Lovehunter

Lovehunter
Cover art by Chris Achilleos
Studio album by
Whitesnake
Released21 September 1979[1]
RecordedMay 1979
StudioRolling Stones Mobile, Clearwell Castle, Gloucestershire
Genre
Length41:15
LabelUnited Artists
Polydor (Japan)
ProducerMartin Birch
Whitesnake chronology
Trouble
(1978) 		Lovehunter
(1979) 		Ready an' Willing
(1980)
Singles from Lovehunter
  1. "Long Way from Home"
    Released: 26 October 1979[2]

Lovehunter is the second studio album by British band Whitesnake, released in 21 September 1979.[3] It was the bands first UK Top 30 album,[4] charting at No. 29 on the UK Albums Chart.[5] "Long Way from Home", the leading track on the album reached No. 55 on the UK charts,[5] while "Walking in the Shadow of the Blues" was one of the most popular and praised Whitesnake's songs in the beginning.[4][6] The album became controversial because of its cover art.[4]

  1. ^ "Whitesnake - Promo ad circa 1979". Twitter/X. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
  2. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 52.
  3. ^ "Whitesnake - Promo ad circa 1979". Twitter/X. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
  4. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference ClassicR was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ a b "Whitesnake - Official Charts". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  6. ^ Barton, Geoff (1 October 2019). "Whitesnake: "The Coverdale I recall was a vain, preposterous oaf"". Louder. Retrieved 10 February 2021.