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.