Sail Away: Whitesnake's Fantastic Voyage, by Martin Popoff
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In Sail Away: Whitesnake's Fantastic Voyage – the first ever full biography of the band – top music writer Martin Popoff tells the tale of rock legend David Coverdale, from his Deep Purple roots to the two distinct incarnations of his mega-popular creation. Whitesnake began life as a UK-based blues rock outfit, until the lad from England’s chilly east coast departed for America’s sunny west coast in search of fame, fortune, big videos and even bigger hair. Coverdale found them all, and 1987’s self-titled album went 8 x platinum in the US alone before their bright star waned in the face of grimy grunge. In this book – his 45th – Popoff interviewed the major players, including Coverdale himself, to piece together the band’s roller-coaster history. He follows their story through the hirings and firings, the splits and reunions and the image changes to paint an affectionate yet realistic picture of one of the giants of rock. If you remember great tracks such as "Here I Go Again," "Fool For Your Loving," "Still Of The Night," "Slow An' Easy," "Crying In The Rain," "Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City," or “Love Ain't No Stranger,” then this book is essential reading. The Sail Away refers to how Coverdale re-invented himself by sailing away to America's West Coast and making himself right at home. He loves it, and America loves him.
Sail Away: Whitesnake's Fantastic Voyage, by Martin Popoff- Amazon Sales Rank: #1112636 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.00" w x 6.00" l, .71 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
About the Author What can we say about Martin Popoff? He is a one of the world's best known writers on metal and classic rock both in books and magazines. This is his 45th book and likes his other work, the enthusiasm for the subject shines through. He knows just about every musician in the field personally and has a very loyal fanbase of readers. He's also a really nice guy.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. “Tommy Bolin, he lived with me for three months, before he joined the band,” explains Glenn Hughes. “Tommy Bolin was a very sweet, kind, philosophical, hippie-ish, generous, loving person. There wasn’t a bad bone in his body. The only thing was, Tommy was riddled with drug addiction. I had no idea he was into the morphines and the other stuff at all. And we talked about it and he joked about it, but I hadn’t realized my friend was actually getting to be hooked on the stuff. But Tommy and I also have stuff we wrote together. He was a great guy. I mean, I was sort of into my disease as well. The cocaine was definitely drug of choice in the ‘70s, for people who could afford it. So I was in my own head at that time.” “Look, here’s the deal,” frames Hughes, on the making of Come Taste The Band, Coverdale’s third record and the last for the band before the Mk. II reunion in ‘83. “Tommy Bolin joined Deep Purple in, I think, June of 1975. In June and July we basically rehearsed in Los Angeles, pretty much three quarters of them. We wrote a couple in the studio. Then we went to Munich to Musicland Studios and, you know, Tommy Bolin had moved into my home in Beverly Hills. There were definitely two camps being set up, maybe three camps being set up. There was me and Tommy to one side, David alone, and then Jon and Ian. And it was very obvious when we went to Germany that it was me and Tommy hanging out. Tommy and I were younger and we were more free-spirited. It was basically, if you listen to the album, there is definitely a Tommy and Glenn influence on the one side, and Coverdale is doing the big voice in the middle. We were the toxic twins of the band. Tommy and I were young and we didn’t know what the hell we were doing.”
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. I knew little of David Coverdale's Post-Purple Days, So I was glad to read this! By Best_Legend Well, ...I really wasn't familiar with David Coverdale's career after the Purple, so this book was very informative to me. I can talk all day about the events related to MARK III, and was aware of all the hoopla surrounding the 1987 album; but the high quality of the MARK ONE version of "White snake" had escaped me. I picked up a copy of the live CD they made, and it blew my mind! That band was very, very good!I hate the name "White Snake", and all the phallic insinuations involved with all those ridiculous album covers of naked women, etc. that seemed to always "adorn" Coverdale's albums during those years. Many of his lyrics suffer from this adolescent perspective as well. But that man can sing with the best of the great rock singers in my opinion. I think he did all that "hair metal" music in '87 because that genre was the money-making method of success at that time, and who can blame him for cashing in. We all need money, ...right?But he is a reasonably good guy, and can command the stage as well as anyone. I watch the California Jam about once a year, every year, ..for many years now. I love that MARK III band, and "Storm Bringer" is my favorite classic Purple record. But the blasted drug culture ruined that monster group just as they were really taking off, so Coverdale had to take the bull by the horns, and build a successful career, ..which he did.This book, ...for me was able to answer the questions I had about what all happened with him in those decades immediately following the Purple demise in 1976. Maybe it is not a consummate story, but I really don't want to read a whole chapter on that Tammy Kitten woman anyway. I am interested in those blues-rock albums in the early 80's, and wanted to know about those three guitarists in that band. The live album I have tells a lot about their wonderful playing, but I had no idea that the bassist named Murray was THAT good! I have a hard time focusing on the other players because the bass lines keep drawing my attention on that CD.Back to the book though, ...I believe it tells what there is to tell about Coverdale's journey. There are a few surprises like I did not know that the current bassist in STYX actually was playing with Coverdale & Page on their album in the early 90's. He is a great player! Also, I did not know that Glenn Hughes did some background vocals on that '87 album. Glenn Hughes records seem to stay in my CD player all the time; that guy is flat out the best at everything he does, ...he just can't seem to get a monster record noticed by the world yet. I'm glad that Coverdale got that notice with all those singles from that '87 thing with all those videos of that girl rolling around on hoods of those Volkswagens back then. That record was nowhere near his best music, but he deserved the rewards that sprung from that project.This book tells the stories of all his endeavors in music, while not getting stuck in the Purple stories that I already knew so well.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. For the true fans I do recommend purchasing. I know this author is talented By Kindle Customer As a fan of the band, I was thrilled a book was written. For the true fans I do recommend purchasing . I know this author is talented, but agree with earlier review of editing could of been better and I I felt the author bounced around a lot and rushed a lot of the content. A lot of early history , which was necessary, deserved (so much respect for the talent of the earlier band members) and educational but I felt there could of been more in depth interviews with Coverdale, past members of the band, reasons why they moved on, behind the scenes,in the studio, high and lows, etc. There was a lot of great players from 1987 to current and would of loved to have the book spend more time or more in depth interviews with those players. I always wondered why Vivian Campbell left and the book did a great job of addressing that and had some good interviews with Vivian and Steve Vai, but many people do not know Warren Demartini was in the band for a short time and that was a sentence or 2 in the book. Coverdale is one of the greatest rock singers and he has always had extremely talented musicians. I just wanted more content from this book and felt it summed up decades worth of history, music, and players too quickly.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Not Popoff's best book By Daniele Purrone I have read and enjoyed other books by the author in the past, but this was not the case. The interviews are, in my opinion, badly edited (for instance, it happens several time that you read a description of an event, then something else, giving you the impression that we have moved on, and then - a few pages later - you read the description of the same event by another person), the writing seems rushed, some important events are completely left out.Also, I don't like the abuse of the terms metal and heavy metal applied to early Whitesnake and Purple material, but I guess that's more of a cultural difference between europeans (who would never call Deep Purple a metal band) and northern americans.
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