Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells (1973)
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For so many years I was blown away by this. But then, when you’re 14 and devouring music mags, bios and liner notes, on a quest for whatever info – pre-internet – you can get your hands on it all sounds pretty attractive that a 20 year old recluse makes an album where he plays loads of the instruments and layers away …
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