Mike Oldfield was just 19 when he composed his masterwork, Tubular Bells. "I suppose," he later told the Guardian, "I was advanced for my age." Some musicians toil for decades as they work toward ...

Smith first premiered the new live version of Tubular Bells at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 2021, and has been touring the performance globally ever since. “The wonderful thing about Tubular Bells is ...

Londres, 24 may (EFE).Londres, 24 may (EFE). — “Tubular Bells”, el envolvente álbum instrumental de Mike Oldfield con el que se estrenó la discográfica británica Virgin Records en 1973, cumple 40 años ...

As we discover in an outstanding music documentary to be shown on BBC Four, Oldfield never again touched the same source of original creativity, in a working lifetime dominated by acute emotional and ...

Andy Bennett has received funding from the ARC. English composer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield began writing Tubular Bells 50 years ago, at the age of 17. The record, released two years ...

Mike Oldfield was told his vision for ‘Tubular Bells’ was “crazy”. The 70-year-old musician’s debut album was a huge success when it was released in 1973 but he had no idea it was going to be so ...

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As soon as those haunting notes from The Exorcist sounded on the piano, everyone in the Alexandra Theatre began to cheer. But Robin A. Smith and his incredible band of musicians had already won over ...

Mike Oldfield collaborator, Grammy-nominated conductor Robin Smith, has announced a new tour celebrating each of Oldfield's iconic Tubular Bells series of albums The Best of Tubular Bells I, II & III ...

The legendary work of Mike Oldfield, the Reading-born musician behind one of the most famous horror movie tracks of the 20th century, is to be performed at Swansea Arena in March next year. The ...

Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells is coming to Birmingham as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations which was marked last year. Known as the soundtrack for horror classic The Exorcist, the album is ...

“Tubular Bells” and “Mike Oldfield” immediately evoke the iconic earworm that is the tune's opening piano motif, which, on a broader pop culture level, is inextricably linked to William Friedkin's ...