Mike Oldfield

Mike Oldfield is a British multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age and more recently dance. He is best known for his instrumental work Tubular Bells (1973)

During the 80's, Oldfield released mainly pop music, as opposed to instrumental works in the decades before and after. The most known song from this era is Moonlight Shadow, with Maggie Reilly on vocals.

Discography

• 1973 Tubular Bells
• 1974 Hergest Ridge
• 1975 Ommadawn
• 1978 Incantations
• 1979 Exposed
• 1979 Platinum
• 1980 QE2
• 1982 Five Miles Out
• 1983 Crises
• 1984 Discovery
• 1984 The Killing Fields
• 1987 Islands
• 1989 Earth Moving
• 1990 Amarok
• 1991 Heaven's Open
• 1992 Tubular Bells II
• 1994 The Songs of Distant Earth
• 1996 Voyager
• 1998 Tubular Bells III
• 1999 Guitars
• 1999 The Millennium Bell
• 2002 Tr3s Lunas
• 2003 Tubular Bells 2003
• 2005 Light + Shade
• 2008 Music of the Spheres

Also appearing on

• 2003 The Best Prog Rock Album in the World ... Ever: Tubular Bells (Part 1) (Edit) (4:59)

External Links

• Mike Oldfield official website