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Mike Oldfield
The son of a doctor, Oldfield was a young guitar protégé who funneled his
amazing imagination into Tubular Bells - the groundbreaking 1973 album that
became an international phenomenon and launched Richard Branson's Virgin empire.
Oldfield's first serious step into the music was accompanying sister Sally
Oldfield in the group The Sallyangie, who made one album Children of the Sun in
1968. He later joined Kevin Ayers' band before playing 20 different instruments
on his complex instrumental opus Tubular Bells; which became the first release
on the Virgin label and remains one of th...
