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In 2012, a tribute album featuring cover songs from Deep Purple's Machine Head was released, titled Re-Machined: A Tribute to Deep Purple's Machine Head. On this album, a live recording of "Highway Star" was featured by rock supergroup Chickenfoot, as well as a version recorded by Glenn Hughes, Steve Vai, and Chad Smith. [15] In 2018, a cover ...
Four songs from Machine Head ("Highway Star", "Smoke on the Water", "Lazy" and "Space Truckin'") were included in the album. [39] The album title was inspired by the adjustment knobs on Roger Glover’s bass; such knobs on string instruments are known as a machine head, and the back album cover features a picture of Glover's bass headstock. [40]
Media in category "Deep Purple album covers" The following 41 files are in this category, out of 41 total. B. File:BBC Sessions 1968–1970.jpg; D. File:Deep Purple ...
English hard rock band Deep Purple have released 23 studio albums, 43 live albums, 26 compilation albums and 58 singles.. Formed in early 1968 by Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Rod Evans, Ritchie Blackmore, and Nick Simper, Deep Purple released their debut album, Shades of Deep Purple, in July of that year.
When We Rock, We Rock, and When We Roll, We Roll is a compilation album by Deep Purple featuring some of their most popular songs from 1968 to 1974.. The LP was released in October 1978 by Warner Bros. Records in North America and Japan only, as counterpart to The Deep Purple Singles A's and B's, which was simultaneously released in other markets.
The title and cover art of the album were also inspired by the manuscript. [40] Instead psychedelia and its rituals play a large part in the lyrics of "Shield". [17] [43] Simper thinks that Evans' lyrics are "far better than anything ... has ever been written in other line ups, in Deep Purple." [49]
By 1972, Deep Purple had achieved considerable commercial success in Japan, including several hit singles, so it made sense to tour there. [12] Three dates were booked; the Festival Hall, Osaka on 11 and 12 May, and the Budokan, Tokyo on 16 May, [13] though these were later changed to 15 and 16 August, and 17 August respectively due to an earlier US tour being rescheduled. [14]
Highway Star may refer to: "Highway Star" (song), a song on Deep Purple's 1972 album Machine Head; Highway Star, the band that became Stiff Little Fingers; Highway Star, a 1979 graphic novel by Katsuhiro Otomo; Highway Star; Highway Star, a Stand featured in Diamond is Unbreakable named after the Deep Purple song