Will Andy hit another home run?

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It has been 25 years now since the last Babe Ruth album. So what ever happened to any or all of Shacklock, Haan, and Company? And it turned out to be a pretty big company. Like, did Ellie Hope really end up in some disco group? What other subsequent band memberships for Bernie Marsden other than Whitesnake?

[andy hughes]

Babe Ruth were a band who never finally managed to fulfil their considerable potential, although the individual members have not been idle since the band finally split up.

Vocalist Janita (Jenny) Haan has used her considerable vocal talents on a number of TV commercials, most famous being the original 'Body Form' advert, the memorable "Wooooaaaaagh Body Form" vocal line was hers first, and much imitated since. She also appears on The Waterboys'Fisherman's Blues' album .

Alan Shacklock has opted for a successful career as a producer, having worked with Roger Daltrey, Bonnie Tyler, and The Alarm.

Ellie Hope did indeed end up in a disco group -Liquid Gold - who enjoyed world-wide success with their 'Dance Yourself Dizzy' hit single.

Bernie Marsden has continued to work with a number of artists, some, though not all, from links forged during an 11-album spell with Whitesnake. Marsden toured for a considerable time as half of the Moody-Marsden Band, and he has recorded with Paice-Ashton-Lord, Cozy Powell, and Jive Bunny (!) Moody and Marsden toured as The Snakes, recording a live album in 1997, and a studio album 'Once Bitten' in 1998, and dedicated to Cozy Powell.

The band is now The Company Of Snakes, and reunites Marsden and Moody with Don Airey and Neil Murray, proving that there is still life in the old snake yet. The line-up released a live album recorded in Europe last summer. Any bets on a formal Whitesnake reunion?