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50th anniversary reissue of Mike Oldfield's Hergest Ridge to be released in June

By Jerry Ewing Published 23 April 25

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

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What happened when The Struts’ Luke Spiller worked with Mike Oldfield

By Julian Marszalek Published 11 April 25

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

Biographies

Urged on by fans, Mike Oldfield’s final album was a look back to his early years

By Malcolm Dome Published 20 January 25

Return To Ommadawn was a fresh exploration of the ideas on his third album – complete with a vinyl gatefold sleeve offering “hours of enjoyment”

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“They called me rude names:” In the punk era, Mike Oldfield just wanted to make double albums

By Daryl Easlea Published 15 May 24

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

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"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

By Daryl Easlea Published 4 October 23

Known as ‘the man who invented the 80s,’ producer and musician Trevor Horn always enjoyed sneaking prog into the mainstream

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"Christmas is overlaid onto the winter solstice, and that nods towards our pagan past.” Why Christmas is prog's favourite time of the year...

By Malcolm Dome Published 30 September 23

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...

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