Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smith first premiered the new live version of Tubular Bells at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 2021, and has been touring the ...

I have a personal connection with Tubular Bells. As a young blood at in the BBC’s Music and Arts department in the early 1970s, I was responsible for convincing the powers that be on the Saturday ...

A year before Mike Oldfield released Tubular Bells, his 1973 instrumental masterpiece, even his own label was wary of its promise. As Oldfield recalled to Guitar Player in 1978, Virgin Records waffled ...

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 ...

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 Branson’s newly ...

In 1973, an album was released that against all odds and expectations went to the top of the UK charts. The fact the album launched a record label that became one of the most recognisable brand names ...