During the band's early years their music was primarily blues rock. They toured with Coverdale as his support band and for both of the solo albums he released, White Snake and Northwinds, between exiting Deep Purple and founding Whitesnake. The core line-up had been working as his backing band The White Snake Band on the White Snake album tour and they retained the title before officially being known as Whitesnake. 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.ĭavid Coverdale founded Whitesnake in 1977 in North Yorkshire, England. Whitesnake are an English rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale (formerly of Deep Purple).
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