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50th anniversary reissue of Mike Oldfield's Hergest Ridge to be released in June
Mike Oldfield's second album, 1974's Hergest Ridge, to be reissued on double vinyl and Blu-ray to celebrate the album's 50th anniversary
What happened when The Struts’ Luke Spiller worked with Mike Oldfield
Luke Spiller and Mike Oldfield collaborated on 2014 album Man On The Rocks, giving the Struts singer a new appreciation for the Tubular Bells mastermind
Urged on by fans, Mike Oldfield’s final album was a look back to his early years
Return To Ommadawn was a fresh exploration of the ideas on his third album – complete with a vinyl gatefold sleeve offering “hours of enjoyment”
“We introduced his influence and found ourselves”: Mike Oldfield is Gojira’s prog hero
French metal guitarist-vocalist admits it’s odd – but where he grew up there was no such thing as pigeonholing artists in genres
“They called me rude names:” In the punk era, Mike Oldfield just wanted to make double albums
He’d recorded Tubular Bells with substandard instruments but later Richard Branson personally delivered a world-class studio to his cottage. It still took Oldfield over 40 years to make sense of his original vision
"We’d been working on it for two weeks… Mike Oldfield had wiped it. There was no undo button. I was in shock. It was the only time it’s ever happened to me in 40 years": Trevor Horn's lows and highs
Known as ‘the man who invented the 80s,’ producer and musician Trevor Horn always enjoyed sneaking prog into the mainstream
"Christmas is overlaid onto the winter solstice, and that nods towards our pagan past.” Why Christmas is prog's favourite time of the year...
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat… And out roll the usual suspects trying to crack the festive Top 40. Still, it isn’t all about Slade, The Snowman and Sir Cliff. Prog rockers seem to enjoy Christmas more than most...
10 bands who peaked with the first song on their first album
Some bands just get it right first time
