Whitesnake
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David Coverdale's Whitesnake: Penthouse, Scarborough
Live Review by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 18 March 1978
THE FIRST thing you notice as the band squeezes on to the small stage at Scarborough Penthouse is that David Coverdale still projects. Much much ...
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 11 November 1978
WHEN WHITESNAKE first hit the road six months ago (with Brian Johnston on keyboards) the generally buoyant Coverdale let out one cry of pain to ...
Whitesnake: You may not believe it, but... these men are bathing in innuendo
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 20 October 1979
PHIL SUTCLIFFE STRUTS LIKE A PEACOCK TOWARDS WHITESNAKE AND ASKS "ARE YOU A BUNCH OF LIBIDINOUS HALF-WITS?" ...
Are You A Whore For Rock 'N' Roll?
Report by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 20 December 1979
ROSALIND RUSSELL thinks most of you are ...
Fantasy Castle: Monsters of Rock!
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, July 1981
BARNEY HOSKYNS straps on his breastplate, girds his loins and takes his sword to the HM Monsters Of Rock joust at Castle Donington. ...
Whitesnake: Just A Load of Old Cobras
Interview by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 3 March 1984
DAVID COVERDALE, the professional peacock of puerile penile dementia rock has landed. ...
Whitesnake: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Mary Harron, The Guardian, 5 March 1984
WHITESNAKE ARE known as the male chauvinists of British heavy metal, which is a dizzying thought. Lead singer David Coverdale's stardom is based on his ...
Heavy Metal: The Sound Too Dense to Die
Comment by James Hunter, L.A. Weekly, 16 October 1987
TWENTY SUMMERS ago, it was love. In 1987 it was metal, pop-metal, ushered in by Bon Jovi's much less musicianly 7-mil play on Van Halen's ...
Does Keith Olsen really believe in this stuff, or what?
Interview by Alan di Perna, Musician, November 1988
IT'S EASY to sneer at the increasingly predictable formulas that sell records in the millions these days. What's hard is to actually believe in the ...
Steve Vai: Vaiing For Attention
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 12 January 1990
NO, YOUR eyes aren't deceiving you. Steve Vai is holding a seven-string guitar, custom-made for him by Ibanez. ...
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 12 January 1990
WAKING UP before noon is still a foreign idea to many working musicians, and not just the ones who are hopeless drug addicts. It's just ...
Whitesnake: Slip of the Tongue (Geffen)
Review by Bud Scoppa, Spin, February 1990
A VENERABLE Brit rock band whose only constant was crusty-throated journeyman David Coverdale (his main claim to fame being a 1973-1976 stint as Deep Purple's ...
Overview by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 19 January 1991
Bring your good taste to be slaughtered! To mark Iron Maiden's ground-breaking success (any bleedin' excuse — Ed), STUART MACONIE investigates the subtle and many-faceted ...
End of an earache — Whitesnake: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 11 October 1997
Hang up your air guitars: Whitesnake will rock no more. Caroline Sullivan is oddly moved ...
Various Artists: Heart of Metal 2
Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, January 2001
THAT HEAVY METAL and its hair – in all seriousness – had such tremendous clout during the 1980s is one of the greatest, and most ...
Mr. Coverdale and His Enormous Snake
Interview by Ian Fortnam, bol.com, September 2002
THE GENTLEMAN rock star lounges decorously before us, a cigarette steadily smouldering between his fingers. ...
Interview by Rob Hughes, Classic Rock, May 2020
RH: Who was the first guitarist to really capture your imagination? ...
see also David Coverdale
see also Steve Vai
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