Still of the Night (song)

This article is about the song by Whitesnake. For other uses, see Still of the Night.

"Still of the Night"
Single by Whitesnake
from the album Whitesnake
B-side"Here I Go Again" (UK)
"Don't Turn Away" (US)
Released9 March 1987 (UK)[1]
Recorded1986
Genre
Length6:41 (album version)
3:58 (single version)
LabelGeffen, EMI
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Whitesnake singles chronology
"Slow an' Easy"
(1984) 		"Still of the Night"
(1987) 		"Here I Go Again 87"
(1987)
Music video
"Still of the Night" on YouTube

"Still of the Night" is a song by the English band Whitesnake. It was released as the first single from their self-titled 1987 album. It reached #16 in the U.K.,[5] #18 on the U.S. Mainstream rock Tracks and #79 on the Billboard Hot 100.

In 2003, Martin Popoff listed it as 58th in The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time.[6] In 2008, Guitar World considered it as "the best song that Led Zeppelin never wrote".[7] In 2009, the track was named the 27th best hard rock song of all time by VH1.[8]

  1. ^ "Still of the Night Advert". Kerrang!. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  2. ^ "A&R Legend John Kalodner Talks Aerosmith and Why Rock Won't Reach the Masses Again". LA Weekly. 13 June 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2021. commemorating Whitesnake's self-titled 1987 album, which featured the band's epic pop-metal hits "Here I Go Again" and "Still of the Night"
  3. ^ "36 Essential '80s Pop Metal Tracks". Stereogum. 5 April 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  4. ^ Martin Popoff (15 August 2014). The Big Book of Hair Metal. Voyageur Press. p. 131.
  5. ^ "Whitesnake The Official Charts Company".
  6. ^ Popoff, Martin (2003). The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time. Toronto: ECW Press. ISBN 9781550225303.
  7. ^ "Guitar World - Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of the Eighties". Guitar World. 12 December 2008. Archived from the original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  8. ^ "spreadit.org music". Archived from the original on 4 January 2009. Retrieved 7 February 2009.