WHITESNAKE’s DAVID COVERDALE Changing Mind About Retirement – “It Was Kind Of A Foolish Thing To Say”

Whitenake frontman was interviewed by Argentina’s Vorterix radio and refuted the idea of retiring in 2017 on the 30^th anniversary of the release of Whitesnake’s iconic 1987 album.

When asked if there was truth about retiring, Coverdale said, “Well, no. I made the mistake of saying to a friend of mine, a journalist, when I was mixing The Purple Album, my tribute to Ritchie (Blackmore) and Jon (Lord) and Ian (Paice) and Glenn (Hughes). I thought, ‘Wow! This could be an interesting last project for me to finish as I started, ’cause the first time anybody ever heard of me was the Burn album. So it was kind of a foolish thing of me to say. Then we went on an incredibly successful fucking tour, which we’re finishing up editing, a DVD and a CD for spring next year of The Purple Tour experience. But, yeah, so I turned around to a friend of mine and said, ‘You know, this would be a great way for me to stop.’ I was very pleased with the album. And my co-producer, Michael, looked at me like I was fucking crazy. And then, of course, we had an amazingly successful tour last year. And then we started getting invited to come out this year. I think it was Reb Beach who said, ‘Why don’t we do a ‘greatest-hits’ tour? We’ve never done that.’ Which is why we’re doing songs like ‘Judgement Day’, ‘Slow An’ Easy’, ‘Crying In The Rain’ — stuff we haven’t done for many years.”

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