Latest about Mike Oldfield
"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
Rare Genesis, Camel, Mike Oldfield test pressings up for grabs in charity auction
This year's White Label Auction in Aid of The BRIT Trust takes place on June 6
Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells at 50 on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
Plus Ray Shulman, Yes, Einar Solberg, Pendragon, Mike Batt, Amplifier, Eivor, The Ocean, David Paton and loads more...
More Tubular Bells tour dates announced
Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells celebrates its 50th anniversary later this month
Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells to be reissued for 50th anniversary
Mike Oldfield-overseen reissue coming in May 2023, which includes unreleased 2017 demo Tubular Bells 4 Intro
"It's not telling a story, there’s no concept or anything." Mike Oldfield and the strange miracle of Tubular Bells
In 1972 a rejected demo finds its way into the hands of a young maverick label boss. The eventual result is a commercial and cultural phenomenon: Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells
