The Book of Taliesyn

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The Book of Taliesyn
The Book of Taliesyn cover
Studio album by Deep Purple
Released October, 1968
Recorded August 1968
Genre Hard rock
Length 65:19
Label Harvest Records (UK)
Tetragrammaton (US)
Producer(s) Derek Lawrence
Professional reviews
Deep Purple chronology
Shades of Deep Purple
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The Book of Taliesyn is the second album by Deep Purple, released in 1969 by EMI's Harvest Records in the UK, Tetragrammaton in the US and Polydor in Canada and Japan.

The album follows the psychedelic-pop 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.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Listen, Learn, Read On" (Blackmore, Evans, Lord, Paice) – 4:05
  2. "Wring That Neck" (originally titled "Hard Road" in the USA) (Blackmore, Lord, Paice, Simper) – 5:13
  3. "Kentucky Woman" (Neil Diamond) – 4:44
  4. a) "Exposition (Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice)
    b) We Can Work It Out" (Lennon/McCartney) – 7:06 (on the album the track length is written as 6:66 instead of 7:06).
  5. "Shield" (Blackmore, Evans, Lord) – 6:06
  6. "Anthem" (Evans, Lord) – 6:31
  7. "River Deep - Mountain High" (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector) – 10:12

Bonus tracks on the CD re-issue;

8. "Oh No No No" (Leander, Russell) studio outtake – 4:25
9. "It's All Over" (King, Berns) BBC Top Gear Session – 4:14
10. "Hey Bop a Re Bop" (Blackmore, Evans, Lord, Paice) BBC Top Gear Session – 3:31
11. "Wring That Neck" (Blackmore, Lord, Paice, Simper) BBC Top Gear Session – 4:42
12. "Playground" (Blackmore, Lord, Paice, Simper) studio outtake – 4:29

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Deep Purple
Ian Gillan | Steve Morse | Roger Glover | Don Airey | Ian Paice
Ritchie Blackmore | Jon Lord | David Coverdale | Joe Lynn Turner | Tommy Bolin | Glenn Hughes | Rod Evans | Nick Simper | Joe Satriani
Discography
Albums : Shades of Deep Purple | The Book of Taliesyn | Deep Purple | Deep Purple in Rock | Fireball | Machine Head | Who Do We Think We Are | Burn | Stormbringer | Come Taste the Band | Perfect Strangers | The House of Blue Light | Slaves & Masters | The Battle Rages On | Purpendicular | Abandon | Bananas | Rapture of the Deep
Live albums: Live in Inglewood | Concerto for Group and Orchestra | Kneel & Pray | Scandinavian Nights | Space Vol 1 & 2 | Made in Japan | Deep Purple In Concert | Denmark 1972 | Made in Europe | Live in London | California Jamming: Live at the California Jam | Just Might Take Your Life | Perks And Tit | Mk III: The Final Concerts | Last Concert in Japan | King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents: Deep Purple in Concert | This Time Around: Live in Tokyo | Nobody's Perfect | In The Absence of Pink: Knebworth 85 | Come Hell or High Water | Live In Europe 1993 | Live at the Olympia '96 | Total Abandon: Live in Australia | In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra | Live At The Rotterdam Ahoy | The Soundboard Series
Videos and DVDs: Concerto for Group and Orchestra | Special Edition EP | Live in California 74 | Come Hell Or High Water | Bombay Calling | Live at Montreaux | In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra | Live in Australia: Total Abandon | Perihelion | Live Encounters
Compilation Albums: Purple Passages | 24 Carat Purple | When We Rock, We Rock, and When We Roll, We Roll | The Mark II Purple Singles | Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple | The Anthology | 30: Very Best of Deep Purple | Listen, Learn, Read On | Winning Combinations: Deep Purple and Rainbow | Deep Purple: The Platinum Collection
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