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 […]

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/)

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 […]

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. […]

I know, I know, we have promised to restore The Highway Star in different languages, but various difficulties got in the way. In the meanwhile, we have boards for fan discussions in different languages in our forum:

• Deutsch / German
• Español […]

Win a copy of Ian Gillan’s new book “Smoke This”. Check out our Gillan’s Inn Special.

Santa Claus has been visiting and he’s brought presents! First off, we now have a shiny new Fan Forum, all ready for you to play around in. There’s a couple of groundrules you need to read first, and then you […]

In case you haven’t noticed it yet, we have started introducing THS web feeds a few months ago. Web feeds are a great way to get the news and updates from several web sites right on your desktop.

Feeds are now […]

We are changing our long standing editorial policy of not covering careers of former Deep Purple members and the family tree (“it’s not a tree, it’s a jungle” as Gillan have put it). The reason for this policy was that for […]

Contrary to appearances, this venerable website is still alive and kicking — but it is suffering from severe neglect. The problem, to put it simply, is a lack of people with time and energy to devote to all the things […]