Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mike Oldfield collaborator, Grammy-nominated conductor Robin Smith, has announced a new tour celebrating each of Oldfield's iconic ...

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 ...

With tape manipulation and an insane amount of overdubbing, Mike Oldfield's one-man-band approach to the original "Tubular Bells" taxed the limits of recording technology in 1972. By Billboard Staff ...

Following on from the hugely successful extended 50th anniversary celebrations of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells, which toured throughout the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand in 2023 and 2024, The ...

Hi, Mike! How's it going? Good. I've just become a granddad for the first time. Congrats! What's it like to also be the godfather of new age ambient chillout? I don't mind what the category is, as ...

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 ...

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 ...

There can be few pieces of music composed more than half a century ago that sound as though they could have been written just yesterday. The iconic and innovative Tubular Bells (1973) is ...

Hardware projects often fall into three categories: Those that flash lights, those that make sounds and those that move. This virtuoso performance by [Kevin]’s “Lo-Fi Orchestra” manages all three, ...

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 ...