Sunday, May 17, 2026

250 Albums- An Arbitrary Rumble Through My Record Collection # 22 Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

 


Famously the album that either made ir saved Richard Branson. Memory us the strangest thing. For some reason I'm transported back to a garden in Teddington. I think the neighbours are playing this and Concorde is flying overhead either to or from Heathrow. A number of people who are important to me are still alive and I have more hair on my head than I do now,

Now Tubular Bells is playing again on my strereo. 40 years have passed but it's not very long in the scheme of things.It sounds rather magical ti my ears.Medieval.  I particularly like the foolish effects and reverence for what is gone.. Generally it has a rather regal air. It only cost me a quid, plays like a dream  and I probably play it once a year, I like it,

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