hair story
Whitesnake are a rock band formed in England in 1978 by David Coverdale, after his departure from his previous band Deep Purple. Their early material has been compared by critics to the blues rock of Deep Purple, but they slowly began moving toward a more commercially accessible rock style. By the turn of the decade, the band’s commercial fortunes changed and they released a string of UK top 10 albums, Ready an’ Willing (1980), Come an’ Get It (1981), Saints & Sinners (1982) and Slide It In (1984), the last of which was their first to chart in the US and is certified 2x platinum.
The band’s 1987 self-titled album was their most commercially successful worldwide, and contained two major US hits, “Here I Go Again” and “Is This Love”, reaching number one and two on the Billboard Hot 100. The album went 8 times platinum in the US, and the band’s success saw them nominated for the 1988 Brit Award for Best British Group… (from Wikipedia)
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hair band members
David Coverdale, lead vocals
Vivian Campbell, guitar from 1987-1988
Adrian Vandenberg, guitar from 1986-1991
Rudy Sarzo, bass from 1987-1994
Tommy Aldridge, drums from 1987-present
other hair band mates
John Sykes, guitar from 1984-1987
Steve Vai, guitar from 1989-1990
Doug Aldrich, guitar from 2004-2013
Reb Beach, guitar from 2004-present
classic rock albums
Trouble (1978)
Lovehunter (1979)
Ready an’ Willing (1980)
Live… in the Heart of the City (1980)
Come an’ Get It (1981)
Saints & Sinners (1982)
hair albums & top 40 songs
Slide It In (1984)
Whitesnake (1987)
Here I Go Again #1, Is This Love #2
Slip of the Tongue (1989)
Fool For Your Loving #37, The Deeper the Love #28
post-hair albums
Greatest Hits (1994)
Restless Heart (1997)
Starkers in Tokyo (1997)
Here I Go Again: The Whitesnake Collection (2002)
The Silver Anniversary Collection (2003)
The Early Years (2004)
The Definitive Collection (2006)
Live… in the Shadow of the Blues (2006)
Good to Be Bad (2008)
Forevermore (2011)
Made in Japan (2013)
Made in Britain (2013)
The Purple Album (2015)
The Purple Tour (2017)
Unzipped (2018)
Flesh & Blood (2019)
The Rock Album (2020)
Love Songs (2020)
The Blues Album (2021)
Restless Heart – 25th Anniversary Edition (2021)
live shows
Live at Donington 1990