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"Roses are pink, violets are blue, I love Whitesnake and these are for you!" David Coverdale would like to wish you a Happy Valentine's Day

Melodic rock's most romantic frontman has a lovin' message to share

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“I was completely blown away... He’d only just joined the band! He was the same age as me but he totally left me choking in his dust”: Remembering John Sykes, the powerhouse rock journeyman who breathed new life into Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy

A personal tribute to the Tygers of Pan Tang and Blue Murder guitarist, who passed in January at 65

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John Sykes obituary

Guitarist and songwriter who worked with Tygers of Pan Tang, Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake

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“His thumbprint is an indelible part of the Whitesnake record he did. The fatness of that record and the rock integrity it had was all him”: Steve Vai followed John Sykes in Whitesnake – and he quickly decided what not to do when playing his parts

Of course, it wasn't a chops issue so much as it was the late guitarist's unique six-string footprint

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“He and I played some sweet music together. He was a great musician”: Thin Lizzy legend Scott Gorham pays tribute to his former bandmate John Sykes

Sykes also starred for Whitesnake in the '80s

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Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy guitarist John Sykes dies

Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy guitarist John Sykes has died of cancer at the age of 65.

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“Always one of my favorite guitarists – what a loss”: John Sykes, Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy, Tygers of Pan Tang guitarist, dies at 65

The hard rock guitar legend had been suffering from cancer

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Former Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake guitarist John Sykes dead at 65

The death of John Sykes, whose contributions to Whitesnake spurred them to become one of the biggest-selling bands of the eighties, has been confirmed

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“I fell off the bed laughing!” Why Jimmy Page thought a Whitesnake video was hilarious - and why he ended up making an album with that band’s singer David Coverdale

“Shall we get this story straight?” Page said

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"I was lying in bed at about three in the morning when an axe smashed through my door": Deep Purple’s 25 maddest moments

Life in Deep Purple has never been dull

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“We had a plan. Jesus Christ, are you kidding? My whole plan was to make an album that sells more than the last one”: How Whitesnake shed their skin and made a solid gold hard rock classic with the 1987 album

David Coverdale looks back on the making of Whitesnake’s hair metal-era classic 1987

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“There was a 50/50 chance that I’d be able to sing again - and we were $3m in debt!”: The dramatic story of an ’80s rock blockbuster

You know things are bad when your guitarist tries to kick you out of your own band!

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“John Wayne said: ‘My daughter would be so happy to get your autographs.’ So David Coverdale and I signed his cowboy boots”: Glenn Hughes’ wild tales of Ritchie Blackmore, David Bowie, Phil Lynott and The Duke

Bowie, Blackmore, Richard Burton and Linda Blair – Glenn Hughes has crossed paths with them all

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“I had a meltdown. Cocaine psychosis took over – it’s a form of paranoid schizophrenia”: How Deep Purple split from Ritchie Blackmore and made a funky masterpiece in Come Taste The Band

Ritchie Blackmore was out, US hotshot Tommy Bolin was in and Deep Purple’s Mk IV line-up were about to make the most under-rated album of their career

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“The boutique amp market thrives and exists as it does today largely thanks to Mike Soldano”: From Eddie Van Halen and Steve Vai to Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler, the Soldano SLO-100 changed the sound of shred and blues alike

The SLO-100 made its bones in the hard-rock and shred scenes and yet found its true calling as the amp of choice for Clapton, Knopfler, et al. What makes it such an enduring, versatile model?

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“This shadowy cut features what could be perhaps Page’s last great guitar solo”: Jimmy Page’s 10 greatest guitar solos – that weren’t in Led Zeppelin

Page had a wealth of fine leads in his sprawling pre- and post-Zeppelin career – and some of these are Firm favorites…

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“When it comes to many of the classics, I don’t even know what they’re about!” How Mikael Åkerfeldt’s policy of not taking advice led Opeth to Pale Communion

Inspired by sharing records with Steven Wilson, he took a more melodic approach, added a vague title that just sounded cool, and forged them into a “journey through life that starts pretty good and ends shit”

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"There has been no better ambassador for the electric guitar": Bernie Marsden, remembered

Best known for co-founding Whitesnake and as a writer of some of their classic songs, Bernie Marsden spent a lifetime walking in the shadow of the blues

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"Even now, I have no idea how we got Vincent Price or Twiggy": The night Roger Glover assembled three Deep Purple singers and a cast of stars for a performance based on an old children’s poem

When Roger Glover was asked to soundtrack a film based on a poem by a 19th century botanist, little did he know that soon it would become a one-off live extravaganza

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“Tony Iommi was calling me a lot. Sabbath are amazing at what they do, but it wasn’t something that I wanted to do’”: an epic interview with Whitesnake’s David Coverdale

From Deep Purple to Whitesnake, via his solo career, a union with Jimmy Page and a near miss with Black Sabbath, this is the life and times of David Coverdale

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"I will never speak to any of them again":Glenn Hughes slams Deep Purple for "hurtful" behaviour at Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony

"I was the only sober man there. I don't care about those guys" - Glenn Hughes

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“We could do anything we wanted with our hair and our clothes in front of tens of thousands of people. We were gods!”: how guitar legend Steve Vai survived Whitesnake

The story of guitar icon’s Steve Vai’s brief but eventful union with David Coverdale and Whitesnake for the Slip Of The Tongue album

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“I have to prove that I’m capable of doing it, and I wasn’t just being done a favour by Deep Purple”: the two forgotten David Coverdale solo albums that sowed the seeds for Whitesnake

David Coverdale’s late 70s solo albums, White Snake and Northwinds, are overlooked – but without them, Whitesnake wouldn’t exist

Guitar World

With Full For Your Lovin’ and Here I Go Again, Whitesnake wrote some of rock’s best-loved anthems – and founding members Bernie Marsden and Micky Moody were a classic guitar partnership

Learn the rhythm and lead style of Whitesnake’s Bernie Marsden and Micky Moody era

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“Once in a while, we would start playing a Beatles song, and John would go, ‘Cut that out!’” Session guitar legend Earl Slick on fast times with John Lennon and David Bowie – and saying no to Whitesnake

The venerable session ace has lived a life less ordinary and has the discography to show for it. Earl Slick tells us what it was like to share the stage and studio with music legends

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