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Mike Oldfield
Michael Gordon Oldfield is an English retired musician, songwriter and producer best known for his debut studio album Tubular Bells, which became an unexpected critical and commercial success. Though primarily a guitarist, Oldfield played a range of instruments, which included keyboards and percussion, as well as vocals. He had adopted a range of musical styles throughout his career, including progressive rock, world, folk, classical, electronic, ambient and new age music. Oldfield took up the guitar at age ten and left school in his teens to embark on a music career. From 1967 to 1970, he and his sister Sally Oldfield were a folk duo, the Sallyangie, after which he performed with Kevin Ayers. In 1971, Oldfield started work on Tubular Bells which caught the attention of Richard Branson, who agreed to release it on his new label, Virgin Records. Its opening was used in the horror film The Exorcist and the album went on to sell over 2.7 million copies in the UK. Oldfield followed it with Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn and Incantations, all of which feature longform and mostly instrumental pieces. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Oldfield) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)

Albums

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Tubular Bells (50th Anniversary)

2023
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Man On The Rocks

2014
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Guitars

1999
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Return To Ommadawn

2017
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Music Of The Spheres

2008
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The Voyager

1998
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Third

2014
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Light And Shade

2005
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Man On The Rocks (Track By Track)

2014
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3 Lunas

2002

Singles & EPs

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Muse

Single • 2024
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Tubular Bells

Single • 2023
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Mike Oldfield

Single • 2006
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Tubular Bells (2023 edit)

Single • 2023
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Return To Ommadawn

Single • 2017
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Five Miles Out

EP • 1982
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Never Too Far (feat. Torsten Stenzel)

Single • 2023
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In Conversation 1983

EP • 2016
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Tubular Bells 4 Intro (Edit)

Single • 2023
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Spheres

Single • 2008

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Classic Ambient

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Death Rattles

Playlist • YouTube Music

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