Newman and Heyworth heard some of Oldfield's demo music and took it to Branson and Simon Draper, who eventually gave Oldfield one week's worth of recording at The Manor. Branson already had a number of business ventures and was about to start his own record label, Virgin Records. Nothing came of his efforts until September 1971, when he attended recording sessions at The Manor Studio – owned by a young Richard Branson and run by engineers Tom Newman and Simon Heyworth – as bass guitarist for the Arthur Louis Band. Having recorded sections of this early version of Tubular Bells as demo pieces, Oldfield attempted to persuade record labels to take on the Tubular Bells project.
Oldfield was also the reserve guitarist for the musical Hair and played with the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. The band also included keyboardist and composer David Bedford, encouraged him in his composition of an early version of Tubular Bells and later arranged and conducted an orchestral version of the Tubular Bells album. He is featured on two Ayers albums, Whatevershebringswesing and Shooting at the Moon. In 1970, Oldfield joined The Whole World – former Soft Machine vocalist Kevin Ayers's backing group – playing bass and occasionally lead guitar. After The Sallyangie disbanded, he formed another duo, called Barefoot, with his brother, which took him back to rock music. An album, Children of the Sun, was issued in 1968. In 1967, Oldfield and his sister formed the folk duo The Sallyangie and were signed to Transatlantic Records after exposure in the local folk scene. In his early teens, Oldfield was involved in a beat group playing The Shadows-style music (he has often cited Hank Marvin as a major influence, and would later cover The Shadows' song -Wonderful Land-). At this time, he already had two 15-minute instrumental pieces in which he would "go through all sorts of moods", precursors to his landmark 1970s compositions. Oldfield's career began fairly early, playing acoustic guitar in local folk clubs. When he was 13, he moved with his parents to Harold Wood in Essex and attended Hornchurch Grammar School, where, having already begun his career in music, he took just one GCE examination, in English. Edward's preparatory school, and Presentation College in Reading.
Joseph's Convent School, Highlands Junior School, St. Mike Oldfield was born in the Battle Hospital in Reading, Berkshire, and he attended St. He also had a younger brother, David, who had Down's syndrome and died in infancy. His sister Sally and brother Terry are also successful musicians and have appeared on several of Mike's albums. Oldfield's parents are Raymond Oldfield, a general practitioner, and Maureen Liston, a nurse. Oldfield has released more than 20 albums with the most recent being a rock themed album titled Man on the Rocks, released in 2014. He is also known for his hit rendition of the Christmas piece "In Dulci Jubilo". He is best known for his 1973 album Tubular Bells – which launched Virgin Records and became a hit after its opening was used as the theme for the film The Exorcist – and for his 1983 hit single "Moonlight Shadow". It is often elaborate and complex in nature. Michael Gordon "Mike" Oldfield (born ) is an English musician and composer whose work blends progressive rock with world, folk, classical, electronic, ambient, and new-age. Mike Oldfield - Discography (1973 - 2014)
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