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 Whitesnake : An Illustrated Biography
Omnibus : ISBN 0711915504 : 1989
230X290mm softback 96 pages
Tom Hibbert's cut and paste effort was followed by this more serious;
work by Simon Robinson, so over to him:
"An attempt by myself to do for Whitesnake a similar job to the;
publisher's Deep Purple tome. They accepted the idea, as the group;
had just broken through chart wise in a bigger way than ever before,;
and paid me a modest advance to get this off the ground. I spoke to;
several people involved in the story, though not the man himself, who;
didn't want to be involved. It takes the Whitesnake saga from DC's;
early days through to the amazing 1987 album, and there are loads of;
rare pictures in black and white (they wouldn't run to colour). It;
includes a detailed discography appendix.
There was a full gig list;
too (put together with the help of Neil Murray who was very hands on);
but this was hacked out by whoever did the design work.
The book was launched but mysteriously there was no advertising or;
press on it, and it later turned out that the man himself or his;
manager (who had ironically helped out a lot!) exerted pressure. They;
couldn't get it stopped (there was certainly nothing controversial in
it) but after the first print run it suddenly went out of print and;
all enquiries were stone walled. I never got a sales statement or;
royalty payment either! As we own the text, I have been talking recently to an author about;
updating the book - esp. as more info has now come to light on the;
early days etc. For now due to the limited run this is quite a rare book. "
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