Heading Out to the Highway

"Heading Out to the Highway"
Single by Judas Priest
from the album Point of Entry
ReleasedMay 1981 (US) [1]
Recorded1981
GenreHeavy metal[2]
Length3:47
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Rob Halford
K. K. Downing
Glenn Tipton
Producer(s)Tom Allom
Judas Priest singles chronology
"Don't Go"
(1981)
"Heading Out to the Highway"
(1981)
"Hot Rockin'"
(1981)
Music video
"Heading Out to the Highway" on YouTube

"Heading Out to the Highway" is a song by English heavy metal band Judas Priest from their 1981 album Point of Entry. It was released as a single later that year, and was the band's first single to reach the US Mainstream Rock chart, peaking at No. 10.

  1. ^ "Judas Priest singles".
  2. ^ Grow, Kory (25 September 2018). "Ex–Judas Priest Guitarist K.K. Downing on Helping to Define Heavy Metal". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 8 August 2019.