Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How do you follow up one of the most innovative debut albums of all time? That was the challenge a young Mike Oldfield found ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Detail from Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells 50th anniversary edition Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells is to be reissued on May 26 on ...

"Let me out, I can't breathe/ Gotta get out of this concrete hole," are the first words on Mike Oldfield's first album in six years – a cri de coeur accompanied by a video shot on a beach in the ...

Five weeks before the start of the Olympics, Mike Oldfield sits in the little studio positioned at the bottom of his garden in Nassau, in the Bahamas. He remembers getting an email in July last year, ...

Mike Oldfield's son Dougal has died aged 33. The 'Tubular Bells' rocker is in mourning following the sudden death of his son Dougal Oldfield, who collapsed and died at his work on Sunday (05.17.15) at ...

After he performed Tubular Bells at the Olympics, Mike Oldfield was inspired to return to his Seventies rock roots. Helen Brown talks to him 'Only Danny Boyle could lure me away from the Bahamas': ...

Mike Oldfield made his name as a musician and composer with the multi-instrumental 1973 album Tubular Bells, which enjoyed a 279-week stint in the UK album charts and, as the label's first release, ...

Composer Mike Oldfield has thanked fans for their messages of support after the sudden death of his eldest son Dougal. The 33-year-old collapsed and died while working as an editing assistant at a ...

Sudden: Mike Oldfield with his son Dougal in 1981(Image: Rex) Rock legend Mike Oldfield is today in mourning after the sudden death of his son at the age of 33. Dougal Oldfield collapsed and died at ...

Returning to Ommadawn (1975), his third acoustic album, for inspiration, Mike Oldfield takes that beloved long-playing format that he made his own to create this latest acoustic album of two suites.

Mike Oldfield looks more like a civil servant than a rebel. His music isn’t very fashionable and it hasn’t been for thirty years. To many he resides in the ‘where are they now?’ category; a relic of a ...