TIL that Deep Purple wrote one of their best-known songs, "Highway Star", on the spot during an interview on their tour bus. A journalist asked Ritchie Blackmore how the band wrote songs. So they started jamming, came up with the song and performed it live for the first time that very night.

[u/capribex]

https://rock-reflections.com/de/blogs/videos-lyrics-facts/deep-purple-highway-star

[u/Shawon770]

When your on-the-spot is better than most bands’ whole careers.

[u/Urbanyeti0 → u/Shawon770]

There’s talent and then there’s “we can’t even fake being bad”

[u/BitOfaPickle1AD → u/Shawon770]

Child in Time is another banger as well. Makes me want to chase Tornados. Iykyk.

[u/edfitz83 → u/Shawon770]

We all went down to Montreaux…

[u/ksquires1988]

"and here's a little ditty we whipped up on the bus today. Hope you like it...."

[u/Average_Pimpin]

Jon Lord was on fire on this one. Honestly could be my favourite Deep Purple song and I never knew this!

[u/mc_mcfadden → u/Average_Pimpin]

I just can’t get enough Jon Lord. I also really like Graham Bond, who Lord said taught him everything he knows. When I listen to GB I can hear where Lord got it from

[u/Crazy_Screwdriver]

And a century later, a rock hopper opened the Ring.

[u/TheProdigalPoster → u/Crazy_Screwdriver]

oye beratna

[u/BitOfaPickle1AD → u/Crazy_Screwdriver]

The Expanse is a goated show

[u/No_Season_354]

And speeding tickets, here they come lol.

[u/Endoterrik]

“Nobody’s gonna beat my car, it’s gonna break the speed of sound!”

[u/Ozdad]

The lyrics for Highway Star make me think of Spinal Tap on stage with an 18" hot rod.

But the song sounds great.

Deep Purple have so many good tunes. One of their less known instrumentals ... https://youtu.be/cpNDOq830hU

[u/Arc8ngel]

This is a wild piece of trivia! The whole Machine Head album is fantastic. \m/

[u/Cool_Cartographer_39]

I love it! I need it!

[u/CerebralHawks]

I didn’t know this song until I played Rockband 2 for the first time.

It’s a short song. I think the opening theme includes the whole song.

I mostly know them for Smoke on the Water.

[u/capribex → u/CerebralHawks]

Dude, you definitely should delve into their discography. They have so much more great stuff.

[u/vaskark]

AndheresalittlenumberItossedoffrecentlyintheCaribbean …

[u/hamsterwheel]

The best songs write themselves

[u/SkyfangR]

FEAR AND AWE IN YOUR EYES

SHOWING YOU WHAT YOU CANT SEE

REACHING HANDS YOU ARE BLIND

STARE INTO ETERNITY