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Mike Oldfield
Michael Gordon Oldfield is a retired English musician, songwriter and producer best known for his debut album Tubular Bells (1973), which became an unexpected critical and commercial success. Though primarily a guitarist, Oldfield played a range of instruments, which included keyboards and percussion, as well as vocals. He had adopted a range of musical styles throughout his career, including prog…
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entertainment · English musician (born 1953) · composer · guitarist · songwriter · singer · record producer · musician · aircraft pilot · game designer · also Mike Oldfield, Michael Oldfield, Oldfield
Born 15 May 1953 · Q3008
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Everything on Tubular Bells was done on the first take – it was lovely, so spontaneous. I had such a long time to prepare it, and I had just one little chance to do it, and now I listen to it and it has a lovely spontaneous energy. It's got mistakes, and I could easily have cut them out, but I left them on.
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When I was younger I had an incredible sensitivity; I suppose there were too many brain cells, or they were organised in the wrong way, and they've either reorganised themselves or I've lost lots of them through alcohol and substance abuse. I can get along without being terrified now. Maybe I've just got used to it.
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2026· 3 entries
Mshale: Mike Oldfield (& Bonnie Tyler) - Islands (1987) Ponzi Scheme (6DsXg2lvM7)
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Mshale: Mike Oldfield And Bonnie Tyler - Islands (Good Quality) Coppa Italia (OVi8SxO6aT)
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2025· 2 entries
Published video “Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge (1974 Stereo Mix / Visualiser)”.
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A series of releases and anniversary editions of Oldfield's early material were announced
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2024· 3 entries
Yahoo: “We introduced his influence and found ourselves”: Mike Oldfield is Gojira’s prog hero
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Released album “Hergest Ridge: The 1974 Demo”.
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Released album “Opus Revisited (Live 1973)”.
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2023· 13 entries
Published video “Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 4 Intro (Edit)”.
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Published video “Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (8: Finale / Live 1979)”.
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Published video “Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (2: Piano Interlude / Live 1979)”.
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Published video “Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (6: Hawaiian Guitars And Funk / Live 1979)”.
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Published video “Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (3: Frantic Guitars / Live 1979)”.
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Published video “Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (5: Theme Returns / Live 1979)”.
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Published video “Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (7: Nasal Chorus And Guitar Workout / Live 1979)”.
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Published video “Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (Main Theme / Live 1979)”.
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Published video “Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (4: First Crescendo / Live 1979)”.
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Released album “Opus One”.
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Yahoo: Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells to be reissued for 50th anniversary
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Evening Chronicle: Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells at The Sage Gateshead - 50th anniversary show is a triumph
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Released album “Transmission Impossible”.
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2019· 1 entry
Released album “The Space Movie (The Full Original Unreleased 103 Minute Soundtrack)”.
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2017· 3 entries
Released album “Return to Ommadawn”.
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The Irish Times: Mike Oldfield - Return to Ommadawn album review: Long playing from long ago
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Oldfield expressed support for then US President Donald Trump and said he would have played at Trump's inauguration if he had been invited to do so
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2016· 2 entries
Released album “The 1984 Suite”.
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Released album “Original Album Series”.
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2015· 7 entries
Released album “The Space Movie”.
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The Washington Post: Mike Oldfield's son Dougal dies aged 33
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Released album “The Best of: 1992–2003”.
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Released album “Lo Mejor De... Mike Oldfield”.
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Oldfield told Steve Wright on his BBC radio show that a sequel album to Tubular Bells was in early development, which he aimed to record on analogue equipment
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Oldfield revealed that he had started on a sequel to Ommadawn
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His son Dougal died after collapsing while working at a film production company in London
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2014· 4 entries
Released album “The Studio Albums: 1992–2003”.
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The Daily Telegraph: Mike Oldfield interview: 'I am a man of extremes'
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Released album “Man on the Rocks”.
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The Guardian: Mike Oldfield: Man on the Rocks review – a not-so-new-age return
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2013· 4 entries
Released album “Moonlight Shadow: The Collection”.
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Released album “Tubular Beats”.
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Oldfield invited Branson to the opening of St
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Oldfield and York released a remix album entitled Tubular Beats
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2012· 8 entries
Released album “Journey Into Space”.
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Released album “Classic Album Selection (Six Albums 1973–1980)”.
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Released album “Icon”.
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The compilation album Two Sides: The Very Best of Mike Oldfield was released and reached No
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Oldfield performed at the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympic Games held in London, while 2017 saw the release of his final album, Return to Ommadawn
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Released album “Two Sides: The Very Best of Mike Oldfield”.
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Oldfield was featured on Journey into Space, an album by his brother Terry, and on the track "Islanders" by German producer Torsten Stenzel's York project
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Oldfield stated that he had decided to leave England after feeling that the country had become a "nanny state" with too much surveillance and state control
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2011· 1 entry
Released album “Tubular Bells + Hergest Ridge”.
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2010· 2 entries
Released album “Je pense à toi (Henrik Schwarz remix) / Tubular bells (Âme re-interpretation)”.
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Lyricist Don Black said that he had been working with Oldfield
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “The Collection”.
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Mercury released the compilation album The Mike Oldfield Collection 1974–1983, that went to No
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2008· 5 entries
Released album “Tubular Bells II / Tubular Bells III”.
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Released album “Music of the Spheres”.
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Released album “Collection Prestige”.
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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 were then transferred to Mercury Records
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Oldfield contributed a new track, "Song for Survival", to the charity album Songs for Survival in support of Survival International
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2007· 3 entries
Released album “Tubular Bells, Part 1”.
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2008 and 2009 at estimated values of, respectively, £25,000–35,000, £10,000–15,000 and £8,000–12,000; Oldfield has since sold it and donated the £6500 received to the charity SANE
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Oldfield released his autobiography, Changeling
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2006· 4 entries
Released album “The Platinum Collection”.
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And 2007, Oldfield headlined the Night of the Proms tour, consisting of 21 concerts across Europe
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Released album “Live at Montreux 1981”.
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Released album “New Times”.
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2005· 3 entries
Released album “Light + Shade”.
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Released album “The Very Best of Mike Oldfield”.
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Oldfield signed a deal with Mercury Records UK, who secured the rights to his catalogue when the rights had reverted to himself
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2003· 4 entries
Released album “Tubular Bells 2003”.
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Released album “The Complete Tubular Bells”.
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Released album “The Greatest Works of Mike Oldfield W Wykonaniu Masters of Sound”.
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Released album “The Art in Heaven Concert (Live in Berlin)”.
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2002· 5 entries
Released album “Tr3s Lunas”.
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Released album “Collection”.
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Released album “The Comprehensive Collection of Singles and Rarities”.
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And 2003, Oldfield re-recorded Tubular Bells, using modern equipment, to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the original
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A virtual game where the player can interact with a world full of new music
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2001· 4 entries
Released album “The Best of Tubular Bells”.
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Released album “Collaborations”.
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In 2001, Oldfield began counselling and psychotherapy.
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Oldfield began counselling and psychotherapy
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “Hit Collection”.
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1999· 5 entries
Released album “The Millennium Bell”.
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Released album “Guitars”.
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Released album “Tubular Bells II & III Live”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Best 99: The Earth Calling”.
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1998· 4 entries
Released album “Tubular Bells III”.
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Oldfield produced the third Tubular Bells album (also premiered at a concert, this time in Horse Guards Parade, London), drawing on the dance music scene at his then new home on the island of Ibiza
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Released album “Five Miles Out / Crises / Heaven’s Open”.
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Released album “Ommadawn / The Orchestral Tubular Bells / Earth Moving”.
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1997· 2 entries
Released album “The Essential Mike Oldfield”.
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Released album “The Garden of Love”.
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “Voyager”.
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1995· 1 entry
Oldfield continued to embrace new musical styles by producing the Celtic-themed album Voyager
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1994· 4 entries
Released album “The Songs of Distant Earth”.
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Released ep “Hibernaculum”.
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Released album “The Sorcerer”.
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Also had an asteroid, 5656 Oldfield, named after him
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1993· 8 entries
Released ep “In Dulci Jubilo Christmas EP”.
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Released album “Elements: 1973–1991”.
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Released album “The Best of Mike Oldfield: Elements”.
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“Everything on Tubular Bells was done on the first take – it was lovely, so spontaneous. I had such a long time to prepare it, and I had just one little chance to do it, and now I listen to it and it has a lovely spontaneous energy. It's got mistakes, and I could easily have cut them out, but I left them on.”
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Released album “Swollowed Up by a Big Fat Snake”.
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Released album “I Met a Sweet Señora in Barcelona”.
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“When I was younger I had an incredible sensitivity; I suppose there were too many brain cells, or they were organised in the wrong way, and they've either reorganised themselves or I've lost lots of them through alcohol and substance abuse. I can get along without being terrified now. Maybe I've just got used to it.”
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“If it was a horrible thing I was known for, like some horrible pop song, it would annoy me, but it doesn't. I'm proud of it.”
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1992· 5 entries
Released album “Tubular Bells II Live at the Edinburgh Castle”.
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Released album “Tubular Bells II”.
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Oldfield met Luar na Lubre, a Galician Celtic-folk band (from A Coruña, Spain), with the singer Rosa Cedrón
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Released ep “Tattoo (Live at Edinburgh Castle EP)”.
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And 1993, his first concert tour since 1984
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “Heaven’s Open”.
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1990· 4 entries
Released album “Tubular Bells / Amarok”.
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Released album “Amarok”.
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Released album “Collector's Edition: Platinum / QE2 / Five Miles Out”.
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Released album “Collectors’ Edition”.
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “Earth Moving”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “The Wind Chimes”.
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1987· 2 entries
Released album “Islands”.
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Released album “A Virgin Compilation”.
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1986· 1 entry
The relationship had broken down and they amicably split
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1985· 4 entries
Released album “The Complete Mike Oldfield”.
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Released ep “Mike Oldfield”.
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Released album “The Complete”.
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Released ep “Pictures in the Dark”.
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1984· 3 entries
Released album “The Killing Fields: Original Film Soundtrack”.
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Released album “Discovery”.
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The pair met backstage at one of Oldfield's gigs while touring Germany in 1984.
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1983· 2 entries
Released album “Crises”.
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Concluded with a concert at Wembley Arena to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Tubular Bells
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1982· 3 entries
Released ep “The Mike Oldfield EP”.
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Released album “Five Miles Out”.
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Released ep “Mistake”.
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1981· 5 entries
Oldfield was awarded the Freedom of the City of London
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Released album “Episodes”.
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Released album “Music Wonderland: Mike Oldfield’s Wonderful Music”.
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Released album “Mike Oldfield's Wonderland”.
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Released album “The Singles”.
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1980· 4 entries
Released album “QE2”.
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Oldfield released QE2, named after the ocean liner, which features a variety of guest musicians including Phil Collins on drums
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Oldfield, a longtime fan of model aircraft, acquired his pilot's licence
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Released album “Impressions”.
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1979· 4 entries
Released album “Platinum”.
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Released album “Exposed”.
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Oldfield supported Incantations with a European tour that spanned 21 dates between March and May 1979
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Recorded a version of the signature tune for the BBC children's television programme Blue Peter, which was used by the show for 10 years
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1978· 2 entries
Released album “Incantations”.
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Oldfield married Diana Fuller, a relative of the Exegesis group leader
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1976· 2 entries
Released album “Boxed”.
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Oldfield and his sister joined his friend and band member Pekka Pohjola to play on his album Mathematician's Air Display, which was released in 1977
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1975· 7 entries
Released album “Ommadawn”.
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition (1975).
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Released album “The Orchestral Tubular Bells”.
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Released album “The Joy of a Toy / Shooting at the Moon”.
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Oldfield received a Grammy award for Best Instrumental Composition in "Tubular Bells – Theme from The Exorcist"
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Oldfield recorded a version of the Christmas piece "In Dulci Jubilo" which charted at No
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By the pioneering world music piece Ommadawn released after the death of his mother, Maureen
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1974· 2 entries
Released album “Hergest Ridge”.
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Oldfield played the guitar on the critically acclaimed album Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt
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1973· 1 entry
Released album “Tubular Bells”.
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1969· 1 entry
Following the departure of Ric Grech, but the group did not share Roger Chapman's enthusiasm towards Oldfield's performance
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1959· 1 entry
When Oldfield was six, his mother gave birth to a younger brother, David, who had Down syndrome
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1953· 1 entry
Born 1953-05-15.
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