Heading Out to the Highway

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“Heading Out to the Highway”
“Heading Out to the Highway” cover
Single by Judas Priest
from the album Point of Entry
Released 1981
Format 45 RPM
Recorded 1981
Genre Heavy metal
Hard rock
Length 3:47
Label Columbia Records
Writer(s) Rob Halford
K.K. Downing
Glenn Tipton
Producer Tom Allom
Judas Priest singles chronology
"Don't Go"
(1981)
"Heading Out to the Highway"
(1981)
"Hot Rockin'"
(1981)
'Point of Entry' track listing
"Heading Out to the Highway"
(1)
"Don't Go"
(2)

"Heading Out to the Highway" is a song by British heavy metal band Judas Priest off of their 1981 album, Point of Entry, released as a single later that year.

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 duel guitar solo between K.K. Downing and Glenn Tipton.

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