This is the albums discography of English musician

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 ...

Studio albums

Live albums

There is only one officially released Oldfield live audio album, ''

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'', although others have been released on video: Warner's Sight&Sound edition of '' The Art in Heaven Concert'' includes a CD of Oldfield's new millennium live performance in Berlin; and the special edition of ''Music of the Spheres'' also contains the only live performance of the piece by Oldfield (

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2008). The North America alternate version of ''Platinum'', '' Airborn'', features a live version of ''Tubular Bells'' part one and a live/studio version of ''Incantations'' on the second LP. Note, they are not the same recordings as ''Exposed''. Live CDs were also included in the

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deluxe editions of Oldfield's albums: ''

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'' (Live at Wembley Arena, May 1980), ''

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'' (Live from the European Adventure Tour), ''

Five Miles Out ''Five Miles Out'' is the seventh studio album by English recording artist Mike Oldfield, released on 19 March 1982 by Virgin Records in the UK. After touring in support of his previous album, '' QE2'' (1980), ended in mid-1981, Oldfield starte ...

'' (Live in Cologne – 6 December 1982 – Five Miles Out Tour), ''

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'' (Live at Wembley Arena 22 July 1983 Crises Tour).

Soundtrack albums

The only full film score which Oldfield has written, was for the 1984 film ''The Killing Fields''. Oldfield was commissioned to produce the music for

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's '' The Space Movie'' in 1979; no soundtrack album was released at the time. However a DVD and CD soundtrack (though the CD content is just the audio track from the DVD, including voiceovers and sound effects) were issued in October 2015. He also contributed to the movie soundtrack album on

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, with his rendition of

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's main theme, entitled " Tubular X".

Orchestral arrangements

In 1975,

David Bedford David Vickerman Bedford (4 August 1937 – 1 October 2011) was an English composer and musician. He wrote and played both popular and classical music. He was the brother of the conductor Steuart Bedford, the grandson of the composer, painter ...

arranged Oldfield's first two albums, ''Tubular Bells'' and ''Hergest Ridge'', for orchestra. These were both performed and recorded, but only ''

The Orchestral Tubular Bells ''The Orchestral Tubular Bells'' is an orchestral version of Mike Oldfield's album ''Tubular Bells'', arranged by David Bedford and recorded in 1974 by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, featuring Oldfield himself playing the guitar. Excerpts fr ...

'' was released to the public as an album. Even though '' The Orchestral Hergest Ridge'' was not released, sections were used in the soundtrack to '' The Space Movie''.

Remix albums

Compilation albums

Box sets

Video albums

EPs

Collaborations

Notes

References

External links

*
Mike Oldfield Discography
at Tubular.net

at Amadian.net *
Argiers
– Mike Oldfield's collector corner, includes Rainer-Muenz's lists {{DEFAULTSORT:Oldfield, Mike

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