Mike Oldfield
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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Mike Oldfield Finds Out That Success Has Its Problems
Interview by Fred Dellar, Smash Hits, 10 January 1980
MIKE OLDFIELD strokes the tabby cat that sits on his lap. Though in the comfort of his own home, he's uneasy, unsure. It's a bad ...
Audio interviews
Interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages Audio, 17 November 1994
The Tubular Bells man on his latest album, The Songs of Distant Earth, on using technology, digital vs. analogue, Richard Branson and more.
File format: mp3; file size: 47.4mb, interview length: 49 24" sound quality: ****
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Virgin Records' First-Ever Releases: Mike Oldfield, Daevid Allen & Gong, Faust
Report by Ed Jones, Cracker, June 1973
AT 18, RICHARD BRANSON STARTED a nationwide magazine called Student, from a basement in Connaught Square, London. Realising that literacy was a faltering skill among ...
Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells; Iggy And The Stooges: Raw Power
Review by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, August 1973
SOME RECORDS GET so much critical attention that I can’t listen to them blind, can’t ignore other opinions. So, according to John Peel Tubular Bells ...
Profile by John Swenson, The Village Voice, 25 October 1973
DURING THIS past summer a work of uncompromising brilliance by a relatively unknown composer on a fledgling independent label has shaken the British rock industry. ...
Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells (Virgin Records 2001)
Review by Gary Lucas, Zoo World, 25 October 1973
Mike Oldfield's Saga Of The Tubular Bells ...
Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells (Virgin)
Review by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 8 November 1973
AN UNKNOWN English teenager playing over 20 instruments has produced the most important one-shot project of 1973. It is a debut performance of a kind ...
Mike Oldfield: High On The Ridge
Report and Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 24 August 1974
Toy gliders, house-hunting and a jam with a harpsichordist in a restaurant. It's all happening on the Welsh Marches where Karl Dallas meets Mike Oldfield. ...
Mike Oldfield: I Can't Stand People Who Play Things Blandly...
Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 28 September 1974
MIKE OLDFIELD and David Bedford looked worried as they started morosely into their glasses of orange juice. It was a measure of their anxiety that, ...
Mike Oldfield: Hergest Ridge (Virgin)
Review by Robert Duncan, Creem, December 1974
WHERE'S THE movie? Mike Oldfield's latest opus, Hergest Ridge, needs a movie, a picture-book, something as badly as his highly touted first effort, Tubular Bells, ...
Mike Oldfield: Balm for the Walking Wounded
Profile and Interview by Karl Dallas, Let It Rock, December 1974
Mike Oldfield, the man and his music, by Karl Dallas. ...
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, unpublished, for Rolling Stone, 1975
Photographs of Mike Oldfield show him to he a tight-lipped introvert with hardly a trace of emotion present in his face. The interviews, when granted, ...
Mike Oldfield and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Tubular Bells
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 11 January 1975
AS IT ALREADY appears that every other person in Great Britain possesses a copy of this much-venerated work, I doubt if it's necessary to explain ...
Tom Newman: The Man Who Taped the Tubular Bells
Interview by Fred Dellar, New Musical Express, 8 February 1975
WHEN IT COMES to tape, who better to talk to than the guy who did the 2,000 over-dubs on Tubular Bells, engineer Tom Newman? ...
Mike Oldfield: Boxed (Virgin) *****
Review by Mick Brown, Sounds, 6 November 1976
ONE LAVISHLY illustrated and highly informative booklet, four albums, two hours 40 minutes plus of music – Boxed is the almost complete Mike Oldfield. ...
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Love Beach; Mike Oldfield: Incantations
Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 25 November 1978
JEAN-PAUL Sartre took mescaline once, to prove to himself that he wasn't necessarily the institution people thought he was, and as a result became convinced ...
Mike Oldfield: This Is The Year Of The Expanding Man...
Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 25 November 1978
What Scientology did for Chick Corea (and John Travolta), Exegesis is doing for mild, retiring Mike Oldfield. He puts the stare on KARL DALLAS ...
Interview by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 2 December 1978
IF THE Moslem New Year in 1961 fell on June 15 and Haley's Comet will become visible again on February 9, 1986 then the new ...
Mike Oldfield: Boy Genius "Not Broke" Shock
Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 29 December 1979
Things haven't been going smoothly for Mike Oldfield. Tours have lost money, expensive gear has been scrapped and he's had a dispute with his label ...
Interview by Tim Oakes, International Musician & Recording World, June 1980
IN MANY WAYS, Mike Oldfield is the perfect artist to officially open the IM & RW Test Bed studio. His whole career was born out ...
Interview by Andy Gill, Q, October 1992
THE ENTRANCE to the grounds is classic old Hollywood style, with a phone you have to call from to get someone to operate the remote-controlled ...
Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells II
Review by Mat Snow, Q, October 1992
IN 1973, THE 49-minute progressive-rock classic Tubular Bells not only seeded the Virgin empire by selling 16 million copies but also set a benchmark of ...
Pleased To Meet You: Mike Oldfield & Orbital
Interview by David Quantick, Q, October 1996
Without "funny" Mike Oldfield ambient music as we know it might never have existed. Without ex-baldies Orbital the Royal Albert Hall might never have hosted ...
Albums from Michael Bolton et al
Review by Barbara Ellen, The Times, 26 November 1999
Bolton 1, Redding 0 (after tons of extra time) ...
Mike Oldfield: The Making of Tubular Bells
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, August 2001
One of the most influential pieces of music in rock history – much imitated, used in movies, TV commercials and documentaries, sampled by Janet Jackson, ...
Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells 2003
Review and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, July 2003
Deathless proto-ambient dinosaur that punk could not kill returns for 21st-century remake. ...
Mike Oldfield: Lord Of The Rings
Retrospective and Interview by Mat Snow, MOJO, October 2009
He created one of the most monolithic albums of the '70s, but behind the ambitious swoop of Tubular Bells lies a story of darkness, bad ...
Interview by Dave Thompson, Goldmine, June 2013
HE IS, OF COURSE, Mr. Tubular Bells and, regular as clockwork, the 40th anniversary of the release of his greatest hit delivers what a lot ...
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