Deep Purple Mark 1 perform Wring That Neck in 1968

The Book of Taliesyn was the second studio album by Deep Purple, recorded only three months after Shades of Deep Purple and released by Tetragrammaton Records in October 1968. From the album came the single “Kentucky Woman“, with “Wring That Neck“ as B-side, released in the UK in December 1968 The heavy and up-tempo instrumental “Wring That Neck“ came out from a tight collaboration between Ritchie Blackmore and bass player Nick Simper. The name “Wring That Neck“ comes from a phrase the band used when they