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The most notable Gibson guitar Oldfield favoured in this time period was a 1962 Les Paul/SG Junior model, which was his primary guitar for the recording of Ommadawn, among other works. Oldfield is also known to have owned and used an L6-S during that model's production run in the mid-1970s.
Guitars is the 19th record album written and performed by British musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1999. The concept of the album was to only perform it using guitar-like instruments. Background. Oldfield plays all the music on the album, using only guitars of various types.
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On May 25, 1973 - only 20 years and ten days after Oldfield was born in Reading, England - Virgin Records unveiled his first album: 'Tubular Bells', a work that consisted of literally hundreds of overdubbed instruments in a cornucopia of textures.
Aug 4, 2021 · English composer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield began writing Tubular Bells 50 years ago, at the age of 17. The record, released two years later, was the first on Richard...
Mike Oldfield (born Michael Gordon Oldfield, 15 May 1953, Reading, Berkshire, England) is largely known for Tubular Bells, his groundbreaking album from 1973, the success of which also bankrolled Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Records, for which Tubular Bells was the inaugural release.
May 30, 2023 · Those opening bars were the perfect mood setter for The Exorcist – and genuinely life-changing for British musician Mike Oldfield, who was 17 when he began writing Tubular Bells, 19 when he recorded it, and 20 when, seven months after its release, it was chosen for The Exorcist.
Dec 30, 2015 · Originally released in May 1973, it saw 19-year-old Mike Oldfield playing most of the instruments himself, painstakingly overdubbed one by one, a process that was seen at the time as being wholly unique.
