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The song was subsequently recorded by English hard rock band Deep Purple, at that time fronted by lead singer Rod Evans, for their 1968 debut album Shades of Deep Purple. Group member Ritchie Blackmore having heard the Billy Joe Royal original while living in Hamburg : (Ritchie Blackmore quote:) "It was a great song [which] would be a good song ...
"Highway Star" is a song by the English rock band Deep Purple. It is the opening track on the band's sixth studio album Machine Head (1972) and is the fastest tempo song on the album. It is characterised by long, classically inspired guitar and organ solos. [6]
The song contained lines directly lifted from the Byrds' 1967 song "Everybody's Been Burned," [1] while the melody prominently features an organ riff lifted from the Deep Purple rendition of the song "Hush". [2] In addition, Martin Blunt has described Jon Baker's guitar part as resembling that of the Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On".
[124] On 3 February 2017, Deep Purple released a video version of "Time for Bedlam", the first track taken from the new album and the first new Deep Purple track for almost four years. [ 125 ] On 29 February 2020, a new track, "Throw My Bones" was released online, with a new album Whoosh! planned for release in June.
After the band's lineup was fulfilled, they began recording the album Shades of Deep Purple in May. "And the Address" was the first song to be recorded, on 11 May 1968. [ 3 ] After the release of the album, the song was played at many live shows, and it would be played until the release of The Book of Taliesyn , later in 1968.
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.
When Deep Purple's first line-up came together in 1967, there was a moment of transition for the British music scene. Beat was still popular, especially in dance halls and outside the capital, but the tastes of young people buying records and filling up the clubs was rapidly changing in favour of blues rock, progressive rock and psychedelic rock. [2]
Donny and Marie Osmond's "Deep Purple" was an even greater Adult Contemporary hit. It peaked at number eight on both the U.S. and Canadian charts. The song spent 23 weeks on the pop chart, far longer than did any other song by the Osmond family. [8] "Deep Purple" is ranked as the 42nd-biggest U.S. hit of 1976. [13]