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Michael Gordon "Mike" Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English musician and composer. His work blends progressive rock with world, folk, classical, electronic, ambient, and new-age music. He is best known for his 1973 album Tubular Bells – which launched Virgin Records and became a hit after its opening was used as the theme for the film The Exorcist – and for his 1983 hit single "Moonlight Shadow".[1] He is also known for his rendition of the Christmas piece "In Dulci Jubilo".

Oldfield has released more than 20 albums with the most recent being a rock album titled Man on the Rocks, released in 2014.


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Tubular Bells (1973)
Hergest Ridge (1974)
Ommadawn (1975)
Incantations (1978)
Platinum (1979)
QE2 (1980)
Five Miles Out (1982)
Crises (1983)
Discovery (1984)
The Killing Fields (1984)
Islands (1987)
Earth Moving (1989)
Amarok (1990)
Heaven's Open (1991)
Tubular Bells II (1992)
The Songs of Distant Earth (1994)
Voyager (1996)
Tubular Bells III (1998)
Guitars (1999)
The Millennium Bell (1999)
Tr3s Lunas (2002)
Tubular Bells 2003 (2003)
Light + Shade (2005)
Music of the Spheres (2008)
Man on the Rocks (2014)

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Tubular Bells is the debut record album of English musician Mike Oldfield, recorded when he was 19 and released in 1973.

It was the first album released by Virgin Records and an early cornerstone of the company's success. Vivian Stanshall provided the voice of the "Master of Ceremonies" who reads off the list of instruments at the end of the first movement. The opening piano solo was used briefly in the soundtrack to the William Friedkin film The Exorcist (released the same year), and the album gained considerable airplay because of the film's success.

The following year the piece was orchestrated by David Bedford for The Orchestral Tubular Bells version. It had three sequels in the 1990s, Tubular Bells II (1992), Tubular Bells III (1998) and The Millennium Bell (1999). Finally, the album was re-recorded as Tubular Bells 2003 at its 30th anniversary in 2003. A newly mixed and mastered re-issue of the original album appeared in 2009 on Mercury Records, with bonus material.

For the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics, Oldfield rearranged segments from Tubular Bells for a segment about the National Health Service. This rendition appears on the soundtrack album, Isles of Wonder, and is included on the official BBC DVD release.


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Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells Full Album (Vinyl Rip)







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Side one
"Tubular Bells, Part One" – 25:30

Side two
"Tubular Bells, Part Two" – 23:20

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Side one
"Hergest Ridge (Part One)" – 21:29

Side two
"Hergest Ridge (Part Two)" – 18:45

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Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells III (1998) Full Album



Tracklist
1. The Source Of Secrets
2. The Watchful Eye
3. Jewel In The Crown
4. Outcast
5. Serpent Deream
6. The Inner Child
7. Man In The Rain
8. The Top On The Morning
9. Moonwatch
10. Secrets
11. Far Above The Clouds

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Very pretty. Maybe if I ever need to relax I will listen to a whole album :69

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I listen to the three Tubular Bells.. and Platinum a lot (used to)... I'm gonna try some others.

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It's very pretty and I would have bet he was English without reading that he is. Soothing, it makes me long for summer, a pier and a quiet lake.

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Bits of 3 of his albums are what I used as music for slideshows of my epic vacation to UK, Norway, Rome, Singapore.

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Epic :77 Still thinking about where I would like to go in a couple of years.

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Hi Rumpole and Carm :28

This is perfect for background music while working on the PC ... fabulous! Thx.

I used to listen to Steven Halpern while working, but also listen to him to mainly to relax/fall asleep -- that didn't work out so well. :roll

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