I was lucky enough to meet Mike outside the Guildhall in Portsmouth on his 5 miles out tour. I asked a bouncer for his autograph and he said he will see what he can do. five minutes later, Mike appears so I ask him to sign my album cover with which he said, "can you hold my guitar whilst I sign it for you ?" I put his guitar around my neck whilst he signed. he then said "thank you for coming to see me" and gave me his plectrum before going back inside. I was stunned and I was the only person there as it was only around 5 o'clock.......A real gentleman and artist. Thank you mike and if you ever read this, i'm forever grateful that you took the time to say hello to me......
@Peter-nz9et4 жыл бұрын
Just a good guy. Great to hear your story.
@legarspelot67154 жыл бұрын
You are very lucky ...
@Coneman34 жыл бұрын
Lucky you, wish I had gone to see him live, but I was young then (born 1969). To be able to say you held his guitar, wow ;- ) You should have run off with it! hehe
@margo30734 жыл бұрын
what a great story...will stay with you forever....Thank you for sharing....
@ddnelson66184 жыл бұрын
Wow you lucky lucky man 💕😉
@paulphillips71172 жыл бұрын
Headphones on, lights off, just flames flickering from the fire, pure bliss!!!
@sacramentoslopezmolina464 Жыл бұрын
....And nobody calling you so you´ll cut their heads off. ;)
@BombardierBraveheart Жыл бұрын
Hear, hear I always come back to MO even after all these years
@lynnalborough9672 Жыл бұрын
I'm there...
@juliancochran Жыл бұрын
Been exactly there many times.. fantastic to know what bliss you are going through.
@grahammorgan1998 Жыл бұрын
He doesn't date. He was/is a musical genius
@ruylopez63545 ай бұрын
People will still be listening to His Music a hundred years from now. Just like all the Classic Musicians.
@danielnagy7110Ай бұрын
True that mate, it's more than a classic
@tomsacadden Жыл бұрын
When making an album was an art form, this is a masterpiece
@TheBluesman5113 жыл бұрын
Together with Tubular Bells , they are two best albums Oldfield recorded up to date. Listen to both albums since i was 16. Now i am 60.
@kurttoogs13783 жыл бұрын
Comparing Ommadawn to Tubular Bells is like comparing green grapes to red grapes. May your mind joyfully take in both masterpieces as I devour both grapes! ;-)
@toSirius3 жыл бұрын
Incantations + Amarok nice too
@kurttoogs13783 жыл бұрын
I will have to give each a listen!
@Mannizilla3 жыл бұрын
Hergest Ridge
@mickandrews69893 жыл бұрын
As well as Songs from Distant Earth
@martaflitxpanella942310 ай бұрын
Oldfield keeps me alive.
@attilakurucz33565 ай бұрын
I feel the same
@scottstangeland28782 ай бұрын
It is the only reason that I am alive
@mariuskettmann74612 жыл бұрын
I have a lot of Mike Oldfield Records but nothing touches me as much as Ommadawn. It's truly a masterpiece.
@Orvieta Жыл бұрын
And then came Return to Ommadawn that finished the journey and very conveniently was just enough in length to burn on a CD together with what is now known as Part 1.
@marionb6723 Жыл бұрын
I love it
@marionb6723 Жыл бұрын
It calms my soul
@joegkearns1189 Жыл бұрын
I think you might be right about that. This is indeed a masterpiece.
@topilinkala1594 Жыл бұрын
I agree. I bought Return to Ommadawn expecting somethin as beautiful as the original. I was so disapointed that I gave it to recycling after three listenings.
@inakidelvalle5580 Жыл бұрын
The best álbum of Mike Oldfield.....year 75....good memories. Then 20 years old,now 67
@peterbyrne178Ай бұрын
I was 13 62 now still love this album..still listening
@Daniel_B_leinaD20 күн бұрын
❤
@MegaDAVIDWELLS3 жыл бұрын
Mike and his family were my neighbours. I recall waiting for the same bus with his dear mum. God rest her soul
@jonhobson35923 жыл бұрын
I recall seeing him about a lot in Denham/ Slough/ Gerrards x , Bucks..
@alessandromarchesini90392 жыл бұрын
When i was a rebel kid, jagger & richards were my neighbours in Hide Park, London. Sex, drugs and rock'n' roll!!! I was 15 years old...what a lucky guy!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤟🤟🤟🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
@redcalx95684 ай бұрын
Hello, did you ever meet Sally his sister or Terry the brother? My Grandparents lived next door the Keith from the Prodigy band and his family they were very normal nice people, anyway hope your ok and have fun and a lovely summer x
@MegaDAVIDWELLS4 ай бұрын
@@redcalx9568 Yes i recall on one occasion Sally coming into my mum's house as we had a piano for sale. I did see Terry often, who looked a lot like Mike. I also used to catch the same bus as Mike's mum in the morning
@ryszmansoundvision65722 жыл бұрын
I was a punk rocker when I also was secretly listening to this masterpiece……please forgive me all you punk rockers.
@chrisbarker98522 жыл бұрын
i was a total heavy rocker ....but................me too.
@AlexDainese2 жыл бұрын
There is more punk in that album than inside the whole Sex Pistol discography.
@richards94072 жыл бұрын
So was Sheena.
@tonyrobles2696 Жыл бұрын
Hahaaaaaaa What are you talking about Punks dont have a Style of music We listen to everything💓💓💓💓💓💓💓
@colinclarke4285 Жыл бұрын
@@tonyrobles2696 I totally get that mate ....I listened to the pistols...boomtown rats...omd...oldfield..motorhead and on occasion tangerine dream when drunk
@GettingNervous3 жыл бұрын
I bought the album at the age of 14 in 1977 and love it until today. If you listen to Ommadawn you can fly into another sphere.
@anivamila3 жыл бұрын
I bought it too when I was 14, in 1978.
@aimeekay53223 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1977 and grew up listening to this. My dad would play The Horse Song for me when I was little and when I had my own kids, I would sing it to them as babies. I hope they will pass it on as well. Such a magical album.
@BombardierBraveheart3 жыл бұрын
Well, must have been a good year, because at 60 I'm still listening to him
@holgerneuman86843 жыл бұрын
You are so right, one of his best albums, i think..i don't know if i am right, he played every instrument by his own, or was it Tubular Bells?
@GettingNervous3 жыл бұрын
@@holgerneuman8684 At Ommadawn he played many instruments himself, except for the uilleann pipes which were played by Paddy Moloney. Because there weren't any inexpensive multi-track devices back then, Oldfield rebuilt the heads of stereo devices so he had at least four tracks available.
@depyification3 жыл бұрын
I am an ICU doctor during the COVID pandemic I use to listen to Mike s music since i was 13 : then it was the escape Now it is for mind healing,,,,, Thank you Mike Be all safe
@mikewray63873 жыл бұрын
thankyou for your service to us all. i too have listened to mike since 13 or 14 im 59 now. .
@socratesgoulas90363 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot dear Doctor! Try to be safe too!! Greetings from Yannina, Hellas!
@gerardvandeninden14653 жыл бұрын
it gets me back on my feet also time and time again, it never gets old.
@juanjavierm2 жыл бұрын
Mike's music has always been a door for escape. For him and many others.
@gelubatir97942 жыл бұрын
Musicians Mike Oldfield - electric and acoustic guitars and basses (including 12-string guitar and classical guitar), mandolin, bouzouki, banjo, harp, spinet, grand piano, Farfisa & Lowrey organs, Solina string ensemble, ARP 2600 synthesizer, glockenspiel, bodhran, assorted percussion[citation needed] Herbie (Christopher Herbert) - Northumbrian smallpipes Leslie Penning - recorders, The Hereford City Band conductor Terry Oldfield - panpipes Pierre Moerlen - timpani David Strange - cello Don Blakeson - trumpet Julian Bahula - African drums Ernest Mothle - African drums Lucky Ranku - African drums Eddie Tatane - African drums Clodagh Simonds - vocals Bridget St John - vocals Sally Oldfield - vocals The Penrhos Kids (Abigail, Briony, Ivan, and Jason Griffiths) - vocals on "On Horseback" The Hereford City Band - brass section William Murray - percussion Paddy Moloney - Uilleann pipes
@ITSAGGGGHOST Жыл бұрын
This album is absolutely beautiful.
@timothywait94575 ай бұрын
ITSAGGGGHOST Correct
@chelfyn3 жыл бұрын
On of the best pieces of music ever made. Ommadawn has been a huge part of my life for over 35 years. If it's something I can control,, it will be the last thing I listen to before I die.
@papas_lapas3 жыл бұрын
It’s a truly potent special album.
@killmenow66633 жыл бұрын
Interesting that you said that, Chelfyn, because I said the same thing about Selling England By The Pound, and have said it for about 40 years.
@Shandinho3 жыл бұрын
That's deep but what a wonderful spiritual piece to send you on your way. Good luck on your journey through the universe.
@mmmjayjay55712 жыл бұрын
thats a beautiful thing to say xx
@Chappomusic2 жыл бұрын
Don't worry . You will hear it in heaven even more clearer then now .
@osasunaitor2 жыл бұрын
I was born in the 90's, but my parents still listened to Mike Oldfield at home often. I grew up with many of his albums, but there's something special about Ommadawn... this music brings me back to the most intense memories of my childhood like no other. Each time I listen is an epic voyage back in time, I can't describe it
@HermanVelilla Жыл бұрын
You can not describe this ..this is ABSOLUTE MUSIC
@danieleguichard6032 Жыл бұрын
C joli ce que tu dis La musique de Mike T'es parents Et toi enfant Magnifique
@macyler Жыл бұрын
Same here, except for the album Five Miles Out. Been discovering the other albums like this one, and they’re great as well
@peternuyten71142 жыл бұрын
One of the most extraordinary masterpieces ever made.
@gazdenny65943 жыл бұрын
Mike's true masterpiece, an American once asked me what is it about that island of yours that's produced so much incredi ble music. I said its the ancient cultures , bronze age,Celt, Anglo Saxon ,Norse etc that's still there in our folk memory it permeates our DNA .Mike with Ommadawn captured that essence like no one else, the music would have been relevant to the people of Stonehenge as it is to we British now.
@mikewray63873 жыл бұрын
v true and our contribution to the worlds music is a source of intense pride for me, and yes this is his masterpiece.
@waynelawson57072 жыл бұрын
@@mikewray6387 You folks make the best actors as well. You also make American music better
@NoreenHoltzen2 жыл бұрын
Actually most of our cultural heritage in Ireland comes from regions around what is now southern Russia. Scythia etc.
@el_equidistante2 жыл бұрын
what a bunch of bs
@jerzygoota290315 күн бұрын
you also make most abusive hools and terrible plane passengers, i would be ashamed to be a brit abroad, planes have to go back because of drunk brits spewing abuse and harassing other passengers
@snorrebjorkson2294 Жыл бұрын
Der erste Satz, die erste Seite von "Ommadawn" ist meiner Meinung nach das beste "produzierte" Album der Welt. Es gehört für mich in eine Reihe mit den Beethoven-Sinfonien. Es ist ein großes Wort, aber hier war glaube ich tatsächlich ein Genie am Werk.
@rafaeldeogracias82965 күн бұрын
Mi dear friend Ignacio, a beautiful soul who died too young, introduce me to the genius of Mike Oldfield, when we met doing the military service in Madrid. It was 50 years ago this month. Thank you my friend. Still sounds as fresh and mind-blowing as ever. ( This was
@ephales20 күн бұрын
I first listened to this album back when it was released in 1975. I'm 74 this year and I never get tired of listening to this Mike Oldfield classic.
@offenesohr44454 ай бұрын
I am 60 now My father introduced me to this musik I made love with my first boyfriend on this artpiece I gave birth on tubular bells I am in new york right now ,and still listen in special momentts for myselv to it..Thank you sooo much mike oldfield🥰☀️
@hinrichberlin81563 ай бұрын
Ha! Me too , I was making love to this with my first boyfriend ... back in 77 ...
@johnroubos54832 ай бұрын
I'm 63 (male) and didn't do the first things you did on Mike Oldfields music. ;-)), but I very often still listen during my work as an embedded soft-and hardware engineer. This music helps me solving the most difficult problems when the Oldfield-flow comes over me. I join u and say ... thank you Mike! Owww btw i live in the southern part of Holland very close to Belgium.
@alanhart4627Ай бұрын
Omg exorcist lmao😊
@jtlampsu28 күн бұрын
I hope you cleaned the record, afterwards! 😄
@miguelbranquinho72356 күн бұрын
@@jtlampsu2 Vinyl does make for a nice landing platform.
@andrewkostelnyk2722 жыл бұрын
RIP to Paddy Molony who played the pipes -brilliantly on this album!
@anderander1478 Жыл бұрын
another very great musician
@AmazingWowacow4 жыл бұрын
This is just so insanely good. No words can discribe how masterful this work of art is!
@colinclarke42853 жыл бұрын
In my opinion I think this beats tubular bells hands down .
@Stevebateman1233 жыл бұрын
No true words can say🙏 my first love bought me the album and signed it with her love for me.🙏
@tonyanderton35213 жыл бұрын
@@colinclarke4285 Definitely, Colin.
@HermanVelilla3 жыл бұрын
and so it is....
@billwhite97033 жыл бұрын
Yes! It's indiscribable!
@paradisdesang7669 Жыл бұрын
Je n'avais pas réécouté Ommadawn depuis une trentaine d'années. C'est un voyage, une quête à travers des âges perdus. Un véritable chef-d'œuvre.
@tardifvirginie5261 Жыл бұрын
C'est un pure bonheur de réécouter un vieil album qu'on a aimé et qu'on a pas écouté depuis très longtemps ... Il faut le vivre pour comprendre Combien de vieilles musiques ont été retrouvées grâce à internet ?
@philippesenegats9619 Жыл бұрын
merci merci je l ai fait ecouter a des pas vieux ami mais amie de longue date reunis dans la maison familiale avec certain connaisseur et le plaisir de redecouvrir ommadawn et partager cette musique qui apaise nos vie et memoire
@921elisa8 ай бұрын
je l'ai réécouté car mon fils de 22 ans qui fait de la musique etait en train d'en composer certains accords sans le connaitre 😂cela m'a permit de lui faire découvrir ,un album que je n'ai pas réécouter depuis.....il n'etais pas né
@uniquekanku3 ай бұрын
Première écoute et j'ai 60 ans!!!😮
@chisawakenig1772Ай бұрын
@@uniquekanku Alors écoute également retour of ommadawn. 60 ans sans écouter ommadawn 😢 je ne dirai pas que t as loupé ta vie mais un peu qd mm 😅
@user-xt8hw3dj3x3 жыл бұрын
this makes the quarantine less painfulll... thanks Mike Oldfield!!!
@hsamek49463 жыл бұрын
incredible. One of the best pieces of music ever composed. Absolutely fantastic. This and Hergest Ridge belong to my all time favourites and go along with Mozart and Tchaikobsky and Grieg.
@wtc1753 жыл бұрын
That's laying it on a bit thick....really can't compare this composition with the genius of the Masters like Mozart. Mike himself would say as much. It s a nice pieces of music and I do prefer it to Tubular Bells.
@miguelbranquinho72353 жыл бұрын
@@wtc175 What other rock composers would compare to their like, if not Mike Oldfield? He doesn't use a classical orchestra or anything, but in a philosophical sense he's the continuation of the work of those masters, surely.
@user-lz5eo5qh9w2 жыл бұрын
Κορυφαίος the TOP Litsa
@user-lz5eo5qh9w2 жыл бұрын
The BEST of the Planet After Jesus Is Mike Litsa
@juanjavierm2 жыл бұрын
Hergest Ridge is the paradigm of what an eighteenth century classical composer would have written today.
@johnyted22 күн бұрын
I've been listening to this album for 42 years and I'm increasingly moved. How crazy! I can't say if he's beautiful or not, I just know that he's essential to me --- a very important part of my life is linked to Ommadawn and that's wonderful!
@justinalanhewson80544 жыл бұрын
My dad Introduced me to Ommadawn when I was 8years old and I still play this on vinyl,absolute genius and still makes my hair stand up on end when I hear it.
@madmad85823 жыл бұрын
good reply, i know music can do that happens to me when i here something really moving :-)
@rechtschreib-exorzist89363 жыл бұрын
My dad introduced me (only) to James Last :-/
@rechtschreib-exorzist89363 жыл бұрын
@SteppenWolff100 That´s indeed true!
@karlstaisch71843 жыл бұрын
There was a Community Radio Station in Toowoomba Australia that played this entire album every Saturday morning in the early 80's at 5 am, my alarm was set to wake up to this magnificent piece every Saturday morning.
@jansmith2863 жыл бұрын
Dear Karl, my brother lived in Toowoomba at that time. Meantime I was listening to this in London but it made me decide to come and live in Norfolk. Special place. I have always felt this music links you to where you feel grounded. Very spiritual and I'm an atheist!
@Andy-yo3hd3 жыл бұрын
@@jansmith286 How can you be an atheist and use the word spiritual 'What do you mean by it?
@royscullion45572 жыл бұрын
Love dat situation man x
@pr0methian2 жыл бұрын
@@Andy-yo3hd Probabaly Agnostic... but listen to the music and you won't really care anyway... :)
@andrzejwawrowski2480 Жыл бұрын
Just got back from a stay in a friend's cottage in Kington, Herefordshire, with a view of Mike Oldfield's old house, The Beacon, from our living room window! (just five minute's walk up the hill). Also made our way to the top of nearby Hergest Ridge with its stunning panoramic views of the Brecon Beacons and the Malverns. It's so peaceful and remote around here you can see how it inspired him to create this lovely work (and 'Hergest Ridge' of course). Not a big fan of his later stuff to be honest but I can listen to this timeless classic again and again.
@burnettis12 жыл бұрын
It was SUPERLATIVE when I was 19. Now I am 60, It is still there... Along with INCANTATIONS 😛
@lynnalborough96722 жыл бұрын
Oh blimey... Listening to it now... How beautiful... How many years ago?... I'm now 63... I'm still in orr of the whole album... ..
@FatherOFavs2 жыл бұрын
Just turned 61 and this album was never off my turntable back in the day. A real work of genius that is timeless
@Poopytrainm2 жыл бұрын
Eggs
@whufciironworkes3 жыл бұрын
This is my favourite Mike Oldfield album always has been
@catethornton32705 ай бұрын
Me too x
@jerombird16142 жыл бұрын
When I was 12 years old I listened and dreamed on Ommadawn almost 200 times. I couldn't stopped to listen this real piece of art (chef d'oeuvre en français) again and again and again. I'm almost 60 now. Gods (yes, GODS) bless this gorgeous Man and Artist.
@user-lz5eo5qh9w2 жыл бұрын
Eνας είναι ο θεός επί της γης Ιησούς Χριστός
@petersmith22263 жыл бұрын
I've just, today listened to Ommadawn, on KZfaq, not heard it for 40 year's. Still sends a shiver down my spine.
@ianstrange56743 жыл бұрын
I've probably played this a thousand times since the 70s and in fact I could play it every single day and never tire of it. I want the second part played at my funeral.☺️
@simonmorris42263 жыл бұрын
Haven’t listened to this for years. Bought it on vinyl back in the seventies. I’d forgotten how heart warming and inspiring it was!
@andrehenri42193 жыл бұрын
what a great, chilled way to start the weekend!
@gerardosantana87732 жыл бұрын
He escuchado más de 40 años, Ommadawn y creo yo que es la joya, esencial y pura de su música, con esos arreglos que me trasladan a unos sonidos místicos increíbles y naturales, sin tanta tecnología de mezclas. Para mí la obra maestra y punta de lanza de su capacidad musical Gracias Mike Oldfield por éste regalo.
@juanjavierm2 жыл бұрын
Buen comentario.
@franciscojhurtado68782 жыл бұрын
Ud. lo ha dicho... la joya de una artista en estado de gracia!
@mencarbikecarbone3153 Жыл бұрын
Es un terrible trabajo, de los mejores que se hayan hecho en la historia de la música. Sinceramente, yo me quedo con la segunda parte. Me levanta el ánimo 💪, me da una pizca de felicidad, ganas de usar su música para videos o imágenes. Para mí, es espectacular la segunda parte!
@mariawojewnik86473 жыл бұрын
Not sure how anyone can actually dislike this music...It is so beautiful and haunting and thrilling...
@HermanVelilla2 жыл бұрын
You should consider that they dislike it ..Just bacause it's insanely beatiful!!!!
@juanjavierm2 жыл бұрын
@@HermanVelilla Hahaha!!! Once I read that famous sentence: "There are two kind of people: those who enjoy Mike Oldfield music, and deaf people"🤣
@Coasterdude02149 Жыл бұрын
I think, honestly, his music appeals to those who are old souls. Young souls haven't accrued enough lifetimes to appreciate the depth of his music, and it is deep, primal and insanely beautiful. Hope that doesn't sound sound pretentious...just how I feel and those few I know who do know of listen to him, and there's not that many.
@carnalea2424 Жыл бұрын
I know people who just don't take to what you might describe as 'instrumental' music. And then only like any of his songs that include singing/lyrics. I think the Chemical Brothers are mind-blowing but some people only prefer their pieces that include lyrics.
@dopaminecloud6 ай бұрын
@@Coasterdude02149 There's not such a depth here and appreciation of depth and age of soul surely don't correlate either. The love for music of this sort is rather simple in fact, you wear it on your chest or you don't. The exact reasons for it are very complex, but there's not much else to it that is worth talking about. Certainly not if it's to erect hierarchies of superiority. A bit of feel good melodrama to stimulate the imagination and the emotion of the mundane. It is the same force as narrative. No one is special for feeling music, only blessed.
@maval4537 Жыл бұрын
I'm so grateful to have grown up with this kind of music...
@MiguelBaptista1981 Жыл бұрын
This album is magical. From 2nd song (24:10) onwards on side B you're in Heaven after many fascinating tranquilities, trials and tribulations. Probably my favorite Mike Oldfield musical creation of all time.
I was in the Air Force 1975 Lackland - put this album on every night to go to sleep.
@allinsonsherratt4183 жыл бұрын
My go to album when I'd had a bad day at work. Lie on the floor, turn the sound up & breathe.
@corinaluanavlad2417 Жыл бұрын
That's a perfect symphony for our souls ❤. God bless you, Mike! Thank you for all your precious creations!
@ronnyoliviers73522 жыл бұрын
Tonight, Ommadawn, 3 weeks and again I listen the whole record! Love it till I'm dead.
@medusaman14 жыл бұрын
This has been my top album by any artist ever for a very long time, and will probably remain so.
@jesconsa3 жыл бұрын
I think the same!!..best LP from the human be....
@papas_lapas3 жыл бұрын
I first found this album in 1987 aged 17and have always loved it. It helped me win a 15 year battle in 2014 which I hope none of you ever have to fight.
@massimogiuntini12 жыл бұрын
Glad you made it bro!
@papas_lapas2 жыл бұрын
2022 and it’s still helping but in a different way, heals the soul.
@papas_lapas2 жыл бұрын
@@massimogiuntini1 thank you my friend
@derekorford1708 Жыл бұрын
This is so beautifully English, and a really folky, personal listen. All about melody, everything else to follow the melody. If you are 6, or 76, you'll get this. I agree that this and 'Tubular Bells' are Oldfield's finest outings. Paving stones laid here for world music crossover and the 'aah aah' vocal sound sounds as if Oldfield had a CMI Fairlight years before it's invention. The Orchestration is watchmaker precise. Great hearing this again.
@liamhogan1881 Жыл бұрын
a bit of Irish in there too if you knew
@grahammcc17703 жыл бұрын
This is Oldfield at his brilliant best
@bessie18543 жыл бұрын
@@stephane9544 well, his 2017 Return To Ommadawn is right up there with the first 3.
@mrmoisture3 жыл бұрын
@bessie1854 I love this but Return to Ommadawn just has the edge over it.
@manueldominguez9796 Жыл бұрын
The best instrumental álbum of XX Century.Agree?
@miguelbranquinho72353 жыл бұрын
A work of tremendous spiritual value. Eternal, thank you Mike.
@colinritchie17572 жыл бұрын
Some music never seems to age and you get older it seems to mean more and more to you , this Album will stay with me forever it's been more than 45 years since I first heard it and it talks to me now just as strongly as ever it did .
@pezazul_45493 жыл бұрын
WHAT A REAL MONSTER. The guitar around 20 minutes is majestic. Pain and joy at the same time. How is it posible.
@ronnyoliviers73522 жыл бұрын
Love all these comments very! And it brings me back to the time when I was 15 y old. Ommadawn is just a great record and one of my faves together with Hergest Ridge and Incantations. Also Tubular Bells II is one of my favourites! After I heard Tubular Bells in 1973-74, and played that record to grey.... I felt the need of buying more of Oldfield's work. I'm now 63 and love this music so much that I listen to it on a regular base. This is far the best music I know. When I was 14 or 15 y old and listening every day to Tubular Bells, my parents asked me if I was going to be a priest .......;-) Fan forever
@RonnieT44 Жыл бұрын
I'm the same age as you Sir and it seems that we have both been on the same journey, as far as Mr Oldfield is concerned. Great comment!!
@Stevelites Жыл бұрын
It's a journey around the planet, through cultures and time. It returned to me tonight and I'm almost in tears ❤
@EuanWhitehead Жыл бұрын
Exactly
@Nacida_Libre Жыл бұрын
Cuando escuché por primera vez esta grandiosa obra musical, hace más de cuarenta años, sentí todo un mundo de sensaciones dentro de mí. Nunca podré olvidar el momento y la persona que me dio a conocer tanta maravilla con esta música. Sentí los momentos infantiles en muchas de sus notas, las cuatro estaciones de Vivaldi, la fuerza de los guerreros en batalla, luchando por su tribu. Los tambores y voces femeninas cantantes, me trasladaban a nuestros ancestros, cantando y cuidando a sus amados hombres guerreros e hijos. Las voces y cánticos al final de esta inmensa obra, me hizo sentir la tranquila sensación de una batalla ganada. Celebración junto con la familia, amigos y una tribu, mucho más unida. Nunca me cansaré de escuchar a Mike Oldfield, sobre todo, esta maravillosa composición musical. Siempre que la escucho, siento vida, fuerza y fuego en la sangre. Gracias por el vídeo 💖
@jorgecalderon48940 Жыл бұрын
No puedo imaginarme, nunca a nadie, grabar un disco tan especial y que evoque tanto...no hay palabras 😊
@Nacida_Libre10 ай бұрын
Es sublime, junto a tubulars bells, no hay músico y música que supere el sobrealiento que genera el espíritu. En concreto, omnadawn, toca ese límite vibracional. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fdx-p5d1l8umaX0.htmlsi=4rMSgXI2pOfP1AJb, Quedo sin palabras…
@volkerwalther84603 жыл бұрын
melting away from 29.22 till it`s end ... blissful and tears of joy ... masterly
@graveyardghost26033 жыл бұрын
My British friend gave me this album in early 80's. I still can't get the first tune out of my head, I hear it at odd moments. Speaks of how amazing the music is. I think it is rather primal.
@miguelbranquinho72353 жыл бұрын
It's very earthly and ancient, I agree.
@morris32453 жыл бұрын
I am one of many, who have recognised this as the work of a genius. Thank You Mike Oldfield!!
@artinheaven45723 жыл бұрын
To me this is his best album. It sounds as good now as when I bought it when it was released.
@eduardoochoa70632 ай бұрын
It was a magical moment when i listen this album .... winter, night, cold, solitude, silence ... At the end, pleasure
@spazimdam3 жыл бұрын
Most excellent. I am in awe, have been for 45 years.
@andrewhillis22693 жыл бұрын
Same here ever since I discovered this great man & musician back in the 70's ! ! !
@raconteurtroubadour Жыл бұрын
I’ve loved this album for nigh on fifty years. His absolute masterpiece for me, closely followed by Hergest Ridge! 🤘🎼🎹🎸🥁🤘
@sergio-fn4ls Жыл бұрын
Una Obra Maestra de un joven de 22 años y que cuando escuché por vez primera por allá 1976, recién yo de trece años me llena todavía de emoción y maravillado que tocará todos los instrumentos en el ya famoso sello Virgin de sir Richard Branson… genial y bella melodía…
@mandolinic3 жыл бұрын
My absolute favourite Mike Oldfield album. Never mind 5 stars, this is worth ten!
@evlin102 жыл бұрын
What a finale and thenHoseback. Exquisite.
@manfrombritain68163 жыл бұрын
the opening is so evocative of pushing your way through a set of curtains and emerging into a fantasy world
@richards94072 жыл бұрын
Never experienced that. But then we've got venetian blinds.
@richardtaylor28936 ай бұрын
Ommadawn and Incantations. Both brilliant in so many ways and in my top ten! Inspired genius.
@MegaCirse Жыл бұрын
This is the first song my goddaughter heard me sing. She was a few months old, not falling asleep, screaming and crying. I took her in my arms, I started humming and she fell into a deep sleep all of a sudden 🕌
@rsviews2167 Жыл бұрын
Good vibes passing through you onto her. Beautiful moment. Gave me one of those genuine instant smile.
@rafaelhernandezuriguen93143 ай бұрын
The combination that Oldfield achieved between popular music from so many countries and introducing a town band or school children mixed with electronic sounds into the songs is beautiful. It is siphonic and popular. A great way to create beauty from the most ordinary and everyday. It reminds me of what Saint Josemaría said: Make poetry from everyday prose
@bobroberts61556 күн бұрын
I hope you meant symphonic 😊. Autocorrect strikes again I guess but you are right, Oldfield was at the top of his game creatively when producing this masterpiece.
@henridekker91322 жыл бұрын
Still listening at 70
@mjq2434 жыл бұрын
My dance teacher introduced him to me when I was 11 - got to see him do Tubular Bells 3 live - I adore it all :)
@manuelflores56702 жыл бұрын
Beautiful indeed! I am in tears now. I haven't listen to this awesome album since 15+ years or so. I do have the CD but due life I didn't find the time to listen it again. AWESOME!
@markmoghadam872610 ай бұрын
I was lessening to this song when I was 21, years old in Iran year was 1975 and left to USA 1976 I am 69 now , I still love this song.
@miguelangelrebollo93972 жыл бұрын
Oldfield' Masterpiece. His TB became a Clasical, but OMD reaches the top of the emotional sounds of the ancient Ireland, it represents the unic Celtic Simphony never composed in the musical world. Oldfield for ever.🎸😎
@colingordon82653 жыл бұрын
This is the first I've listened to this since it was given to me as a Christmas present 45 years ago...And it's still a stunner!! Merry Christmas everyone.
Un chef-d'œuvre que l'on écoute toujours avec le même plaisir après autant d'années...
@Coneman33 жыл бұрын
I always felt this piece of music was like the voice of the ignored and misunderstood. A cry from the heart. It has an honesty and depth which is so rare. Start of Part 2, oh wow! The sweetest music ever.
@miguelbranquinho72353 жыл бұрын
And the ending little tune has to be the sweetest song ever made. Makes me shiver and smile and tear up...
@Rileroid3 жыл бұрын
I always thought it was a horse running
@cesarincamendozaloyola44072 жыл бұрын
Dwelling on his mother's passing, he explored the most candid and lightful sides of his heart in order to fight his sadness and anger.
@MilanVasiljevicBGD2 жыл бұрын
Boxed ? Three Masterpieces in a Row, Not Bad Coneman ... 👍👍👏👏👏👏🎶🎶....
@joanbozzo48893 жыл бұрын
Back to my dreams. Thanks, Mike. Love you.
@keithogden1770 Жыл бұрын
The images and memories conjured up by the first notes will remain with me till the day I die. If I ever get Alzheimer's somebody please play this to me.
@_cloms Жыл бұрын
totally understand. i'm gonna have to tell this to my future children
@antoniofernandez1530 Жыл бұрын
En mi opinión el mejor lp de mike oldfield es una auténtica obra maestra esta lleno de espiritualidad
@gordonfrickers55922 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this, such a pleasure to hear again after many years. This has a special significance for me which i'll share with you. The first house I owned, behind Par beach Cornwall, tough days washing in cold water, often not even enough for a pint of beer at the weekend... I scraped up enough to buy my first 'stereo'. Racking it up to full volume a new copy of Tubular Bells was the first LP i played in 'my' home on my new kit: unforgettable. Happy days. Thankyou.
@philippecirse48722 жыл бұрын
Like the first light of twilight, this music opens your eyes to old promises and to all the anomalies of nature. Evocative of powers beyond observation, these pieces pull the strings of the heart, attract nostalgia and awaken regrets, flayed lives and the torpor of tormented watchers 🌺🕊️
@carolinaarenas87952 жыл бұрын
Melodía espiritual para acariciar mi alma en tiempos difíciles hace sanar mis pensamientos 🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼
@stevebaker48672 ай бұрын
Beautiful, inspirational and uplifting and as good as the first time I heard it all those years ago.
@christophriederer73402 жыл бұрын
This.Is. Music.
@themysticalphantom98592 жыл бұрын
La première face de cet album est un cas d'école, en effet difficile de trouver un équivalent pour moi sur toute la discographie mondiale d'une telle puissance émotionnelle et indescriptible, l'alchimie est parfaitement dosée, un vrai mystère, en tout cas divin.
@chisawakenig1772 Жыл бұрын
alors ecoute le debut de la partie 1 de "return to ommadawn" c est encore mieux idem le premier disc de "light + shade
@henrykleyda54433 жыл бұрын
Meisterklasse, habe nicht umsonst soviele Alben von Ihm. Das ist für mich einer der besten Künstler überhaubt, dann folgt Vangelis und Pink Floyd. Es lebe Mike Oldifeld, ich danke für die schöne Werke.
@ruylopez63545 ай бұрын
An Excellent Album. A True Masterpiece I take my hat off ❤❤.
@ofirt59033 жыл бұрын
i would live and die with this music. thanks you Mike. one of a kind. love you.
@sammo64442 жыл бұрын
A music visionary; way ahead of his time ⏲ 🙌
@baconsandwich20072 жыл бұрын
Huge and belated thanks to Mr Walker. He was a teacher of mine at primary school in Woodlesford (near Leeds) and got me into Mike Oldfield. I've been a fan ever since.
@yvesboutin56043 жыл бұрын
I'm 55 and I discovered Mike Oldfield music through a friend who was listening Tubular Bells oftentimes. He was so enamored with it, I decided to by it for myself. Since that time, every new album I have discovered made me realize how deep and complex his music is. It's now an aquirred taste and when you embrace his style of music, like a good wine, it only gets better with age!
@demyttenaerenathalie88612 жыл бұрын
40 ans que je l’écoute, je ne m’en lasse pas
@miguelangelrebollo93973 жыл бұрын
Oldfield' Masterpiece. His TB became a Clasical, but OMD reaches the top of the emotional sounds of the ancient Ireland, it represents the unic Celtic Simphony never composed in the musical world. Oldfield for ever.
@stephenwhite13722 жыл бұрын
For a second I thought you were referring to Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark OMD. ;-)
@juanjodiaz723 жыл бұрын
Me compré este disco con 14 años y lo que m descubrió aún sigue hay. Es una música inigualable del gran músico compositor Mike Oldfield. Ese disco es la joya de la corona. Lo escuche hasta decir basta
@DaveAndBeth1978 Жыл бұрын
Revisiting some Mike Oldfield with bottle of vino, and a fire burning, this evening, remembering my late brother, who passed away aged 9 this day in 1992 (exactly 30 years ago) from Reye's Syndrome (I was 14)... Our dad was a huge Mike Oldfield fan, and while, like all big sisters and little brothers, we had our moments, we were very close, and Ommadawn was one of our mutual favourite albums... R.I.P. Seth, keep the fire burning wherever you are now... Your big sister Beth xxx
@rogerferns97604 жыл бұрын
This majestic album sneakily includes 3 of the best British female singers on backing vocals! Clodagh Simonds (Mellow Candle), Bridget St John (legendary folk singer) and Sally Oldfield (Mike's mega-talented sister)
@gelubatir97942 жыл бұрын
Musicians Mike Oldfield - electric and acoustic guitars and basses (including 12-string guitar and classical guitar), mandolin, bouzouki, banjo, harp, spinet, grand piano, Farfisa & Lowrey organs, Solina string ensemble, ARP 2600 synthesizer, glockenspiel, bodhran, assorted percussion[citation needed] Herbie (Christopher Herbert) - Northumbrian smallpipes Leslie Penning - recorders, The Hereford City Band conductor Terry Oldfield - panpipes Pierre Moerlen - timpani David Strange - cello Don Blakeson - trumpet Julian Bahula - African drums Ernest Mothle - African drums Lucky Ranku - African drums Eddie Tatane - African drums Clodagh Simonds - vocals Bridget St John - vocals Sally Oldfield - vocals The Penrhos Kids (Abigail, Briony, Ivan, and Jason Griffiths) - vocals on "On Horseback" The Hereford City Band - brass section William Murray - percussion Paddy Moloney - Uilleann pipes
@burnettis12 жыл бұрын
This piece always makes me CRY WITH HAPPINESS 🤗 Especially the opening notes. Many years later, I met with DEEP FOREST Does the same for me. Thanks to technology, Here I am returned to What I loved! 😝
@darthvader5701 Жыл бұрын
I remember going through a particular hard time in my late teens and thought I was going insane, a friend gave me a copy of this album and it was very soothing. It kinda got stamped in that bad epoc for me, but I still love coming back and enjoying this album.
@planetmusic113 жыл бұрын
Genius Mike Oldfield, one of the greatest musicians and composers in music history. Ommadawn is my favorite then Tubular Bells and Platinum, those three masterpieces sounds like a trilogy for me. First time i heard Ommadawn i was only 14 years old, now 56 but feel like an old tasty red wine thanks to the sacred word Music.
@expandingknowledge82692 жыл бұрын
Mike Oldfield speaks to my soul. Incredible music from a incredible talent, unparalleled!