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Mike Oldfield
Michael Gordon "Mike" Oldfield (born 15 May 1953, Reading, Berkshire) is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age and more recently dance. His music is often...
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Tubular Bells
Tubular Bells is the debut record album of English musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1973. 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...
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- May 25, 1973
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- 2,932 s (48.87 min )
Hergest Ridge
Hergest Ridge is a record album, written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield released in 1974 (see 1974 in music) by Virgin Records. It was Oldfield's second solo album. He was not comfortable with the public attention that had come from the...
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- Aug 28, 1974
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- 2,413.347 s (40.22245 min )
The Orchestral Tubular Bells
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- Aug 28, 1974
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- 3,065.667 s (51.09445 min )
Ommadawn
Ommadawn is a record album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield. It is his third album, released in 1975 (see 1975 in music). The cover photograph was by David Bailey. It peaked at #4 on the UK Albums Chart.
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- Oct 21, 1975
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- 2,204.2 s (36.737 min )
Incantations
Incantations is a double album written and produced by Mike Oldfield. Released in late 1978 (see 1978 in music), it was his fourth studio album, and the first to feature a piece divided into more than two movements.
The current CD issue fits the...
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- Nov 24, 1978
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- 4,373 s (72.88 min )
QE2
QE2 is a record album mostly written and performed by Mike Oldfield, released in 1980.
It was his sixth album and featured both original Oldfield compositions and two short songs from bands ABBA ("Arrival") and The Shadows ("Wonderful Land"). The...
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- Oct 31, 1980
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- 2,391.4 s (39.857 min )
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Five Miles Out
Five Miles Out is a record album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield. It was his seventh album of original material, and was released in 1982 (see 1982 in music), at a time when his music was moving away from large-scale symphonic pieces...
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- Mar 19, 1982
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- 3,001.6 s (50.027 min )
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Crises
Crises is the 8th album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1983. Oldfield's well known "Moonlight Shadow" appears on the album.
The title track of the album is a twenty minute long piece, featuring a small amount of vocals, sung by Oldfield. The...
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- May 27, 1983
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- 2,241.933 s (37.36555 min )
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Discovery
Discovery is the 9th record album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1984. It was recorded at Oldfield's then-home in Villars-sur-Ollon in the Swiss Alps where he was living for tax reasons.
The album contains a number of pop songs, which Oldfield had...
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- Jun 25, 1984
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- 2,484.56 s (41.4093 min )
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The Killing Fields
The Killing Fields is the 10th record album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1984. It was the soundtrack album for the film of the same name.
Though Oldfield's music had been used in films before (see The Exorcist and The Space Movie), this was the...
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- Nov 26, 1984
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- 2,316.667 s (38.61112 min )
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Earth Moving
Earth Moving is the 12th record album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1989.
The songs are sung by various singers that Oldfield hired, including his then-wife, Anita Hegerland. The album is made mostly with synthesizers. It is notable for being...
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- Jul 10, 1989
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- 2,486.373 s (41.43955 min )
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Tubular Bells II
Tubular Bells II is the 15th music album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1992. The album - the first for his new record label, Warner Bros. Records, following an acrimonious departure from Virgin Records after twenty years - was conceived as a sequel...
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- Aug 31, 1992
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- 3,522.133 s (58.70222 min )
The Best of Mike Oldfield: Elements
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- Sep 6, 1993
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- 3,834.893 s (63.91488 min )
The Songs of Distant Earth
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- Nov 21, 1994
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- 3,350.707 s (55.84512 min )
Voyager
Voyager is the 17th music album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1996. It is a Celtic-themed album.
The album was the last in the original three album deal which Oldfield had signed with Warner after leaving Virgin, starting with Tubular Bells II....
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- Aug 26, 1996
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- 3,513 s (58.55 min )
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Tubular Bells III
Tubular Bells III is the 18th album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1998. A sequel to Oldfield's 1973 Tubular Bells and his 1992 Tubular Bells II albums, it was released on the 25th anniversary of the first Tubular Bells album.
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- Aug 31, 1998
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- 2,800.933 s (46.68222 min )
Guitars
Guitars is a record album written and performed by Mike Oldfield, released in 1999 (see 1999 in music).
Oldfield plays all the music on the album, using only guitars of various types. The most remarkable usage is that of his Roland MIDI-equipped...
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- May 24, 1999
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- 2,568.6 s (42.81 min )
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Tubular Bells 2003
Tubular Bells 2003 is an album by Mike Oldfield, released in 2003. It is a complete re-recording of Oldfield's 1973 album Tubular Bells.
Oldfield had always been uncomfortable with the original recording because he had only a few weeks to record it...
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- May 26, 2003
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- 2,958.947 s (49.31578 min )
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Far Above the Clouds
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Hibernaculum
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Let There Be Light
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Man in the Rain
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Moonlight Shadow
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Sentinel-Restructure
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The Millennium Bell
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The Platinum Collection
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To Be Free the Remixes
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Women of Ireland
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Exposed
Exposed is a 1979 live album by Mike Oldfield.
The album was a collection of Oldfield's tours in Spain, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and England from March to April 1979. It peaked at #16 on the UK Album Chart.
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- Jul 17, 1979
