"Heading Out to the Highway" is a song by British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band

Rock Band

Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV Games and Electronic Arts. It is the first title in the Rock Band series. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions were released in the United States on November 20, 2007, while the PlayStation 2 version was...

 Judas Priest

Judas Priest

Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 1969. The current line-up consists of lead vocalist Rob Halford, guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, bassist Ian Hill, and drummer Scott Travis. The band has gone through several drummers over the years,...

 from their 1981

1981 in music

See also:* Timeline of musical eventsThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1981.-January–April:*January 10 – A revival of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance opens at Broadway's Uris Theatre, starring Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith.*January 24 –...

 album, Point of Entry

Point of Entry

-Judas Priest:*Rob Halford: Lead Vocals*Glenn Tipton: Lead Guitars*K.K. Downing: Lead Guitars*Ian Hill: Bass Guitar*Dave Holland: Drums...

, 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

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

The Best of Judas Priest: Living After Midnight

-Personnel:*Rob Halford: Vocals*K.K. Downing: Guitar*Glenn Tipton: Guitar*Ian Hill: Bass Guitar*Scott Travis - Drums on track 12*Dave Holland - Drums on tracks 2-11, 13*Les Binks - Drums on track 1, 14-16...

, which was not endorsed by the band. Other live versions appear on the live album

Live album

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s Priest...Live!

Priest...Live!

Priest...Live! is the second live album by Judas Priest, recorded at The Omni, Atlanta, Georgia on 15 June 1986 and the Reunion Arena,Dallas, Texas on 27 June 1986....

and Live in London

Live in London (Judas Priest album)

Live in London is a concert album by British heavy metal band Judas Priest. It was recorded at Brixton Academy on December 19, 2001, and is the last album the band released with Tim "Ripper" Owens before they reunited with Rob Halford. A live DVD was also filmed in the same concert.-Track...

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The song contains a dual guitar solo

Guitar solo

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 between K.K. Downing and Glenn Tipton

Glenn Tipton

Glenn Tipton is one of the Grammy Award-winning guitarists for the heavy metal band Judas Priest...

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The song is playable on the music video game Rock Revolution

Rock Revolution

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The song was covered by White Wizzard

White Wizzard

White Wizzard are an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2007. The band has released two EP's and two albums, Over the Top released in 2010, and Flying Tigers released in 2011.-History:...

 on the limited edition of Over the Top

Over the Top (White Wizzard album)

-Music videos:A music video for the song "Over the Top" was released on January 29, 2010. The video featured the band playing in a snowy Western town and combating a "Jazz Wizard"....

Personnel

• Rob Halford
  Rob Halford
  Robert John Arthur "Rob" Halford is an English singer-songwriter, who is best known as the lead vocalist for the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Judas Priest. He is nicknamed the "Metal God" as a tribute to his influence on metal, and after the Judas Priest song of the same name from 1980's...
  
   - vocals
• K.K. Downing - guitar
  Electric guitar
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• Glenn Tipton
  Glenn Tipton
  Glenn Tipton is one of the Grammy Award-winning guitarists for the heavy metal band Judas Priest...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Ian Hill
  Ian Hill
  Ian Hill is a founding member and bassist for the Birmingham-based Grammy award winning heavy metal band, Judas Priest....
  
   - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Dave Holland
  Dave Holland (drummer)
  Dave Holland is an English rock drummer, best remembered from his stint with Judas Priest between 1979 and 1989. He served time in prison for attempted rape of a 17-year-old boy...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....