Mike Oldfield

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16.10.2009 12:15
Pink Floyd’s and Led Zeppelin’s albums to be featured on British stamps
A special collection of stamps featuring sleeves of world-famous albums by English rock-musicians will be released in Britain. All in all, covers of 10 records will be used.

08.01.2010 16:42
Pink Floyd’s and Led Zeppelin’s printed on British stamps
A special collection of stamps, titled Classic Album Covers, was unveiled in Britain. It features 10 stamps with a covers of classic rock album on them. A special exhibition devoted to release of this collection will work in London during January.

Biography

Michael Gordon Oldfield, known simply as Mike Oldfield, was born into an English family of Catholics in 1953. He showed his musical gift since childhood - as his brother and sister did. They also became successful artists. Oldfield started playing the guitar and began performing in local pubs in his teens. In 1967, he and his sister founded The Sallyangie band. The folk music album Children Of The Sun saw light in 1968, thought the duet collapsed soon. Oldfield also played rock music with his brother in the duet titled Barefoot, but this command did not exist for long. In 1970, the artist became the bassist and vocalist for Kevin Ayers' The Whole World, which he left after two discs. In that band, he was acquainted to David Bedford, at whose studio he recorded hid debut attempt Tubular Bells. In spite of the fact that other labels refused to release this daring album, believing in its commercial failure, the Tubular Bells disc became the real sensation in the world of instrumental music after its release at Virgin.

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