In a way, your music is related to the emergence of commercial space tourism. The old school smokes tie in rather tidily with his return to vintage rock on. The cd is not a soundtrack album in traditional sense, rather instead its literally the soundtrack of the film audio only of the dvd content with mike oldfield s music in background of the sound of rockets, nasa radio communications, commentaries etc. The background sounds are the radio transmissions from nasa, and a score from mike oldfield.
It was never meant to be music for a movie, though. Oldfield s tubular bells, virgins first release, went on to become a multimillion seller abetted, in no small part, by the fact that it became inexorably linked to the box office hit movie, the exorcist 1973. It also featured excerpts from what was oldfields thennew album, incantations. Mike oldfield pictures in the dark vocals by anita hegerland, barry palmer and aled jones official music video. After he performed tubular bells at the olympics, mike oldfield was inspired to. The newley restored version of the original space movie is.
You might be aware that after the 1st of february 2018 lowdose codeine, available over. Mike oldfield the space movie the original soundtrack. The distinguished film critic alexander walker said after the first screenings. The best british film screened at cannes in 1980 was mike oldfield and tony palmers the space movie, with unique. Though oldfield has admitted to being unhappy with tubular bells since he made it, the lp has sold more than 18 million copies worldwide.
Excerpt from the 1980 space movie documentary featuring the music of mike oldfield. I didnt realize the movie only succeeded as the result of editing. The music for the space movie was produced by the english multiinstrumentalist mike oldfield who was then signed to virgin records. The best mike oldfield soundtrack appearances mike oldfields music has been on everything from movies to computer games. Mike oldfields 1973 debut album, tubular bells, the first released on virgin. It has birthed sequels such as tubular bells ii 1992, tubular bells iii 1998, and the millennium bell 1999. Mike oldfield licensed to youtube by abramus digital, aresa, latinautor, bmi broadcast music inc. The film included pieces from oldfields released works, including tubular bells and hergest ridge, ommadawn and portsmouth. I had been a school kid trying to get out of school. The newley restored version of the original space movie is now available on cd with bonus dvd.
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