''Tubular Bells III, The Premiere Performance'' is a live concert video by

Mike Oldfield Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English retired musician, songwriter and producer best known for his debut studio album ''Tubular Bells'' (1973), which became an unexpected critical and commercial success. Though primarily a gu ...

released in 1998. It was released on

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and

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in 1998, and later packaged with '' Tubular Bells II Live'' on

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, which was certified Gold in UK.

Concert

The video is a full faithful performance from the premiere concert of the ''

Tubular Bells III ''Tubular Bells III'' is the eighteenth studio album by English guitarist, songwriter, and producer Mike Oldfield. It was released on 31 August 1998 by Warner Music UK as the third instalment in his ''Tubular Bells'' album series. After relocati ...

'' album at

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, and was released by

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. The concert finishes with encores of "Secrets" and " Far Above the Clouds". "

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Part one", "

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" and " Family Man" were also performed during the encore, but due to these being written by Oldfield when he was with

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they do not appear on the video. During the performance of "

Man in the Rain "Man in the Rain" is a pop rock song written and performed by English multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield. It was included on the album ''Tubular Bells III'' and released as a single on 5 October 1998 by Warner Music. The vocals were performed by ...

" the lights unexpectedly cut out. Oldfield's former Virgin record boss,

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, was also in the audience.

Track listing

# "The Source of Secrets" # "The Watchful Eye" # "Jewel in the Crown" # "Outcast" # "Serpent Dream" # "The Inner Child" # "

" # "The Top of the Morning" # "Moonwatch" # "Secrets" # " Far Above the Clouds" # "Secrets" (Reprise) # "Far Above the Clouds" (Reprise)

Personnel

- guitars, keyboards * Robin Smith – keyboards * Adrian Thomas – keyboards, engineering *

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–

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

* Carrie Melbourne –

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, chapman stick * Katherine Rockhill –

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

* Ian Thomas –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

, electronic percussion *

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–

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

* Alasdair Malloy – percussion * Pepsi Demacque – vocals * Amar – vocals * Rosa Cedrón – vocals *

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– director * Rachel Holmyard – audio production

References

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