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Rock 'n' Roll Artists A-Z...Whitesnake

http://users.breathemail.net/white-snake/index.html

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http://www.davidcoverdale.com/

David Coverdale was born on 22nd September 1951 in Saltburn-on-sea, Yorkshire, Great Britain. He was raised in a family pub atmosphere where he grew up listening to a variety of local bands and artists. He started out playing the guitar but decided, wisely enough, to take up singing instead (the only song I know that Coverdale play is Easy Does It); thus he came to sing with a number of local bands. He also worked in a gentry's boutique selling pants, before answering an ad in Melody Maker for the job as singer in Deep Purple.

Coverdale was first inspired to pursue his rock 'n' roll dream when he saw Jimi Hendrix perform on a television show. Influenced further by the likes Bobby "Blue" Band, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett and Joe Cocker, singing - bluesy and soulful - became his avenue for emotional and artistic expression.

In 1973, while in an obscure band performing at small clubs, he answered an ad in a music trade paper. Suddenly he became the lead singer of Deep Purple, arguably not only premier heavy rock group of the day, but one of the most popular bands in the world. In 1974, Deep Purple with Coverdale was the best-selling band in America. Nevertheless, after a handful of albums with Coverdale, the band's volatile chemistry signalled is demise.

Coverdale resigned without a fanfare in March 1976, and in 1977 released a modest solo album called "David Coverdale... Whitesnake" and another called "Northwinds" the next year. "It was the height of the punk era", he recalls, "and I was told nobody was interested in hard rock. So I booked a tour of six little clubs in England, and found there were thousands of people waiting to get in. I thought, 'somebody is definitely wrong'".

It was Coverdale who was right. When, continuing to mine his blues roots, he co-wrote a song intended for B. B. King. He ended up recording it with Whitesnake. "Fool For Your Loving" became the band's breakthrough hit in the United Kingdom. Through 7 albums and one EP, Whitesnake established itself as a major act in Europe and Japan.

During 1982, Coverdale took some time off, so he could take care of his sick daughter.

Still, success in America proved elusive, but after selling out tours, setting attendance records, and conquering the continental charts, Coverdale finally decided to focus his attention across the Atlantic. In 1984 Whitesnake was signed to Geffen Records by A&R executive, John David Kalodner.

That year the band's American debut album, Slide It In, including tracks such as "Love Ain't No Stranger" and the tittle cut, became a Top 40 platinum hit. Whitesnake had conquered the New World. Unfortunately, thanks to a serious sinus illness that threatened Coverdale's ability to ever sing again, Whitesnake would not be a heard from for three more years.

When Coverdale did return, his voice as strong as ever, Whitesnake laid claim to superstardom with the phenomenal success of its self-titled 1987 album. Though Whitesnake did not break into the top spot of the charts, settling for #2, its staying power was astonishing. At this time the album has sold ten million copies worldwide (more than six million in U.S. alone), charted in the Top 5 for more than six months, and boasted both a #1 single, "Here I Go Again", and a #2, "Is This Love". A third single "Still Of The Night", one of the most powerful rock anthems to emerge in the decade, reached the Top 40.

Whitesnake was named Album Of The Year for 1988 by music publications around the world, and Geffen reissued six of the band's earlier European - released albums, one of which - 1982's Saints & Sinners - featured earlier versions of Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again" and "Crying In The Rain".

The band's stylish videos for each of those songs warranted their own kudos. "Here I Go Again" was MTV's Top #5 Video of 1988, while both "Is This Love" and "Still Of The Night" were in the year-end Top 40. When a video compilation, Trilogy, was released later that year, it quickly won platinum certification.

In 1989, Whitesnake gave birth to Slip Of The Tongue, continuing what Coverdale calls the band's rock 'n' roll "sex drama", "exploring the themes of love on different levels, mostly horizontal and perpendicular knee-trembling levels". A Top 10 charting album, Slip Of The Tongue sold more than one million copies. Two singles charted in the Top 40: "Fool For Your Loving" and the power ballad "The Deeper The Love". Also of note was the song "Now You're Gone". Following its 1990 World Tour, however, Coverdale dissolved Whitesnake and set out in search of other musical endeavours.

In 1993, he released a collaboration with former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page called Coverdale/Page.

In 1994, 20 years after Coverdale began his recording career, Geffen Records releases Whitesnake's Greatest Hits in the U.S. and Canada. Encompassing the band's three original Geffen albums, the compilation also features three tracks previously unreleased on LP in North America. "Sweet Lady Luck" was recorded during the Slip Of The Tongue sessions. "Looking For Love" and "You're Gonna Break My Heart Again" were recorded during the 1987 sessions for the band's most successful album, Whitesnake. From "Love Ain't No Stranger", to "Is This Love", to "Fool For Your Loving", Whitesnake sang the songs of the hard rock romantic and they were among the greatest hits of the decade.

In 1996, he make a new Whitesnake formation and recorded Restless Heart in 1997, released by EMI, that have Too Many Tears as the most successful track of this album, also released as single.

About Starkers In Tokyo Coverdale said: "When Adrian and I were asked by Toshiba EMI to perform an acoustic set of songs whilst promoting the Restless Heart album in Japan, we were initially unenthusiastic. Even through we usually write our rock songs on acoustic guitars, it is with the vision of the final drum driven, eletric guitar fuelled, chest beating "Tarzan" vocal approach that people know as Whitesnake. However, as writers, we also believe that if a song is of any worth you should be able to present it any way you care to. Fast, slow, loud or soft as long as the integrity and emotional essence is intact. So, we decided to accept the challenge of "undressing" our songs to the bare essential; one acoustic guitar and one voice. Hey and guess what? We had fun! No thundering drums (which we love), no crunch guitar (which we adore), just two lonely old cowboys playing their tunes as simply, honestly and intimately as possible for a specially invited audience of their Japanese friends..."

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http://users.breathemail.net/white-snake/page9.html

Discography - Albums

http://whitesnake.virtualave.net/discography/index.html

http://users.breathemail.net/white-snake/page7.html

Concert Program Photos

http://users.breathemail.net/white-snake/page5.html



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