History Music / Whitesnake

Some of their most famous songs are "Is This Love", "Here I Go Again", and "Still Of The Night".

* CriticProof: While a lot of other bands known as playing ArenaRock have gotten mixed to negative reviews yet sold well, Whitesnake has [[ZigZaggedTrope zig-zagged this trope]], with their [[TheEighties 80s work]] often regarded by critics as hard rock classics and their [[TheSeventies 70s]] and 90s-onwards work being a different story (yet still having a quite a lot of strong defenders). Throughout their history, though, they've sold pretty well and been massive draws live.

** Similarly, "Fool For Your Loving", a single from 1980, was rerecorded for their 1989 album, "Slip of the Tongue", and given a much heavier spin, owing much to SteveVai. It too outperformed the original on the charts.

** "Now You're Gone" has particularly dark lyrics, which are matched up against guitar virtuoso [[SteveVai Steve Vai's]] work: "There's an emptiness closing around me- an' I can't go on, when all I have left is the memory".

The band started in North Yorkshire, England. The style was primarily blues rock (or progressive R&B as they liked to call it) for quite a while. They were often compared to Music/DeepPurple-- David Coverdale being formerly of that band, and long-running Deep Purple members Jon Lord and Ian Paice being in the first few lineups. After Moody was replaced with a guitarist from Music/ThinLizzy , the band moved into playing a more commercially driven, slick sort of hard rock while never quite leaving their heavy metal roots behind.

* 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.

* GenreShift: The group gradually drifted from [[HeavyMetal classic heavy metal]] heavily influenced by [[Blues blues rock]] to straightforwards commercial hard rock as the decades went on.

* HairMetal: The band picked up this tag and it stuck, if only by association. David Coverdale never liked it that his band was labeled as such and thus lumped together with others that were declared as putting style over substance, especially given how much effort he and his band members put into their songwriting and technical skill. This issues can be a BerserkButton for fans.

* CriticProof: While a lot of other bands known as playing ArenaRock have gotten mixed to negative reviews yet sold well, Whitesnake has zig-zagged this trope, with their 80s work often regarded by critics as hard rock classics and their 70s and 90s-onwards work being a different story (yet still having a quite a lot of strong defenders). Throughout their history, though, they've sold pretty well and been massive draws live.

* HairMetal: The band picked up this tag and it stuck, if only by association. David Coverdale never liked it that his band was labeled as such and thus lumped together with others that were declared as putting style over substance, especially given how much effort he and his band members put into their songwriting and technical skill. This issues can be a BezerkButton for fans.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Saints and Sinners'' began their move away from blues-rock towards a more hard rock style. The 1987 self-titled album confirmed them as a full HairMetal band.

Whitesnake is a rock band hailing from England, first formed in 1977.

The band started in North Yorkshire, England. The style was primarily blues rock (or progressive R&B as they liked to call it). They were often compared to Music/DeepPurple-- David Coverdale being formerly of that band, and long-running Deep Purple members Jon Lord and Ian Paice being in the first few lineups. After Moody was replaced with a guitarist from Music/ThinLizzy they moved into more hard rock.

Some of their most famous songs are "Is This Love", "Here I Go Again" and "Still Of The Night".

[[Series/{{Smallville}} Also, it's Lois Lane's favorite band.]]

* TheDrifter: "Here I Go Again"
* GenreShift

* HairMetal: If only by association. David Coverdale never liked it that his band was labeled as such and thus lumped together with others that were declared hair metal bands.

* IntercourseWithYou: "Slide It In": "I'm gonna Slide It In, right to the top! Slide It In, ain't never gonna stop." Also "Still of the Night".
* LoveHurts: "Fool For Your Loving": "I gave my heart, and you tore it apart, oh, baby, you done me wrong."

* [[{{Spinoff}} Spinoff Band]]: Arguably, of Music/DeepPurple.

* NamesTheSame: The first four of these appear in the same album (1987)!
** Their most famous song is the soft love ballad (often called a [[SillyLoveSongs silly love song]], "Is this love". That is also a title of a Music/{{Survivor}} song.
** They did a song (twice) called "Crying In The Rain"- which is the name of a completely different song by the Everly Brothers, the latter covered by A-Ha.
** They did a song called "Children Of The Night"- one of the more overused song titles (including those by Music/RichardMarx and Music/{{Survivor}}).
** Also overused was this title, "Bad Boys"- one of the bands that used the title for a different song was reggae band Inner Circle- and is also the name of a [[Film/BadBoys cop movie starring]] Creator/WillSmith.
** Not from 1987, but from ''Slide It In''- "Standing in the Shadows"- glam/hair metal band Music/{{Dokken}} did one.

* OldShame: What David Coverdale thought of the earlier bluesy recordings of "Fool For Your Loving", "Here I Go Again" and "Crying In The Rain", in interviews during the band's hair metal days.

** Their most famous song is the soft love ballad (often called a [[SillyLoveSongs silly love song]], "Is this love". That is also a title of a Music/{{Survivor song}}.

** Their most famous song is the soft love ballad (often called a [[SillyLoveSongs silly love song]], "Is this love". That is also a title of a Music/Survivor song.

** They did a song called "Children Of The Night"- one of the more overused song titles (including those by Music/RichardMarx and Music/Survivor).

** Not from 1987, but from ''Slide It In''- "Standing in the Shadows"- glam/hair metal band Music/Dokken did one.

** They did one more, "Cryin' In The Rain", from the early years, re-recorded for their 1987 album.

* PrettyBoy

* Reb Beach (formerly from Winger) - guitars (2002--present)

The band started in North Yorkshire, England. The style was primarily blues rock (or progressive R&B as they liked to call it). They were often compared to DeepPurple-- David Coverdale being formerly of that band, and long-running Deep Purple members Jon Lord and Ian Paice being in the first few lineups. After Moody was replaced with a guitarist from ThinLizzy they moved into more hard rock.

[[{{Smallville}} Also, it's Lois Lane's favorite band.]]

** SteveVai: Arguably the most famous of the bunch.
** DeepPurple keyboardist Jon Lord and drummer Ian Paice, in the early years.
* [[{{Spinoff}} Spinoff Band]]: Arguably, of DeepPurple.

* DressRehearsalVideo: "Here I Go Again"

The band started in North Yorkshire, England. The style was primarily blues rock (or progressive R&B as they liked to call it). They were often compared to DeepPurple-- David Coverdale being formerly of that band. After Moody was replaced with a guitarist from ThinLizzy they moved into more hard rock.

* HoodOrnamentHottie: In the videos. Caused the BowlingForSoup lyrics:
-->She's gonna shake her ass on the hood of Whitesnake's car

* Uriah Duffy - bass (2005--present),
* Timothy Drury - keyboards (2002--present)
* Chris Frazier - drums (2007--present)

* HairMetal

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the music video for "Here I Go Again" Tawny Kitaen's left nipple is visible for a split second. The censors did not notice and the video aired on MTV for a while before people spotted it. The original version of the video was quickly pulled from the air and replaced by an edited version that removed the brief nudity.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the music video for "Here I Go Again" Tawny Kitaen's left nipple is visible for a split second. The censors did not notice and the video aired on MTV for a while before people spotted it.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the music video for "Here I Go Again" Tawny Kitaen's left nipple is visible for a split second. The censors did not notice and the video aired on MTV for a while people people spotted it.

* {{Bishonen}}

* IntercourseWithYou: Slide It In. "I'm gonna Slide It In, right to the top! Slide It In, ain't never gonna stop"

* RevolvingDoorBand: 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