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 to Oldfield's 1973 Tubular Bells.
Virgin Records had been pushing Oldfield to create a sequel to Tubular Bells for many years previous to his departure from the label, however Oldfield was hesitant to ...
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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 to Oldfield's 1973 Tubular Bells.
Virgin Records had been pushing Oldfield to create a sequel to Tubular Bells for many years previous to his departure from the label, however Oldfield was hesitant to do so. The founder of Virgin, Richard Branson wanted to call the album that would become Amarok, Tubular Bells II, however Oldfield declined again. Some of the ideas going into the creation of Amarok were actually to create a sequel, but for Ommadawn not Tubular Bells; even though the work produced ended up being rather different from Ommadawn.
Along with Oldfield and one of the producers from the original Tubular Bells, Tom Newman, another producer, Trevor Horn was brought in to work on Tubular Bells II. "Early Stages" which is an early...
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