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Buy or stream Tubular Bells. For more info , just search in google — rewriter creates an unique article in a minute. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Search uDiscover Music. All those years, these ideas were building. I listened to everything from hard rock to what's now called world music and didn't see why they couldn't exist in the same piece of music.
Tubular Bells had been in my head for ages. I made the original demo in a flat in Tottenham, on an old tape machine lent to me by [Soft Machine's] Kevin Ayers. I played organ, bass, electric guitar and two little percussion toys. But later, when I was recording some session guitar for Kevin at Abbey Road, there were all these wonderful instruments around: harpsichords, timpanis, tubular bells — so I would experiment on them before every-one else arrived. That's how I came to play 20 instruments on Tubular Bells.
One was the Glorfindel, the precursor to the modern synthesiser, a wooden box with knobs on, named after the Lord of the Rings character. I wrote most of it on the honky-tonk piano that had been my grandmother's but came to our family home in Essex when she died.
Before the war, she'd been a pub pianist, so the "nasal choir" bit with people humming round a piano was a homage. On the off chance, I asked Viv Stanshall if he'd come into the studio and introduce all the instruments on the record, so he became "Master of ceremonies".
When record companies rejected the album because it didn't have any lyrics or drums, I was a bit annoyed to find Richard and an engineer remixing it. So I went back into the studio, drank half a bottle of whisky and added caveman noises. It was my form of protest: "Stop fiddling with my music!
Buggered if I know. In addition, a version of Tubular Bells was originally released on the Spanish Boxed compilation such that Part Two ended with the "Ambient Guitars" movement without the Sailor's Hornpipe finale. The single was produced in response to an American single containing an excerpt from Tubular Bells which Oldfield did not authorise. Oldfield recorded the demo pieces of Tubular Bells in his flat in Tottenham, London in Oldfield was able to overdub his playing by blocking off the erase head of the tape machine.
With the aid of the software house CRL and distributor Nu Wave, Mike Oldfield released an interactive Commodore 64 version of the album in , which utilised the computer's SID sound chip to play back a simplified re-arrangement of the album, accompanied by some simple 2D visual effects. The software was not very successful, partly due to its unusual nature. It can be considered the first, if not only, example of commercial, albeit relatively simple, interactive computer demo or "musicdisk", while other sources consider it a "union between music and videogames".
This, combined with the low quality of the final sound output compared to the original album, despite the C64 arguably having one of the best sound chips of its era, decreed the attempt's failure.
In Oldfield launched a virtual reality project called Maestro which contains music from the re-recorded Tubular Bells album Tubular Bells The original title of the game was The Tube World. Furthermore, many dance acts and other artists have used the intro to Tubular Bells as the basis for their songs. A long list can be found at Rainer Muenz' discography. Album descriptions on Last. Feel free to contribute!
All user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now. View all trending tracks. Loading player…. Scrobble from Spotify? Connect to Spotify Dismiss. Search Search. Significance Oldfield approached and was rejected by many other established record labels. In popular culture The opening theme, which was eventually chosen for the film The Exorcist, gained the record considerable publicity and is how many people have probably first heard the work.
Album art The cover design was by Trevor Key, who would go on to create the covers of many Oldfield albums, and was inspired by Magritte's "Castle in the Pyrenees". Sound mixes There are three known variations of the vinyl edition of Tubular Bells. Stereo record joke Normally, records have a small statement printed along the bottom to the effect that it is in stereo but may be played on mono record players a holdover from the days before stereo.
The recording sessions Part one was recorded in just one single week at the studio owned by the founder of Virgin Records Richard Branson, The Manor Studio. Original ending When recorded in , the ending rendition of "Sailor's Hornpipe" was originally preceded by a slightly bizarre rendition of the piece.
The "lyrics" to Stanshall's improvised tour of the Manor follows: "The hallway. Vivian Stanshall, about three o'clock in the morning, Oxfordshire, , Goodnight" In addition, a version of Tubular Bells was originally released on the Spanish Boxed compilation such that Part Two ended with the "Ambient Guitars" movement without the Sailor's Hornpipe finale. Demo version Oldfield recorded the demo pieces of Tubular Bells in his flat in Tottenham, London in Commodore 64 With the aid of the software house CRL and distributor Nu Wave, Mike Oldfield released an interactive Commodore 64 version of the album in , which utilised the computer's SID sound chip to play back a simplified re-arrangement of the album, accompanied by some simple 2D visual effects.
Maestro In Oldfield launched a virtual reality project called Maestro which contains music from the re-recorded Tubular Bells album Tubular Bells Cover versions Ed Starink made an abridged cover for an album Synthesizer Greatest the first album in a multi-volume series that was released in Tubular Bells appears only on the CD-version as a "bonus track".
Other tracks on the album are cover versions of famous synthesizer songs but the original Tubular Bells features no synthesizer Finnish one-man a cappella rock band Paska recorded an abridged cover version for his album Women Are From Venus, Men From Anus.
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