Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Still Of The Night (2007 Digital Remaster)
2. Bad Boys (2007 Digital Remaster)
3. Give Me All Your Love (2007 Digital Remaster)
4. Looking For Love (2007 Digital Remaster)
5. Crying In The Rain (2007 Digital Remaster)
6. Is This Love (2007 Digital Remaster)
7. Straight For The Heart (2007 Digital Remaster)
8. Don't Turn Away (2007 Digital Remaster)
9. Children Of The Night (2007 Digital Remaster)
10. Here I Go Again '87 (2007 Digital Remaster)
11. You're Gonna Break My Heart Again (2007 Digital Remaster)
12. Still Of The Night (Live In The Shadow Of The Blues)
13. Here I Go Again (Live In The Shadow Of The Blues)
14. Is This Love (Live In The Shadow Of The Blues)
15. Give Me All Your Love Tonight (Live In The Shadow Of The Blues)

Disc 2:

1. Still Of The Night
2. Here I Go Again '87
3. Is This Love
4. Give Me All Your Love
5. Give Me All Your Love (Live... In The Still Of The Night)
6. Is This Love (Live...In The Still Of The Night)
7. Here I Go Again '87 (Live...In The Still Of The Night)
8. Still Of The Night (Live...In The Still Of The Night)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9838 in Music
• Released on: 2007-06-04
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Collector's Edition, Original recording remastered, Extra tracks

Classic Rock July 2007
There are two schools of thought on Whitesnake over here. Most diehards believe that the early days provided the glory moments, when the 'Snake were true to their blues-rock heritage, and that this album was the point at which David Coverdale departed completely from his roots. Why? To make a mark Stateside. Of course, for others this represents that time when they were introduced to the band, as they were more commercially accessible and, image wise, fitted the landscape. Both views have their points, and where you stand is purely subjective. However, the fact remains that 1987 is the biggest selling album released by anyone connected to Deep Purple and - when you consider most fans believed Coverdale would disappear without trace after the band fell apart in '76 - that is a testimony to his vision and ruthless commitment. So, two decades on, how does the album stack up? For the most part, brilliantly. Still of the Night remains a tour de force, an epic that might draw from Led Zeppelin, but has its own timbre and predatory resonance. Bad Boys is a crotch grabbing, prowling anthem. Is This Love is a smoochy pooch of a ballad, one specifically designed to get the oestrogen flowing. And Children Of The Night lacquers on the big hair melody...

Add in well-informed sleevenotes ... a bonus DVD - and well designed booklet and ... oh hell, it's a lavish, fitting celebration.

Album Description
This Collector's Edition CD & DVD is released to celebrate the
20th Anniversary of the original release. It's beautifully packaged in a
fold out digipack with slipcase and sleevenotes written by Geoff Barton of
Classic Rock magazine.

When originally released the album hit no. 8 in the UK charts and went on
to sell a phenomenal 8 million copies worldwide.

The album spawned 3 hit singles the Led Zeppelin influenced 'Still Of the
Night', the anthemic 'Here I Go Again, and the power ballad 'Is This Love'

The CD features the original European album (with 2 more tracks than it's
American counterpart) and 4 bonus tracks taken from 'Live...In The Shadows
of The Blues'.

The DVD features 4 videos all of which got huge airplay on MTV at the time
of release and 4 live performances from the Live ...In The Still of The
Night' concert.

Customer Reviews

British Classic with Foreign Gloss
I was really excited when I heard David Coverdale and EMI were re-releasing the '87 album for its 20th anniversary year. Arguably the greatest British hard rock album, `Whitesnake 1987' spawned major US commercial success and provided the backdrop for Whitesnake's metamorphosis from a kind of Dad-rock British band into a MTV-polished, multi-national, `hair metal' band. Recorded by David Coverdale, John Sykes, Neil Murray and Aynsley Dunbar; sold by Coverdale, Adrian Vandenberg, Vivian Campbell, Rudy Sarzo and Tommy Aldridge, with Tawny Kitaen. Quite a contrast. The actual recorded work showcases some fabulous singing and musicianship. Coverdale's voice is at its peak, and John Sykes's blistering, powerful, majestic riffs and solos compliment perfectly. The rhythm section of Murray and Dunbar (then in his 40s and drafted in solely for laying down the drum parts after Cozy Powell's departure) is impeccable in its timing and execution. Songs like Still of the Night, Give Me All Your Love, Crying in the Rain and Here I Go Again 87 encapsulate and epitomise hard rock. This is more sophisticated lyric-wise than the American `hair metal' genre - but it's hallmarked by the same high quality musicianship. The recorded work is only half of the story though. 1987's marketing was integral to its success. Shortly before the album's release, Coverdale found himself without a band: Sykes couldn't stand him (the feeling no doubt mutual!), Murray had grown tired and Aynsley Dunbar had long gone. The changes in personnel transformed Whitesnake's image. On guitars, long-time friend of the band `the Flying Dutchman' Adrian Vandenberg and young Northern Irish riff-meister Vivian Campbell. On the bass, the `unbelievably sexy' Cuban, Rudy Sarzo. On drums, the stick-spinning Mississippian, Tommy Aldridge - a man Coverdale referred to as an 'octopus'. On stage, and in the videos, Vandenberg and Sarzo posed, strutted and pouted with all the arrogance of men who knew how. Undoubtedly the videos for Is This Love and Here I Go Again, starring Coverdale's then girlfriend Tawny Kitaen, made Whitesnake irresistible to MTV.

Why then did I use the past tense when referring to my excitement in this release? Well, let's have a look what's on offer: a remaster of the original album (although 1987 was DDD recorded anyway); additional live tracks; a DVD of the videos; live videos; some fancy packaging and sleeve notes. Ostensibly not bad. However, all of the live stuff has already been released in the past year or so as part of Live in the Still of the Night and Live in the Shadow of the Blues. As such, it's played by the latest incarnation of Whitesnake. Given the nature of the '87 album this matters less than it might, but most people who will be interested in this release will simply already have the live tracks/videos on offer here. That's disappointing. I'd have liked to have seen some live material from the 1987-88 era; perhaps a documentary on the phenomenon that was the '87 album; and some rarities such as demo tracks or alternative mixes. As it is, Coverdale and EMI are not offering much to the dedicated fan. So, unless you're a completist I'd suggest caution before shelling out for this. If you're new to the band or your original copy has worn out, this is a good buy. The videos are classics in the genre and the live material is high quality.

Big Haired Heaven!!
Some of the criticism of this album in other reviews is seriously misplaced. The reviewer who points out (correctly) that this CD was recorded digitally in the 1st instance has clearly not played this new remaster back to back with the original. The remaster wipes the floor with the original due to the obvious advances in digital technology over the 20 years since the original release. The other reviewer who states she won't buy the album because "Slow an Easy" is not on it obviously doesn't realise that it was never on the album in the 1st place! So ignore these gripes and look at the positives- the music sounds awesome, Coverdale is on fire, and the revamped packaging is fantastic. And what's more, you get the original vidoes with Tawny Kitaen for good measure!

Do me a favour
Stick with your old cd because this album was originally recorded "Digitally" so this re-master wont sound any different to the old cd, all the bonus material is not from this original era but from a recent live dvd maknig it a bit of a joke in my opinion, do your self a favor and seek out John Sykes "Blue Murder" album on the Geffen label to see what the next Whitesnake album would have been like if Mr. Coverdale and Sykes hadn't of gone seperate ways. a line up of David Coverdale, John Sykes, Ansley Dunbar & Neil Murry would have been the best Whitesnake line up ever and also a natural musical progerssion of the spirit of Whitesnake, sadly it was not to be. Keep your old cd because that disc is a ***** rating, this one is a joke.