Legendary Rock Songs: HERE I GO AGAIN: WHITESNAKE.

Theme:HERE I GO AGAIN.
Disc:1987.
Year:1987.

As it happens with the also famous “Fool For Your Loving”, Whitesnake's followers have certain qualms with this important song. The debate between the defenders of Whitesnake's classic era, the one that includes the 70's and early 80's, with a dirtier, purer and bluesier sound, and those who accepted and enjoyed their reconvention to success by adapting to the hard 80's and their blond and carded hair has always been arduous.

The best thing to do is not to be squeamish and enjoy both stages with their respective virtues, which are many in both cases. “Here I Go Again” was present both in the blues rock years and in the FM trend years, and was victorious in both vicissitudes. The song was originally recorded by the “White Snake” for their 1982 album, “Saints & Sinners”, the one on which Mel Galley formed a guitar duo with Micky Moody replacing Bernie Marsden.

In this its sweatier and older conception the song reached a modest thirty-second position in the British charts. But America was still resisting the band's power. In 1984, the famous A&R of Geffen and great promoter of the hard rock of the time, John Kalodner, offered a contract to David Coverdale with the American company that the frontman did not hesitate to accept, the time had come to cross the Atlantic.

Whitesnake released “Slide It In”, still featuring Mel Galley's guitar, Neil Murray's bass and the keys of purple master Jon Lord, but with two new acquisitions that already augured winds of change, drummer Cozy Powell and especially guitarist John Sykes. The album finally achieved its goal, being certified platinum and reaching a place in the Top 40.

When everything seemed to be going smoothly, a serious infectious disease that almost made it impossible for him to sing again, Coverdale was prostrated to a forced inactivity and left Whitesnake in the dry dock for three years... But the comeback was resounding. The vocalist seemed eager to overcome his bad moment, and with a reformed line-up in which only the six strings of Sykes and the bass of Neil Murray remained, he set out to become a definitive superstar.

His label suggested him to record a new version of the band's old song, “Here I Go Again”, turned into a sexy rock power ballad that Coverdale sang with more force than ever and Sykes provided a great electric guitar work. With a more polished sound in accordance with the new canons of the time, “Here I Go Again” was the definitive passport to fame, bursting the American charts to reach number one in the USA and number nine in England, giving evidence that America was the new market for which the dreaded snake was crawling.

Not even his sappy ballad “Is This Love”, perhaps his best-known song for the general public, managed to surpass that mark and remained at number two on the Billboard. “1987” stayed for six months in the top 5 albums in the U.S., where it sold more than six million copies of the more than ten million that the album shipped worldwide at the time.

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