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David Hodgkinson, who has died aged 58, was a technologist, programmer, and software engineer. Quite possibly, he will be remembered more for his huge footprint in the online fan community for veteran British hard rockers Deep Purple. This is certainly the case for most readers of this obituary, published as it is on the website […]
Read more »You may or may not have noticed a new link on the home page: Video list. This immense piece of work was done by long-term editor Trond (I did the munging to HTML) and should keep you occupied for more than a few hours. There are videos on YouTube and elsewhere of lineups from Rod […]
Read more »With the UK Government seemingly in deadlock regarding Brexit after decades of Lazy reporting by British newspapers about the validity of curvy Bananas we at THS face a bit of a problem. As an international team with only a couple of folks in the UK and our servers safely residing in Germany the service levels […]
Read more »Some of you may have noticed that our site had been available over a much more secure, encrypted https protocol for a while now. This is our small contribution into the Encrypt the Web initiative. We are doing it to protect your privacy from intrusion. Couple of days ago we took the next step and […]
Read more »Believe it or not, before there were Wikipedia, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, there was this little musical fan site called The Highway Star. 20 years ago the site went online for the first time. The announcement was made on April 11, 1994. Which, by the way, probably makes us one of the first 10,000 […]
Read more »If you are reading this, it means we have moved The Highway Star to a new server, which should hopefully be quite a bit more responsive then the old cranker. In the process we’ve also trimmed the fat a little by discontinuing parts of the site that have seen little to no activity in a […]
Read more »You may have noticed The Highway Star has a somewhat different look now. True. We have incorporated more content management software into the website, which should allow for smoother interaction between you, our readers, and back to us, the editors. A couple of improvements above the waterline are the new tour dates page and a […]
Read more »An updated version of Gillan’s Inn with additional material from Ian Gillan’s tour last year, previously only available in the UK, has finally been released in North America; read more about it in our Gillan’s Inn feature (http://www.thehighwaystar.com/specials/GillansInn/)
Read more »The Highway Star Shop hasn’t been updated for a while. But now we have done a massive shop update. A lot of new releases from Deep Purple and related. Check this out. Deep Purple Deep Purple – In Rock [February 12, 2007] DVD Deep Purple – Videobiography [February 26, 2007] DVD Deep Purple & Friends […]
Read more »As our trusty mailman have sent out today monthly reminders about your THS mailing lists membership, probably many of you have clicked on the provided link to update your settings and were startled when your browser gave you a security warning. This is because we have switched to HTTPS (secure HTTP protocol) for mailing lists […]
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