whitesnake	06/27/2000
1987/Slip of the Tongue	05/22/2000
Restless Heart WA	06/30/1998
Whitesnake's Greatest Hits WA	07/19/1994
Slip of the Tongue	02/1989
1987 WA	1987
Slide It In	1984
Saints & Sinners WA	1982
Ready An Willing WA	1980
Lovehunter WA	1979
Trouble WA	02/1978
Snakebite WA	01/1978

After recording two solo albums, former Deep Purple vocalist David Coverdale formed Whitesnake around 1977. In the glut of hard rock and heavy metal bands of the late '70s, their first albums got somewhat lost in the shuffle, although they were fairly popular in Europe and Japan. During 1982, Coverdale took some time off, so he could take care of his sick daughter. When he re-emerged with a new version of Whitesnake in 1984, the band sounded revitalized and energetic. Slide It In may have relied on Led Zeppelin's and Deep Purple's old tricks, but the band had a knack for writing hooks; the record became their first platinum album. Three years later, Whitesnake released an eponymous album (titled 1987 in Europe) that was even better. Portions of the album were blatantly derivative -- "Still of the Night" was a dead ringer for early Zeppelin -- but the group could write powerful, heavy rockers like "Here I Go Again" that were driven as much by melody as riffs, as well as hit power ballads like "Is This Love." Whitesnake was an enormous international success, selling over six million copies in the U.S. alone.

Before they recorded their follow-up, 1989's Slip of the Tongue, Coverdale again assembled a completely new version of the band, featuring guitar virtuoso Steve Vai. Although the record went platinum, it was a considerable disappointment after the across-the-board success of Whitesnake. Coverdale put Whitesnake on hiatus after that album. In 1993, he released a collaboration with former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page that was surprisingly lackluster. The following year, Whitesnake issued a greatest-hits album in the U.S. and Canada -- focusing solely on material from their final three albums (as well as containing a few unreleased tracks).

In 1997, Coverdale resurrected Whitesnake (guitarist Adrian Vandenberg was the only remaining member of the group's latter-day lineup), issuing Restless Heart the same year. Surprisingly, the album wasn't even issued in the United States. On the ensuing tour, Coverdale and Vandenberg performed an "unplugged" show in Japan that was recorded and issued the following year under the title Starkers in Tokyo. By the late '90s, however, Coverdale once again put Whitesnake on hold, as he concentrated on recording his first solo album in nearly 22 years. Coverdale's Into the Light was issued in September 2000, featuring journeyman guitarist Earl Slick. After a lengthy hiatus that saw the release of countless "greatest-hits" and "live" collections, the band returned in 2008 with the impressive Good to Be Bad. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine & Greg Prato, All Music Guide