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 his second album and like its predecessor, Tubular Bells, was number 1 in the UK album charts, but unlike its predecessor, it went straight in at the top spot.
Oldfield was not comfortable with the public spotlight from the success of Tubular Bells. He retreated to the English countryside to work on his nex...
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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 his second album and like its predecessor, Tubular Bells, was number 1 in the UK album charts, but unlike its predecessor, it went straight in at the top spot.
Oldfield was not comfortable with the public spotlight from the success of Tubular Bells. He retreated to the English countryside to work on his next opus. The result was Hergest Ridge, named after a hill on the border of Herefordshire and Wales near where he was living at the time.
Hergest Ridge was the number one album the week of 14 September 1974 and remained so for three weeks until being knocked out of the spot by its predecessor Tubular Bells. Oldfield is thus one of only three artists (along with The Beatles and Bob Dylan) to have defeated themselves in this manner.
Like Tubular Bells, the album is divided into two movements, but unlike its multi-themed and rapidly-changing...
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