THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again” tops the charts – 1987

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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. Continue reading “THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again” tops the charts – 1987”

RIP TAWNY KITAEN

Tawny Kitaen, Whitesnake’s ‘Here I Go Again’ Video Star, Dead at 59

Los Angeles - CIRCA 1986: Actress Tawny Kitaen poses for a portrait in Santa Monica, California  (Photo by Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images)

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.

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