Whitesnake‘s original guitarist and one of the band’s founding members, Bernie Marsden has died at the age of 72.
Among the numerous songs he penned, he co-wrote the band’s massive 1987 hit, “Here I Go Again” with David Coverdale.
Coverdale shared a tribute to his former bandmate and wrote: “I've just woken up to the awful news that my old friend and former Snake Bernie Marsden has passed. “My sincere thoughts and prayers to his beloved family, friends and fans. A genuinely funny, gifted man, whom I was honored to know and share a stage with.”