Whitesnake / Biography

Origin: Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire

Decades: 1977-1991, 1994, 1997-1998 2002-present

Whitesnake are an English rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale (formerly of Deep Purple). The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple but by the mid 1980s Whitesnake had moved away from the early blues influenced hard rock to a more commercial heavy metal style. Whitesnake was named the 85th greatest hard rock band of all time by VH1.

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