“Still of the Night” by Whitesnake

"Still of the Night" led the charge for Whitesnake's 1987 self-titled album, their seventh, arriving as its first single in March of that year, and it's David Coverdale's band at its most gloriously overblown: huge riffs, a structure that surges and drops away and surges again, pure hair metal theater. Coverdale wrote it with John Sykes, who plays guitar and sings backup, with Neil Murray on bass, Aynsley Dunbar on drums, Don Airey and Bill Cuomo on keyboards, and Vivian Campbell dropping in for a guest solo. Keith Olsen and Mike Stone produced.

It became one of the band's signature songs. Martin Popoff ranked it 58th on his 2003 list of the top heavy metal songs, Guitar World called it the best song Led Zeppelin never wrote, and VH1 put it 27th among the greatest hard rock songs in 2009.

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