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19. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (1972)

After stints in rock bands and playing folk music with his sister Sally, Mike Oldfield set out on his own in 1972 with a tape of a long, ambitious instrumental composition he had been working on for several years in his home studio. Though most labels rejected it, up-and-coming entrepreneur Richard Branson chose Oldfield's work to be the first release on his new label:Virgin Records. The resulting album was Tubular Bells, an original blend of symphonic-style rock, classical, folk and world music elements, featuring Oldfield playing over 25 instruments. The album's repetitious structure, with instruments entering and exiting in a smoothly shifting flow, shows a kinshipwith minimalism and sequencer-based music, converging on the same musical niche from an unexpected direction. Made more famous as the soundtrack to the film The Exorcist, Tubular Bells became one the of greatest commercial success stories in contemporary music, having sold over 20 million copies worldwide, making it the greatest selling contemporary instrumental album ever.


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