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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 »Complete circle
Don Airey was interviewed for the Rolling Stone Unknown Legends series. It’s a long form interview, with a lot of ground covered — from the humble beginnings in a cruise ship house band to the next Purple gigs, once again on a cruise ship. And everything in between. So how did the Rainbow period start? […]
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 »A baby that didn’t grow much
Greek site Rockpages has interviewed Bernie Marsden on the occasion of his recent release Chess. The extended and rather interesting conversation invariably turned onto his days with PAL and Whitesnake: Rockpages.gr: I was reading the Classic Rock magazine lately with an interview of yours where you said that the best album you’ve ever made was […]
Read more »Ain’t no love
On November 26 the professional Purple tribute band Purpendicular played a gig at La Traverse in Cléon, France. Paicey once again joined them on drums, and the lineup featured another Purple family veteran — Neil Murray on bass. The setlist, quite understandably for the occasion, included several Whitesnake numbers: Highway Star Walking in the Shadow […]
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 […]
Read more »The house of Whitesnake
David Coverdale appeared on the Appetite for Distortion podcast promoting the Restless Heart remaster. He swears up and down that he’s going to retire from touring “at this level” after the upcoming 2022 Whitesnake tour.
Read more »It is what it is
Rolling Stone magazine is on a family tree streak with an in-depth profile of Neil Murray for their Unknown Legends series. Was the cover of Lovehunter created to cause controversy? It’s pretty out there. I guess to an extent. But it was really more of a management idea than anything to do with the band. […]
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