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"Highway Star" is a song by the English rock band Deep Purple. It is the opening track on the band's sixth studio album Machine Head (1972) and is the fastest tempo song on the album. It is characterised by long, classically inspired guitar and organ solos.
Four songs from Machine Head ("Highway Star", "Smoke on the Water", "Lazy" and "Space Truckin'") were included in the album. [39] The album title was inspired by the adjustment knobs on Roger Glover’s bass; such knobs on string instruments are known as a machine head, and the back album cover features a picture of Glover's bass headstock. [40]
On 2 April 2007 Gillan released a DVD Highway Star – A Journey in Rock. The DVD has 6 hours of footage including documentaries and music clips. This was followed in February 2008 by a double live album on Edel Records, Live in Anaheim that features Gillan and Deep Purple classic songs and several rarities. A companion DVD was released in May ...
Highway Star may refer to: "Highway Star" (song), a song on Deep Purple's 1972 album Machine Head; Highway Star, the band that became Stiff Little Fingers; Highway Star, a 1979 graphic novel by Katsuhiro Otomo; Highway Star; Highway Star, a Stand featured in Diamond is Unbreakable named after the Deep Purple song
Songs from the albums The Origin of the Feces and then-new material from The Least Worst Of are not represented on the album. Despite being an unsanctioned release, the cover of Deep Purple 's " Highway Star " does not appear on any other Type O Negative release and is exclusive to the compilation - with the exception of its previous inclusion ...
Stiff Little Fingers are a Northern Irish punk rock band from Belfast.They formed in 1977 at the height of the Troubles, which informed much of their songwriting.They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star (named after the Deep Purple song), doing rock covers, until they discovered punk.
1. She’s From the West Coast. Despite making country music, Dasha is actually a San Luis Obispo, California native. That being said, she briefly attended Belmont University in Nashville.
The song was covered in 2004 by Paul Brandt. [42] The video features Brandt and fellow country singers Jason McCoy and Aaron Lines as well as then Calgary Flames defencemen Mike Commodore and Rhett Warrener as truckers and George Canyon, of Nashville Star fame, as the highway patrol officer.