In the ’80s and early ’90s there were two kinds of hair bands, the goofy, sexual in-your-end-o bands like Warrant and Poison, and those that were more furrow-browed and serious in their heavy metal balladering. Of that latter category, Whitesnake was one of the biggest proponents, and of their catalog, no song was more popular, nor more notorious for its video than Here I Go Again.

Featuring lots of hair mousse, too-tight spandex, and ’80s guitar heroics, it is nonetheless far more notorious for scenes without the band, in which lead singer David Cloverdale’s then girlfriend – Tawny Kitaen – writhes on the hood of his Jag and tries to distract him while he’s driving through LA. Kitaen and Cloverdale would later be briefly married, and she would even later run into trouble with the law over domestic violence and cocaine possession issues.

But before all that drama, there was the VERY dramatic video for Whitesnake’s Here I Go Again, and you can give it a go, once again, right after the jump. 

[youtube width=”720″ height=”504″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3MXiTeH_Pg[/youtube]

Source: YouTube