Mike Oldfield Albums (Music Guide) - Tubular Bells, Music of the Spheres, Amarok, Ommadawn, Hergest Ridge, Platinum, the Millennium Bell, Tubular Bells (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 28. Chapters: Tubular Bells, Music of the Spheres, Amarok, Ommadawn, Hergest Ridge, Platinum, The Millennium Bell, Tubular Bells II, Tubular Bells 2003, Crises, Five Miles Out, The Songs of Distant Earth, Light + Shade, Voyager, Incantations, Islands, QE2, Exposed, Heaven's Open, Tubular Bells III, Earth Moving, Discovery, The Orchestral Tubular Bells, The Killing Fields, Tr3s Lunas, Guitars, Children of the Sun, The Singles, The Mike Oldfield EP. Excerpt: Tubular Bells is the debut record album of English musician Mike Oldfield, 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 piece was later orchestrated by David Bedford for The Orchestral Tubular Bells version and it had three sequels in the 1990s, Tubular Bells II (1992), Tubular Bells III (1998) and The Millennium Bell (1999). Finally, the album was fully re-recorded as Tubular Bells 2003 at its 30th anniversary in 2003. A newly mastered and mixed re-issue of the original album appeared in June 2009 on Mercury Records, with bonus material. On 6 June there were international bell-ringing ceremonies to promote the release. All songs written and composed by Mike Oldfield, except "The Sailor's Hornpipe" (traditional, arranged by Mike Oldfield) Copyright 1973 Virgin Music Publishers Ltd. Acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, Farfisa, Hammond, and Lowrey organs; flageolet, fuzz guitars, glockenspiel, "honky tonk" piano (piano modified to sound more percussive), mandolin, piano, "Piltdown Man," percussion, Spanish guitar, producer, "taped motor drive amplifier organ chord," timpani, vocals and tubular bells. Tubular...