Glenn hughes highway star steve vai biography
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Highway Star (song)
1972 single by Deep Purple
"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.[6]
History
[edit]This song was born on a tour bus going to Portsmouth in 1971 when a reporter asked the band how they wrote songs. To demonstrate, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore grabbed an acoustic guitar and began playing a riff consisting of a single "G" repeated over and over, while vocalist Ian Gillan improvised lyrics over the top. The song was refined and was performed that same night.[7] The song first appeared on the 1972 LP Machine Head and remained one of the band's live concert staples, being the set opener even before it was released on any album.
Record World said of the U.S. single release, "This mover has a Led Zeppelin tint to it, and that could bring group back to the top of the pops."[8]
The first live version released, recorded live for German TV program Beat-Club in September 1971, is featured on the History, Hits & Highlights '68–'76 DVD. It is the opening track on the live albums Nobody's Perfect (198
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COAST TO COAST FANZINE NEWS BULLETINS
GLENN HUGHES, former bassist and singer of Deep Purple, known to millions as the ‘Voice of Rock’, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and the current front man for rock super group Black Country Communion is pleased to announce that he will be performing Deep Purple only material with his “CLASSIC DEEP PURPLE LIVE” nationwide US tour in August-Sept. 2018.
The tour promises to be dynamic, a turn-back-the-clocks, two-hour live extravaganza homage to his tenure in MK 3 and MK 4 incarnations of Deep Purple – one of music history’s most seminal and influential rock and roll groups. With a Facebook following of a quarter million fans, the tour is certain to rock theaters coast to coast.
I’m excited to be performing Classic Deep Purple Live in the US late this Summer. I first performed Classic Deep Purple Live in Australia and New Zealand last year and it went down like a storm. We’re touring the show throughout South America in the Spring, and international festivals throughout the Summer. By the time we tour the US, then Ireland and the UK in October, we’ll be on fire.
AUGUST 2018
25th NYCB Theatre – W
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Glenn Hughes Discusses Deep Purple’s Legacy dispatch Rock Foyer Snub
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