On January 20, 2025, one of my all-time guitar heroes, John Sykes, passed away after a courageous battle with cancer. He was ...

A career that began at 21, with successful tours like Rock in Rio in 1985 and albums like Whitesnake with sales of 20 million copies. Guitarist John Sykes has passed away at the age of 65 after "a ...

John Sykes, guitarist with Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy who co-wrote the hit singles 'Still of the Night' and 'Is This Love,' has died. He was 65.

That album, Whitesnake’s sixth studio LP ... of us about having decided to kick us out of the band,” Sykes told Rock Candy magazine in 2017. “I was furious and wasn’t about to accept ...

Sykes was dismissed from Whitesnake following the release of their self-titled album, and he then went on to join the English hard-rock outfit Blue Murder until the band broke up in 1994.

A rock guitarists’ guitarist in the truest ... John hunkered down and co-wrote nine new songs with Coverdale for 1987’s Whitesnake album, which has sold over 8 million copies in the US alone.

John Sykes, the guitarist whose talent helped propel Whitesnake to success, is dead at 65. He also worked with the bands Thin Lizzy and Blue Murder.

Sykes joined Whitesnake, performing on their 1984 album “Slide It In” and playing in front of hundreds of thousands of people as the band supported Queen and Iron Maiden at the 1985 “Rock in ...

The death of John Sykes, whose contributions to Whitesnake spurred them to become one of the biggest-selling bands of the eighties, has been confirmed ...