“The Deeper the Love” by Whitesnake

David Coverdale had been carrying the chorus of "The Deeper the Love" around for years before Adrian Vandenberg supplied the chords for the verses, and he finally finished it in Tahiti at dawn, as the sun came up over the Pacific. It turned up on Whitesnake's 1989 album Slip of the Tongue as a full-throated power ballad that sounds made for arenas.

Steve Vai plays guitar, Rudy Sarzo bass and Tommy Aldridge drums, with Claude Gaudette and David Rosenthal on keyboards and Tommy Funderburk backing Coverdale's lead vocal; Mike Clink and Keith Olsen produced and mixed. Out as the second single early in 1990, it went top 40 in the UK, the US, Canada and Ireland and peaked at number 4 on America's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. After that year's tour it has only been played acoustically, starting with Starkers in Tokyo in 1998.

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