Mike Oldfield News, Pictures & Buzz

Township supervisors delay Panorama stormwater project | News  Country Messenger

City in music: Bucharest  The New European

IN THE DOCK: Drink-drivers, assault on police and more from Wiltshire's courts  The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald

Love vinyl? Titusville music enthusiast picks 10 albums every audiophile should own  Florida Today

'Prayer Ride for Linda Stoltzfoos' draws thousands of people to Lancaster County  FOX43.com

Stairway to Heaven: music from above (and below)  Pueblo Chieftain

‘Mike Oldfield’s Single’: The ‘Tubular Bells’ Classic That Defined ‘The Exorcist’  uDiscover Music

The 20 best rock albums of 1973  Louder

Jim Delehant, Longtime A&R Director at Atlantic Records, Dies at 80  Hollywood Reporter

Steve Howe - Love Is review  Louder

Play us a song? I'm not a piano man – yet  Sydney Morning Herald

Screen Shot: Revisiting the magic of Danny Boyle's London 2012 opening ceremony  HeraldScotland

Devon volunteers awarded for ‘invaluable’ cancer support to others online  Devon Live

‘What a shemozzle’: Dragons confused by Bunker’s crazy captain’s challenge blunder  Fox Sports

Various Artists: Pure Moods, Vol. 1 | Review  Pitchfork

‘Crises’: New Top Ten Honours For Mike Oldfield And Famous Friends  uDiscover Music

Sunday with Maxine Peake: ‘If it was up to me, it would just be crumpets’  The Guardian

‘Tubular Bells’: Mike Oldfield Launches Virgin Records — And Himself  uDiscover Music

Intelligent Music Project Announces New Album LIFE MOTION  Broadway World

Whither 50-year-old rock bands?  AL.com

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I listened to the piano instrumental and the original version but I don't find it creepy at all... ? I'm an easily creeped out person but I don't find the creep factor in it. It's just really soothing and melancholic, I don't find it creepy at all? Why do people find it creepy?

It seems that's it's been almost five years since the release of his last album, Music of the Spheres, and he hasn't recorded anything since then and only had some sporadic live appearances. Has the man finally retired?

On Mike Oldfield's album Tubular Bells II, released 1992, there is a song named "The Bell". In this song, he starts with a simple background riff and builds onto it with a variety of instruments including a bass guitar, glockenspiel, synthesizer and eventually bells. Each instrument is introduced by name by Alan Rickman (on the album version). One thing that has always confused me up to this day, is when Mike Oldfield brings some guitars into the song at around 2:50. Alan Rickman introduces them as "two slightly sampled electric guitars". My understanding of the term "sampled" used in a musical context has always been a sound that has been recorded and played back, often times using a keyboard. So what then would "slightly sampled" mean? I have searched for a long while now, but have never been able to find a definition for what that would refer to.

why has this Mike Oldfield ever toured the U S of A?