The Book of Taliesyn
Studio album by Deep Purple
Released	October, 1968 (US) July, 1969 (UK)
Recorded	August 1968 at De Lane Lea, London
Genre	Hard rock, Progressive rock
Length	43:57 (Original LP) 65:19 (2000 CD edition)
Label	Harvest Records (UK) Tetragrammaton (US)
Producer	Derek Lawrence
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Deep Purple chronology
Shades of Deep Purple (1968) The Book of Taliesyn (1968) Deep Purple (1969)
Re-issue cover
Remastered

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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. Re-issue cover Original US cover Shades of Deep Purple is the debut album by English hard rock band Deep Purple, released in 1968 on Parlophone in the UK and Tetragrammaton in the United States. ... Deep Purple in Rock is a hard rock album by English rock band Deep Purple, released in 1970. ...

Track listing

1. "Listen, Learn, Read On" (Rod Evans, Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, Ian Paice) – 4:05
2. "Wring That Neck" (originally titled "Hard Road" in the USA) (Blackmore, Nick Simper, Lord, Paice) – 5:13
3. "Kentucky Woman" (Neil Diamond) – 4:44
4. 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).
5. "Shield" (Evans, Blackmore, Lord) – 6:06
6. "Anthem" (Evans, Lord) – 6:31
7. "River Deep - Mountain High" (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector) – 10:12

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Bonus tracks on the CD re-issue

8. "Oh No No No" (studio outtake) (Mike Leander, Leon Russell) – 4:25
9. "It's All Over" (BBC Top Gear Session) (King, Bert Berns) – 4:14
10. "Hey Bop a Re Bop" (BBC Top Gear Session) (Evans, Blackmore, Lord, Paice) – 3:31
11. "Wring That Neck" (BBC Top Gear Session) (Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice) – 4:42
12. "Playground" (studio outtake 18/8/69) (Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice) – 4:29

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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

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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

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Miscellaneous

• Anthem quotes an organ fugue by J. S. Bach beginning at 2:56

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See also

• Book of Taliesin, the historical book after which the album is named