""After 50 years-plus of an incredible journey with you, with Deep Purple, with Whitesnake, Jimmy Page, the last few years it's been very evident to me that it's time, really, for me to hang up my rock 'n' roll platform shoes and my skin-tight jeans," the 74-year-old singer said while holding a highball glass, in a video posted Thursday on YouTube. "And, as you can see," he said, ruffling the chin-length gray hair that has replaced his well-known long locks, "we've taken care of the lion's wig.""
"Coverdale hung it up temporarily once before, after wrapping a Whitesnake world tour at the end of 1990, only to find himself 'in an appalling, confused state across the board ... privately and professionally.' He was married to actor Tawny Kitaen - who had starred in a host of Whitesnake videos in the MTV-dominated late '80s - from 1989 to 1991 and remembered that entire time in an interview with The Times a couple of years later as his 'mousse abuse' period."
David Coverdale, aged 74, announced his retirement after more than 50 years in rock, saying it was time to "hang up" his platform shoes and skin-tight jeans. He appeared in a video with chin-length gray hair, noting they have "taken care of the lion's wig." Whitesnake's final show occurred in June 2022. The band's 1987 self-titled album reached 8x platinum and produced hits such as "Here I Go Again." Coverdale performed with local bands in the late 1960s, became Deep Purple's frontman in 1973, founded Whitesnake in 1978, and previously paused his career after the 1990 tour amid personal struggles.
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