"Still of the Night" | ||||
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Single by Whitesnake | ||||
from the album Whitesnake | ||||
B-side | "Here I Go Again" (UK) "Don't Turn Away" (US) | |||
Released | 9 March 1987 (UK)[1] | |||
Recorded | 1986 | |||
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Length | 6:41 (album version) 3:58 (single version) | |||
Label | Geffen, EMI | |||
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Whitesnake singles chronology | ||||
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"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]
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"