Lovehunter

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Lovehunter
Studio album by Whitesnake
Released	October 1979
Recorded	1979
Genre	Hard Rock
Length	41:25
Label	United Artists
Producer(s)	Martin Birch
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Whitesnake chronology
Trouble (1978)	Lovehunter (1979)	Ready an' Willing (1980)

Lovehunter is the third album by the British band Whitesnake, released in 1979.

[edit] Cover art

Lovehunter's lurid cover art featuring a naked white female straddling a large snake was created by famed fantasy artist Chris Achilleos. Reportedly the controversial cover proved troublesome for Achilleos who subsequently refused to do album covers for many years.[1] Achilleos' original Lovehunter artwork was stolen in the 1980s and has yet to be recovered.[2]

A similar idea had been used three years earlier for the cover of Jon Lord's Sarabande album, released in 1976. The cover shows the drawing of an ourobouros (snake biting its own tail), on which three naked women ride. The woman at 120º (clockwise) from the top stands in a position evocative of the woman on the Lovehunter cover. The original Jon Lord sleeve was designed by Kosh, and the illustration on it, made by Mike Bryan. Jon Lord was in Whitesnake at the time of Lovehunter.

The album cover was later used as inspiration for the fictional group Spinal Tap's album Smell the Glove.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Long Way From Home" (David Coverdale) – 4:56
2. "Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues" (Bernie Marsden, Coverdale) – 4:24
3. "Help Me Thro' The Day" (Leon Russell) – 4:39
4. "Medicine Man" (Coverdale) – 3:59
5. "You 'N' Me" (Marsden, Coverdale) – 3:30
6. "Mean Business" (Marsden, Coverdale, Jon Lord, Micky Moody) – 3:48
7. "Love Hunter" (Marsden, Coverdale, Moody) – 5:39
8. "Outlaw" (Marsden, Coverdale, Lord) – 4:03
9. "Rock 'N' Roll Women" (Coverdale, Moody) – 4:45
10. "We Wish You Well" (Coverdale) – 1:34

Lovehunter was remastered and reissued in 2006 with several bonus tracks:

11. #"Belgian Tom's Hatrick" (Moody) – 3:40
12. #"Love To Keep You Warm" (Coverdale) – 3:30
13. #"Ain't No Love In The Heart of The City" (Michael Price, Dan Walsh) – 4:54
14. #"Trouble" (Coverdale, Marsden) – 4:30

• Tracks 11–14 are from Andy Peebles BBC Radio 1 Sessions recorded March 29th 1979.

[edit] Credits

• David Coverdale – vocals
• Micky Moody – guitars
• Bernie Marsden – guitars
• Jon Lord – keyboards
• Neil Murray – bass
• Dave Dowle – drums
• Martin Birch (producer and engineer)
• Chris Achilleos (LP Artwork)

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Members
David Coverdale - Doug Aldrich - Reb Beach - Uriah Duffy - Tommy Aldridge - Timothy Drury
Former members: Jon Lord - Dave Dowle - Ian Paice - Cozy Powell - Denny Carmassi - Aynsley Dunbar - Neil Murray - Rudy Sarzo
Bernie Marsden - Mel Galley - Micky Moody - John Sykes - Adrian Vandenberg - Vivian Campbell - Steve Vai - Warren DeMartini - Marco Mendoza
Discography
Studio albums: Snakebite - Trouble - Lovehunter - Ready an' Willing - Come an' Get It - Saints & Sinners - Slide It In - Whitesnake - Slip of the Tongue - Restless Heart -
Live albums: Live at Hammersmith - Live...In the Heart of the City - Starkers in Tokyo - Live: In The Shadow Of The Blues