TUBULAR BELLS

This is one of the best albums ever! Mike Oldfield basically has us hooked from beginning to end. Virgin's first album (and Oldfield's debut as well) basicaly launched Oldfield's career. It's too bad Virgin had an unfair view of Oldfield's next instrumentals to be "TUBULAR BELLS II", so Oldfield left after "AMAROK" (in which, 48 minutes into the piece, Oldfield sent a morse code to Richard Branson spelling "F--- Off, RB!"["RB" being Richard Branson]) and its following album. Still, I think that "TUBULAR BELLS I" is ONE OF THE BEST in Prog-Rock History.

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