Into the Light

Into the Light is the third solo album by David Coverdale. It was released in September 2000. In between 1978 and 1997, Coverdale and his band Whitesnake produced nine studio albums. After a three-year break, he returned with what was officially his first solo album since 1978's Northwinds. His 1997 album Restless Heart was recorded as a solo project, but for contractual reasons his label forced him to release it under the Whitesnake moniker. The new album "Into the Light" released in 2000 reached #75 on the UK album chart. Background In an interview with Classic Rock magazine in 2000, Coverdale stated: "The whole premise of my new record, Into The Light, is about coming out of what I felt was a dark period... I didn't really know who I was, using the illusion of David Coverdale I've created, or that other people have. I got tired of trying to live up to that, which is not necessarily who I am." "Too Many Tears" was a new arrangement of the same song originally appearing on Coverdale's previous studio album, Whitesnake's Restless Heart. "Love Is Blind" was released as a single with an accompanying music video, but did not chart. "Slave" reached No. 33 on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Three additional songs were recorded for this album that did not make the final CD. Coverdale released these tracks on his official Whitesnake.com website. A number of other titles, written by Coverdale, have yet to be released. Some unreleased songs from this period have found their way onto subsequent releases such as: "Wherever You May Go (Acoustic Demo)" and "All The Time In The World" on the 2018 box set, Unzipped, as well as an early demo version of "River Song". "Flesh And Blood" and "Heart Of Stone" appeared on Whitesnake's 2019 studio album, Flesh & Blood. The newly released Love Songs collection in 2020 also feature songs from this period, including the first publicly available versions of "Let's Talk It Over" and "Yours For The Asking".