Whitesnake (album)

Whitesnake is the seventh studio album by British rock band of the same name, Whitesnake, released in March and April 1987. It was co-written and recorded for over a year in what would be the first and final collaboration between David Coverdale and at the time band's guitarist John Sykes. The album, besides its commercial success, is remarkable for the band's change to a more modern and polished hard rock sound of the late 1980s and the first recording to use the band's new logo which would characterize them in the future.

This article is about the Whitesnake 1987 album. For the 1977 David Coverdale solo album with a similar name, see White Snake (album).

Whitesnake
First edition of the album with new logo
Studio album by
Whitesnake
Released31 March 1987 (Europe)
7 April 1987 (North America)
Recorded1985 – 1986
StudioLittle Mountain Sound Studios, Vancouver, and Phase One Studios, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
Compass Point Studios, Bahamas,
Cherokee Studios and One on One Recording, Los Angeles
GenreHard rock, heavy metal, glam metal
Length42:25 (NA)
53:09
LabelGeffen (NA)
CBS/Sony (Japan)
EMI (Europe)
Rhino (Worldwide)
Producer
Whitesnake chronology
Slide It In
(1984)		 Whitesnake
(1987)		 1987 Versions
(1987)
Singles from Whitesnake
  1. "Still of the Night"
    Released: 9 March 1987
  2. "Crying in the Rain '87"
    Released: April 1987 (promo)
  3. "Here I Go Again '87"
    Released: July 1987
  4. "Is This Love"
    Released: October 1987
  5. "Give Me All Your Love ('88 Mix)"
    Released: February 1988

Initially was released worldwide with different titles, tracklist and by different record labels. In Europe and Australia was titled as 1987, including two extra songs absent in the North American version, "Looking for Love" and "You're Gonna Break My Heart Again", while in Japan as Serpens Albus with North American tracklist. The 20th and 30th anniversary remastered reissues have a common full tracklist.

The album was a critical and commercial success around the world, eventually selling over 8 million copies in the US alone and thus going eight times Platinum by RIAA in February 1995. It peaked at No. 2 on the US Billboard 200 for ten nonconsecutive weeks, barred from the top spot by three different albums, including Michael Jackson's Bad, and was more weeks in the Top 5 than any other album in 1987. On the UK Albums Chart peaked at No. 8.

Four songs were released as official singles, "Still of the Night", "Here I Go Again '87", "Is This Love", "Give Me All Your Love ('88 Mix)", and one as a promotional single, "Crying in the Rain '87". Among them, "Here I Go Again" and "Is This Love" are the band's most successful charting hits, topping the Billboard Hot 100 at number one and two respectively.

Its success in the US boosted its predecessor, Slide It In (1984), from Gold to double Platinum status by RIAA, and would see the band receive a nomination at the 1988 Brit Awards for Best British Group and at the American Music Awards of 1988 for Favorite Pop/Rock Album.

Background

After almost ten years since David Coverdale started his solo career and formed Whitesnake, during the supporting tour for the band's previous album Slide It In (1984) and after the band's performance at the Rock in Rio festival in Brazil in January 1985, the last show of the tour, drummer Cozy Powell left the group.[1] Prior to his leaving, Coverdale was actually about to fold the band, but executives at Geffen Records with whom Whitesnake had recently signed in the US and Canada only, while outside North America they remained with EMI, asked Coverdale to continue working with guitarist John Sykes, as they saw potential in the two.

Songwriting and production

Coverdale wanted the band's sound "to be leaner, meaner and more electrifying ... felt it was time for a change. I didn’t want to stay in the same old traditional blues and pop scenario".[2] It was kind of "Americanization", but rather following popular trends, "it was a series of synchronised elements that came together".[2] However, Coverdale recalls that "the only downside was it was the only time I’d embraced a fashion presentation, as opposed to being stylized in what I do. I think that disappointed a lot of my hardcore people".[3]

In the spring of 1985,[1] Coverdale and Sykes decamped to the town of Le Rayol in the south of France to start writing material for a new album.[2] According to Coverdale, bassist Neil Murray also helped with some of the arrangements. Two songs that would emerge from these sessions would be two of Whitesnake's biggest hits: "Still of the Night", based on an old demo by Coverdale and Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore,[2] and "Is This Love", originally written for Tina Turner.[4] The middle atmospherics with cello riff of "Still of the Night" was Coverdale's idea after experimenting with introduction atmospheric sounds from a synthesizer on "Looking for Love".[5]

Coverdale, Sykes and Murray then moved to Los Angeles, where they rehearsed and started auditioning for drummers, and hired Aynsley Dunbar. With their line-up complete, Whitesnake headed up to Little Mountain Sound Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to lay plans for the new record.[2] One of the first issues the band faced was John Sykes' desire to achieve a specific guitar sound that he wanted, which he eventually found with the help of Coverdale's friend and engineer Bob Rock, who had previously worked with Bon Jovi on the multi-platinum album Slippery When Wet. According to Coverdale, there was a great potential and creativity between him and Sykes.[4]

The next problem the band faced was a serious sinus infection with which Coverdale was stricken. This put the album's production behind schedule,[4] especially when Coverdale underwent surgery and half a year-long rehabilitation program without a guarantee the voice would come back.[3] While recovering, various invoices started circulating from Toronto and London,[4] with Coverdale saying that "received no support from Sykes at that time" and "he did everything he could to take advantage of me being compromised".[1][3] Allegedly Sykes grew impatient, claiming that the singer "used every excuse possible to explain why he didn’t want to record his vocals",[6] and reportedly suggested bringing in a new vocalist and carrying on without Coverdale, which eventually led to the end of Coverdale's relationship with both John Sykes and producer Mike Stone.[7][8] Sykes thirty years later denied this: "Now I want to correct a rumour that I know has been out there for a long time. It's been said that when David was having his troubles, I went to Geffen and urged them to bring in another singer to replace him in Whitesnake. That's rubbish. How on earth could you ever have anyone fronting Whitesnake apart from David Coverdale?".[8]

After Coverdale recovered, he started work on his vocal tracks with record producer Ron Nevison, before soon switching to Keith Olsen after few days because "it didn't sound good at all ... he [Ron] did great with other people, just not with me".[4] Olsen asked him to sing "Still of the Night" in first studio session, but although almost vomited, "sang the song twice, fingers crossed – and that's what's on the record".[1][3] Keyboard players Don Airey and Bill Cuomo were brought in to record some keyboard parts, as well as Dutch guitar player Adrian Vandenberg to record the guitar solo for the re-recorded version of the song "Here I Go Again" because Sykes disliked blues music.[2] Coverdale was also discussing the possibility of Vandenberg soon joining Whitesnake.

Artwork

On the band's new logo and cover artwork, Coverdale worked with Canadian graphic artist Hugh Syme. Based on Coverdale's idea, Syme created a Celtic runic-style amulet with various elements representing the Sun, Moon, fertility and others.[9]

Release

By the late 1986, with the recording process done and the album slated to be released in early 1987, Coverdale made the decision to let the other members of the band go, due to personal differences.[4] According to Coverdale, he was facing trust issues with band members, his depression upon arrival to L.A. from a holiday in Munich where saw his daughter from his first marriage, as well as a millionaire debt due to not working for two or three years.[3][4][10]

However, when the album was finally released, now titled Whitesnake in the US and Canada on 7 April 1987, it debuted on 18 April as 72nd and reached Top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart on 9 May,[11][12] while Top 5 on 30 May,[13] peaking at number 2 and remaining at or near its peak position over the course of seven months from 13 June 1987 to 23 January 1988,[3][14][15] spending more weeks in the top 5 than any other album in 1987,[16] and charting for 76 weeks in total.[17] It was barred from the top spot for ten nonconsecutive weeks by three different albums, including U2's The Joshua Tree,[14][18] Whitney Houston's Whitney,[19][20][21] and mostly Michael Jackson's Bad.[22][23][24][25][26] It was reportedly selling record-high for Warner Bros. "between 10 AM and noon, which was like 390,000" copies, the radio pushed it further to 800,000 copies, but the difference was MTV.[4] It sold 4 million copies and as such was certified four times Platinum by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on 2 December 1987, and five times Platinum on 7 January 1988.[27] The last RIAA certification was eight times Platinum on 10 February 1995.[27] Reported total sales worldwide between 1990 and 2017 were more than 10-15 million.[3][28][29] Whitesnake's initial breakthrough was via album's single "Still of the Night" which video got a "tremendous amount of airplay" on MTV.[30] The album also spawned two Billboard Hot 100 hit singles: "Here I Go Again '87" which reached number 1 on 10 October,[31] and "Is This Love" which reached number 2 on 19 December.[32] Both "Here I Go Again" and "Crying in the Rain" had previously been recorded with a different line-up and released on the 1982 album Saints & Sinners. The re-recording of "Here I Go Again" was advised by record label boss David Geffen and requested by A&R John Kalodner as a negotiation deal with Coverdale to re-record "Crying in the Rain" for the album.[5][9][33]

In Europe, the album was simply called 1987, featuring a different running order and two extra tracks, "Looking for Love" and "You're Gonna Break My Heart Again". Coverdale considers "Looking for Love" one of the best songs he wrote with Sykes, but wasn't included on the North American version because of Kalodner's preference for "Children of the Night" and limited time factor by vinyl records with 20 minutes a side.[9] These two songs were for the first time released in North America in 1994 on Whitesnake's Greatest Hits compilation. In Japan the album was titled Serpens Albus in reference to the illustrated text on the album's artwork which, in Latin, means "white snake",[3] but with North American tracklist. In Australia, the album was released as 1987 but had the North American track order on the original vinyl,[34] and the European order on CD.[35] In Bulgaria, the album was released on LP and cassette as 1987 and used a slightly modified version of the European track order, without "You're Gonna Break My Heart Again", while "Here I Go Again '87" replaced by "Here I Go Again '87 (Radio Mix)".[36][37]

According to Chicago Tribune, in the year-end results of Billboard's combined album & singles weekly charts,[30] Whitesnake was among the Top 5 artists of the year with Bon Jovi, U2, Whitney Houston and Madonna, describing them as a "dark horse snuck into the Top 5 by quietly scoring big points with its Whitesnake LP, which spent much of the year in the Top 5 but never quite made it to No. 1. The band also scored big with "Here I Go Again", a sleeper that had just one week at No. 1 but wound up as one of the year's Top 10 singles".[38] According to Billboard, the band was also 8th among Top 100 Pop Album Artists, 22th among Top 100 Pop Singles Artists, 6th among Top 25 Pop Album Artists Duos/Groups and 15h among Top 25 Pop Singles Artists Duos/Groups, the album was 16th among Top 100 Pop Albums and 11th among Top 25 Pop Comact Disks, while single "Here I Go Again" was 7th among Top 100 Pop Singles and 19th among Top 25 Rock Tracks.[30] Later Coverdale recalled that he didn't expect such a success, and although was ready for it professionally he wasn't privately, where was constantly chased by the paparazzi because of which was forced to move from Los Angeles to Lake Tahoe.[10]

Promotion

For the new line-up of the band, Coverdale enlisted guitarist Adrian Vandenberg (with whom he had already discussed plans), second guitarist Vivian Campbell, bassist Rudy Sarzo and drummer Tommy Aldridge.[1][3] This line-up, called as "The Vid[eo] Kids" by Coverdale,[3] toured in support of the album, and all appeared in music videos for "Still of the Night" (which was the most requested video on MTV when it was released), "Is This Love", "Here I Go Again" and "Give Me All Your Love", first three prominently alongside Coverdale's then new partner Tawny Kitaen, all with heavy MTV and radio airplay.[1][4][5][39][30]

Reissue

For the 20th anniversary in May and June 2007, EMI released a remastered reissue of the original European version of the album, featuring two European songs previously unreleased in the North American version, live tracks, and a DVD with video clips and live performances.[40][41][42]

For the 30th anniversary, on 6 October 2017, were released by Rhino Entertainment and Parlophone, the catalog division of Warner Music Group, a super deluxe edition (4CD/DVD box set containing the original album full tracklist in a newly remastered format along with a live recording from their 1987-1988 tour, demos and rehearsals, remixes and the DVD of music videos and tour bootlegs, as well as a book and a booklet with lyrics), a 1CD edition, a 2CD edition (second CD "Snakeskin Boots" includes live recordings from 1987-88 tour), and 2LP edition (second LP including some remixes and live recordings).[4][43][44][45]

Touring

The band with a new lineup went on a long tour which started in-front of over 80,000 people at sold-out Texxas Jam festival on 20 June 1987,[30] and finished at Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon on 15 August 1988.[46] The tour concerts were held in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Japan.[46] During first part of the tour were an opening act for Mötley Crüe on their Girls, Girls, Girls Tour with good box-office success.[30][47][48]

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[49][50]
Christgau's Record Guide(D+)[51]
Classic Rock[29]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal[52]
Los Angeles Times[53]
MusicHound Rock[54]
Record Collector[55]
Rolling Stone(favourable)[56]

The album was generally met with positive reviews. According to music journalist Mick Wall, the album "wasn't just best Whitesnake album, it was one of the best rock albums of its era", while "Here I Go Again" became a "signature tune for Coverdale and Whitesnake. It's pretty, with beautifully soulful lead vocal for sure, but it's the 'My Way'-type ingredient of the lyrics ... that does it to ya every time".[39] J. D. Considine favorably writing for Rolling Stone argued that although the album is perhaps lacking in originality having "every worthwhile mannerism and lick in the heavy-rock vocabulary" and a mixture of styles reminiscent of Led Zeppelin, Scorpions and Foreigner, "what makes it such a guilty pleasure, though, is that Coverdale isn't simply stealing licks; he and guitarist John Sykes understand the structure, pacing and drama of the old Led Zeppelin sound and deserve credit for concocting such a convincing simulacrum".[56] Steve Huey and Bradley Torreano writing for AllMusic gave both North American and European versions the same rating of 4.5 stars out of 5, being "a collection of loud, polished hard rockers, plus the band's best set of pop hooks",[49] however felt the European version is superior due to better tracklist flow and two more songs, especially "Looking for Love", which "a nice slow build to a blustery chorus makes this a classic David Coverdale ballad".[50] The 20th,[55] and 30th anniversary,[29][57] reissues were also favorably received. The exception to these reviews was Robert Christgau, who in his negative review deemed that "the attraction of this veteran pop-metal has got to be total predictability. The glistening solos, the surging crescendos, the familiar macho love rhymes, the tunes you can hum before the verse is over--not one heard before, yet every one somehow known".[51]

In 2019, magazine Rolling Stone ranked the album 12th among "50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time".[58] In 2020, Metal Hammer included it among Top 20 best metal albums of 1987.[59] In 2006, the 1987 version of "Here I Go Again" was ranked number 17 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the '80s.[60] In 2012 Reader's Poll of Rolling Stone it ranked as 9th among Top 10 "The Best Hair Metal Songs of All Time",[61] while in 2017, The Daily Telegraph included it among 21 best power ballads.[62] In 2015, Classic Rock ranked "Is This Love" as 7th on their list of Top 40 greatest power ballads.[63] In 2009, the song "Still of the Night" was named as the 27th best hard rock song of all time by VH1.[64]

Its success in the US boosted its predecessor, Slide It In (1984), from Gold to double Platinum status by RIAA.[27] It would see the band receive a nomination at the 1988 Brit Awards for Best British Group,[65] as well as a nomination at the American Music Awards of 1988 for Favorite Pop/Rock Album.

Track listings

All tracks are written by David Coverdale and John Sykes, except where noted.

North American version
No.TitleLength
1."Crying in the Rain '87" (Coverdale)5:37
2."Bad Boys"4:09
3."Still of the Night"6:38
4."Here I Go Again '87" (Coverdale, Bernie Marsden)4:33
5."Give Me All Your Love"3:30
6."Is This Love"4:43
7."Children of the Night"4:24
8."Straight for the Heart"3:40
9."Don't Turn Away"5:11
European version (1987)
No.TitleLength
1."Still of the Night"6:38
2."Bad Boys"4:09
3."Give Me All Your Love"3:30
4."Looking for Love"6:33
5."Crying in the Rain" (Coverdale)5:37
6."Is This Love"4:43
7."Straight for the Heart"3:40
8."Don't Turn Away"5:11
9."Children of the Night"4:24
10."Here I Go Again" (Coverdale, Bernie Marsden)4:33
11."You're Gonna Break My Heart Again"4:11
Bulgarian version
No.TitleLength
1."Still of the Night"6:38
2."Bad Boys"4:09
3."Give Me All Your Love"3:30
4."Looking for Love"6:33
5."Here I Go Again '87 (Radio Mix)" (Coverdale, Bernie Marsden)3:55
6."Crying in the Rain" (Coverdale)5:37
7."Is This Love"4:43
8."Straight for the Heart"3:40
9."Don't Turn Away"5:11
10."Children of the Night"4:24
20th Anniversary Edition
No.TitleLength
1."Still of the Night"6:38
2."Give Me All Your Love"3:30
3."Bad Boys"4:09
4."Is This Love"4:43
5."Here I Go Again" (Coverdale, Bernie Marsden)4:33
6."Straight for the Heart"3:40
7."Looking for Love"6:33
8."Children of the Night"4:24
9."You're Gonna Break My Heart Again"4:11
10."Crying in the Rain" (Coverdale)5:37
11."Don't Turn Away"5:11
12."Give Me All Your Love" (live, taken from Live: In the Shadow of the Blues)4:27
13."Is This Love" (live, taken from Live: In the Shadow of the Blues)4:58
14."Here I Go Again" (live, taken from Live: In the Shadow of the Blues)5:53
15."Still of the Night" (live, taken from Live: In the Shadow of the Blues)8:38
20th Anniversary Edition DVD
No.TitleLength
1."Still of the Night" (music video)6:24
2."Here I Go Again" (music video)4:34
3."Is This Love" (music video)4:35
4."Give Me All Your Love" (music video)4:00
5."Give Me All Your Love" (from Live... In the Still of the Night)4:43
6."Is This Love" (from Live... In the Still of the Night)4:15
7."Here I Go Again" (from Live... In the Still of the Night)5:19
8."Still of the Night" (from Live... In the Still of the Night)6:44
30th Anniversary Edition

Box set includes several CDs and DVDs

Original Album (2017 Remaster)
  1. "Still Of The Night" - 6:40
  2. "Give Me All Your Love" - 3:30
  3. "Bad Boys" - 4:08
  4. "Is This Love" - 4:45
  5. "Here I Go Again 87" - 4:36
  6. "Straight For The Heart" - 3:38
  7. "Looking For Love" - 6:35
  8. "Children Of The Night" - 4:23
  9. "You're Gonna Break My Heart Again" - 4:12
  10. "Crying In The Rain" - 5:38
  11. "Don't Turn Away" - 5:10
Snakeskin Boots (Live On Tour 1987-88)
  1. "Bad Boys / Children Of The Night" - 6:56
  2. "Slide It In" - 4:10
  3. "Slow An' Easy" - 7:51
  4. "Here I Go Again" - 5:25
  5. "Guilty Of Love" - 7:43
  6. "Is This Love" - 4:27
  7. "Love Ain't No Stranger" - 4:47
  8. "Guitar Solo (Adrian & Vivian)" - 2:45
  9. "Crying In The Rain" - 6:38
  10. "Still Of The Night" - 7:33
  11. "Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City" - 8:46
  12. "Give Me All Your Love" - 5:25
87 Evolutions (Demo & Rehearsals)
  1. "Still Of The Night" - 8:12
  2. "Give Me All Your Love" - 6:07
  3. "Bad Boys" - 5:34
  4. "Is This Love" - 5:15
  5. "Straight For The Heart" - 4:48
  6. "Looking For Love" - 7:01
  7. "Children Of The Night" - 5:01
  8. "You're Gonna Break My Heart Again" - 5:28
  9. "Crying In The Rain" - 7:08
  10. "Don't Turn Away" - 6:35
  11. "Crying in the Rain (Lil' Mountain Alternate Take) [Ruff Mix]" - 5:41
87 Versions (2017 Remixes)
  1. "Still Of The Night (2017 Remix)" - 6:32
  2. "Is This Love (2017 Remix)" - 5:26
  3. "Give Me All Your Love (2017 Remix)" - 3:28
  4. "Here I Go Again 87 (2017 Remix)" - 4:32
  5. "Standing In The Shadows (1987 Version)" - 3:49
  6. "Looking For Love (1987 Version)" - 6:25
  7. "You're Gonna Break My Heart Again (1987 Version)" - 4:10
  8. "Need Your Love So Bad (1987 Version)" - 3:17
  9. "Here I Go Again (Radio Mix)" - 3:52
  10. "Give Me All Your Love (Single Version)" - 3:15
More Fourplay - The Classic MTV Videos (Restored & Remixed In 5.1)
  1. DVD-1.1 - Still Of The Night
  2. DVD-1.2 - Here I Go Again
  3. DVD-1.3 - Is This Love
  4. DVD-1.4 - Give Me All Your Love
Video Memories - The Making Of 87 Album
  1. DVD-2 Documentary
Purplesnake Video Jam
  1. DVD-3 Here I Go Again
1987 Tour Video Bootleg
  1. DVD-4.1 - Crying In The Rain (Music Video)
  2. DVD-4.2 - Band Intros
  3. DVD-4.3 - Still Of The Night (Music Video)

Personnel

Whitesnake

Additional musicians

Production

  • Produced by Mike Stone and Keith Olsen
  • Mixed by Keith Olsen at Goodnight LA
  • Mastered by Greg Fulginiti at Artisan Sound Recorders
  • A&R by John Kalodner
  • Cover by Hugh Syme
  • All songs published by Whitesnake Music Overseas Ltd./WB Music Corp., except "Crying in the Rain" and "Here I Go Again" (published by Seabreeze Music Ltd./C.C. Songs Ltd./WB Music Corp.)

Charts

Certifications
Country Organization Year Sales
USA RIAA 1995 8x Platinum (+ 8,000,000)[27]
Canada CRIA 1988 5x Platinum (+ 500,000)[88]
Italy AFI 1987 Platinum (+ 200,000)[89]
New Zealand RIANZ 1988 Platinum (+ 15,000)[90]
UK BPI 1988 Platinum (+ 300,000)[91]
Germany BVMI 1989 Gold (+ 250,000)[92]
Sweden IFPI Sverige 1988 Gold (+ 50,000)[93]
Switzerland IFPI Switzerland 1989 Gold (+ 25,000)[94]
Total available sales: (+ 9.340.000)

Release history
Release formats for Whitesnake
Region Date Label Format Catalog
Europe 31 March 1987 EMI CD, LP, Cass CDP 7 46702 2[95]
United States 7 April 1987 Geffen Records CD, LP, Cass 9 24099-2[96]
Japan 22 April 1987 CBS/Sony CD, LP, Cass 32DP 680[97]
North America, UK & Europe 31 May 2007 (NA), 11 June 2007 (UK & Europe) EMI CD, DVD 0946 391468 2 6[40]
United States & Europe & Japan 6 October 2017 (CD), 25–27 October 2017 (Box set) Rhino, Parlophone CD, SHM-CD, Digital, DVD PR2 563472,[45][98] WPZR-30763[99]

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