WHITESNAKE's David Coverdale - 'Jailhouse Rock' Influenced 'Still Of The Night'
March 17, 2011, 13 years ago
Long-time journalist Bryan Reesman's Attention Deficit Delirium talks to David Coverdale, founder and frontman of WHITESNAKE about his five influential songs from his formative years rocking his iPod. An excerpt follows:
ELVIS PRESLEY's Jailhouse Rock - “I’m an only child. My mother was a great singer, and I got the artsy-fartsy stuff from my dad, even though he was unfortunately an unskilled worker. But we never had a record player in the house or anything. It was really bizarre. But I spent a great deal of my formative years with my maternal grandmother, who had two teenage children, Auntie Phil and Uncle Eddie, and they had a huge, old gramophone. I remember the Jailhouse Rock EP. It’s interesting because you don’t know what it is, but it gets you fluffed up. And ‘Jailhouse Rock,’ contrary to what a lot of people imagine, was the inspiration for the verses of ‘Still Of The Night’.”
THE WHO's 'My Generation' - “It is the absolute perfect rock song for me - musically, instrumentally, vocally, lyrically.”
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