Songfacts®:

• Although it contains some blistering guitar from Ritchie Blackmore, this ego tripping instrumental is dominated by Jon Lord's powerful organ riff. A single one-sided sheet of the basic music, without the solos, was deposited with the British Museum Library shortly after the track was written. It is credited to Blackmore, Lord, Simper and Paice; the latter two being the bass player and drummer respectively. Copyright is claimed for B. Feldman & Co trading as HEC Music of London, 1968.
• "Wring That Neck" was originally called "Hard Road" (in the USA), and like the rest of the second album, it was recorded at De Lane Lee Studios, Holborn, London in August 1968. The album version runs to 5 minutes 13 seconds, but in live concert, like "Mandrake Root" from their first album, it was often stretched out to half an hour or more. >>

  Suggestion credit:
  Alexander Baron - London, England, for above 2