Whitesnake (1987) LP Limited Ed.

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"1987" / "Whitesnake" is the seventh studio album by British rock band Whitesnake, released on 23 March 1987 by Geffen Records in the US, and by EMI in the UK one week later. It was co-written and recorded for over a year in what would be the first and final collaboration between vocalist David Coverdale and guitarist John Sykes, as well as the final album to feature longtime bassist Neil Murray. The album, besides its commercial success, is remarkable for the band's change to a more modern glam metal look and sound, and the first recording to use the band's new logo which would characterize them in the future.

The album was released worldwide with different titles, tracklists, and by different record labels. In North America, it was titled as Whitesnake. In Europe and Australia, it was titled 1987 and included two extra songs absent from the North American version, "Looking for Love" and "You're Gonna Break My Heart Again", while in Japan the album was released as Serpens Albus with the North American tracklist. The 20th and 30th-anniversary remastered reissues have a common tracklist, including the additional tracks.

The album was a critical and commercial success around the world, eventually selling over 8 million copies in the US alone and thus going eight times Platinum by RIAA in February 1995. It peaked at No. 2 on the US Billboard 200 for ten nonconsecutive weeks, barred from the top spot by three different albums, including Michael Jackson's "Bad", and was more weeks in the Top 5 than any other album in 1987. Whitesnake was the band's highest-charting album in the US and peaked at No. 8 on the UK Albums Chart. As of 2017, the album has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide.

Whitesnake – 1987
Whitesnake - 1987 album cover
Label:
EMI – EMC 3528
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Embossed Sleeve
Country:
UK
Released:
1987
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Heavy Metal
Tracklist
A1 Still Of The Night
A2 Bad Boys
A3 Give Me All Your Love
A4 Looking For Love
B1 Crying In The Rain
B2 Is This Love
B3 Straight From The Heart
B4 Don't Turn Away
B5 Children Of The Night
Companies, etc.
Licensed From – EMI Records Ltd.
Produced For – Mike Stone Enterprises
Produced For – Pogologo Productions
Phonographic Copyright ? – Whitesnake Productions Overseas Ltd.
Mastered At – Artisan Sound Recorders
Mastered At – Precision Lacquer
Credits
Artwork [Cover] – Hugh Syme
Bass – Neil Murray
Drums – Aynsley Dunbar
Guitar – John Sykes
Guitar, Guest [Special Guest] – Adrian Vandenberg
Keyboards, Guest [Special Guest] – Bill Cuomo, Don Airey
Mastered By [Direct Metal Mastering] – Stephen Marcussen
Mastered By [Original] – Greg Fulginiti
Other [John Kalodner] – John Kalodner
Producer – Keith Olsen, Mike Stone
Vocals – David Coverdale, John Sykes
Written-By – Coverdale*, Sykes* (tracks: A1 to A4, B2 to B5)
Notes
? & © 1987 Original sound recordings made by Whitesnake Overseas Ltd, under license to EMI Records Ltd.
Produced for Mike Stone Enterprises & Pogologo Productions on behalf of Whitesnake Overseas Productions Ltd.

Originally mastered at Artisan Sound Recorders.
Direct metal mastering at Precision Lacquer