Biography

Composer Mike Oldfield rose to fame on the success of Tubular Bells, an eerie, album-length conceptual piece 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 duo with his sister Sally. By the age of 16, he was playing bass with Soft Machine founder Kevin Ayers' group the Whole World alongside experimental classical arranger David Bedford and avant-garde jazz saxophonist Lol Coxhill; within months, Oldfield was tapped to become the band's lead guitarist prior to recording the 1971 LP Shooting at the Moon. ~ Jason Ankeny

Top Tracks

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• Airborn

• Animus

• Arrival

• Blue Night

• Cuckoo Song

• Family Man

• Five Miles Out

• Flying Start

• Foreign Affair

• Gimme Back

• Hergest Ridge, Pt. 1

• Hibernaculum

• In Dulci Jubilo

• In Dulci Jubilo For Soloists & Chorus

• Incantations, Pt. 1

• Incantations, Pt. 4

• Innocent

• Islands

• Moonlight Shadow

• Music From The Balcony

• Ommadawn

• Ommadawn, Pt. 1

• Ommadawn~part One

• Platinum

• Sally

• Sentinel

• Shadow On The Wall

• Taurus I

• Taurus Ii

• The Orchestral Tubular Bells, Pt. 1

• The Other Side

• The Tempest

• To France

• Tricks Of The Light

• Tubular Bells

• Tubular Bells Ii/red Dawn

• Tubular Bells Ii/sentinel

• Tubular Bells Ii/tattoo

• Tubular Bells Ii~moonshine

• Tubular Bells Ii~sentinel

• Tubular Bells Ii~the Bell

• Tubular Bells Iii/man In The Rain

• Tubular Bells Iii/secrets

• Tubular Bells Iii/the Source Of Secrets

• Tubular Bells, Pt. 1

• Wonderful Land

Discography

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• Music of the Spheres

  Decca

  2008

• Tubular Bells 2003 [includes Bonus DVD]

  WEA

  2003

• Tres Lunas

  WEA International

  2002

• The Millennium Bell

  WEA / WEA International

  1999

• Guitars

  WEA International

  1999

• Tubular Bells, Vol. 3

  Warner Bros. / WEA

  1998

• The Complete Mike Oldfield

  EMI Music Distribution

  1985

• Airborne

  1980