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The bouffant haired MTV mainstays
Louder Sound reprints a 2009 Metal Hammer feature on the hairspray era of Whitesnake, based around an interview with David Coverdale.
For the first few years of the 1980s, David Coverdale was an incredibly busy man. After the demise of Deep Purple, the band he’d sung with since 1974 and that had made him a star, he embarked on a solo career, which eventually morphed into the tight, swaggering blues rock outfit known, with a lascivious chuckle, as Whitesnake.
Starting in 1978 with the Snakebite EP, featuring one of the band’s signature songs, a cover of soul standard Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of The City, David’s new project swiftly became one of the most popular hard rock bands in the UK, releasing a steady stream of well-received albums including classics like Lovehunter, Ready An’ Willing and Saints And Sinners.
Always an ambitious man, David was never going to be content with simply following the usual album/tour/repeat schedule when there was a whole world out there waiting to be conquered, and so by the time Whitesnake arrived at their sixth album, Slide It In, he decided that a whole new approach was called for.
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Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Great parts of the Earth’s atmosphere were permanently harmed via release of copious amounts of chlorofluorocarbons in the making of this photo …
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Oh man, I remember NENA (the band) even endorsing a hairspray brand:
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ydgAAOSwVuJl04gD/s-l1200.jpg
Me? Yes, I am guilty too of contributing to the dreaded ‘Ozonloch’ /ozone depletion too, my favorite brand for reliably fashionable results was this here … 😂
https://youtu.be/zz1Qf8lhkWw
Actually, back then the product of choice (besides ‘Schaumfestiger’/styling mousse or foam of course!) wasn’t just simply hairspray, but ‘Haarlack’/hair lacquer – handy to have around in the household as you could also glue stuff with it. 🤣
I have since then become a teetotaler. These days my hair isn’t even shampooed anymore, I just use whatever shower gel there is. 🤗
December 15th, 2024 at 14:55@1
“ Actually, back then the product of choice (besides ‘Schaumfestiger’/styling mousse or foam of course!) wasn’t just simply hairspray, but ‘Haarlack’/hair lacquer – handy to have around in the household as you could also glue stuff with it. 🤣”
Being very young I used Haarlack (hårlak) to kill of spiders!
No one died, all of them ended up with great looking do’s 😎
Today, no fright left for the 8-legged, thanks to homeopathy ☺️
December 17th, 2024 at 16:08