Starkers in Tokyo

Starkers in Tokyo is a live acoustic album and video recording by English rock band Whitesnake, released only in Japan on 10 September 1997. It is performed in the style of the Unplugged series and simply features David Coverdale on vocals and Adrian Vandenberg on acoustic guitar.

Starkers in Tokyo
Live album by Whitesnake
Released	10 September 1997 (1997-09-10)
Recorded	5 July 1997 (1997-07-05)
Studio	Toshiba EMI #3 Studio, Tokyo
Genre	Acoustic rock
Length	40:14
Label	EMI/Toshiba Rhino (2018 "Unzipped" reissue)
Producer	David Coverdale
Whitesnake chronology
Restless Heart (1997) Starkers in Tokyo (1997) 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Whitesnake (2000)

Starkers in Tokyo
Video by Whitesnake
Released	10 September 1997 (1997-09-10)
Recorded	5 July 1997 (1997-07-05)
Studio	Toshiba EMI #3 Studio, Tokyo
Genre	Acoustic rock
Length	50 min.
Label	Universal International
Producer	David Coverdale
Whitesnake video albums chronology
Trilogy (1988) Starkers in Tokyo (1997) Live... In the Still of the Night (2006)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

The performance was recorded at the EMI studios in Japan for a small audience of fans in support of then most recent album Restless Heart. This recording was also released on VHS and Laserdisc in Japan only. The album was recorded on 5 July 1997 at night, and then mixed the following day at Toshiba EMI studios. This CD was released outside Japan almost a year later in June 1998.

The album includes an acoustic version of Whitesnake's biggest hit "Here I Go Again" among others.^[2]

The live album subsequently appeared on the second disc of Whitesnake's 2018 acoustic collection, Unzipped,^[3] while the video recording is remixed in "5.1 and stereo" and released on collection's DVD.^[3][4]

Track listing

1. "Sailing Ships" (David Coverdale, Adrian Vandenberg) – 4:37
2. "Too Many Tears" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 4:13
3. "The Deeper the Love" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 4:09
4. "Love Ain't No Stranger" (Coverdale, Mel Galley) – 3:15
5. "Can't Go On" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 3:50
6. "Give Me All Your Love" (Coverdale, John Sykes) – 3:21
7. "Don't Fade Away" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 4:26
8. "Is This Love" (Coverdale, Sykes) – 3:09
9. "Here I Go Again" (Coverdale, Bernie Marsden) – 4:46
10. "Soldier of Fortune" (Coverdale, Ritchie Blackmore) – 4:22

Track listing DVD version

1. "Sailing Ships" (David Coverdale, Adrian Vandenberg) – 4:37
2. "Too Many Tears" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 4:13
3. "The Deeper the Love" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 4:09
4. "Can't Go On" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 3:50
5. "Is This Love" (Coverdale, Sykes) – 3:09
6. "Give Me All Your Love]]" (Coverdale, John Sykes) – 3:21
7. "Here I Go Again]]" (Coverdale, Bernie Marsden) – 4:46
8. "Soldier of Fortune" (Coverdale, Ritchie Blackmore) – 4:22
9. "Love Ain't No Stranger" (Coverdale, Mel Galley) – 3:15
10. "Don't Fade Away" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 4:26

Songs left off the album

• "Burning Heart" (Vandenberg)
• "Fool for Your Loving" (Coverdale, Micky Moody, Marsden)
• "Only My Soul" (Coverdale)

The songs "Only My Soul" and "Fool for Your Loving" appears on the 2018 acoustic compilation album, Unzipped, leaving out "Burning Heart" as the only track to be left off from the whole album.^[3]

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.^[5]

Whitesnake David Coverdale - vocals Adrian Vandenberg - acoustic guitar Technical Masuzo "Masu" Iida — recording, mixing Kazuaki "Kazu" Fujita — engineering Katsumi "Katsu" Kawakita — assisted engineering, recording, mixing Design David Coverdale — cover concept Adrian Vandenberg — cover concept Shinsuke Suda — art direction & design Yuri Tamura — art direction & design Hiro Ito — photography Koichiro Hiki — photography Hiro Ito — cover photo Toshinao Nakamura — lighting

Management David Coverdale — producer Takahiro Sugiyama — production coordination Myles Keller — production coordination Michael McIntyre — production coordination Bjorn "Berserk" Thorsud — post-production assisting Takashi "Matsu" Matsumura — studio coordination Masako Kawahara — interpreting Yumi Kubota — hair, makeup

Charts

Chart (1997)	Peak position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[6]	16