The offer came over Christmas 1978, when Blackmore visited Gillan with an invitation to join Rainbow, around the time of ...

former Deep Purple vocalist David Coverdale, asked him to replace founding guitarist Micky Moody while the British band was on tour behind that year’s “Slide It In.” That album, Whitesnake ...

John Sykes, a hard-rock guitarist and singer who played with Thin Lizzy before joining Whitesnake for its smash 1987 album and later forming Blue Murder, has died of cancer. He was 65. The news was ...

The following year, Sykes was approached to join former Deep Purple singer David ... VIDEO: Coverdale and Sykes began writing tracks for what would become Whitesnake’s seventh album.

David Coverdale was burning up the charts in Deep Purple when most of the singers ... The band's self-titled 1987 album was a critical and commercial smash, making great use of Coverdale's ...

Ex- Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake guitarist John Sykes has died at the age of 65. According to a post on Sykes’ official social media pages, the veteran U.K. musician “passed away after a hard fought ...

Some Black Sabbath albums are epoch-defining classics, some are average, some downright embarrassing, and we've ranked them – ...

The truth of the matter is no matter how incredible of an album that we made ... was hailed by fellow axe-men David Coverdale, Slash, Mike Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple and Carmine Appice of Blue ...