Deep Purple - Highway Star - Guitar Cover by Flavio Recalde

"Highway Star" is a song by the English hard 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. Machine Head is the sixth studio album released by Deep Purple. It was recorded in December 1971 at Montreux, Switzerland, and released on 25 March 1972 on Purple Records. Machine Head is Deep Purple's most commercially successful album, topping the charts in several countries, including number one in the UK, Germany, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Canada and Australia. "Highway Star" is characterised by long, classically-inspired guitar and organ solos. The guitar solo performed by Ritchie Blackmore would gain recognition when readers of Guitar World voted it No. 15 in their list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Solos". Blackmore based his guitar solo around a figure that he learned from Johnny Burnette, and liked its resemblance to Johann Sebastian Bach. History This song was born on a tour bus going to Portsmouth on 13 September 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 track remains one of the band's staples in live concerts, and was the set opener even before it was released on any album; today, the song is usually played as an encore. 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 is the opening track on the live albums Nobody's Perfect (1988), Come Hell or High Water (1994), and From the Setting Sun… (In Wacken) (2015). The most famous live version is featured on the 1972 live album Made in Japan. Personnel: Ritchie Blackmore - guitar, Ian Gillan - vocals, Roger Glover - bass, Jon Lord - organ, Ian Paice - drums. Production: Martin Birch – engineering, mixing with Deep Purple. https://deep-purple.com/