"Heading Out to the Highway" | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Single by Judas Priest | ||||||||||
from the album Point of Entry | ||||||||||
Released | 1981 | |||||||||
Format | 45 RPM | |||||||||
Recorded | 1981 | |||||||||
Genre | Hard rock | |||||||||
Length | 3:47 | |||||||||
Label | Columbia | |||||||||
Writer(s) | Rob Halford K.K. Downing Glenn Tipton |
|||||||||
Producer | Tom Allom | |||||||||
Judas Priest singles chronology | ||||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
"Heading Out to the Highway" is a song by British heavy metal band Judas Priest from their 1981 album, Point of Entry, released as a single later that year. In the U.S., the song reached the top 10 (peaking at #10) on the Billboard Top Tracks chart[1]
This song was featured on VH-1's Top 40 Driving Songs.
A live version of this song was included on The Best of Judas Priest: Living After Midnight, which was not endorsed by the band. Other live versions appear on the live albums Priest...Live! and Live in London.
The song contains a dual guitar solo between K.K. Downing and Glenn Tipton.
The song is playable on the music video game Rock Revolution.
The song was covered by White Wizzard on the limited edition of Over the Top
|