Originally, the headbanging ode to heartbreak appeared on the 1982 Whitesnake album Saints & Sinners, but as singer David Coverdale told Ultimate Classic Rock, he was never satisfied with it.
As it turned out, Coverdale would get the chance to record the song again. Whitesnake's lineup had changed by 1987, with only Coverdale remaining. He wanted to re-record the song "Crying in the Rain" for Whitensake's 1987 self-titled album, and label head David Geffen agreed...on one condition.
Taking "Here I Go Again" back to the studio gave Coverdale the chance to update the lyrics, changing the original “like a hobo I was born to walk alone," with "like a drifter." The singer was apparently concerned that the word “hobo” would be mistaken for “homo." (Is a "hobo" really born to walk alone, David? Please explain.)
"No, I don't know where I'm going / But, I sure know where I've been / Hanging on the promises / In songs of yesterday / An' I've made up my mind, / I ain't wasting no more time / Here I go again / Here I go again"The single was released in the summer of 1987 and went on to peak at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on Oct. 10 of that year, where it stayed for one week.
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“Claudia Schiffer was supposed to be ‘the Whitesnake woman,’ when she was the Guess Jeans girl," Coverdale told Heavy Consequence in 2019.
Clearly Callner made the right decision.
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