Here I Go Again
by Whitesnake
- 86
- BPM
- E minor
- Key
- 9A
- Camelot
- 22
- Danceability
- 38
- Acousticness
The original 1982 recording of "Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake reached number 34 on the UK Singles Chart. It was not released in the United States at all, and neither the song nor its album, Saints & Sinners, charted there. Label bosses Al Coury and David Geffen advised a 1987 re-recording for the band's self-titled album. David Coverdale agreed on the condition that he could redo "Crying in the Rain". Released as the album's lead single, it debuted at number 80 on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 4, 1987, and reached number one on October 10. It was the band's only number one there. In the UK it peaked at number nine.
Coverdale and former Whitesnake guitarist Bernie Marsden wrote the song in late 1981, while Coverdale had retreated to a small villa in southern Portugal. His marriage to his then-wife Julia was strained. He has said it was written in an hour, and Marsden has said the same. Martin Birch produced the original. The 1987 radio mix left out the keyboard intro, and in the re-recording the word "hobo" went back to "drifter". The song was used in the climax of the 2015 romantic comedy Man Up.
Here I Go Again runs at 86 BPM, the tempo of boom-bap hip-hop, reggae and slow R&B. In classical terms it sits in andante territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 2.79 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 698 ms. It is in E minor, Camelot 9A, which shares its notes with G major and mixes cleanly with A minor and B minor.
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