“We had a plan. Jesus Christ, are you kidding? My whole plan was to make an album that sells more than the last one”: How Whitesnake shed their skin and made a solid gold hard rock classic with the 1987 album

Whitesnake posing for a photograph in 1987.

Whitesnake were one of the biggest and most unlikely success stories of the 1980s thanks to the stellar success of the classic 1987 album and ongs such as Here I Go Again and Still Of The Night. In 2009, ’Snake-in-chief David Coverdale looked back on his band’s rise from acclaimed blues rocker to bouffant haired MTV mainstays – and the craziness that came with it.