History Music / Whitesnake

Whitesnake is a hard rock band hailing from England that was formed in 1977.

* OedipusComplex: Some of their lyrics are dripping with Oedipal subtext. You'd be hard-pressed to find a song of theirs where Coverdale doesn't refer to the object of his affection as "mama."

* CoolOldGuy: David Coverdale was born in ''September 1951''. Keep that in mind when listening to this material released over the past several years and watching his live performances, many of which are just as aggressive as what he did over twenty years ago.

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I called Derek back and asked if he liked Whitesnake. He said he didn't, but I assumed he was lying. I mean who the hell doesn't like Whitesnake?
-->--'''House of Shadows''' by Mat Stevens

->About three days later my landlord told me that I wasn't allowed to play "Here I Go Again," by Whitesnake at full volume at 3 AM every morning. I politely said: "Well, what the hell time of day can I blast Whitesnake?!"\\\

->About three days later my landlord told me that I wasn't allowed to play "Here I Go Again," by Whitesnake at full volume at 3 AM every morning. I politely said: "Well, what the hell time of day can I blast Whitesnake?!"

->I called Derek back and asked if he liked Whitesnake. He said he didn't, but I assumed he was lying. I mean who the hell doesn't like Whitesnake?
-->--'''House of Shadows''' by Mat Stevens.

* RevolvingDoorBand: Wiki/TheOtherWiki has a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Whitesnake_Band_Members long list of former members]]. See how far it went under IAmTheBand. Music/SteveVai was the most famous of the bunch, and the band also featured Music/DeepPurple keyboardist Jon Lord and drummer Ian Paice, in the early years.

* BadassBaritone: Believe it or not, Coverdale's a born baritone. That shrill, screechy voice he sings (mostly during his tenure in Deep Purple and the early days of Whitesnake) is has been said to be his way of emulating Robert Plant, a high tenor, which for a naturally deep voiced guy is quite difficult.

* ContemptibleCover: ''Lovehunter'' definitely qualifies, being a painting by Chris Achilleos of a highly aroused-looking naked woman sitting astride a giant, rearing, penile snake, but it's not the only candidate. The original cover of ''Slide It In'' is a photograph of a model seen from the nose down, wearing AbsoluteCleavage, with a snake coiled around her neck and heading down between her boobs. The alternative cover was hardly an improvement, being a photo of a similar-looking model seen from the back (again with the top two-thirds of her face cropped out), wearing a dress with a plunging backline, and a snake sliding down her back towards her rear end. ''Saints and Sinners'', which features a photo of what looks like an ivory carving of a topless woman being smooched by an angel while being watched by a snake, is chaste by comparison. Later, when the band was aiming for maximum appeal, they went for medieval-looking logo-based album artwork.