A live 1975 orchestral version of Mike Oldfield's 1974 album, Hergest Ridge, is to be released. The recording is taken from a September 5 performance of Oldfield's second album at Kelvin Hall, Glasgow ...

Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells is to be reissued on May 26 on double vinyl, CD and super-deluxe Blu-ray as part of the groundbreaking album's 50th anniversary. The commemorative editions will also ...

Certainly the standing ovations and glowing reviews they've received during their present four-month tour of Europe and Britain must provide some consolation. To understand why the shoes must come off ...

As much as glam rock, flared trousers and Malcolm Macdonald banging in the goals for Newcastle United, Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells remains a vivid symbol of the eventful year that was 1973. Rubbing ...

Between them they play 22 instruments - with the help of hilarious acrobatics - to recreate the score that started Richard Branson's Virgin Records empire. "We are drenched by the end of the show," ...

These musicians ably demonstrate just how different a brass band sounds to an orchestral brass section: cornets, euphoniums and tenor horns subtly warmer, less abrasive than trumpets and French horns.

“Tubular Bells” and “Mike Oldfield” immediately evoke the iconic earworm that is the tune's opening piano motif, which, on a broader pop culture level, is inextricably linked to William Friedkin's ...

With tape manipulation and an insane amount of overdubbing, Mike Oldfield's one-man-band approach to the original "Tubular Bells" taxed the limits of recording technology in 1972. By Billboard Staff ...

ORIGINALLY rejected for being ‘unmarketable’, Tubular Bells gained international recognition when its opening theme was chosen for the 1973 film The Exorcist. It was the first record released by the ...