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Some (but not enough) rock fans know John Sykes cowrote and played guitar on Whitesnake hits like “Still Of The Night” and “Is This Love.” Some are aware of his prior stint with Thin Lizzy. Far fewer ...

Friedman has called the late guitarist a “game changer” when it came to solos, while Vai says he could never play guitar like him ...

appearing on the Slide It In album in 1984 and the platinum-selling Whitesnake in 1987. The album would prove a massive success, but Sykes left the band before it was released and went on to form ...

He helped compose one of the defining power ballads of the late-1980s hair-metal scene in Is This Love, which drove sales of Whitesnake's self-titled 1987 LP ... the Whitesnake album was released ...

After that, he joined Whitesnake in 1984 at the invitation of founder and frontman David Coverdale. Sykes recorded parts for their Slide It In album and later for their self-titled 1987 release ...

John Sykes, a hard-rock guitarist and singer who played with Thin Lizzy before joining Whitesnake for its smash 1987 album and later forming Blue Murder, has died of cancer. He was 65. The news ...

(Gray News) - Guitarist and songwriter John Sykes, who played for Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy, has died. Sykes died at the age of 65 after a “hard-fought battle with cancer,” according to a statement on ...

Sykes first started with the band Street Fighter. He also played with Thin Lizzy before joining Whitesnake for its smash 1987 album and later formed Blue Murder with Tony Franklin and Carmine Appice.

I also was keen for the first album to be very heavy. Did your Whitesnake reputation help or hinder you? It helped me, actually. I had just come off being involved with a huge album, 1987, and that ...