Whitesnake

Whitesnake
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	General information
Genre (s)	Hard rock , hair metal
founding	1978
Website	www.whitesnake.com
Current occupation
singing	David Coverdale (since 1978)
guitar	Reb Beach (since 2003)
guitar	Joel Hoekstra (since 2014)
bass	Michael Devin (since 2010)
Keyboard	Michele Luppi (since 2015)
Drums	Tommy Aldridge (1987–1991, 2002–2007, since 2013)
former members
	Guitar: Micky Moody (1978-1983) ; Bernie Marsden (1978-1981) ; Mel Galley (1982-1984) ; John Sykes (1983-1986) ; Vivian Campbell (1987-1988) ; Adrian Vandenberg (1987–1997) ; Steve Vai (1989-1990) ; Warren de Martini (1994) ; Steve Farris (1997) ; Doug Aldrich (2003-2014) ; Bass: Neil Murray (1978–1982, 1983–1986) ; Colin Hodgkinson (1982-1983) ; Rudy Sarzo (1987-1994) ; Guy Pratt (1995-1997) ; Tony Franklin (1997) ; Marco Mendoza (2003-2005) ; Uriah Duffy (2005-2010) ; Keyboard: Brian Johnston (1978) ; Pete Solley (1978) ; Jon Lord (1978-1984) ; Richard Bailey (1984–1985) ; Don Airey (1989) ; Rick Seratte (1989–1990) ; Paul Mirkovich (1994) ; Brett Tuggle (1995-1997) ; Derek Hilland (1997) ; Timothy Drury (2003-2010) ; Drums: David Dowle (1978-1979) ; Ian Paice (1979-1981) ; Cozy Powell (1982-1985) ; Aynsley Dunbar (1985-1986) ; Denny Carmassi (1994-1997) ; Chris Frazier (2007-2010) ; Brian Tichy (2010-2013) ;

Whitesnake is a British hard rock - band , in 1978 by the former Deep Purple singer David Coverdale was founded. In the beginning, the band continued Deep Purple's mid-seventies blues rock until the mid-1980s . In the late 1980s, the rock group swam with the wave of glam rock and hair metal due to changes in image and sound .

Whitesnake's commercial success dates back to the 1980s when they debuted four consecutive albums in the top 10 of the UK charts and achieved double platinum status in the US with 1984 album Slide It In . The band celebrated their greatest single success with Here I Go Again and Is This Love , which reached number 1 and 2 in the US singles charts. In 1990 Whitesnake broke up and briefly reunited in 1994 and 1997. Since 2002 Whitesnake has been releasing studio albums again on a regular basis. The rock group is one of the most commercially successful protagonists of the eighties and has sold more than 20 million albums worldwide, including more than 12 million in the USA.

Band history and style change

1976 to 1983: the classic years

Whitesnake, next to Rainbow and Gillan , can be understood as a follow-up band to Deep Purple . After Deep Purple broke up, singer David Coverdale , who had already sung in the " Mark III and IV line-up " of this band, began recording his first solo album in March 1976, which was finally released in May 1977. It was titled White Snake and featured contributions from musicians such as slide guitarist Micky Moody . Even before the release of the first album, Coverdale (again with Moody) recorded a second solo album in March and April 1977 with the title Northwinds (released in March 1978). Both solo albums were produced by Roger Glover , like Coverdale, a former Deep Purple member (Mark II). They were initially only published in Japan.

In late 1977 Coverdale and Moody began putting together a band for the Northwinds promotional tour. A second guitarist was quickly found in Bernie Marsden , and shortly afterwards bassist Neil Murray and drummer David Dowle joined the band. The first appearances in March 1978 were performed with the keyboardist Brian Johnston, who was replaced by Pete Solley in April.

This line-up recorded the EP Snakebite under the band name Whitesnake in April . David Coverdale secured the former Deep Purple sound engineer Martin Birch as producer, who was responsible for all further recordings until 1984. In Germany, the band's record company caused confusion, as they marketed the EP as a new album and added a compilation of the strongest Northwinds numbers to the new songs . Outside of England the band was first seen on June 17, 1978, when they in Holland in Alkmaar Pop '78 as a festival opening act of Status Quo played.

The next studio album Trouble was released in October of the same year. With the keyboardist Jon Lord , a second former Deep Purple member joined the band on this album after Coverdale. The accompanying tour took the band through England as the headliner with Magnum in the opening act and through Germany for the first time as the opening act for Nazareth . In the summer of 1979 the band came to Germany again. In addition to headlining concerts, Whitesnake played at festivals with bands such as The Police and Dire Straits .

The high phase of the "classic" Whitesnake began with the next album, Lovehunter . With the line-up Coverdale, Moody, Marsden, Murray, Lord and Dowle and songs like Walking in the Shadow of the Blues , Whitesnake advanced to become the successor band to the Deep Purple, which no longer existed at the time, among critics and fans. The cover of the record - naked woman riding huge snake - caused a scandal in the USA and in some shops was only allowed to be sold in a neutral protective cover. Another Deep Purple member played on the following tour: Ian Paice replaced David Dowle.

The next album was called Ready an 'Willing and marked the first great success for the band. The record, published in 1980, landed at number 6 in the English charts, and the band also made it into the charts for the first time in the USA. The single Fool for Your Loving , originally written for BB King , became the band's first hit. The song made it to number 53 in America and to number 13 in the UK single charts. The live album Live… In The Heart Of The City , released in the same year, is still considered one of the best live albums in the rock genre by fans and critics. Whitesnake went on tour in Europe as the opening act for AC / DC and in America in the opening act for Jethro Tull .

The next studio album followed in 1981: Come An 'Get It landed at number two in the UK charts. The most popular track was Don't Break My Heart Again . The highlights of the year were five sold-out concerts at the Hammersmith Odeon in London and the appearance at the Monsters of Rock Festival in Castle Donington as the second to last band of the evening immediately before AC / DC.

During the recording of the follow-up album Saints & Sinners , Coverdale put the band on hold in January 1982. He was then discussed both as a singer for the Michael Schenker Group and as the successor to Ronnie James Dio at Black Sabbath . Instead he formed Whitesnake again in August 1982 with Cozy Powell on drums (ex- Rainbow , - Jeff Beck , later with Black Sabbath, among others), Colin Hodgkinson on bass (ex- Alexis Korner ), Mel Galley on guitar ( Phenomena ) , Micky Moody and Jon Lord .

After recording the missing vocal tracks, the album Saints & Sinners was finally released in November 1982. The album, again produced by Martin Birch, contained two hits with the single Here I Go Again and Crying in the Rain . In April 1983 the band began to record the next album, and in August of the same year Whitesnake played again at the Monsters of Rock Festival; this time as headliner. Slide It In , the title of the new album, brought the band a contract with Geffen Records in North America. But before the album was released, further personnel changes followed. Both Micky Moody and the bassist Hodgkinson, who joined Murray, left the band. Former Thin Lizzy guitarist John Sykes joined the band as the new guitarist , and Neil Murray returned on bass.

1984 to 1991: America is calling

Slide It In was remixed especially for the American market, Sykes re-recorded some guitar parts, and Neil Murray reworked the bass tracks. The album became the band's greatest success to date in America, where it reached number 40 on the charts. The band received criticism from the press, and especially from fans of their early albums, for their obvious musical focus on the American market. In England, it still made it to number 9 on the charts. The band was on tour with Dio and Black N 'Blue .

Jon Lord left the band in favor of the Deep Purple Mark II reunion. Guitarist Mel Galley was also no longer part of the band due to illness. Both members were not permanently replaced. While Sykes was now solely responsible for the guitars, the band hired Richard Bailey (ex-Magnum), a tour keyboardist, who played backstage. In 1985 drummer Cozy Powell left the band and was later replaced by Aynsley Dunbar.

The band achieved their worldwide breakthrough with the next album, which bears the simple title in 1987 . But before that there was another drastic change in personnel: Although Sykes had played all the guitars on the album, he left the band shortly afterwards, as did the rest of the musicians. Coverdale hired a video clip compatible and perfectly styled band with the two guitarists Adrian Vandenberg and Vivian Campbell (ex-Dio) and the former Ozzy Osbourne musicians Rudy Sarzo (bass) and Tommy Aldridge (drums). For the keyboard parts on the album, he won over the former Rainbow and later Deep Purple member Don Airey . At the height of the hair-metal wave, Coverdale had the right band and the right album.

1987 became a million seller not least because of the newly recorded version of Here I Go Again . The song made it to number 1 on the singles charts in America, the album to number 2, and the single Is This Love reached number 2 on the American singles charts. But even at the peak of the band's career, there were further line-up changes. Vivian Campbell left the band and was replaced in 1989 by former Frank Zappa / Alcatrazz / David Lee Roth guitarist Steve Vai . Vandenberg dropped out because of an arm injury for the recordings of the next album, so that Steve Vai played all guitar tracks alone.

Slip of the Tongue was torepeatthe success of 1987 in 1989. With Fool For Your Loving , the band re-recorded one of their old songs and released it as a single, but in contrast to Here I Go Again it was only enough in the charts for placements beyond the top ten. The band failed because of the high demands and only achieved 10th place with the album in both England and America. Even on tour, they could no longer fill many halls that were sold out two years earlier. Nevertheless, the band toured for more than six months, playing in Toronto on June 15, 1990with Kiss as support act and in August for the second time as headliner at the Monsters of Rock Festival with Aerosmith , Poison , Thunder and The Quireboys in support . In Germany this festival operated under the name Superrock '90 and took place in three German cities, with Whitesnake taking part in all three. On August 23rd at the Berlin Waldbühne , on August 25th in the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund and on September 1st on the Maimarkt area in Mannheim .

1992 to 1998: 1st comeback and farewell

After the tour ended, David Coverdale put the band on hold and devoted himself to other projects, such as the self-titled album Coverdale / Page , which he recorded in 1993 in cooperation with former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page . Coverdale reformed Whitesnake for the 1994 Greatest Hits album. In addition to Thunder guitarist Luke Morley, Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore was also considered a hot candidate for the vacant position. In the end, the returnee Adrian Vandenberg played the six-string alongside the former Ratt musician Warren DeMartini. Rudy Sarzo was on bass again, and Denny Carmassi from Heart was there as the drummer . The band completed a successful European tour with Zakk Wyldes Pride & Glory in the opening act.

After the greatest hits album in America did not make it into the charts, Geffen Records released the band from their contract. In 1996, rumors circulated that Coverdale had joined Deep Purple again. However, these were denied in the form of reports about recordings on a new studio album.

The album Restless Heart was released in 1997 under the David Coverdale & Whitesnake banner . In addition to Adrian Vandenberg and Denny Carmassi, bassist Guy Pratt and keyboardist Brett Tuggle were also part of the party. Live next to Coverdale were the two guitarists Vandenberg and Steve Farris, bassist Tony Franklin , keyboardist Derek Hilland and drummer Carmassi. A farewell tour took place in 1997 under the motto The Last Hurray! instead of. The unplugged live album Starkers in Tokyo in 1997 marked the last release in the second millennium (apart from various best-of compilations) under the Whitesnake banner.

1999 to today: solo album and second comeback

Whitesnake at Wacken Open Air 2016

In 2000 David Coverdale released the solo album Into the Light , but reports of a comeback by Whitesnake did not break off in the following years. Well-informed sources announced a comeback for the coming year in mid-2002. But neither the speculations about the return of John Sykes nor those about the entry of Mr. Big guitarist Paul Gilbert came true . At the beginning of 2003 the time had finally come. Whitesnake completed a very successful tour through North America together with the Scorpions as headliner and Dokken as opening act. In addition to Coverdale, the returnee Tommy Aldridge was part of the cast as well as the former Winger guitarist Reb Beach , the Ted Nugent bassist Marco Mendoza, Timothy Drury on keyboard and Doug Aldrich on guitar. Concerts in Europe followed in the summer of the same year, as well as another tour through America - this time as headliner together with Slaughter , Warrant and Kip Winger in the opening act.

Mendoza left the band in the summer of 2005 and was replaced by Uriah Duffy. In spring 2006, the band's first DVD was released under the title Live in the Still of the Night , which was lavishly produced on the England tour at Hammersmith Apollo in London the previous year. In 2006 Coverdale also announced new music from Whitesnake. The band recorded some songs in the studio as bonus tracks for the live album Live ... In the Shadow of the Blues . On April 18, 2008, the new studio album Good To Be Bad was released just in time for the 30th anniversary of the band . Tommy Aldridge could no longer be heard on the album, since he had left the band in spring 2007 to devote himself to other musical projects. Chris Frazier, ex-drummer for Steve Vai and Doug Aldrich's Burning Rain project, was introduced as a replacement, took part in the recording sessions and also became a permanent member of the tour announced for 2008. Already in the first week the album entered the British album charts at number 7.

In June 2010 Uriah Duffy and Chris Frazier left the band. Brian Tichy (Ex Velvet Revolver , Ozzy Osbourne , Foreigner , Billy Idol and Slash's Snakepit ) was the new drummer . Michael Devin (Ex Lynch Mob) became the new bass player. Shortly thereafter, keyboardist Timothy Drury announced that he would be leaving the band on a friendly basis in order to take care of his solo career as a photographer, composer and musician in the future.

On March 25, 2011, Forevermore, the band's eleventh studio album, was released. Following this, the Forevermore World Tour 2011 started with Brian Ruedy (formerly Korn ) on keyboard. Brian Tichy left the band in January 2013 to get more involved with his own band, SUN .

In 2014 Doug Aldrich left the band and was replaced by Joel Hoekstra ( Night Ranger ).

In 2015 The Purple Album was released, which contains 15 songs from Coverdale's Deep Purple era. Completely remastered versions of the 1987 and Slide It In albums were released in box sets in 2017 and 2019. In addition to the completely revised album recordings, both versions receive many rehearsal and live recordings, tour and accompanying books. The box set Unzipped was also released in 2018, with recordings of unplugged shows and the live visual recording of Starkers in Tokyo . On May 10, 2019 the band around David Coverdale will release a new studio album, Flesh & Blood . David Coverdale himself is the executive producer. Music producer Chris Collier (including Lynch Mob , Prong , Korn ) is responsible for the mix.

The album Unzipped followed in 2018 with acoustic sessions and rare takes. In May 2019 Coverdale & Co presented their new studio album Flesh & Blood, among other things, at the only appearance of the glam metallers in Germany at the Palladium in Cologne.

Trivia

In the 1980s, Sead Lipovača , founder and member of the Bosnian heavy metal band Divlje Jagode , was invited to play with Whitesnake, but he declined.

Coverdale married actress Tawny Kitaen in 1989, who starred in several Whitesnake video clips. The marriage was divorced in 1991.

In June 2005, the Recording Industry Association of America announced that Whitesnake had sold over 12 million albums in America alone.

The song Here I Go Again appears a few times in the film Old School and forms the soundtrack for the final sequence of the PC game World in Conflict . In the film The Fighter , Here I Go Again is played as the entry song in Micky Ward's fight. It also appears in the episode Dungeons and Wagons of the American Dad series and in the fifth season of the Californication series .

The Snakes, The Company of Snakes, and M3 Classic Whitesnake

As early as 1991 Micky Moody and Bernie Marsden began to revive their Whitesnake legacy together. With their Moody Marsden Band (with Zak Starkey , son of Ringo Starr, among others ) they represented the blues part that made up a large part of the Whitesnake sound until 1984.

In 1998 Moody and Marsden founded the band "The Snakes", with whom they played the songs of the classical line-up live. Additional members of this band were Jørn Lande (vocals), Sid Ringsby (bass) and Willy Bendiksen (drums). The Snakes released in 1989 the albums "Once Bitten" (The Snakes Album) and "Live in Europe".

In 2000 the band was renamed "The Company of Snakes" and the Whitesnake founding member Neil Murray was hired. Songs from the classical line-up are also played live. Even Don Airey participated temporarily in this project. Today the group operates under the name M3 Classic Whitesnake , supplemented by Stefan Berggren (vocals), Doogie White (vocals, ex- Rainbow ), Jimmy Copley (drums, ex- Upp ) and Mark Stanway (keyboards, magnum).

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Remarks
1978	Trouble	-	-	-	UK50 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 1978
1979	Lovehunter	-	-	-	UK29 (7 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 1979
1980	Ready an 'Willing	-	-	-	UK6th gold (15 weeks)UK	US90 (16 weeks) US	First published: May 31, 1980
1981	Come on 'Get It	DE20 (23 weeks) DE	-	-	UK2 gold (23 weeks)UK	US151 (6 weeks) US	First published: April 11, 1981
1982	Saints & Sinners	DE28 (20 weeks) DE	AT14 (4 weeks) AT	-	UK9 silver (9 weeks)UK	-	First published: November 20, 1982
1984	Slide It In	DE14 (14 weeks) DE	-	CH12 (6 weeks) CH	UK9 (7 weeks) UK	US40 × 2 Double platinum (85 weeks)US	First published: January 17, 1984
1987	1987 / Whitesnake	DE13 gold (49 weeks)DE	AT25 (6 weeks) AT	CH10 gold (10 weeks)CH	UK8th platinum (58 weeks)UK	US2 × 8 Eight times platinum (76 weeks)US	First published: April 7, 1987
1989	Slip of the tongue	DE19 (18 weeks) DE	AT29 (1 week) AT	CH11 (9 weeks) CH	UK10 gold (10 weeks)UK	US10 platinum (34 weeks)US	First published: November 18, 1989
1997	Restless Heart	DE26 (7 weeks) DE	AT45 (2 weeks) AT	CH23 (9 weeks) CH	UK34 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 26, 1997
2008	Good to Be Bad	DE6 (8 weeks) DE	AT11 (6 weeks) AT	CH15 (6 weeks) CH	UK7 (4 weeks) UK	US62 (3 weeks) US	First published: April 18, 2008
2011	Forevermore	DE16 (4 weeks) DE	AT27 (2 weeks) AT	CH17 (7 weeks) CH	UK33 (1 week) UK	US49 (2 weeks) US	First published: March 25, 2011
2015	The Purple Album	DE13 (4 weeks) DE	AT28 (1 week) AT	CH11 (3 weeks) CH	UK18 (2 weeks) UK	US87 (1 week) US	First published: May 15, 2015
2018	Unzipped	DE36 (1 week) DE	-	CH48 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: October 19, 2018
2019	Flesh & Blood	DE3 (5 weeks) DE	AT6 (4 weeks) AT	CH2 (6 weeks) CH	UK7 (1 week) UK	US131 (1 week) US	First published: May 10, 2019
2020	The Rock Album	DE40 (1 week) DE	-	CH36 (1 week) CH	UK81 (1 week) UK	-	First published: June 19, 2020

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Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Remarks
1980	Live ... in the Heart of the City	DE56 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	UK5 platinum (15 weeks)UK	US146 (12 weeks) US	First published: November 3, 1980
2006	Live ... In the Still of the Night	DE23 gold (5 weeks)DE	-	-	UK- gold UK	-	First published: February 2006
2006	Live: In the Shadow of the Blues	DE82 (1 week) DE	AT64 (1 week) AT	-	-	-	First published: November 24, 2006
2011	Live at Donington 1990	DE32 (1 week) DE	-	CH10 (1 week) CH	UK81 (1 week) UK	-	First published: May 20, 2011
2011	Little Box 'O' Snakes	DE87 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: November 4, 2011
2013	Made in Japan	DE26 (2 weeks) DE	AT54 (1 week) AT	CH2 (2 weeks) CH	UK67 (1 week) UK	-	First published: April 22, 2013
2013	Made in Britain / The World Record	DE57 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: July 5, 2013
2014	Live in 1984: Back to the Bone	DE98 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: November 7, 2014
2018	The Purple Tour	DE17 (2 weeks) DE	AT19 (1 week) AT	CH31 (1 week) CH	UK60 (1 week) UK	-	First published: January 19, 2018

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Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Remarks
1994	Greatest hits	DE51 (8 weeks) DE	-	CH12 (11 weeks) CH	UK4th gold (12 weeks)UK	US161 platinum (2 weeks)US	First published: July 9, 1994
2000	The Millennium Collection	-	-	-	-	US194 (1 week) US	First published: June 27, 2000
2003	Best of	DE83 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	UK44 gold (4 weeks)UK	US- gold US	First published: March 24, 2003
2008	30th Anniversary Collection	-	-	-	UK38 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 13, 2008

More albums

1980: Live at Hammersmith
1982: The Best of Whitesnake
1984: Live in Japan
1987: Trilogy (US:platinum)
1988: Fourplay (US:gold)
1997: Starkers in Tokyo
2000: Best Ballads
2002: Here I Go Again: The Whitesnake Collection
2003: The Silver Anniversary Collection
2004: The Early Years
2006: Definitive Collection
2006: Gold: Whitesnake

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	Title album	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Remarks
1978	Snakebite EP	-	-	-	UK61 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 1978
1979	Long Way from Home Lovehunter	-	-	-	UK55 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 1979
1980	Fool for Your Loving Ready an 'Willing	-	-	-	UK13 (11 weeks) UK	US37 (22 weeks) US	First published: April 1980
	Ready an 'Willing Ready an' Willing	-	-	-	UK43 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: July 1980
	Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City Live in the Heart of the City	-	-	-	UK51 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 1980
1981	Don't Break My Heart Again Come an 'Get It	-	-	-	UK17 (9 weeks) UK	-	First published: April 1981
1981	Would I Lie to You Come an 'Get It	-	-	-	UK37 (6 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 1981
1982	Here I Go Again Saints & Sinners	DE51 (12 weeks) DE	-	-	UK34 gold (12 weeks)UK	-	First published: November 1982
1983	Guilty of Love Slide It In	-	-	-	UK31 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: August 1983
1984	Give Me More Time Slide It In	-	-	-	UK29 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: January 1984
	Standing in the Shadow Slide It In	-	-	-	UK62 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: April 1984
	Love Ain't No Stranger Slide It In	-	-	-	UK44 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: December 1984
1987	Still of the Night 1987	-	-	-	UK16 (8 weeks) UK	US79 (7 weeks) US	First published: March 1987
	Is This Love 1987	-	-	-	UK9 (15 weeks) UK	US2 (19 weeks) US	First published: May 1987
	Here I Go Again (1987) 1987	DE29 (12 weeks) DE	-	-	UK9 (11 weeks) UK	US1 (28 weeks) US	First published: June 1987
1988	Give Me All Your Love 1987	-	-	-	UK18 (6 weeks) UK	US48 (11 weeks) US	First published: January 1988
1990	The Deeper the Love Slip of the Tongue	-	-	-	UK35 (3 weeks) UK	US28 (14 weeks) US	First published: January 1990
1990	Now You're Gone Slip of the Tongue	-	-	-	UK31 (4 weeks) UK	US96 (2 weeks) US	First published: May 1990
1997	Too Many Tears Restless Heart	-	-	-	UK46 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 1997

Awards for music sales

Golden record

Germany Germany
- 2007: for the video album Live… In the Still of the Night
Finland Finland
- 1999: for the album Greatest Hits
Japan Japan
- 1992: for the album Slip of the Tongue
- 1994: for the album Greatest Hits
United Kingdom United Kingdom
- 2013: for the video album Live… In the Still of the Night
United States United States
- 1988: for the video album Fourplay

Platinum record

United States United States
- 1988: for the video album Trilogy

5 × platinum record

Canada Canada
- 1988: for the 1987 / Whitesnake album

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI)	0! S.-	2 × gold2	0! P-	250,000	musikindustrie.de
Finland (IFPI)	0! S.-	gold1	0! P-	21,755	ifpi.fi
Japan (RIAJ)	0! S.-	2 × gold2	0! P-	200,000	riaj.or.jp
Canada (MC)	0! S.-	0! G-	5 × platinum5	500,000	musiccanada.com
Switzerland (IFPI)	0! S.-	gold1	0! P-	25,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	0! S.-	2 × gold2	13 × platinum13	12,650,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	7 × gold7th	2 × platinum2	1,585,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	15 × gold15th	20 × platinum20th

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^ Slide It In - Ultimate Special Edition - Whitesnake Official Site. January 24, 2019. Retrieved March 10, 2019 (American English).
↑ Whitesnake Unplugs For UNZIPPED! - Whitesnake Official Site. November 24, 2018. Retrieved March 10, 2019 (American English).
↑ Whitesnake to Release New Album "Flesh & Blood" May 10, 2019 via Frontiers Music Srl - Whitesnake Official Site. February 14, 2019, accessed March 10, 2019 (American English).
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Web links

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[3] www.wacken.com Whitesnake

[4] Metal Hammer: Whitesnake

Whitesnake

Whitesnake live 2003
General information
Genre (s)	Hard rock , hair metal
founding	1978
Website	www.whitesnake.com
Current occupation
singing	David Coverdale (since 1978)
guitar	Reb Beach (since 2003)
guitar	Joel Hoekstra (since 2014)
bass	Michael Devin (since 2010)
Keyboard	Michele Luppi (since 2015)
Drums	Tommy Aldridge (1987–1991, 2002–2007, since 2013)
former members
Guitar: Micky Moody (1978-1983) Bernie Marsden (1978-1981) Mel Galley (1982-1984) John Sykes (1983-1986) Vivian Campbell (1987-1988) Adrian Vandenberg (1987–1997) Steve Vai (1989-1990) Warren de Martini (1994) Steve Farris (1997) Doug Aldrich (2003-2014) Bass: Neil Murray (1978–1982, 1983–1986) Colin Hodgkinson (1982-1983) Rudy Sarzo (1987-1994) Guy Pratt (1995-1997) Tony Franklin (1997) Marco Mendoza (2003-2005) Uriah Duffy (2005-2010) Keyboard: Brian Johnston (1978) Pete Solley (1978) Jon Lord (1978-1984) Richard Bailey (1984–1985) Don Airey (1989) Rick Seratte (1989–1990) Paul Mirkovich (1994) Brett Tuggle (1995-1997) Derek Hilland (1997) Timothy Drury (2003-2010) Drums: David Dowle (1978-1979) Ian Paice (1979-1981) Cozy Powell (1982-1985) Aynsley Dunbar (1985-1986) Denny Carmassi (1994-1997) Chris Frazier (2007-2010) Brian Tichy (2010-2013)