Whitesnake

In 2003 Whitesnake regrouped for a 25-year celebration tour. In 2000 he played to his largest audience as a featured performer at the Closing Ceremonies of the 2000 Summer Olympics. Since then Whitesnake has only released an unplugged Japan show Starkers In Tokyo. He ceased recording new music and concentrated on a second career as a radio disc jockey until the film Strictly Ballroom was released in 1992. Featuring a new version of Love Is In The Air the film was a success throughout the world, and Young's single once again peaked at number 2 on the Australian charts, and was a minor hit in the UK. In that year, an album called Restless Heart was released, though not in the United States. He turned to a more contemporary rock style in the 1980s and had his final Top 10 hit in Australia in 1983 with the single Soldier of Fortune. 1990 saw a Greatest Hits album, but other than that the band was dormant until 1997. Subsequent singles such as The Day That My Heart Caught Fire and Heaven Sent continued the disco style but did not find an audience.

The band was reformed again for Slip of the Tongue (1989), which featured Steve Vai; the record did not sell well in spite of that. Its successor, Love Is In The Air, became his only worldwide hit, peaking at #2 on the Australian charts, #7 in the US, and #5 in the UK. The following album, Whitesnake 1987, was another huge success, driven by the power ballad "Is This Love" and the hit single, "Here I Go Again". In 1978 he released a disco song titled Standing In The Rain which became a major hit throughout Europe. After a major personnel shift, Whitesnake released 1984's Slide It In, a platinum album. Yesterday's Hero also became a minor hit in the US. During the first years, their music was primarily blues-oriented hard rock. Members of the band include Jon Lord and Ian Paice of Deep Purple as well as Bernie Marsden and Micky Moody. In addition to his Australian success, he achieved hit singles in Europe, Asia and South Africa.

The band was formed by David Coverdale (of Deep Purple) and was originally popular only in Europe and Japan. Louis, The Love Game, Here We Go, Keep On Smiling, Where The Action Is, I Hate The Music and I Wanna Do It With You. Whitesnake was a British heavy metal band, active primarily in the 1980s. A string of hits followed in Australia including Pasadena (co-written by Young, Vanda and British actor David Hemming), Yesterday's Hero, St. Into The Light (2001) (Coverdale Solo). When songwriters and record producers Harry Vanda and George Young returned to Australia, they took over as Young's producers and began writing and producing songs for him. Starkers In Tokyo (1997). After being signed to a contract with Albert Productions, (the company that had produced Australia's top Sixties group The Easybeats) he recorded a couple of unsuccessful singles produced by visiting producer-manager Simon Napier-Bell.