Whitesnake are a hard rock band formed during 1978, in Middlesbrough, Cleveland, north-east England, UK, by David Coverdale, following his departure from the blues rock group Deep Purple, to which Whitesnake's early material has been compared, before they began moving toward a better selling rock style. By the turn of the decade, the band had become more successful, releasing a string of UK top 10 albums, Ready an' Willing (1980), Come an' Get It...