Saints & Sinners (Whitesnake album)

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Saints & Sinners
Whitesnake-saints.jpg
Studio album by
Whitesnake
Released15 November 1982 [1]
StudioRock City, Shepperton, Clearwell Castle, Gloucestershire with The Truck Mobile, Britannia Row and Battery Studios, London
Genre
Length39:16
Label Liberty/EMI
Producer Martin Birch
Whitesnake chronology
Come an' Get It
(1981)		Saints & Sinners
(1982)		 Slide It In
(1984)
Singles from Saints & Sinners
  1. "Here I Go Again" / "Bloody Luxury"
    Released: October 1982
  2. "Victim of Love"
    Released: 28 February 1983 (Germany) [2]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Classic Rock Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 7/10 [5]
MusicHound Rock Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]

Saints & Sinners is the fifth studio album by English hard rock band Whitesnake, released in November 1982. It peaked at number 9 on the UK Albums Chart. [7]

Contents

Two of the tracks, "Crying in the Rain" and "Here I Go Again", were later re-recorded for their self-titled 1987 album.

Production and recording

The recording process began in 1981, just after the end of the Come an' Get It tour. However, tension within the band was beginning to appear. Micky Moody stated in a 1997 interview that:

By '81 people were becoming tired. We had too many late nights, too much partying. We weren't making nowhere near the kind of money we should have been making. Whitesnake always seemed to be in debt, and I thought "what is this?, we're playing in some of the biggest places and we're still being told we're in debt, where is all the money going?". We hadn't got much money out of it and to be told you're 200,000 pounds in debt, when you just had six golden albums. It wasn't just me, cause everybody was getting tired, pissed off and losing their sense of identity. It was over by then, we couldn't get any further. It's difficult for a band to go more than three or four years without getting tired of each other and losing ideas. Nothing lasts forever. Everybody wanted to do something different after a few years, a solo album or write with someone else. [8]

Moody quit the band in December 1981, and soon afterwards David Coverdale called a meeting with all Whitesnake members and put the band on hold. [9] Coverdale was also worried about the lack of financial reward the band were having, and decided to put the band on hold to dissociate Whitesnake from their manager John Coletta [10] (who had also been Deep Purple's manager from 1968 to 1976). After this parting of ways, Coverdale temporarily took over Whitesnake's business side.[ citation needed ]

During 1982, the news began to filter through the music newspapers and magazines: guitarist Bernie Marsden also quit Whitesnake, as well as bassist Neil Murray and drummer Ian Paice. [11] Only Jon Lord stuck with David Coverdale. However, Bernie Marsden states in his autobiography that the rest of the band were called to a meeting to be told that they were "no longer a part of Whitesnake".

In August 1982 David Coverdale called Micky Moody and asked him to return to the band. According to Moody, "towards the end of 82, David rang me up and said 'we wanna finish the Saints & Sinners album and we need to do some backing vocals, etc." [8] There were also three new members in the band, namely former Trapeze guitarist Mel Galley, former Rainbow drummer Cozy Powell and Colin Hodgkinson on bass guitar.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Young Blood" David Coverdale, Bernie Marsden 3:30
2."Rough an' Ready"Coverdale, Micky Moody 2:52
3."Bloody Luxury"Coverdale3:23
4."Victim of Love"Coverdale3:33
5."Crying in the Rain"Coverdale6:00
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."Here I Go Again"Coverdale, Marsden5:08
7."Love an' Affection"Coverdale, Moody3:09
8."Rock an' Roll Angels"Coverdale, Moody4:07
9."Dancing Girls"Coverdale3:10
10."Saints an' Sinners"Coverdale, Moody, Marsden, Neil Murray, Jon Lord, Ian Paice 4:25
2007 remastered bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."Young Blood" (monitor mix/early vocals)Coverdale, Marsden3:30
12."Saints an' Sinners" (monitor mix/early vocals)Coverdale, Moody, Marsden, Murray, Lord, Paice4:24
13."Soul Survivor" (unfinished, unreleased song)Coverdale, Moody, Marsden3:08

Personnel

Whitesnake

Additional musicians

Production

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [27] Silver60,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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