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21:05, Sat, May 20, 2023 Updated: 21:05, Sat, May 20, 2023 Funny how things turn out. The mighty Virgin brand sprung from a shy yet precocious teenager playing around with guitars and pretty much any ...

Tubular Bells, created in 1971 and released in 1973, was the debut studio album by English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter Mike Oldfield. At just 17 years old when he started composing ...

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As the The Mail on Sunday gives away one of the greatest albums ever, Virgin boss Richard Branson reveals the secrets behind its creation – and how it cost him his Bentley. I was sitting on a ...

As soon as those haunting notes from The Exorcist sounded on the piano, everyone in the Alexandra Theatre began to cheer. But Robin A. Smith and his incredible band of musicians had already won over ...

MIKE Oldfield had the stage thrown into darkness before playing Tubular Bells at the Edinburgh Playhouse, more years ago than I now care to remember.***** Did you know with a Digital Subscription to ...

After setting up the first Virgin record shop in London, we scraped together some money and bought a rundown country house and converted its squash court into a recording studio called the Manor. One ...

We’ve got to say it… these tubular bells sound awful! They don’t really have a tight pitch center so they sound really out of tune to us. But we think that’s the failing of the instrument itself and ...