Whitesnake – Is This Love

“Is This Love” – Single by Whitesnake from the album Whitesnake
B-side: “Standing in the Shadow ’87” (UK) / “Bad Boys” (US)
Released: May 18, 1987
Label: Geffen, EMI
Songwriters: David Coverdale, John Sykes
Producers: Mike Stone (for Mike Stone Enterprises), Keith Olsen (for Pogologo Productions).
Charted No.2 in US and No.9 in UK

The official music video for Whitesnake – “Is This Love” from the album ‘Whitesnake’ (1987).

“Is This Love” reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was originally written for Tina Turner.

Coverdale and Sykes wrote “Is This Love?” during the album’s early writing process in the south of France. Before Coverdale left the UK, a friend of his at EMI told him they were looking for ideas that could work for Tina Turner. Her What’s Love Got To Do With It record had gone global, and knowing Coverdale was going away to write some songs, they told him to let them know if he came up with anything suitable for its follow-up. So when Coverdale started writing “Is This Love,” it was for Turner.

As Coverdale tinkered away at the song in a French villa, Sykes overheard him and said it sounded nice. The Whitesnake frontman informed him it was for Tina Turner, not their band. “He gets his coffee, sits down and starts playing these…,” Coverdale recalled in a video. “It was just this organic thing. These ideas just fed really beautiful things that I wouldn’t have come up with. Maybe John wouldn’t have come up with the chords, but the embellishments were just part of the whole package of the song.”

The videos for both “Is This Love?” and “Here I Go Again” feature actress/model and Coverdale girlfriend Tawny Kitaen, one of the most popular video vixens on MTV. Both videos take place at 5:55 in the morning on city streets filled with fog.

Lyrics:
I should have known better than to let you go alone
It’s times like these, can’t make it on my own
Wasted days and sleepless nights
And I can’t wait to see you again

I find I spend my time waiting on your call
How can I tell you, babe? My back’s against the wall
I need you by my side to tell me it’s alright
‘Cause I don’t think I can take anymore

Is this love that I’m feeling?
Is this the love that I’ve been searching for?
Is this love or am I dreaming?
This must be love ’cause it’s really got a hold on me
A hold on me

Can’t stop the feeling I’ve been this way before
But with you I’ve found the key to open any door
I can feel my love for you growing stronger day by day
And I can’t wait to see you again
So I can hold you in my arms

Is this love that I’m feeling?
Is this the love that I’ve been searching for?
Is this love or am I dreaming?
This must be love ’cause it’s really got a hold on me
A hold on me

Is this love that I’m feeling?
Is this the love that I’ve been searching for?
Is this love (Is this love) or am I dreaming?
Is this the love that I’ve been searching for?
Is this love (Is this love) or am I dreaming?
Is this the love that I’ve been searching for?
Is this love (Is this love) or am I dreaming?
Is this the love that I’ve been searching for?
Is this love (Is this love) or am I dreaming?
Is this the love that I’ve been searching for?
Is this love (Is this love) or am I dreaming?
Is this the love that I’ve been searching for?

Is this love?
Is this love?