Whitesnake's Dramatically Cool Return!
David Coverdale’s having a pretty good time at the moment. The new Whitesnake LP, the succinctly-titled Whitesnake, is doing encouraging business, leading the veteran singer and his corporate keepers to believe that 1987 could be the year Whitesnake finally duplicates its European success in the picky U.S. market.
Whitesnake's Dramatically Cool Return!
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Harold DeMuir
David Coverdale’s having a pretty good time at the moment. The new Whitesnake LP, the succinctly-titled Whitesnake, is doing encouraging business, leading the veteran singer and his corporate keepers to believe that 1987 could be the year Whitesnake finally duplicates its European success in the picky U.S. market. Last year, however, was not so hot.
“Privately and professionally, 1986 was the darkest time in my life,” says Coverdale, who, as a survivor of Deep Purple’s stormy final three years, must know quite a bit about personal strife. He’s not exaggerating his woes, either: during the course of a few months, Coverdale lost his voice, his band, and almost his career.
The recently-released Whitesnake would have been out in March of 1986 had it not been for the illness (not drugrelated, Coverdale hastens to point out) which sidelined the vocalist for a year and put his singing career in serious jeopardy. “It was like a negative domino principle,” he recalls. “Every time I’d think ‘Well, it can’t get any worse than this,’ it did.