Highway Star
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Highway Star (song)
"Highway Star" is a song by the English rock band Deep Purple. It is the opening track on their 1972 album Machine Head and is the fastest song in tempo on the album. It is characterised by a long, classically inspired guitar solo and organ solo. Organist Jon Lord claimed that the organ and guitar solos were based on Bach-like chord sequences.
History
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. The song first appears on the 1972 LP Machine Head. The track remains one of the band's staples in live concerts, and was the set opener even before it was released on any album.
The very 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's the opening track on the live albums Nobody's Perfect (1988), Come Hell or High Water (1994), and From The Setting Sun… (In Waken) (2015). The most famous live version is featured on the 1972 live album Made in Japan. The Guardian said, "Blackmore’s playing is like a force of nature on the [Made in Japan] version; those slashing chords in the intro, and that amazing solo featuring the distinctive neo-classical descending runs, combining the spirits of Bach and Jimi Hendrix."
Highway Star (manga)
Highway Star (ハイウェイ・スター, Haiuei Sutā) is a graphic novel created by Katsuhiro Otomo. It is his second published collection of short stories from various years, each running at roughly 20 pages, and includes Otomo's second-earliest collected story. It has been reprinted four times, the last year being 1997.
Stories
Following a dismissal, a family of four leave the city for the country. The daughter is soon spoiled because of her inability to understand the family's financial difficulty, and after a missed chance for first-time love between the parents, they decide on a way out of it all...
An unbearable heat in Tokyo during Summer forces a man to steal a ventilator in a store, only to fail and get chased away. He decides to hide in a family's house and take them hostage, though to his dismay they lack a ventilator too, and so comes up with another idea...
A young girl named Yukie wishes to resemble a famous dancer she sees on TV, and so sets out dressed like her along with her gang of friends. The mothers soon start to worry, as the kids have totally disappeared and a pervert is roaming the streets...
Podcasts:
Stiff Little Fingers
ALBUMS
- No Going Back released: 2014
- Assume Nothing. Question Everything: The Very Best of Stiff Little Fingers released: 2012
- Live and Loud / Fly the Flags released: 2008
- Wasted Life released: 2007
- The Story So Far released: 2007
- Now Then… released: 2004
- Song by Song released: 2004
- Guitar & Drum released: 2004
- Complete John Peel Sessions released: 2002
- Anthology released: 2002
- Back Against the Wall: The Essential Fingers Collection released: 2001
- No Sleep 'Til Belfast released: 1999
- Tin Soldiers released: 1999
- Greatest Hits Live in the UK released: 1999
- Hope Street released: 1999
- Live released: 1998
- Tinderbox released: 1997
- B's, Live, Unplugged and Demos released: 1995
- Pure Fingers Live: St. Patrix 1993 released: 1995
- Get a Life released: 1994
- Greatest Hits Live released: 1993
- Go for It released: 1993
- Fly the Flags released: 1992
- Flags & Emblems released: 1991
- Hanx! released: 1989
- See You Up There! released: 1989
- Live and Loud!! released: 1988
- All the Best released: 1983
- Nobody’s Heroes released: 1980
- Inflammable Material released: 1979
- BBC Radio 1: Live in Concert released:
- Handheld & Rigidly Digital released:
Assume Nothing. Question Everything: The Very Best of Stiff Little Fingers
Released 2012- Alternative Ulster
- At the Edge
- Roots Radicals Rockers & Reggae
- Won’t Be Told
- Gotta Getaway
- Last Train From the Wasteland
- Touch and Go
- Tin Soldiers
- Straw Dogs
- Just Fade Away
- Barbed Wire Love
- Silver Lining
- Bits of Kids
- Nobody’s Hero
- State of Emergency
- That’s When Your Blood Bumps
- No Change
- Back to Front
- 78 RPM
- Wait and See
- Gate 49
- Bloody Sunday
The Story So Far
Released 2007- Guitar and Drum
- Best of Fools
- Strummerville
- Johnny Was (live)
- Suspect Device
- Barbed Wire Love
- Breakout
- Wasted Life
- State of Emergency
- Alternative Ulster
- Fly the Flag
- Tin Soldiers
- I Don't Like You
- At the Edge
- Wait & See
- Nobody's Hero
- Hits & Misses
- Back to Front
- Roots, Radicals, Rockers & Reggae
- Silver Lining
- Piccadilly Circus
Now Then…
Released 2004- Falling Down
- Won’t Be Told
- Love of the Common People
- The Price of Admission
- Touch & Go
- Stands to Reason
- Bits of Kids
- Welcome to the Whole Week
- Big City Night
- Talkback
- Is That What You Fought the War For?
- Good for Nothing
- Listen
- Sad Eyed People
- That’s When Your Blood Bumps
- Two Guitars Clash
- Alan Parker Interviews Jake Burns About Now Then
Anthology
Released 2002- Suspect Device
- Wasted Life
- Alternative Ulster
- 78 RPM
- Gotta Getaway
- Bloody Sunday
- Straw Dogs
- You Can't Say Crap on the Radio
- At the Edge
- Running Bear (live)
- White Christmas (live)
- Nobody's Hero
- Tin Soldiers
- Back to Front
- Mr Fire Coal-Man
- Just Fade Away
- Go for It
- Doesn't Make It Alright (live)
- Silver Lining
- Safe as Houses
Back Against the Wall: The Essential Fingers Collection
Released 2001- State of Emergency
- White Noise
- Breakout
- Rough Trade
- No More of That
- Wait and See
- I Don't Like You
- No Change
- Piccadilly Circus
- Safe as Houses
- Hits and Misses
- Roots, Radical, Rockers and Reggae
- Welcome to the Whole Week
- Big City Nights
- Is That What You Fought the War For?
- Won't Be Told
- (I Could Be) Happy Yesterday
- Dead of Night
- Ever Changing Moral Stance
- Hope Street
- Half a Life Away
- Last Train From the Waste Land
Tin Soldiers
Released 1999- Long Way to Paradise
- Stand Up and Shout
- The Cosh
- Silver Lining (unplugged)
- Wasted Life (unplugged)
- Listen (unplugged)
- Johnny Was (live)
- Nobodys Hero (live)
- No Surrender (live)
- Fly the Flag (live)
- Gotta Getaway (live)
- Tin Soldiers (live)
- Suspect Device (live)
- Beirut Moon (live)
- Each Dollar a Bullet (live)
- Alternative Ulster (live)
B's, Live, Unplugged and Demos
Released 1995- Can't Believe in You (radio edit)
- The Cosh (remix)
- Long Way to Paradise (demo)
- Stand Up and Shout (demo)
- Silver Lining (unplugged)
- Listen (unplugged)
- Waster Life (unplugged)
- Johnny Was (live)
- Shake It Off (demo)
- Not What We Were (Pro Patria Mori) (demo)
- Get a Life (live)
- Harp (live)
- Can't Believe in You (live)
- No Laughing Matter (live)
- The Last Time (live)
- Mr. Fire Coal Man (live)
- Two Guitars Clash (live)
- Alternative Ulster (live)
Pure Fingers Live: St. Patrix 1993
Released 1995- Go for It
- Nobody's Hero
- At the Edge
- No Surrender
- Love of the Common People
- What If I Want More
- Fly the Flag
- Piccadilly Circus
- Wasted Life
- When the Stars Fall From the Sky
- Road to Kingdom Come
- Stand Up and Shout
- Smithers-Jones
- Barbed Wire Love
- (It's a) Long Way to Paradise
- Gotta Gettaway
- Suspect Device
- Walk Tall
- Tin Soldier
- Alternative Ulster
Handheld & Rigidly Digital
- Straw Dogs
- Wasted Life
- At the Edge
- Hope St.
- You Can Get It (If You Really Want)
- Drinkin' Again
- Harp
- Gotta Gettaway
- Last Train From the Wasteland
- Forensic Evidence
- Race You to the Grave
- She Grew Up
- Tin Soldiers
- Al the Rest
- Listen
- Doesn't Make It Alright
- Barbed Wire Love
- Piccadilly Circus
- Roots, Radicals, Rockers & Reggae
- Suspect Device
- Alternative Ulster
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by Type O Negative
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by Impellitteri
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by Acid Drinkers
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by Faith no More
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by Quintorigo
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by Deep Purple
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by Dazed and Confused Soundtrack
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by X-Cops
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by Metal Church
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by Stryper
Highway Star
by: Type O NegativeNobody gonna take my car, I'm gonna race it to the ground
Nobody gonna beat my car, it's gonna break the speed of sound
Ooh it's a killing machine it't got everything
Like a driving power big fat tires everything
I love it and I need it I bleed it
Yeah it's a wild hurricane
Allright hold tight. I'm a highway star
Nobody gonna take my girl I'm gonna keep her to the end
Nobody gonna have my girl she stays close on every bend
Ooh she's a killing machine she's got everything
Like a moving mouth, body control and everything
I Love her, I need her, I seed her
Yeah she turns me on
Allright hold tight I'm a highway star
Solo de teclado:
Nobody gonna take my head I got speed inside my brain
Nobody gonna steal my head now that I'm on the road again
Ooh I'm in heaven again I'v got everything
Like a moving ground, throttle control and everything
I love it, I need it, I seed it
Eight cylinders all mine
Allright hold tight I'm a highway star
Solo de guitara:
Nobody gonna take my car, I'm gonna race it to the ground
Nobody gonna beat my car, it's gonna break the speed of sound
Ooh it's a killing machine it't got everything
Like a driving power big fat tires everything
I love it and I need it I bleed it
Yeah it's a wild hurricane
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