According to DEEP PURPLE fan-site The Highway Star, seven rolls of 8mm film from Deep Purple’s 1972 concerts in Japan have come to light.

Click here to see a series of screen grabs from the black & white film.

90 seconds of Highway Star from this film will be included in the History section of the upcoming 2DVD set History, Hits & Highlights.

The full confirmed tracklist for History, Hits & Highlights is as follows:

Disc 1

'Help' (5:21 - Danish TV)

'Hush' (3:30 - Playboy After Dark)

'Wring That Neck' (3:20 - Canadian TV)

'Hallelujah' (3:42 - Beat Club)

'Mandrake Root' (12:08 - Southbank)

'Speed King' (4:13 - WDR Vicky Leandros)

'Black Night' (3:10 - Top Of The Pops)

'Child In Time' (9:36 - Doing Their Thing)

'Lazy' (11:06 - Copenhagen 1972)

'Strange Kind Of Woman' (10:10 - Top Of The Pops)

'Fireball' writing session (silent) (3:58 - ABC TV Australia)

'Fireball' (3:26 - Disco ZDF)

'Demon’s Eye' (10:09 - RBB Germany)

'No No No' (7:15 - Beat Club)

'Into The Fire' (3:57 - RBB Germany)

'Never Before'(3:29 - Filmclip)

'Highway Star' (6:04 - Beat Club)

'Smoke On The Water' (4:47 - Hofstra)

'Burn' (6:35 - London 74 / Polytechnic Project)

'Mistreated' (10:24 - California Jam)

'Love Child' (4:20 - Tokyo 75)

'You Keep On Moving' (5:42 - Tokyo 75)

Disc 2

'And The Address' (2:55 - Playboy After Dark)

'Wring That Neck' (24:19 - Bilzen Jazz Festival 1969)

'Wring That Neck' (11:19 - Pop Deux’ Paris 1970)

'Mandrake Root' (15:01 - Pop Deux’ Paris 1970)

'Black Night' (3:15 - Promo clip)

'No No No' (Rockpalast rehearsals) (15:00 - Beat Club)

'Jt Nuit’ French TV 1974 (3:08 - INA France)

'Burn' (6:35 - Leeds Polytechnic Project 1974)

Interview (Leeds Polytechnic Project 1974)

'Space Truckin’' (10:00 - Leeds Polytechnic Project 1974)

New Zealand TV Doc Nov 1975 (23:06 - New Zealand TV 1975)

'Smoke On The Water' (3:00 - New Zealand TV 1975)

Tony Edwards (DP manager) interview (2:11 - French TV 1976)

(Thanks The Highway Star)