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