Setlist poll
Tired of the old setlist debate? Here’s your chance to vote for a setlist you like (although there’s no guarantee that anybody will listen). It works like this: We have assembled a list of 60 songs...
View ArticleSetlist poll: jury’s in
The setlist poll is closed and here are the results: Highway Star (58%, 1,040 Votes) Perfect Strangers (56%, 1,006 Votes) Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming (48%, 874 Votes) Smoke On The Water (44%, 796...
View ArticleHow old are we?
We have no means to test Gillan’s theory that there are a lot of 18-year old fans at the DP concerts, but let’s find out how old are The Highway Star readers.
View ArticleBest opening tracks
A discussion in our forum prompted this question: what are the best Deep Purple album opening tracks? A good opening track sets the tone and the mood for the whole album.
View ArticleSetlist poll: Return of the Jedi
If our first setlist poll have proved anything, it’s that most people can agree on what exactly the golden oldies are (and even there opinions varied wildly). Let’s tackle it from a slightly different...
View ArticleSetlist poll: Morse strikes back
Now that we’ve figured out how many new songs you want to hear in the setlist, here’s your chance to tell the world which of them you want to hear. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post,...
View ArticleAnother #1 for Smoke on the Water
According to the students of the London Tech Music School, Smoke on the Water riff is still the greatest of all times: 1. Smoke On The Water – Deep Purple (1973) 2.
View ArticleTop 40 Singers in Rock
UK digital radio station Planet Rock has complied another indispensable top list that we can get upset over and correct to our own liking. Because we always know best, don’t we?
View ArticleParticipate in a DP research study
Trevor Morris, a student at Ravensbourne College, is working on a research project and is hoping to gain some insight from the Deep Purple fan community. He looking for your views on the following:...
View ArticleSetlist poll — Now what?! edition
Members of the band alluded in the interviews that a new setlist will be rehearsed before touring starts in earnest with more songs from Now what?! incorporated into it. Ofcourse, we all want the...
View ArticleWhat do you think of Now what?!
The new album has been out for a while now, the dust seems to be settling down, and it’s time for another poll here at The Highway Star. We tried to put together a variety of the most often expressed...
View ArticleVote for Classic Rock track of the week
Classic Rock Magazine has an online poll for the Track of the Week and Vincent Price is in the running. Vote here. Keywords: Classic Rock, Deep Purple, Now what?!
View ArticleQuod erat demonstrandum
NME is running a readers’ poll of the greatest live albums of all time, which we announced back in April. Mission accomplished: Made in Japan is leading the poll, and by a good margin.
View ArticleVote Vincent Price for best track of the year
Classic Rock is running a poll for best songs of 2013, and Vincent Price is in the running. Click here to view the embedded video. Vote for it. Keywords: Classic Rock, Now what?!
View ArticleVincent Price is in top 3
Vincent Price took 3rd place in Classic Rock’s Song Of the Year 2013 poll. The top 10 is: Dream Theater – The Enemy Inside Stone Sour – The Uncanny Valley Deep Purple – Vincent Price Black Star Riders...
View ArticleJon Lord wins a poll
Jon Lord has won the Greatest Keyboard Player poll held by Real XS radio in Manchester, UK. The final top 10 is as follows: Jon Lord Rick Wakeman Rick Wright Keith Emerson Ray Manzarek Matt Bellamy...
View ArticleYet another ‘greatest riff’ poll
BBC Radio is conducting an online poll of greatest guitar riffs. Smoke on the Water and Long Live Rock’n’Roll are in the running. The latter is quite a bit of a strange choice, but that’s a matter of...
View ArticleTensions, tantrums and traumas
The Classic Rock magazine is devoting its weekly Thursday Death Match feature to pitting Deep Purple against, well, Deep Purple. That is Mark 2 against Mark 3. And while there’s nothing new, it’s an...
View ArticlePoll: most anticipated release of April
Loudwire is conducting a poll for the Most Anticipated Release of April 2017. Deep Purple's inFinite is in the running and is currently trailing in the second place behind Richie Kotzen. You know what...
View ArticleSetlist poll: the inFinite edition
Us fans, have a most peculiar favourite pastime — telling the band what to do, what not to do, which songs to play, and which not. In particular, every Tom, Jane and Joe know best what the ideal...
View ArticleWhoosh setlist poll
This is all highly theoretical now, but nevertheless… Now that the new album has been out for a month, everybody had a chance to listen to it and make up their minds, but impressions are still fresh....
View Article
