Highway Star

Play track

  • Listeners

    692.9K

  • Scrobbles

    3.7M

  • Listeners

    692.9K

  • Scrobbles

    3.7M

Play track
  • Last.FM User
  • Last.FM User
  • Last.FM User

Join others and track this song

Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account

Sign Up to Last.fm
Play album
Skip to YouTube video

Replace video

Length
6:00
Lyrics

Add lyrics on Musixmatch

Highway Star is one of Deep Purple's most famous songs. It is characterized by a long classically-inspired guitar solo and organ solo. Organist Jon Lord claimed that the organ solo is based on a Bach-like sequence. The song appears on the album Machine Head and is the fastest song (tempo-wise) recorded on the album. The structure of the song consists of a 35 second 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 begins his organ solo (2:14). The orga… read more
Highway Star is one of Deep Purple's most famous songs. It is characterized by a long classically-inspired guitar solo and organ solo. Organist … read more
Highway Star is one of Deep Purple's most famous songs. It is characterized by a long classically-inspired guitar solo and organ solo. Organist Jon Lord claimed that the organ solo … read more

Related Tags

Add tagsView all tags

Featured On

Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple

799,015 listeners

555 more albums featuring this track

Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now

Similar Tracks

  1. Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple Play track

  2. Machine Head Play track

  3. The Very Best of Rainbow Play track

  4. Paranoid Play track

  5. Led Zeppelin IV Play track

  6. Led Zeppelin IV Play track

  7. The Very Best of Rainbow Play track

  8. Let There Be Rock Play track

  9. The Very Best of Kiss Play track

  10. School's Out Play track

  11. Moontan Play track

  12. Demons and Wizards Play track

Scrobble Stats

What is scrobbling?

Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile.

Learn more

Recent Listening Trend

Day Listeners
324
353
376
382
419
418
337
353
391
396
388
412
406
335
342
361
388
379
374
368
318
320
351
407
362
359
363
318
302
349
346
350
328
381
324
318
361
341
338
365
389
362
320
403
397
378
361
386
389
345
381
415
372
395
383
377
372
354
386
353
362
367
399
373
385
382
394
398
401
367
352
399
378
346
362
390
339
323
351
377
338
386
395
362
361
398
367
401
401
353
360
340
313
299
291
285
315
272
236
283
302
296
321
333
293
350
314
303
317
305
341
313
296
367
298
301
288
310
314
331
331
336
332
270
353
286
310
337
313
286
313
359
305
267
316
303
343
319
289
307
279
359
315
333
360
352
333
307
311
407
352
335
319
315
307
318
291
319
289
361
301
303
348
281
264
304
284
275
233
294
295
253
280
271
255
255
278
253
307
266

Play this track

External Links

Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now

Shoutbox

Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page

About This Artist

Artist images

283 more

Deep Purple

2,748,528 listeners

Related Tags

Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in London, in 1968. They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock but their musical approach has changed over the years.Originally formed as a psychedelic rock and progressive rock band, they shifted to a heavier sound with their 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock. Deep Purple (together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath) have been referred to as the "unholy trinity" of British hard rock and heavy metal in the early to mid-seventies. They were listed in the 1975 Guinness Book of World Records as &q… read more
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in London, in 1968. They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock but their musical approach has changed over … read more
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in London, in 1968. They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock but their musical approach has changed over the years.Originally formed as a psychedelic r… read more

View full artist profile

Similar Artists

  1. 1,290,057 listeners

    Avatar for Rainbow

  2. 747,670 listeners

    Avatar for Uriah Heep

  3. 1,526,148 listeners

    Avatar for Whitesnake

  4. 710,302 listeners

    Avatar for UFO

  5. 865,558 listeners

    Avatar for Nazareth

  6. 3,870,760 listeners

    Avatar for Black Sabbath

View all similar artists

Trending Tracks

  • 1

  • 2

  • 3

  • 4

  • 5

  • 6

View all trending tracks

API Calls

Scrobble from Spotify?

Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform.

Connect to Spotify

Dismiss