Saints & Sinners
Studio album by
Whitesnake
Released15 November 1982[1]
StudioRock City, Shepperton, Clearwell Castle, Gloucestershire with The Truck Mobile, Britannia Row and Battery Studios, London
Genre
Length39:16
LabelGeffen/Warner Bros. (North America)
Polydor (Japan)
Liberty (Rest of the world)
ProducerMartin Birch
Whitesnake chronology
Come an' Get It
(1981)		 Saints & Sinners
(1982)		 Slide It In
(1984)
Singles from Saints & Sinners
  1. "Here I Go Again" / "Bloody Luxury"
    Released: October 1982
  2. "Victim of Love"
    Released: 28 February 1983 (Germany)[2]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Classic Rock[4]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal7/10[5]
MusicHound Rock[6]

Saints & Sinners is the fifth studio album by English hard rock band Whitesnake, released in November 1982. It peaked at number 9 on the UK Albums Chart.[7]

Two of the tracks, "Crying in the Rain" and "Here I Go Again", were later re-recorded for their self-titled 1987 album.

Production and recording

The recording process began in 1981, just after the end of the Come an' Get It tour. However, tension within the band was beginning to appear. Micky Moody stated in a 1997 interview that:

By '81 people were becoming tired. We had too many late nights, too much partying. We weren't making nowhere near the kind of money we should have been making. Whitesnake always seemed to be in debt, and I thought "what is this?, we're playing in some of the biggest places and we're still being told we're in debt, where is all the money going?". We hadn't got much money out of it and to be told you're 200,000 pounds in debt, when you just had six golden albums. It wasn't just me, cause everybody was getting tired, pissed off and losing their sense of identity. It was over by then, we couldn't get any further. It's difficult for a band to go more than three or four years without getting tired of each other and losing ideas. Nothing lasts forever. Everybody wanted to do something different after a few years, a solo album or write with someone else.[8]

Moody quit the band in December 1981, and soon afterwards David Coverdale called a meeting with all Whitesnake members and put the band on hold.[9] Coverdale was also worried about the lack of financial reward the band were having, and decided to put the band on hold to dissociate Whitesnake from their manager John Coletta[10] (who had also been Deep Purple's manager from 1968 to 1976). After this parting of ways, Coverdale temporarily took over Whitesnake's business side.

During 1982, the news began to filter through the music newspapers and magazines: guitarist Bernie Marsden also quit Whitesnake, as well as bassist Neil Murray and drummer Ian Paice.[11] Only Jon Lord stuck with David Coverdale. However, Bernie Marsden states in his autobiography that the rest of the band were called to a meeting to be told that they were "no longer a part of Whitesnake".

In August 1982 David Coverdale called Micky Moody and asked him to return to the band. According to Moody, "towards the end of 82, David rang me up and said 'we wanna finish the Saints & Sinners album and we need to do some backing vocals, etc."[8] There were also three new members in the band, namely former Trapeze guitarist Mel Galley, former Rainbow drummer Cozy Powell and Colin Hodgkinson on bass guitar.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Young Blood"David Coverdale, Bernie Marsden3:30
2."Rough an' Ready"Coverdale, Micky Moody2:52
3."Bloody Luxury"Coverdale3:23
4."Victim of Love"Coverdale3:33
5."Crying in the Rain"Coverdale6:00
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."Here I Go Again"Coverdale, Marsden5:08
7."Love an' Affection"Coverdale, Moody3:09
8."Rock an' Roll Angels"Coverdale, Moody4:07
9."Dancing Girls"Coverdale3:10
10."Saints an' Sinners"Coverdale, Moody, Marsden, Neil Murray, Jon Lord, Ian Paice4:25
2007 remastered bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."Young Blood" (monitor mix/early vocals)Coverdale, Marsden3:30
12."Saints an' Sinners" (monitor mix/early vocals)Coverdale, Moody, Marsden, Murray, Lord, Paice4:24
13."Soul Survivor" (unfinished, unreleased song)Coverdale, Moody, Marsden3:08

Personnel

Whitesnake

Additional musicians

Production

  • Martin Birch - producer, engineer, mixing at Battery Studios, September/October 1982
  • Guy Bidmead - engineer
  • Bryan New - assistant engineer
  • Steve Angel – mastering[12]
  • Peter Mew - remastering at Abbey Road Studios, London, 2007

Charts

Certifications

Region CertificationCertified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[27] Silver 60,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ↑ "BPI certifications for Whitesnake".
  2. ↑ "Whitesnake singles".
  3. ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Whitesnake - Saints & Sinners review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  4. ↑ "Whitesnake: Saints & Sinners - Album Of The Week Club review". Classic Rock. 7 May 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2020 – via Loudersound.
  5. ↑ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 411. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
  6. ↑ Graff, Gary, ed. (1996), MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide, Visible Ink Press, p. 728, ISBN 9780787610371
  7. ↑ "Whitesnake - Official Charts". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  8. 1 2 Myhre, Stig (1997). "Whitesnake: The Last Hurrah". Hard Roxx (34). Retrieved 5 May 2015.
  9. ↑ Deep Purple Appreciation Society Magazine, Issue 25', The Deep Purple Appreciation Society, July 1982
  10. ↑ Mel Galley feature on David Coverdale & Whitesnake Web Site', David Coverdale & Whitesnake Web Site, 2008
  11. ↑ Deep Purple Appreciation Society Magazine, Issue 26', The Deep Purple Appreciation Society, November 1982
  12. ↑ "Saints & Sinners - Whitesnake | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.
  13. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  14. ↑ "Austriancharts.at – Whitesnake – Saints & Sinners" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  15. ↑ Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p. 166. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5.
  16. ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – Whitesnake – Saints & Sinners" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  17. 1 2 Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005 (in Japanese). Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4-87131-077-9.
  18. ↑ "Charts.nz – Whitesnake – Saints & Sinners". Hung Medien. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  19. ↑ Salaverri, Fernando (2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (in Spanish) (1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.
  20. ↑ "Swedishcharts.com – Whitesnake – Saints & Sinners". Hung Medien. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  21. ↑ "Whitesnake | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  22. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 19. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  23. ↑ "Whitesnake – Here I Go Again" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  24. ↑ "Whitesnake – Here I Go Again". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  25. ↑ "Whitesnake – Here I Go Again". VG-lista. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  26. ↑ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  27. ↑ "British album certifications – Whitesnake – Saints & Sinners". British Phonographic Industry.
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