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Twice postponed, once cancelled
[Updated July 2] Tonight’s (June 25) Whitesnake show at the Rock Imperium Festival in Cartagena, Spain has been cancelled due to reasons, ahem, not quite adequately explained.
Read more »A lad from Saltburn-by-the-Sea
David Coverdale was a guest on the June 23 issue of the Rock and Roll High School podcast, hosted by Atlantic Records A&R boss Pete Ganbarg. It was recorded some time before the start of the current tour. It’s a lengthy affair at 1 hour and 24 minutes, so we’ve skimmed through it for your […]
Read more »They sure know where they’ve been
Whitesnake legend Bernie Marsden hosted a special evening at Coles Book Shop in Bicester, England on Thursday, May 12, to celebrate the vinyl release of his recent albums of blues standards Kings and Chess.
Read more »His last bow to America
Whitesnake have announced US and Canadian dates for their farewell tour. The trek will start on August 17, 2022, in New Hampshire and wrap up on October 21 in Las Vegas. Most of the dates DC & Co will be supporting Scorpions, with a few gigs headlining on their own: New Hampshire, Providence RI, and […]
Read more »DJ Coverdale
David Coverdale will host a new six part show on UK’s Planet Rock radio. The first of the shows will air this coming Saturday, March 12, 2022, at 1pm, with special guest Joe Elliott. Subsequent installments will broadcast the same time weekly until April 16th. Planet Rock radio is available in the UK on DAB, […]
Read more »Celebrator of all colours, shapes, and sizes
David Coverdale was recently interviewed by the Radio Forrest podcast. New projects, reissues, Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame, Coverdale/Page, and a few other things were discussed.
Read more »It’s Burrn!
25th anniversary of Whitesnake’s Restless Heart album is the cover story of issue #2022-02 of the Japanese Burrn! magazine. This issue also includes an interview with Roger Glover about the Deep Purple’s first album of covers.
Read more »Story of the Whitesnake songs
AntiMusic reports that a Whitesnake special will be shown on a US cable/satellite channel Reelz on February 19, 2022, at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT. It will be a part of the Story of Their Songs series. Spawned from the mind of former Deep Purple frontman David Coverdale the British rock band Whitesnake first appeared on […]
Read more »DC cashing out
David Coverdale has sold rights to his back catalogue to a company called Round Hill Music Royalty Fund Limited. This deal includes: recordings from Coverdale’s career as a solo artist and as the frontman of Whitesnake; master royalty participation from recordings during his tenure in Deep Purple; music publishing assets and long-term administration rights for […]
Read more »Willy Wonka’s golden ticket
There is a David Coverdale feature in the British newspaper The Independent. He began writing “secret little poems”, which eventually became lyrics once he’d taught himself the chords to The Yardbirds’ 1965 single “For Your Love”, and as a teenager he sang in a handful of local bands. Then, in 1973, destiny came calling while […]
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