Biography mike oldfield
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Blowing out 70 candles
May 2023 is a special month for Mike Oldfield and his fans. On the 25th it will be exactly 50 years since the release of his debut album ‘Tubular Bells’ on the new label Virgin Records. An anniversary that will be celebrated in a big way with a deluxe reissue featuring some extras including the 2018 demo that mike recorded before he cancelled the Tubular Bells IV project to retire. On May 15, Mike Oldfield blowed out 70 candles. To mark this double anniversary, I use an album discography to tell the life story of the genius multi-instrumentalist who never liked the limelight.
Childhood
Michael Gordon Oldfield was born on May 15, 1953, in Reading, England. He was the third child in the family of Maureen and Raymond Oldfield. Sister Sally was born in 1947 and brother Terry in 1949. Dad Oldfield is a general practitioner and mother [of Irish descent] a h
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Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
Musical artist
Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English retired musician, songwriter and producer best known for his debut studio 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 progressive rock, world, folk, classical, electronic, ambient and new age music.
Oldfield took up the guitar at age ten and left school in his teens to embark on a music career. From 1967 to 1970, he and his sister Sally Oldfield were a folk duo, the Sallyangie, after which he performed with Kevin Ayers. In 1971, Oldfield started work on Tubular Bells which caught the attention of Richard Branson, who agreed to release it on his new label, Virgin Records. Its opening was used in the horror film The Exorcist and the album went on to sell over 2.7 million copies in the UK. Oldfield followed it with Hergest Ridge (1974), Ommadawn (1975) and Incantations (1978), all of which feature longform and mostly instrumental pieces.
In the late 1970s, Oldfield began to tour and release more comme