White Snake (album)
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'''''White Snake''''' is the debut solo album by [[David Coverdale]], |
'''''White Snake''''' is the debut solo album by [[David Coverdale]], released on 22 February 1977 in Japan{{cite web |last1=Jeffries |first1=Neil |title=I have to prove that I'm capable of doing it, and I wasn't just being done a favour by Deep Purple: the two forgotten David Coverdale solo albums that sowed the seeds for Whitesnake |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/david-coverdale-solo-albums-white-snake-northwinds |website=[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]] |access-date=16 September 2025 |date=5 May 2024}} and on 6 May in Europe through [[Purple Records]].{{cite book | last1 = Popoff | first1 = Martin | author-link1 = Martin Popoff | title = The Deep Purple Family | edition = 2nd | publisher = Wymer Publishing | year = 2016 | pages = 221 | isbn = 978-1-908724-42-7}} Coverdale would use the album title as the name of his future band, first known as "David Coverdale's Whitesnake" and then shortened to [[Whitesnake]]. The album was released as a part of a compilation album ''Whitesnake/[[Northwinds]]'' in 1988, reissued alone in 2000, and re-released as part of a double compilation album later titled ''[[The Early Years (David Coverdale album)|The Early Days]]'' (2003). |
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It was reissued in ''[[Into the Light: The Solo Albums]]'', with all of Coverdale's solo albums, re-mixed (as a Whitesnake compilation), via [[Rhino Entertainment]] on 25 October 2024. |
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==Background and writing== |
==Background and writing== |
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