Artist: Mike Oldfield
Genre(s):
Pop
New Age
Rock
Rock: Electronic
Electronic
Soundtrack
Rock: Progressive
Electronic: Progressive
Discography:
The Platinum Collection (BOX SET)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Platinum Collection CD 3
Year: 2006
Tracks: 15
Platinum Collection CD 2
Year: 2006
Tracks: 17
Platinum Collection CD 1
Year: 2006
Tracks: 14
Light and Shade
Year: 2005
Tracks: 16
Early Stages
Year: 2005
Tracks: 17
Tubular Bells 2003
Year: 2003
Tracks: 17
Tres Lunas
Year: 2002
Tracks: 17
Tr3s Lunas 2
Year: 2002
Tracks: 17
Tr3s Lunas
Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
To Be Free (Single)
Year: 2002
Tracks: 3
The Danish Collection (cd2)
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
The Danish Collection (cd1)
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Tubular Bells II (Live)
Year: 2000
Tracks: 2
Hit Collection
Year: 2000
Tracks: 18
Then and Now London 13-07-1999
Year: 1999
Tracks: 20
Then and Now Birmingham 14-07-1999
Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
The Millennium Bell
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
The Earth Calling
Year: 1999
Tracks: 15
Live Paris 12-07-99 Now And Then Tour
Year: 1999
Tracks: 21
Live Berlin Concert 12-31-1999
Year: 1999
Tracks: 13
Live At Katowice
Year: 1999
Tracks: 22
Guitars
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Tubular Bells III
Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
XXV The Essential CD2
Year: 1997
Tracks: 14
XXV The Essential CD1
Year: 1997
Tracks: 2
The Sorcerer
Year: 1997
Tracks: 6
The Essential Mike Oldfield
Year: 1997
Tracks: 14
Voyager
Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
Lost In Space Cd2
Year: 1995
Tracks: 14
Lost In Space Cd1
Year: 1995
Tracks: 3
Tubular Bells 2 Usa Premiere
Year: 1993
Tracks: 17
Live In Bruxelles 30-03-1993
Year: 1993
Tracks: 19
Elements: the Best of Mike Oldfield
Year: 1993
Tracks: 16
Elements: The Best Of
Year: 1993
Tracks: 16
Elements CD4
Year: 1993
Tracks: 19
Elements CD3
Year: 1993
Tracks: 14
Elements CD2
Year: 1993
Tracks: 13
Elements CD1
Year: 1993
Tracks: 6
Elements
Year: 1993
Tracks: 16
Tubular Bells II
Year: 1992
Tracks: 14
Tattoo Single
Year: 1992
Tracks: 3
Heaven's Open Single
Year: 1991
Tracks: 4
Heaven's Open
Year: 1991
Tracks: 6
Amarok
Year: 1990
Tracks: 1
Innocent Ep
Year: 1989
Tracks: 3
Earth Moving Single
Year: 1989
Tracks: 3
Earth Moving
Year: 1989
Tracks: 9
Islands
Year: 1987
Tracks: 7
The Complete Mike Oldfield (cd2)
Year: 1985
Tracks: 9
The Complete Mike Oldfield (cd1)
Year: 1985
Tracks: 18
The Killing Fields
Year: 1984
Tracks: 17
The Killing Fields
Year: 1984
Tracks: 17
Live In Viareggio Italy 09-08-84 Cd2
Year: 1984
Tracks: 11
Live In Viareggio Italy 09-08-84 Cd1
Year: 1984
Tracks: 8
Live In Bordeaux 08-11-1984 Cd2
Year: 1984
Tracks: 10
Live In Bordeaux 08-11-1984 Cd1
Year: 1984
Tracks: 9
Discovery
Year: 1984
Tracks: 8
The World Premiere Of Crises Live At Wembley Cd2
Year: 1983
Tracks: 4
The World Premiere Of Crises Live At Wembley Cd1
Year: 1983
Tracks: 9
Live At Wembley 22-07-83 Cd02
Year: 1983
Tracks: 5
Live At Wembley 22-07-83 Cd01
Year: 1983
Tracks: 8
Crises
Year: 1983
Tracks: 6
Live In New York 1982
Year: 1982
Tracks: 8
Live In Geteborg 1982 Cd2
Year: 1982
Tracks: 6
Live In Geteborg 1982 Cd1
Year: 1982
Tracks: 5
Live In Cologne Germany 11.2.82
Year: 1982
Tracks: 10
Five Miles Out
Year: 1982
Tracks: 5
Live Hannover 02-04-1981
Year: 1981
Tracks: 13
QE2
Year: 1980
Tracks: 9
Q.E. 2
Year: 1980
Tracks: 9
Music Wonderland
Year: 1980
Tracks: 13
Live In Vienna Vernissage 1980 Cd2
Year: 1980
Tracks: 5
Live In Vienna Vernissage 1980 Cd1
Year: 1980
Tracks: 6
Live In Preston Guild Hall 23.05.1980
Year: 1980
Tracks: 13
Live In Ireland 1980 Cd2
Year: 1980
Tracks: 4
Live Dublin 31-05-1980
Year: 1980
Tracks: 9
Exposed (live album) cd2
Year: 1979
Tracks: 3
Exposed (live album) cd1
Year: 1979
Tracks: 2
Exposed (cd2)
Year: 1979
Tracks: 3
Exposed (cd1)
Year: 1979
Tracks: 4
Incantations
Year: 1978
Tracks: 4
Boxed (cd3)
Year: 1976
Tracks: 5
Boxed (cd2)
Year: 1976
Tracks: 5
Boxed (cd1)
Year: 1976
Tracks: 5
The Orchestral Tubular Bells
Year: 1975
Tracks: 2
Orchestral Tubular Bells
Year: 1975
Tracks: 1
Ommadawn
Year: 1975
Tracks: 3
Orchestral Hergest Ridge
Year: 1974
Tracks: 2
Hergest Ridge
Year: 1974
Tracks: 2
Tubular Bells 25th Anniversary
Year: 1973
Tracks: 2
Tubular Bells
Year: 1973
Tracks: 2
World Premiere Of Tubular Bells 25-07-1973
Year:
Tracks: 2
Tubular Bells 3 Premeiere In London
Year:
Tracks: 16
Tubular Bells 3 Not So Early Mixes
Year:
Tracks: 12
I Met A Sweet Senora In Barcelona
Year:
Tracks: 15
Hibernaculum Cd Single Cd2
Year:
Tracks: 3
Hibernaculum Cd Single Cd1
Year:
Tracks: 4
Don Alfonso
Year:
Tracks: 15
Amazing Great Stuff
Year:
Tracks: 26
Airborn
Year:
Tracks: 5
Composer Mike Oldfield rose wine to fame on the success of Cannular Bells, an eery, album-length conceptual slice employed to stunning effect in the film The Exorcist. Born May 15, 1953, in Reading, England, Oldfield began his professional career at the age of 14, forming the Sallyangie folk music duet with his sister Sally; a year subsequently, the siblings issued their debut LP, Children of the Sun. By the age of 16, he was playing bass with Soft Machine founder Kevin Ayers' group the Whole World alongside experimental classical transcriber David Bedford and new wave wind saxophonist Lol Coxhill; within months, Oldfield was tapped to become the band's lead guitar player prior to recording the 1971 LP Shooting at the Moon.
Tubular Bells, primitively dubbed Opus 1, grew out of studio time gifted by Richard Branson, wHO at the fourth dimension was running a mail order criminal record retail service. After its completion, Oldfield shopped the track record to a series of labels, only to meet with rejection; defeated, Branson decided to establish his own judge, and in 1973 Tubular Bells became the inaugural handout of Virgin Records. An atmospherical, intricate piece of music that amalgamated rock and folk motifs with the structures of minimalist composition, the 49-minute instumental bit (performed on close to 30 different instruments, virtually all of them played by Oldfield himself) fatigued months in the number unmatchable spot on the U.K. charts, and eventually sold over 16 gazillion copies globally. In addition to about single-handed establishing Virgin as one of the most important labels in the record industry, Tubular Bells besides created a grocery store for what would subsequently be dubbed young age music, and south Korean won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition in 1974.
The followup, 1974's Hergest Ridge (named after Oldfield's retreat in a distant area of Herefordshire) besides proved phenomenally successful, and dislodged Tubular Bells at the summit of the British chart. With 1975's Ommadawn, he explored ambient textures and earth music; however, the egress of punk left field Oldfield baffled, and he retreated from peck for three old age following the LP's button. He resurfaced with 1978's Incantations. Platinum, issued a class subsequently, kept its eye on the clubs, and featured a dancing rendering of the Philip Glass theme "North Star." With 1980's QE 2, Oldfield touched completely aside from his epic-length pieces and travelled into pop territory, a switch typified by the album's overlay of ABBA's "Arrival." He continued in a pop vein for very much of the eighties, as albums like 1983's Crises, 1984's Discovery, and 1987's Islands encroached further and farther upon mainstream accessibility. In 1992, Oldfield teamed with producer Trevor Horn for Tubular Bells II, which returned him to the summit of the U.K. charts. The Songs of Distant Earth appeared two eld subsequently, followed by a third Tubular Bells update in 1998.
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