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| Studio album by Deep Purple | |||||
| Released | October, 1968 (US) July, 1969 (UK) |
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| Recorded | August 1968 at De Lane Lea, London |
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| Genre | Hard rock, Progressive rock | ||||
| Length | 43:57 (Original LP) 65:19 (2000 CD edition) |
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| Label | Harvest Records (UK) Tetragrammaton (US) |
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| Producer | Derek Lawrence | ||||
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The Book of Taliesyn is the second album by English rock band Deep Purple, released in 1968 by Tetragrammaton in the US, and by EMI's Harvest Records in the UK, and Polydor in Canada and Japan in 1969. The album follows the psychedelic pop/rock sound of Shades of Deep Purple; however, there is a harder edge to several songs, beginning to show the new sound Deep Purple would introduce in 1970 with Deep Purple in Rock.
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Track listing
- "Listen, Learn, Read On" (Rod Evans, Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, Ian Paice) – 4:05
- "Wring That Neck" (originally titled "Hard Road" in the USA) (Blackmore, Nick Simper, Lord, Paice) – 5:13
- "Kentucky Woman" (Neil Diamond) – 4:44
- a) "Exposition (Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice)
b) "We Can Work It Out" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 7:06 (6:66 instead of 7:06 on the LP). - "Shield" (Evans, Blackmore, Lord) – 6:06
- "Anthem" (Evans, Lord) – 6:31
- "River Deep - Mountain High" (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector) – 10:12
Bonus tracks on the CD re-issue
- "Oh No No No" (studio outtake) (Mike Leander, Leon Russell) – 4:25
- "It's All Over" (BBC Top Gear Session) (King, Bert Berns) – 4:14
- "Hey Bop a Re Bop" (BBC Top Gear Session) (Evans, Blackmore, Lord, Paice) – 3:31
- "Wring That Neck" (BBC Top Gear Session) (Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice) – 4:42
- "Playground" (studio outtake 18/8/69) (Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice) – 4:29
Personnel
- Rod Evans - lead vocals
- Ritchie Blackmore - guitar
- Nick Simper - bass, backing vocals
- Jon Lord - organ, keyboards, backing vocals, string arrangements on "Anthem"
- Ian Paice - drums
Additional personnel
- Produced by Derek Lawrence
- Engineered by Barry Ainsworth
- Bonus tracks recorded 1968 & 1969 (BBC Top Gear sessions 14/1/69)
- Digitally remastered and restored by Peter Mew at Abbey Road Studios, London
See also
- Book of Taliesin, the historical book for which the album is named
