Listen, Learn, Read On

Listen, Learn, Read On
Box set by Deep Purple
Released 2002
Recorded 1964 - 1976
Genre Hard rock
Length 449:32 (7:29:32) 6 CDs
Label EMI
Producer Derek Lawrence Mk 1
Deep Purple Mk2 Mk3 Mk4
Martin Birch Mk4
Deep Purple chronology
Abandon
(1998)		 Listen, Learn, Read On
(2002)		 Bananas
(2003)

Listen, Learn, Read On is a box set released by Deep Purple in 2002.

A collection of 74 tracks (around a quarter of which were unreleased prior to the album) across six CDs, all subject to extensive mastering at EMI's Abbey Road Studios. The set starts with a selection of early tracks by the members of the band before they were in Purple.

The box set also houses a format book written by Deep Purple archivist Simon Robinson, which tells the band's story via 120 pages of text, with pictures, cuttings, memorabilia, musician profiles and discographies.

This monster set is certainly the most luxurious collection on the band ever issued, and was twice runner up in 'best box set' category in Record Collector's annual poll.

Listen, Learn, Read On has been deleted by EMI, and is no longer in production.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice except where indicated.

Disc one: Pre Purple and Mk 1

  1. "Keep a Knockin'" (Penniman) 2:34
  2. "You'll Never Stop Me Loving You" (Roger Lewis) 3:28
  3. "Only Time Will Tell" (Lewis) 2:11
    • M.I. Five [feat. Evans, Paice]
  4. "Send For that Girl" (Rowland Barter) 2:42
  5. "Porcupine Juice" (Gus Dudgeon/Lord) 3:13
    • Santa Barbara Machine Head [feat. Jon Lord]
  6. "I Can See Through You" (Roger Glover) 3:23
  7. "Mr. Universe" (Hal David/Gillan) 4:17
    • Episode Six [feat. Gillan, Glover]
  8. "Medusa" (Hughes) 5:40
  9. "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" (Robert Lamm) 3:17
  10. "See My People Come Together" (Bolin) 6:07
  11. "Hush" (South) 4:13
  12. "Help" (Lennon–McCartney) 6:00
  13. "Shield" (Lord/Blackmore/Evans) 6:01
  14. "Listen, Learn, Read On" (Blackmore/Lord/Evans/Paice) 4:00
  15. "Kentucky Woman" (Neil Diamond) 4:41
  16. "Playground" (Blackmore/Lord/Simper/Paice) 4:31 (The Book of Taliesyn out-take)
  17. "Emmaretta" (Blackmore/Lord/Evans) 2:58 (single A-side)
  18. "The Bird Has Flown" (Blackmore/Lord/Evans) 2:51 (US single B-side)

Disc two: Mk 1 and Mk 2

  1. "Why Didn't Rosemary" (Blackmore/Lord/Evans/Simper/Paice) 5:02
  2. "Hallelujah" (Greenaway/Cook) 3:40 (single A-side)
  3. "Ricochet" 3:04 (BBC session Aug 11 1969)
  4. "The Bird Has Flown" (Blackmore/Lord/Evans) 3:03 (BBC session)
  5. "Hush (South)" 4:16 (Live, Royal Albert Hall, 24 Sep 1969)
  6. "Concerto Third Movement reprise" (Lord) 5:36 (Live, Royal Albert Hall)
  7. "Wring that Neck" (Lord/Blackmore/Simper/Paice) 20:43 (Live, Montreux Casino, Oct 4 1969)
  8. "Jam Stew" 3:54 (BBC session Oct 31, 1969)
  9. "Speed King" 3:23 (BBC session)
  10. "Cry Free" 3:08 (Deep Purple in Rock out-take)
  11. "Hard Lovin' Man" 4:12 (BBC session Apr 21 1970)
  12. "Bloodsucker" 3:14 (BBC session)
  13. "Living Wreck" 2:58 (BBC session)
  14. "Studio Chat / Jam" 0:40
  15. "Flight of the Rat" 7:53 (95 remix)

Disc three: Mk 2

  1. "Mandrake Root" (Blackmore/Evans) 30:02 (Live, Stockholm, Nov 12, 1970)
  2. "Grabsplatter" 4:30 (BBC session Sep 23 1970)
  3. "Child in Time" 10:47 (BBC session)
  4. "Jon Lord Interview" 1:35
  5. "Black Night" 3:28 (BBC session)
  6. "Into the Fire" 3:48 (BBC session)
  7. "Fools" 5:19
  8. "Fireball" 3:23
  9. "No One Came" 6:24
  10. "Demon's Eye" 6:08 (96 remix)

Disc four: Mk 2 and Mk 3

  1. "No No No" 7:16 (Live, Beat Club, German TV Sep 1971)
  2. "Highway Star" 6:08 (Live, Beat Club)
  3. "Smoke on the Water" 5:49 (Quad Mix UK 1974)
  4. "Never Before" 4:01 (Quad Mix)
  5. "When a Blind Man Cries" 3:27 (97 remix)
  6. "Strange Kind of Woman" 8:44 (BBC in Concert, Paris Theatre Mar 9 1972)
  7. "Lazy" 11:13 (Live, Tokyo, Aug 17 1972)
  8. "Black Night" 5:47 (Live, Osaka, Aug 16 1972)
  9. "Woman from Tokyo" 6:24 (99 remix)
  10. "Smooth Dancer" 4:08
  11. "Mary Long" 4:26 (99 remix)
  12. "Burn" (Blackmore/Lord/Paice/Coverdale) 6:00
  13. "Might Just Take Your Life" (Blackmore/Lord/Paice/Coverdale) 4:36

Disc five: Mk 3

  1. "Sail Away" (Blackmore/Coverdale) 5:47
  2. "Coronarias Redig" (Blackmore/Lord/Paice) 4:52 (single B-side)
  3. "You Fool No One" (Blackmore/Lord/Paice/Coverdale) 18:58 (Live, Ontario Speedway, Apr 6 1974)
  4. "Mistreated" (Blackmore/Coverdale) 12:02 (Live, San Diego Sports Arena, Apr 9 1974)
  5. "Space Truckin'" 29:52 (Live, Kilburn Gaumont, May 22, 1974)

Disc six: Mk 3 & Mk 4

  1. "Stormbringer" (Blackmore/Coverdale) 4:04 (Quad Mix)
  2. "Soldier of Fortune" (Blackmore/Coverdale) 3:14 (Quad Mix)
  3. "Hold On" (Coverdale/Hughes/Lord/Paice) 5:08 (Quad Mix)
  4. "High Ball Shooter" (Blackmore/Coverdale/Hughes/Lord/Paice) 4:30 (Instrumental mix)
  5. "The Gypsy" (Blackmore/Coverdale/Hughes/Lord/Paice) 5:43 (Live, Paris Palais des Sports, Apr 7 1975)
  6. "Drifter" (Bolin/Coverdale) 3:58 (California live rehearsal, June 1975)
  7. "Dance to the Rock 'n' Roll" (Bolin/Coverdale/Hughes/Lord/Paice) 10:59 (California live rehearsal, Jam)
  8. "This Time Around/Owed to 'G'" (Hughes/Lord; Bolin) 6:06
  9. "Love Child" (Bolin/Coverdale) 3:03
  10. "Wild Dogs" (Bolin/Tesar) 5:54 (Live, Tokyo Budokan, Dec 15 1975)
  11. "Lady Luck" (Cook/Coverdale) 3:24 (Live, Long Beach Arena, Feb 27 1976)
  12. "Gettin' Tighter" (Bolin/Hughes) 13:18 (Live, Long Beach Arena)
  13. "You Keep on Movin'" (Coverdale/Hughes) 5:18

Personnel

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