Mike Oldfield

...decided to give Oldfield a chance. Virgin Records released Oldfield's debut album Tubular Bells as its first album; hence the catalogue number V2001 (although V2002 and V2003 were released on the same date). The significance of this album to...

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...in 1987 (see 1987 in music) on Virgin Records. "The Time Has Come" features Oldfield's then partner and former child singer, Anita Hegerland, on vocals and is from the album Islands ''. The single was performed on a number of television...

In this article: The Time Has Come, The Wind Chimes, Virgin Records, Anita Hegerland, Enigma, Mea Culpa, Simon Phillips, Michael Cretu, and United Kingdom

...a noticeable pause in between. According to Oldfield, the album was made with the full understanding of his recording company, Virgin Records, which at the time was demanding he create more commercial material. After recording Earth Moving...

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...was living for tax reasons. The album contains a number of pop songs, which Oldfield had been encouraged by Virgin Records to write, following the success of "Moonlight Shadow" from his previous album, Crises. The first track of the album...

In this article: Discovery, To France, Crises, Tax, Moonlight Shadow, Maggie Reilly, Barry Palmer, and Virgin Records

...Tubular Bells, Oldfield performed a premiere concert in London. The founder of Virgin Records, Richard Branson, gave Oldfield a Bentley motor car to entice him into playing. Oldfield did not tour for the following six years, until 1979,...

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...of their 2008 tour. "All Right Now", recorded by Mike Oldfield (produced by Tom Newman ), with vocals by Wendy Roberts and Pierre Moerrlen, was issued as a one-sided promotional blue flexi-disc 7" single in 1979. The single was given only...

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Hergest Ridge (album) 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...

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...the Anuta tribe. In 2008 when Oldfield's original 35 year deal with Virgin Records ended, the rights to Tubular Bells and his other Virgin releases were returned to him, and then they were transferred to Mercury Records. Mercury issued a...

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...pieces of the first 25 years of Oldfield's work. The 14 track album features songs from the first 25 years of Oldfield's career, when he was on the Virgin Records and Warner Music labels. The track "Tubular Bells III" is an early version...

In this article: XXV: The Essential, Tubular Bells III, Warner Music, and Virgin Records