The album's fourth and final single, "Give Me All Your Love," returned to the hard-rock realm with a swinging, up-tempo groove and a wealth of slick guitar riffs from Sykes. that I'd embraced a fashion presentation, as opposed to being stylized in what I do.") But fans of the band's hard-rock heyday should have found plenty to love outside Whitesnake's three tentpole songs. (Coverdale told Redbeard he "got tired of seeing myself on MTV" and called this era "the only time.
While these back-to-back ballads catapulted Whitesnake to worldwide stardom, they also alienated some longtime fans who pined for the band's blues-rock sound of yesteryear. 2 on the Hot 100 while helping Whitesnake to quadruple-platinum status by the end of the year. These new elements, combined with a sultry music video featuring Coverdale's then-girlfriend (and eventual wife) Tawny Kitaen cartwheeling over the hood of two Jaguars, rocketed "Here I Go Again" to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1987.Įager to strike while the iron was hot, Geffen Records issued "Is This Love" as Whitesnake's third single that month. Accompanied by another Kitaen-starring video, the song peaked at No. Watch Whitesnake's 'Here I Go Again' Video The latter had previously appeared as the lead single off 1982's Saints & Sinners its 1987 incarnation was given a new radio-metal sheen, a welcome lyrical amendment (" Like a hobo I was born to walk alone" was blessedly changed to "Like a drifter.") and a souped-up guitar solo from Adrian Vandenberg.
But its performance paled in comparison to the record's next two singles, the bleeding-heart power ballads " Here I Go Again" and "Is This Love." 18 on Billboard's rock chart, getting the album's single campaign off to a strong start. There were a lot of people doing that widdly stuff, but they didn’t have the quality of those songs." I manipulated it to be electric blues, but how he performed was fabulous for his time and relatively unique because of the songs. "John hated the blues, so I had to work within those parameters. "I took it as far as I could, then gave it to Sykesy when we were in the south of France, and he put the big guitar hero stuff on there," Coverdale told Metal Hammer in 2009.
It all heralded Whitesnake’s pivot from blues-rock to glam metal. Coverdale beefed up the demo and handed it off to Whitesnake's hotshot new guitarist, John Sykes (formerly of Thin Lizzy and Tygers of Pan Tang), who reshaped it with his acrobatic fretwork. "Still of the Night" began as a demo that Coverdale and guitarist Ritchie Blackmore had worked on while Coverdale was still in Deep Purple.
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