"Mike Oldfield's Single ""Mike Oldfield's Single"" is the debut authorised single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1974. The A-side is a variation of one of the themes from Oldfield's 1973 debut album, ""Tubular Bells"", and was made in response to an American single containing an excerpt from ""Tubular Bells"" which Oldfield did not authorise. After its use in the box office success ""The Exorcist"", ""Tubular Bells"" (as featured on the American single) reached #7 on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100. Virgin (dist. Atlantic) VR-55100 (VRS-55100 in Canada), issued in 1973 Side 1 of this single is an excerpt from"
"singles which Oldfield released in the 1970s. ""Cuckoo Song"" also features Les Penning. Cuckoo Song (instrumental) ""Cuckoo Song"" is a musical piece written by Michael Praetorius (1571 – 1621). In 1977 British musician Mike Oldfield released an arrangement of the piece as a single. Mike Oldfield released a version of ""Cuckoo Song"" in 1977 as a non-album single on Virgin Records. The B side, a musical precursor of Incantations and which could almost be a part of it, is an original composition by Oldfield. The single (in a plain white sleeve) was included as a free bonus when the double"
"body music — no sex, no violence, no ecstasy; nothing uncontrolled, nothing uncontrollable."" ""Tubular Bells"" was released in the US in October 1973, and Paul Gambaccini wrote an enthusiastic review of the album for ""Rolling Stone"", calling it ""the most important one-shot project of 1973"" and ""a debut performance of a kind we have no right to expect from anyone. It took Mike Oldfield half a year to lay down the thousands of overdubs required for his 49 minutes of exhilarating music. I will be playing the result for many times that long."" He concluded, ""I can say that this"
"Cuckoo Song (instrumental) ""Cuckoo Song"" is a musical piece written by Michael Praetorius (1571 – 1621). In 1977 British musician Mike Oldfield released an arrangement of the piece as a single. Mike Oldfield released a version of ""Cuckoo Song"" in 1977 as a non-album single on Virgin Records. The B side, a musical precursor of Incantations and which could almost be a part of it, is an original composition by Oldfield. The single (in a plain white sleeve) was included as a free bonus when the double LP ""Incantations"" was released in 1978. It is one of the many non-album"
"Mike Oldfield Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English musician and composer. His work blends progressive rock with world, folk, classical, electronic, ambient, and new-age music. His biggest commercial success is the 1973 album ""Tubular Bells""which launched Virgin Records and became a hit in America after its opening was used as the theme for the film ""The Exorcist"". He recorded the 1983 hit single ""Moonlight Shadow"" and a rendition of the Christmas piece ""In Dulci Jubilo"". Oldfield has released more than 20 albums with the most recent being a sequel to his 1975 album ""Ommadawn"" titled ""Return"
"640079 : 1st ed. 1975 Virgin (dist. Polydor) 2097 930: 2nd ed. 1977 This single has been re-issued in 1977 with another picture sleeve. The B-side has been called ""In Dulce Jubilo"", and credited to ""R.L. Pearsall, arrt Mike Oldfield"". The A-side is an edited version of the end of ""Ommadawn"" part 1. This may not be the same excerpt from ""Ommadawn"" used on North American singles. Released in 1993 on CD. In Dulci Jubilo / On Horseback ""In Dulci Jubilo/On Horseback"" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1975. The festive song features an instrumental version of"
"Earth Moving Earth Moving is the 12th record album by British musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1989. Unlike Oldfield's albums released prior to ""Earth Moving"", the album contains no instrumental tracks. Oldfield used several vocalists on the album, including his then girlfriend, Anita Hegerland. The album's music was performed mainly with synthesizers. It was the first time Oldfield recorded an album without an instrumental piece; each track being vocal-based pop and rock songs. Oldfield's only other album free of instrumentals to date is 2014's ""Man on the Rocks"". The final track, despite appearing to be a lengthier piece, consists of"
"Tubular Bells Tubular Bells is the debut album by English musician Mike Oldfield, released on Virgin Records on 25 May 1973. It comprises two mostly instrumental compositions of over twenty minutes each. Oldfield recorded it when he was 19 and played most of the instruments. Although sales were initially slow, ""Tubular Bells"" gained global attention when it was used on the soundtrack to the horror film ""The Exorcist"" (1973). In 1974, it reached number one in the UK, Australia and Canada, and number three on the US ""Billboard"" 200. It was the third-bestselling album of the 1970s in the UK."
"Tubular Bells 2003 Tubular Bells 2003 is an album by Mike Oldfield, released in 2003 by Warner Music. It is a complete re-recording of Oldfield's 1973 album debut ""Tubular Bells"", which had been released 30 years earlier. Oldfield had always been uncomfortable with the original recording because he had only a few weeks to record it and the technology at the time was unable to cope with all of his requirements. As a result, mistakes could not be fixed and some instruments were out of tune on the 1973 release. Due to contractual reasons no re-recordings were allowed for 25"
"Guitars (Mike Oldfield album) Guitars is the 19th record album written and performed by Mike Oldfield, released in 1999. The concept of the album was to only perform it using guitar-like instruments. 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 guitars, which he uses to trigger drum samples and produce string-like sounds. ""Four Winds"" is a four-part work, whose sections are musical portraits of the four compass points (North, South, East and West). The Live Then & Now 1999 tour was in promotion of"
"Ommadawn Ommadawn is the third record album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1975 on Virgin Records. It peaked at No. 4 on the UK Albums Chart. The album was reissued by Mercury Records in June 2010 with additional content. A sequel album, titled ""Return to Ommadawn"", was released on 20 January 2017. As with ""Hergest Ridge"" and ""Tubular Bells"", ""Ommadawn"" is another two-movement work. Oldfield makes economic use of a relatively small number of subjects throughout ""Ommadawn"" and develops them extensively, both with musical variation and by varying the instruments used. Each of the two movements of ""Ommadawn"" utilise their"
"The Orchestral Tubular Bells The Orchestral Tubular Bells is an orchestral version of Mike Oldfield's album ""Tubular Bells"", arranged by David Bedford and recorded in 1974 by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, featuring Oldfield himself playing the guitar. Excerpts from the album were featured in the 1979 NASA film, ""The Space Movie"". It peaked at #17 on the UK Albums Chart in 1975. In 2000 it was reissued by Virgin as a HDCD and is the only one of Mike's 1970s albums yet to be reissued by Mercury Records. The main difference between ""Tubular Bells"" and the orchestrated version is that"
"by Mike Oldfield in the UK, in June 1974, peaking at number 31. The A-side was a re-recording of Part Two's ""bagpipe guitars"" section, arranged in a more pastoral version with acoustic guitars and featuring the oboe (played by Lindsay Cooper) as the lead instrument, with ""Froggy Went A-Courting"" as the B-side. The A-side of this single was included on the 2009 reissue of ""Tubular Bells"". Influential British DJ John Peel was an early admirer of the record, and played it on his ""Top Gear"" radio show on BBC Radio 1 on 29 May 1973, four days after the album's"
"Oldfield Music whose sole release was a David Bedford album, ""Star Clusters, Nebulae and Places in Devon / The Song of the White Horse"". Bedford's association with Oldfield led to a record contract to make a number of albums for Virgin, some using orchestral players, others featuring Bedford's keyboards, and some include Oldfield as a featured performer. Album titles from this period include ""Star's End"" (1974), ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" (1975, a musical setting of the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge), ""The Odyssey"" (1976, a musical setting of the poem by Homer), and ""Instructions for Angels"" (1977), the"
"claimed not to be able to play very well. The video is available on the ""Elements - The Best of Mike Oldfield"" video. Two guitarists, Hank Marvin (of the Shadows) and Mark Knopfler (of Dire Straits) recorded a version of ""Wonderful Land"" on the 1993 album ""Heartbeat"", produced by Jeff Lynne. Wonderful Land ""Wonderful Land"" is an instrumental piece written by Jerry Lordan recorded and released as a single by the Shadows in 1962. It stayed at No. 1 for eight weeks in the UK Singles Chart. Lordan had previously written the hugely successful ""Apache"" for the Shadows in 1960,"
"the original multi-track tapes for the album had either badly deteriorated or been lost. Though Oldfield has also noted that some tapes containing out-takes were found. The 2011 reissue of the album was given new artwork. Disc 1 Disc 2 Disc 3 (DVD) Side A Side B Side C Side D Incantations (album) Incantations is the fourth record album by Mike Oldfield, released in late 1978 on Virgin Records. Originally released as a double album, it is Oldfield's second longest album after ""Light + Shade"". Despite the length, much of the album can be described as being compositionally minimalist, including"
"on the 2013 reissue of ""Crises"". The song has been covered by a number of artists including Swedish metal band Arch Enemy. The B-side is ""Taurus 3"", a short, fast-paced guitar piece, which is notably different from Oldfield's long multi-themed pieces, ""Taurus"" and ""Taurus 2"", on ""QE2"" and ""Five Miles Out"" respectively. Shadow on the Wall ""Shadow on the Wall"" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1983 by Virgin Records. English rock singer Roger Chapman performs vocals on the song and it is taken from Oldfield's ""Crises"" album. The song was a hit single especially in Germanic"
"cover cannot be seen on the single cover. The artwork for the 1993 reissue followed the style of the ""Elements"" artwork in most countries. An early version of the song was entitled ""Midnight Passion"" with vocals by British singer Hazel O'Connor. Along with Maggie Reilly, a girlfriend of one of the roadies when Oldfield was on tour, Oldfield used a rhyming dictionary and recorded many of the lyrics word by word. According to bassist Phil Spalding the initial tracks recorded simultaneously for ""Moonlight Shadow"" were acoustic guitar (Oldfield), bass (Spalding), drums (Phillips) and electric guitar (Tim Renwick) in early February"
"Guilty (Mike Oldfield instrumental) ""Guilty"" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1979 on Virgin Records. It reached number 22 in the UK Singles Chart. It is notable for being Oldfield's first obvious attempt to capitalise on a current musical trend, in this case disco/dance music. The UK 12"" edition was originally issued on pale blue vinyl. The composition came from Oldfield's desire to create an up-tempo tune based on a more interesting chord structure than what was typical to disco music; it is built on the circle of fifths chord previously used as the leitmotif of the"
"violin, which he has claimed not to be able to play very well. The video is available on the ""Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield"" video. Sheba (song) ""Sheba"" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1980. It is from the album ""QE2"". In many countries the Shadows cover, ""Wonderful Land"", was the A-side, while the B-side was ""Sheba"". Vocals on ""Sheba"" were performed by Maggie Reilly, and drum parts were played by Phil Collins; Oldfield plays all other instruments. The lyrics to ""Sheba"" are simply vocalisations set to the backing track. ""Wonderful Land"" is an instrumental,"
"unique to their country. Ireland issued both pairings, and some copies of both editions exist mis-pressed with the B-side label belonging to the other edition. The single has been issued three times in France, in 1976, 1977, and 1980, each with different sleeves. A music video was made for this song, and can be found on the DVD, ""Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield"". Shot in Oldfield's Througham studio, it shows four female folk dancers who dance barefoot around the studio, while Oldfield is seen playing various instruments. As in the video for his previous single, ""In Dulci Jubilo"","
"released alongside the album, the vocal piece ""On My Heart"" was played in promotion of the album, such as on television show performances. One of the album's tracks is entitled ""Musica Universalis"", which when translated into English is music of the spheres, an ancient philosophical concept that regards proportions in the movements of celestial bodies as a form of music; the concept of which the album is based upon. It is also, when literally translated, the name of Oldfield's current record label, Universal Music. This record company name trick is a repeat of a track title on his previous album"
"Incantations (album) Incantations is the fourth record album by Mike Oldfield, released in late 1978 on Virgin Records. Originally released as a double album, it is Oldfield's second longest album after ""Light + Shade"". Despite the length, much of the album can be described as being compositionally minimalist, including melodic lines played by only a few instruments at a time. The album as a whole is unusual in that it makes extensive use of the circle of fifths as an accompaniment to many of the musical ideas. Since this musical structure requires that each idea be modulated through twelve keys,"
"on other performances that year. The latter recording was acquired by Virgin, but not released as an album, although portions of it were used in ""The Space Movie"" (1979), which featured Oldfield's music. Bedford provided vocals and piano for Oldfield's cover versions of more old music hall numbers (in the manner of the now-defunct Coxhill-Bedford Duo), ""Don Alfonso"" (1974) and ""Speak (Tho' You Only Say Farewell)"" (1976), collaborated with Oldfield on a piece titled ""First Excursion"" for Oldfield's box set compilation ""Boxed"", and orchestrated Oldfield's soundtrack for ""The Killing Fields"" (1984). In 1983, Oldfield created a short-lived record label called"
"at number 2 in Ireland, and was Oldfield's highest charting single there until 1983's ""Moonlight Shadow"", which spent a week at number 1 in Ireland. Mike Oldfield plays acoustic guitar, accordion, mandolin, ARP string synthesiser, tambourine, kettle drum and bodhran (Irish drum), and both Oldfield and Penning are credited with ""feet"". This song, plus two others chosen as the B-side in different countries, had been released the month before as three of four new songs on the compilation album ""Boxed"". They were mixed and encoded for SQ quadraphonic sound, the only format this album was issued in, and all issues"
"Two Sides Two Sides: The Very Best of Mike Oldfield is a compilation album by British multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield that was released on 30 July 2012 by Mercury Records. The content of the album was compiled by Oldfield himself. The album cover features two depictions of Oldfield's signature ""Tubular Bells"" logo, one in bright pink and the other in dark blue, on a blue night's sky background. It was released on the same day as a number of other Oldfield releases; ""QE2"" and ""Platinum"" remasters, and a 6 CD boxed set. The release came days after Oldfield's performance at the"
"Two Sides Two Sides: The Very Best of Mike Oldfield is a compilation album by British multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield that was released on 30 July 2012 by Mercury Records. The content of the album was compiled by Oldfield himself. The album cover features two depictions of Oldfield's signature ""Tubular Bells"" logo, one in bright pink and the other in dark blue, on a blue night's sky background. It was released on the same day as a number of other Oldfield releases; ""QE2"" and ""Platinum"" remasters, and a 6 CD boxed set. The release came days after Oldfield's performance at the"
"had previously featured in an advert for ""The Best of Tubular Bells"" in 2000. The album carries a black cover with the ""Tubular Bells"" logo, and charted at number 11 in the UK Albums Chart. Oldfield admitted that once he had finished recording ""Tubular Bells"" and it had been released, he felt he had ""got it out of his system"" and was reluctant to promote the record at all. Branson eventually persuaded him to play a one-off concert performing the album in its entirety at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on 25 June 1973. However, Oldfield was nervous about"
"animated content is sourced from a film called ""Album"" by Croatian film company called Zagreb Film. Heaven's Open (song) ""Heaven's Open"" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1991 (see 1991 in music). It was the lead single from the album of the same name. The various formats were backed by a mix of the A-side which featured a melodic guitar line not included in the album version, along with two excerpts from ""Amarok"", Oldfield's previous album. Oldfield was credited as ""Michael"" on this release, while producer and long-term collaborator Tom Newman was listed as ""Thom Newman"". This"
"Mike Oldfield"" video. Blue Peter (instrumental) ""Blue Peter"" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1979 on the Virgin label. It is a rendition of the theme tune for the British children's television show ""Blue Peter"" and was used by the show between 1979 and 1989. The royalties from the single went to the Cambodia appeal launched by the children's show. It charted at number 19 in the UK Singles Chart. Mike Oldfield's version of the ""Blue Peter"" theme was the first time the arrangement had changed since the programme began in 1958, and it had its genesis"
"of Mike Oldfield"" in 2004. This is the only promo video on the DVD with its soundtrack in mono (although the single is in stereo); all other songs have a remastered stereo or surround soundtrack. The live-action video illustrates the lyrics with slapstick comedy, sight gags, and the actor's pained reactions toward the camera after every gag, in the style of comedian Benny Hill, who had been approached to appear in it. Hill refused because he writes most of his own material, and did not want to appear in a film scripted by someone imitating his style. An unidentified actress"
"the album; Phillips also did some production work. Oldfield makes extensive use of Oberheim and Fairlight keyboards. Asked how he recruited Chapman and Anderson in an interview, Oldfield answered ""we just hang out in the same bar"". The ""Moonlight Shadow"" single from this album includes the rare track ""Rite of Man"". The North American version of the album has a different running order and includes the single ""Mistake"". Oldfield toured the album between May and July 1983 throughout Europe. In 2000 along with Oldfield's other Virgin Records albums it was reissued in HDCD format, and was reissued again by Mercury"
"Sheba (song) ""Sheba"" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1980. It is from the album ""QE2"". In many countries the Shadows cover, ""Wonderful Land"", was the A-side, while the B-side was ""Sheba"". Vocals on ""Sheba"" were performed by Maggie Reilly, and drum parts were played by Phil Collins; Oldfield plays all other instruments. The lyrics to ""Sheba"" are simply vocalisations set to the backing track. ""Wonderful Land"" is an instrumental, and is a cover, originally released as a single by The Shadows in 1962. The video for ""Wonderful Land"" again shows Oldfield playing various instruments, including a"