Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (1973) [2011 SHM-SACD]

Tubular Bells is the debut record album of English musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1973.
It was the first album released by Virgin Records and one early cornerstone of their success. Vivian Stanshall provided the voice of the “Master of Ceremonies” who reads off the list of instruments at the end of the first movement. The piece was later orchestrated by David Bedford for The Orchestral Tubular Bells version and it had three sequels in the 1990s, Tubular Bells II (1992), Tubular Bells III (1998) and The Millennium Bell (1999). Finally, the album was fully re-recorded at its 30th anniversary in 2003 as Tubular Bells 2003.

Tracks:

1. Part One - 25:31
2. Part Two - 23:21

Personnel:

Mike Oldfield - Acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, Farfisa, Hammond, and Lowrey organs; flageolet, fuzz guitars, glockenspiel, "honky tonk" piano, mandolin, piano, percussion, "taped motor drive amplifier organ chord", timpani, vocals and tubular bells.

Steve Broughton – percussion
Lindsay L. Cooper – string bass
Mundy Ellis – vocals
Jon Field – flutes
Sally Oldfield – vocals