Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: Highway Star, Speed King, Child in Time, Black Night, Space Truckin', When a Blind Man Cries, Strange Kind of Woman, Fireball, Lazy, Never Before, Perfect Strangers, Disturbing the Priest, Maybe I'm a Leo, Vavoom: Ted the Mechanic, Any Fule Kno That, Trashed, Call of the Wild, Pictures of Home, Zero the Hero. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 58. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: from the album Machine Head "Highway Star" is a song by British hard rock band Deep Purple off their 1972 album Machine Head. It is characterized by a long classically-inspired guitar solo and organ solo. Ritchie Blackmore claimed that he wanted the song to have a "Bach sound." Robb Reiner of Anvil has called it one of the earliest speed metal songs. 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 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 staple live performances, and was the set opener for many years. These days the song is usually an encore. The album Made In Japan features a live version of the song, and two live versions can be heard on the Deep Purple-Extended Versions Live Compilation CD. The first version heard on the CD is fused with the song "Not Fade Away." The structure of the song consists of a 35 second bass guitar introduction, before the band launches into the thumping opening riff, which soon leads into the first vocals section (0:55). The first two verses are sung, then Jon Lord begin...http: //booksllc.net/?id=1803787