Michael Hann

King of rock

With his come-to-bed voice, Coverdale is the platonic ideal of what a rock star should be. Michael Hann meets the king of rock

issue 29 June 2019

‘Invest in your hair,’ advises David Coverdale, a man with a shag of the stuff glossier than a supermodel’s and as big as a guardsman’s bearskin, even at the age of 67. (He won’t say that number. He insists his age is ‘three score and seven’.)

‘People say to me: “Do you colour your hair?” And I say: “Absolutely not.”

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