Still of the Night (song)

"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.