Pomp and Circumstance 00:00
Over the Rainbow 01:28
Highway Star 02:24


Nobody gonna take my car
Nobody gonna take my car
Nobody gonna take my car

Nobody gonna take my car
I'm gonna race it to the ground
Nobody gonna beat my car
I'm gonna break the speed of sound

Oh, it's a killing machine
It's got everything
Like a driving power
Big fat tires and everything

I love it, I need it, I bleed it
Yeah, it's a wild hurricane
Alright, hold tight
I'm a highway star

Nobody gonna take my girl
I'm gonna keep her to the end
Nobody gonna take my girl
She stays close on every bend

Oh, she's a killing machine
She's got everything
Like a moving mouth
Body control and everything

I love her, I need her, I seed her
Yeah, she turns me on
Alright, hold tight
I'm a highway star


Nobody gonna take my head
I got speed inside my brain
Nobody gonna have my head
Now that I'm on the road again

Oh, I'm in heaven again
I got everything
Like an open road
An open road, and everything

I love it, I need it, I bleed it
Eight cylinders all mine
Alright, hold tight
I'm a highway star


Nobody gonna take my car
I'm gonna race it to the ground
Nobody gonna beat my car
I'm gonna break the speed of sound

Oh, it's a killing machine
It's got everything
Like a driving power
Big fat tires and everything

I love it, I need it, I see it
Yeah, it's a mad hurricane
Alright, hold tight
I'm a highway star
I'm a highway star
I'm a highway star


From Songfacts.com:

This adrenaline-fueled rocker is about a man and his love for his high-powered car, which he says can out-race anything else on the road. It spawned a sub-genre known as "speed metal," a division of heavy metal later popularized by bands such as Motörhead and Metallica. The song is responsible for many speeding tickets.

According to Deep Purple bass player Roger Glover, the band wrote "Highway Star" on their tour bus on the way to a gig at the Portsmouth Guildhall (in the UK) on September 13, 1971, where they debuted the song. They wrote it because they were getting sick of their opening number, "Speed King"; "Highway Star" became their opener from that point on. The song evolved through live performances, and was recorded for the Machine Head album in December 1971.

This is one of the most famous driving songs in rock, right up there with Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild," Golden Earring's "Radar Love."

Ritchie Blackmore's guitar solo on this track was ranked #15 on Guitar World magazine's 2008 list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos. In the issue, Blackmore explained how he did it: "I wrote that out note for note about a week before we recorded it. I wanted it to sound like someone driving in a fast car, for it to be one of those songs you would listen to while speeding.
And I wanted a very definite Bach sound, which is why I wrote it out – and why I played those very rigid arpeggios across that very familiar Bach progression – Dm, Gm, Cmaj, Amaj."

This is the opening track on Machine Head, an album recorded in Montreux, Switzerland, but not where they intended. Deep Purple wanted to record in a concert venue to get the acoustics of a live performance, so they booked the Montreux Casino. The day after they arrived in Switzerland, Frank Zappa played the casino. Deep Purple was in the audience and saw the place light up - literally. Someone shot a flare into the ceiling that could fire and set the wooden building ablaze. Everyone got out safely , but the casino burned to the ground. They ended up using the Grand Hotel, where they were staying, as a studio, using the Rolling Stones' mobile truck to record (this unit, a 16-track studio on wheels, was what they planned to record with all along, but they ended up parking it outside the hotel instead of the casino).

The band embraced the disorder, improvising to get quality sound by setting up in various rooms and corridors. They ended up achieving their goal of capturing their rugged live sound on tape. The album went down as one of the greatest in the history of hard rock, most notable for "Smoke On The Water," which tells the story of their adventure in Montreux.

In America, this was released as a single in 1972 but didn't chart. The Machine Head album seemed to have run its course there, but in May 1973, "Smoke On The Water" was issued as a single, 14 months after the album was released. That song took hold, rising to #4 in and becoming a bona fide rock classic.

This has been featured in several episodes of That '70s Show. It was also used in the movies Wolf (2004) and Dazed and Confused (1993).

The Machine Head album closes with another speedy song, "Space Truckin'," but that one is set in the Milky Way, where they dance around the Borealice.


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