# Starkers in Tokyo

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Starkers in Tokyo is a live acoustic album and video recording by English rock band Whitesnake, released only in Japan on 10 September 1997. It is performed in the style of the Unplugged series and simply features David Coverdale on vocals and Adrian Vandenberg on acoustic guitar.
The performance was recorded at the EMI studios in Japan for a small audience of fans in support of then most recent album Restless Heart. This recording was also released on VHS and Laserdisc in Japan only. The album was recorded on 5 July 1997 at night, and then mixed the following day at Toshiba EMI studios. This CD was released outside Japan almost a year later in June 1998.
The album includes an acoustic version of Whitesnake's biggest hit "Here I Go Again" among others.
The live album subsequently appeared on the second disc of Whitesnake's 2018 acoustic collection, Unzipped, while the video recording is remixed in "5.1 and stereo" and released on collection's DVD.

## Track listing

* "Sailing Ships" (David Coverdale, Adrian Vandenberg) – 4:37
* "Too Many Tears" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 4:13
* "The Deeper the Love" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 4:09
* "Love Ain't No Stranger" (Coverdale, Mel Galley) – 3:15
* "Can't Go On" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 3:50
* "Give Me All Your Love" (Coverdale, John Sykes) – 3:21
* "Don't Fade Away" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 4:26
* "Is This Love" (Coverdale, Sykes) – 3:09
* "Here I Go Again" (Coverdale, Bernie Marsden) – 4:46
* "Soldier of Fortune" (Coverdale, Ritchie Blackmore) – 4:22

## Track listing DVD version

* "Sailing Ships" (David Coverdale, Adrian Vandenberg) – 4:37
* "Too Many Tears" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 4:13
* "The Deeper the Love" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 4:09
* "Can't Go On" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 3:50
* "Is This Love" (Coverdale, Sykes) – 3:09
* "Give Me All Your Love]]" (Coverdale, John Sykes) – 3:21
* "Here I Go Again]]" (Coverdale, Bernie Marsden) – 4:46
* "Soldier of Fortune" (Coverdale, Ritchie Blackmore) – 4:22
* "Love Ain't No Stranger" (Coverdale, Mel Galley) – 3:15
* "Don't Fade Away" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 4:26

## Songs left off the album

* "Burning Heart" (Vandenberg)
* "Fool for Your Loving" (Coverdale, Micky Moody, Marsden)
* "Only My Soul" (Coverdale)
The songs "Only My Soul" and "Fool for Your Loving" appears on the 2018 acoustic compilation album, Unzipped, leaving out "Burning Heart" as the only track to be left off from the whole album.

## Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.
| Whitesnake David Coverdale - vocals Adrian Vandenberg - acoustic guitar Technical Masuzo "Masu" Iida — recording, mixing Kazuaki "Kazu" Fujita — engineering Katsumi "Katsu" Kawakita — assisted engineering, recording, mixing Design David Coverdale — cover concept Adrian Vandenberg — cover concept Shinsuke Suda — art direction & design Yuri Tamura — art direction & design Hiro Ito — photography Koichiro Hiki — photography Hiro Ito — cover photo Toshinao Nakamura — lighting | Management David Coverdale — producer Takahiro Sugiyama — production coordination Myles Keller — production coordination Michael McIntyre — production coordination Bjorn "Berserk" Thorsud — post-production assisting Takashi "Matsu" Matsumura — studio coordination Masako Kawahara — interpreting Yumi Kubota — hair, makeup |

## Charts

| Chart (1997) | Peak position |
| Japanese Albums (Oricon) | 16 |