Bernie Marsden, blues rock guitarist primarily known for co-writing and playing on some of Whitesnake's biggest hits, has died at the age of 72.
Before joining Whitesnake, Marsden played in several bands such as UFO, Cozy Powell's Hammer, Babe Ruth and a few others before joining Deep Purple members Jon Lord and Ian Paice's new band with singer Tony Ashton called Paice Ashton Lord. Eventually, Lord and Paice joined Marsden in Whitesnake.
Marsden was in Whitesnake from its formation in 1978 until 1982, thus he played on their first five albums — 1978's Trouble, 1979's Lovehunter, 1980's Ready an' Willing, 1981's Come an' Get It and 1982's Saints & Sinners. He co-wrote some of the group's biggest songs with frontman David Coverdale, including "Fool for Your Loving," "Here I Go Again," "Walking in the Shadow of the Blues" and many others.
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Just two years ago, Tawny Kitaen, Whitesnake’s ‘Here I Go Again’ Video Star, died at 59 in 2021. Video vixen appeared in a number of hard rock videos in the Eighties, along with roles in the 1984 Tom Hanks comedy Bachelor Party and Seinfeld
Tawny Kitaen, the model and actress who appeared in a string of Whitesnake music videos — including 1987’s iconic “Here I Go Again,” in which she danced on the hood of a Jaguar — has died at 59. Kitaen, born Julie E. Kitaen in San Diego, died in her Newport Beach, California, home, on Friday. The Orange County Coroner’s Office confirmed her death to Variety. No cause of death was provided.
Kitaen costarred in the 1984 Tom Hanks comedy Bachelor Party and scored a number of TV roles in series like Married… With Children and Seinfeld (she’s Jerry’s vapid girlfriend in “The Nose Job” episode), but it was her sultry cameos in the heyday of Eighties music videos that left an indelible image on a generation of hard rock fans.
“Just woke up to some very sad, unexpected news,” Coverdale tweeted on Saturday. “Waiting on confirmation…but, if it is true, my sincere condolences to her children, her family, friends & fans.”
Kitaen, whose credits include 'The Perils of Gwendoline' and "After Midnight," was a precocious child who got the showbiz bug at 14, when she saw Peter Frampton at Balboa Stadium in San Diego. She got a backstage pass and saw the All-Access VIP treatment Peter's GF, Penny, received, and that was it. She was hooked.