8 Rock Bands With Only One Member
6. Whitesnake
No band breakups are exactly known to be the more prettiest of splits. Hell, you'd consider yourself lucky if your band doesn't say goodbye to each other with two middle fingers in the air by the end of things. Though Deep Purple was no exception to the messy split, David Coverdale at least showed us how to bounce back with Whitesnake.
That is, when it was actually christened Whitesnake. Compared to most other hard rock acts, Whitesnake was never meant to be a band at all, instead functioning as the name of one of Coverdale's first solo albums. Wanting a band behind him though, David got the biggest names he could find behind him to form Whitesnake as a vehicle for his solo material, with albums like Slide It In being the blueprint for his bluesy version of hard rock.
It proved to be not too shabby in the era of hair metal either, with the group's 1987 self-titled album putting some real muscle behind the typical rock and roll of the time with songs like Still of the Night and Here I Go Again. Then again, anyone who signs on with Whitesnake knows that they're more of an employee than an actual creative partner. While it might look like a bunch of rock star business on the surface, sometimes the winning formula does prove to have some staying power.