Whitesnake – Saints & Sinners
(Liberty/FAME Records FA3177)
Matrix No’s: A4/B1 – UK Pressing
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Whitesnake are a rock band formed in England in 1978 by David Coverdale, after his departure from his previous band Deep Purple. Their early material has been compared by critics to the blues rock of Deep Purple, but they slowly began moving toward a more commercially accessible rock style. By the turn of the decade, the band’s commercial fortunes changed and they released a string of UK top 10 albums, Ready an’ Willing (1980), Come an’ Get It (1981), Saints & Sinners (1982) and Slide It In (1984), the last of which was their first to chart in the US and is certified 2x platinum.
The band’s 1987 self-titled album was their most commercially successful worldwide, and contained two major US hits, “Here I Go Again” and “Is This Love”, reaching number one and two on the Billboard Hot 100. The album went 8 times platinum in the US, and the band’s success saw them nominated for the 1988 Brit Award for Best British Group. Slip of the Tongue (1989), was also a success, reaching the top 10 in the UK and the US, and received a platinum US certification. The band split up shortly after this release, but had a reunion in 1994, and released a one-off studio album, Restless Heart (1997).
Whitesnake officially reformed in 2002 and have been touring together since, releasing three studio albums, Good to Be Bad (2008), Forevermore (2011) and The Purple Album (2015). In 2005, Whitesnake were named the 85th greatest hard rock band of all time by VH1.
Saints & Sinners is the fifth studio album by English hard rock band Whitesnake, released in 1982. It peaked at number 9 on the UK Albums Chart.
Two of the tracks, “Crying in the Rain” and “Here I Go Again”, were later re-recorded on their 1987 album Whitesnake.
Track listing
| Side one | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | |||||||
| 1. | “Young Blood” | David Coverdale, Bernie Marsden | 3:30 | |||||||
| 2. | “Rough an’ Ready” | Coverdale, Micky Moody | 2:52 | |||||||
| 3. | “Bloody Luxury” | Coverdale | 3:23 | |||||||
| 4. | “Victim of Love” | Coverdale | 3:33 | |||||||
| 5. | “Crying in the Rain” | Coverdale | 6:00 | |||||||
| Side two | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | |||||||
| 6. | “Here I Go Again” | Coverdale, Marsden | 5:08 | |||||||
| 7. | “Love an’ Affection” | Coverdale, Moody | 3:09 | |||||||
| 8. | “Rock an’ Roll Angels” | Coverdale, Moody | 4:07 | |||||||
| 9. | “Dancing Girls” | Coverdale | 3:10 | |||||||
| 10. | “Saints an’ Sinners” | Coverdale, Moody, Marsden, Neil Murray, Jon Lord, Ian Paice | 4:25 | |||||||
Personnel
Whitesnake
- David Coverdale – lead vocals
- Micky Moody – guitar, backing vocals
- Bernie Marsden – guitar
- Jon Lord – keyboard
- Neil Murray – bass
- Ian Paice – drums, percussion
- Mel Galley – backing vocals
Production
- Martin Birch – producer, engineer, mixing at Battery Studios, September/October 1982
- Guy Bidmead – engineer
- Bryan New – assistant engineer
- Peter Mew – remastering at Abbey Road Studios, London, 2007
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