Still of the Night ( song ) - wikipedia Still of the Night ( song ) For the song of the same name by Quiet Riot, see QR III. `` Still of the Night '' Single by Whitesnake from the album Whitesnake B - side `` Here I Go Again '' and `` You 're Gonna Break My Heart Again '' Released 21 March 1987 ( UK ) 9 March 1987 ( US ) Format Vinyl LP cassette CD Recorded 1986 Genre Heavy metal, hard rock, blues rock, glam metal Length 6 : 41 ( album version ) 3 : 58 ( single version ) Label Geffen, EMI Songwriter ( s ) David Coverdale John Sykes Producer ( s ) Mike Stone Keith Olsen Whitesnake singles chronology `` Slow an ' Easy '' ( 1984 ) `` Still of the Night '' ( 1987 ) `` Crying in the Rain ' 87 '' ( 1987 ) `` Slow an ' Easy '' ( 1984 ) `` Still of the Night '' ( 1987 ) `` Crying in the Rain ' 87 '' ( 1987 ) Audio sample file help `` 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., # 18 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks and # 79 on the Billboard Hot 100 when it was released on 9 March 1987. In 2009, the track was named the 27th best hard rock song of all time by VH1. The song was written by lead singer David Coverdale and guitarist John Sykes, and proved to be one of the band 's most popular songs. It combines the blues origins of the band with the more distorted, harder sound driving the song, making for a powerful hard rock song. Both the current Whitesnake lineup and John Sykes play the song as their live encore. Contents 1 Background 2 Music video 3 In popular culture 4 Track listing 5 Personnel 6 References Background In 2009, in an interview with Metal Hammer, Coverdale commented on the origins of the song : `` When my mother died I was going through the stuff at her house and found some early demo cassettes. One of them was a song that Ritchie Blackmore and I had been working on which was the basic premise of what would become `` Still of the Night ''. It was totally unrecognizable, so Ritchie does n't have anything to worry about... neither do I ! Ha ha ha ! I took it as far as I could then I gave it to Sykesy when we were in the south of France, and he put the big guitar hero stuff on there. John hated blues so I had to work within those parameters. I manipulated to be electric blues, but how he performed it was fabulous for his time and relatively unique because of the songs. There were a lot of people doing that widdly stuff but they did n't have the quality of those songs. '' Music video The video for the song, starring Coverdale 's future wife Tawny Kitaen, was MTV 's most requested in its first week of release. Kitaen 's role had been promised to the pre-fame Claudia Schiffer. In popular culture Whitesnake withheld licensing of `` Still of the Night '' for use in the video game Rock Revolution ; a cover version of the song was subsequently featured in the game. The studio version later appeared as Rock Band DLC in 2012. Moreover, the song is played in 2011 movie Bad Teacher. The Finnish symphonic metal singer Tarja Turunen covered the song for her album What Lies Beneath. The American band, Halestorm, also covered the song for the album Reanimate 3.0 ; the song peaked at # 20 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart in 2017. Static - X covered the song as a bonus track for their album Cult of Static. Track listing `` Still of the Night '' -- 6 : 38 `` Here I Go Again '' -- 4 : 33 `` You 're Gonna Break My Heart Again '' -- 4 : 11 Personnel David Coverdale -- vocals John Sykes -- guitar, bowed guitar Neil Murray -- bass guitar Aynsley Dunbar -- drums Don Airey -- keyboards References Jump up ^ `` Whitesnake chart stats ''. Archived from the original on 2012 - 05 - 25. Jump up ^ `` Allmusic ( Whitesnake charts and awards ) Billboard singles ''. Jump up ^ `` spreadit.org music ''. Archived from the original on 4 January 2009. Retrieved 7 February 2009. Jump up ^ Hotten, Jon ( June 2001 ). `` Year of the snake ''. Classic Rock # 28. p. 28. Jump up ^ `` Halestorm Mainstream Rock chart peaks ''. Billboard magazine. Retrieved November 11, 2017. Whitesnake David Coverdale Tommy Aldridge Reb Beach Joel Hoekstra Michael Devin Michele Luppi Studio albums Trouble Lovehunter Ready an ' Willing Come an ' Get It Saints & Sinners Slide It In Whitesnake Slip of the Tongue Restless Heart Good to Be Bad Forevermore The Purple Album Flesh & Blood Live albums Live... in the Heart of the City Starkers in Tokyo Live... In the Still of the Night Live... in the Shadow of the Blues Live at Donington 1990 Made in Japan Compilations Greatest Hits The Best of Whitesnake The Silver Anniversary Collection Best of Whitesnake The Early Years The Definitive Collection Boxsets 30th Anniversary Collection Extended plays Snakebite 1987 Versions Singles `` Day Tripper '' `` Long Way from Home '' `` Fool for Your Loving '' `` Ready an ' Willing '' `` Ai n't No Love in the Heart of the City '' `` Do n't Break My Heart Again '' `` Here I Go Again '' `` Guilty of Love '' `` Love Ai n't No Stranger '' `` Slow an ' Easy '' `` Still of the Night '' `` Crying in the Rain ' 87 '' `` Here I Go Again ' 87 '' `` Is This Love '' `` Give Me All Your Love '' `` Fool For Your Loving ' 89 '' `` The Deeper the Love '' `` Now You 're Gone '' `` Soldier of Fortune '' Videos albums Starkers in Tokyo Live... in the Still of the Night Live at Donington 1990 Made in Japan David Coverdale solo albums White Snake Northwinds Into the Light Former members Guitarists Micky Moody Bernie Marsden Mel Galley John Sykes Vivian Campbell Adrian Vandenberg Steve Vai Warren DeMartini Doug Aldrich Bassists Neil Murray Colin Hodgkinson Rudy Sarzo Guy Pratt Tony Franklin Marco Mendoza Uriah Duffy Keyboardists Peter Solley Jon Lord Paul Mirkovich Brett Tuggle Timothy Drury Drummers Dave Dowle Ian Paice Cozy Powell Aynsley Dunbar Denny Carmassi Chris Frazier Brian Tichy Related articles Band members Discography Coverdale Page Deep Purple Blue Murder Paice Ashton Lord Manic Eden The Snakes The Company of Snakes Martin Birch Devil City Angels Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Still_of_the_Night_(song)&oldid=851881517 '' Categories : 1987 singles 1987 songs EMI Records singles Geffen Records singles Song recordings produced by Keith Olsen Song recordings produced by Mike `` Clay '' Stone Songs written by David Coverdale Songs written by John Sykes Whitesnake songs Hidden categories : Use dmy dates from February 2014 Use British English from February 2014 Articles with hAudio microformats All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from November 2014 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Español Français Italiano Suomi Edit links This page was last edited on 25 July 2018, at 05 : 30 ( UTC ). 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Question: who played guitar on still of the night
Answer: John Sykes