21 March, 1987.

This is just what you need to kick start the week. Eighties rock, big hair and the volume turned up to eleven, well, it’s one louder isn’t it? A lovely little trip down memory lane to a time of bad perms and denim jackets covered in band patches. Happy days.

Written by David Coverdale and guitarist John Sykes, this was the first single released from Whitesnake’s self-titled 1987 album. The song’s origins came from an old demo cassette that Coverdale found at his mother’s house, containing material that he and Richie Blackmore had been working on together. One track in particular caught Coverdale’s attention, and working with Sykes, they transformed it into one of the band’s biggest songs.

On its release the song made it to number eighteen on the US Mainstream Rock chart while here in the UK it spent eight weeks on the chart and peaked at number sixteen. To this day it is still one of the band’s most popular songs and frequently performed live as an encore by both Whitesnake and John Sykes.