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 ...

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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 ...

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Original Title: 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.

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