Whitesnake - Here I Go Again. Top Of The Pops 1982

Good quality video live in the studio from Top Of The Pops 1982. Whitesnake are an English rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale (formerly of Deep Purple). The band’s early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple but by the mid 1980s Whitesnake had moved away from the early blues influenced hard rock to a more commercial heavy metal style. Whitesnake was named the 85th greatest hard rock band of all time by VH1. Whitesnake recorded the EP Snakebite which was released in 1978 and included a cover of a Bobby “Blue“ Bland song “Ain’t No Love in the Heart of the City“, which became the first hit from the band. The EP had some success in the UK and subsequent reissues of this EP included four bonus tracks from Coverdale’s second solo album Northwinds produced by Roger Glover. A blues rock/R&B debut album Trouble, was released in the autumn of 1978 and peaked at in the UK album charts. Whitesnake toured Europe to promote the album and their first live album Live at Hammersmith was recorded on this tour and released in Japan in 1979. Whitesnake released Lovehunter in 1979, which courted controversy due to its risqué album cover by artist Chris Achilleos, which featured an illustration of a naked woman straddling a coiled snake. The album made the UK Top 30 and contained the minor hit “Long Way From Home“ which reached in the single charts. Tracks from the EP Snakebite were included in a reissue of the album Trouble in 2006. Shortly after that Ian Paice replaced David Dowle giving Whitesnake three ex-Deep Purple members. The new line-up recorded the 1980 release Ready an’ Willing, which was a breakthrough hit for the band reaching the UK Top 10 and becoming their first entry into the U.S. Top 100. The single “Fool For Your Loving“, which the band originally wrote for B.B. King, made in the UK single charts and in the US, and the title track also hit in the UK charts. The Ready an’ Willing tour included a headline appearance at the 1980 Reading Festival, highlights of which were broadcast by BBC Radio One in UK. While still mostly unknown in the US, the modest success of Ready an’ Willing helped Whitesnake increase awareness there as an opening act for established bands such as Jethro Tull and AC/DC. The band also released The Heart Of The City, which contained recordings made in 1978 and 1980 and achieved a No.5 ranking in the UK album charts. In 1981 the band recorded the album Come an’ Get It which climbed to No.2 in the UK album charts and produced the Top 20 hit “Don’t Break My Heart Again“ and the Top 40 hit “Would I Lie To You“. The album flopped in the US. During 1982 Coverdale took time off to look after his sick daughter and decided to put Whitesnake on hold. When David Coverdale returned to music he reformed the band and after the recording of the album Saints & Sinners replaced Bernie Marsden, Ian Paice and bass player Neil Murray with Mel Galley from Trapeze, bassist Colin Hodgkinson, and Cozy Powell as the new drummer. Saints & Sinners was another Top 10 UK album and contained the hit “Here I Go Again“. The new lineup toured in 1982--83, headlined the Monsters of Rock Festival at Castle Donington UK in August 1983 and the single “Guilty of Love“ reached in the UK singles chart. Whitesnake plan to release their next album, titled Forevermore, on March 25, 2011 in Europe, and on the 29th in North America. They have released a number of scheduled 2011 tour dates on their website, with six scheduled UK tour dates and other European dates. In February, 2011, Whitesnake was announced as one of the headliners to play the annual Rocklahoma festival in Pryor, Oklahoma on Memorial Day weekend. A digital single for the song ’Love Will Set You Free’ was released, along with a video for the song, on February 21. The album ’Forevermore’ will be released as a special edition ’Snakepack’ through Classic Rock magazine and will be released on March 25, a full 3 weeks before its commercial release. The fan pack includes the full, official new album ’Forevermore’, a 132pp magazine, poster and pin badge.