A teenage Mike Oldfield received countless rejections for his anti-commercial debut before the music impresario took a chance on it and The Exorcist propelled it to iconic status Mike Oldfield ...

Mike Oldfield’s prog-rock epic “Tubular Bells” is one of the most iconic pieces of music ever created. Recorded when the multi-instrumentalist was just 19 years old, it was released in the spring of ...

21:05, Sat, May 20, 2023 Updated: 21:05, Sat, May 20, 2023 Funny how things turn out. The mighty Virgin brand sprung from a shy yet precocious teenager playing around with guitars and pretty much any ...

Andy Bennett has received funding from the ARC. English composer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield began writing Tubular Bells 50 years ago, at the age of 17. The record, released two years ...

Oldfield’s funkier bass lines were resplendent on bass trombone and a tuba quartet, the latter instruments coping magnificently with some fiendish runs over which a host of cornets soared, the ...

00:01, Sat, Feb 18, 2023 Updated: 13:46, Sat, Feb 18, 2023 It was the album that launched Richard Branson’s business empire. Fifty years ago, in May 1973, British musician Mike Oldfield released his ...

If Tubular Bells shared any musical DNA with anyone then it was prog band Yes, whose two-hour opus Tales from Topographic Oceans was also released in 1973. The album’s release came about almost by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smith first premiered the new live version of Tubular Bells at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 2021, and has been touring the ...

Tubular Bells, created in 1971 and released in 1973, was the debut studio album by English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter Mike Oldfield. At just 17 years old when he started composing ...