On October 10, 1987, the song “Here I Go Again” by English hard-rock group Whitesnake tops the Billboard pop singles chart in the United States. Today, what most people remember about the song is its saucy video: The actress Tawny Kitaen spends a great deal of it in a white negligee, writhing and cartwheeling across the hoods of two Jaguars parked next to one another. It is one of the most iconic music videos of the 1980s, and it features two of the most famous cars in pop-culture history.
Whitesnake first released “Here I Go Again” in 1982, on the album “Saints and Sinners.” That early version didn’t crack the charts–so, five years later, the band re-recorded the song and included the new, more amped-up version on their album “Whitesnake.” While they were working on the record, the band’s lead singer David Coverdale started dating a young woman named Tawny Kitaen, who had recently starred opposite Tom Hanks in the movie “BachelorParty.”
When director Marty Callner met Kitaen, he was smitten too–and he cast her immediately in the video for “Here I Go Again.” “I knew I wanted to have a sexy woman in it,” Callner told a reporter. “Sex is a part of rock ‘n’ roll and the song was about sex.”
The video was mostly unchoreographed: Coverdale and Callner simply parked their Jaguars side by side in the middle of the set, blasted the song and ran the cameras as Kitaen improvised. After “Here I Go Again” became such a massive hit, however, directors and record companies deduced that fast cars and scantily clad women were a winning combination, and they scrambled to include them in their videos whenever they could.
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Let’ not forget this one…..
https://youtu.be/ujnH4yNqL8E
Hot psycho chick that’s for sure.
From Wikipedia (no, not a great source, but an easy one to find)
Kitaen dated Ratt guitarist Robbin Crosby during and after high school. She followed the band to Los Angeles in the late 1970s to pursue a career of her own. Kitaen married Whitesnake singer David Coverdale in 1989. Coverdale and Kitaen divorced in 1991. Kitaen had an affair with O.J. Simpson.[7]
Kitaen was married to baseball player Chuck Finley from 1997 to 2002. In 2002, she was charged with domestic violence for an incident involving Finley, whom she had kicked in the face repeatedly with high-heeled shoes.[8] Three days later, Finley filed for divorce.[8] After a plea bargain, Kitaen agreed to “enter a spousal battery counseling program and avoid contact with Finley.”[8] The couple had been married for five years and had two daughters together.[9] (My addition – he also released copies of her prescriptions for the previous year and they ran into multiple pages – all for painkillers and more).
In November 2006, prosecutors charged Kitaen with possessing 15 grams of cocaine in her San Juan Capistrano home in Orange County. The authorities said her two children were home at the time and Kitaen had given deputies permission for the search.[10] In December 2006, she entered a six-month rehabilitation program in exchange for the dismissal of a felony drug possession charge.[11][12][13]
On September 26, 2009, Kitaen was arrested for driving under the influence in Newport Beach, California.[14] The following July, she pleaded no contest to misdemeanor DUI and was sentenced to two days in jail, ordered to attend a first-offender alcohol program, and required to perform 64 hours of community service[15]
Yikes!
Marianne Gravatte was hotter.
I saw Whitesnake live in 1987 at the Worcester Centrum. Steve Vai was the guest guitarist for that show and it was one of the most memorable concerts I have ever been to.
This guy puts his own flair to Here I Go Again On My Own….WhiteSnake’s best song imo.
Nothing like a set of Super Slinky’s for ease of string bending . Kinda funny that all of those songs had John Sikes as the guitarist but he never played in the band because he was let go prior to the release of the album .