Mike Oldfield discography

This page is a discography for the musician Mike Oldfield.

Mike Oldfield discography
Studio albums	25
Live albums	1
Compilation albums	21
Video albums	8
EPs	4
Singles	49

Studio albums

Year	Title	Chart positions									Certifications (sales thresholds)
		UK[1]	DEN[2]	FRA[3]	GER	NED[4]	NZL[5]	NOR[6]	SWE[7]	US[8]
1973	Tubular Bells Released: 25 May 1973 Format: LP, Quad, CD	1	-	9	37	2	25	-	-	3	9× Platinum (UK) 2× Platinum (CAN) Gold (FR) Gold (NLD) Gold (US) Gold (SWE)
1974	Hergest Ridge Released: 28 August 1974	1	-	-	-	12	-	-	-	87	Gold (UK)
1975	Ommadawn Released: 21 October 1975	4	-	-	-	2	-	-	42	146	Gold (NLD) Gold (UK)
1978	Incantations Released: 24 November 1978	14	-	-	41	27	19	14	32	-	Platinum (UK)
1979	Platinum Released: 23 November 1979	24	-	-	11	-	-	24	-	-	Platinum (ESP) Gold (GER) Gold (UK)
1980	QE2 Released: 31 October 1980	27	-	-	12	-	-	23	-	174	Gold (GER) Gold (UK) Gold (ESP)
1982	Five Miles Out Released: 19 March 1982	7	-	175	7	34	32	16	5	164	Platinum (ESP) Gold (GER) Gold (UK)
1983	Crises Released: 27 May 1983	6	-	2	1	2	6	1	1	-	Platinum (GER) Platinum (SWE) Platinum (ESP) Gold (FRA) Gold (NLD) Gold (UK)
1984	Discovery Released: 25 June 1984	15	-	12	1	2	47	3	3	-	Platinum (ESP) Gold (FRA) Gold (GER) Gold (UK) Gold (SWE)
	The Killing Fields Released: 26 November 1984	97	-	-	64	-	-	-	-	-	Silver (UK)
1987	Islands Released: 7 September 1987	29	-	21	9	71	-	9	12	138	Platinum (ESP) Gold (FRA) Gold (GER) Gold (UK)
1989	Earth Moving Released: 10 July 1989	30	-	36	1	55	-	-	21	-	Gold (FRA) Gold (GER) Gold (CH) Gold (ESP)
1990	Amarok Released: 14 June 1990	49	-	37	16	66	-	-	50	-	-
1991	Heaven's Open Released: 18 February 1991	-	-	-	13	18	-	-	-	-	-
1992	Tubular Bells II Released: 31 August 1992	1	-	32	7	15	27	-	18	-	2x Platinum (UK) 5x Platinum (ESP) Gold (GER)
1994	The Songs of Distant Earth Released: 14 November 1994	24	-	-	33	81	-	-	12	-	2x Platinum (ESP) Gold (UK)
1996	Voyager Released: 26 August 1996	12	-	30	15	41	-	30	13	-	3x Platinum (ESP) Gold (UK)
1998	Tubular Bells III Released: 22 September 1998	4	-	47	9	46	-	-	31	-	4x Platinum (ESP) Gold (UK)
1999	Guitars Released: 24 May 1999	40	-	-	16	-	-	-	-	-	-
	The Millennium Bell Released: 26 November 1999	133	-	-	39	-	-	-	-	-	-
2002	Tr3s Lunas Released: 3 June 2002	-	-	67	19	-	-	-	32	-	-
2003	Tubular Bells 2003 Released: 27 May 2003	51	-	44	29	41	-	-	-	-	-
2005	Light + Shade Released: 26 September 2005	175	-	78	26	-	-	-	-	-	-
2008	Music of the Spheres Released: 14 March 2008	9	24	72	14	-	-	-	31	-	Silver (UK)
2014	Man on the Rocks Released: 3 March 2014	12	15	75	3	16	-	-	48	-	-

Other albums

Soundtracks

Although the introduction theme was used in The Exorcist, Tubular Bells (1973) was not a soundtrack album.

Oldfield was commissioned to produce the music for NASA'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.

Mike Oldfield also contributed to the The X-Files movie soundtrack album, with his rendition of Mark Snow's main theme, entitled "Tubular X". Note, this does not appear on all versions of the soundtrack album for the movie.

The only full film score which Oldfield has written, was for the 1984 film The Killing Fields (See The Killing Fields soundtrack album).

Orchestral arrangements

In 1975 David Bedford arranged Oldfield's first two albums, Tubular Bells and Hergest Ridge, for orchestra. These were both performed and recorded, however only The Orchestral Tubular Bells was released to the public as an album, and reached number 17 in the UK Albums Chart. Even though The Orchestral Hergest Ridge was not released, sections were used in the soundtrack to The Space Movie.

Live albums

There is only one officially released Oldfield live audio album, Exposed, although others have been released on video (see below). Exposed reached number 16 in the UK Album Chart, was certified as Silver in the UK and was recorded in 1979.

The alternate version of Platinum, Airborn is a US-only 2-LP release from 1980. One LP being a version of Platinum, the other having a live version of Tubular Bells part one and a live/studio version of Incantations. Note, they are not the same recordings as Exposed.

Warner's Sight&Sound edition of The Art in Heaven Concert includes a cd of Mike Oldfield's new millennium live performance in Berlin.

The Special Edition of Music of the Spheres also contains the only live performance of the piece given by Oldfield (Bilbao 2008).

Live CDs are being included as well in Mercury Records Deluxe Editions of Oldfield's albums: Platinum (Live at Wembley Arena, May 1980), QE2 (Live from the European Adventure Tour), Five Miles Out (Live in Cologne – 6 December 1982 – Five Miles Out Tour), Crises (Live Highlights from Wembley Arena 22 July 1983 Crises Tour; Live at Wembley Arena 22 July 1983 Crises Tour).

Album reissues

There have been a number of reissue releases of Oldfield's work.

The most notable reissue sets have been of Oldfield's Virgin Records albums Tubular Bells through Heaven's Open:

• In 2000 Virgin issued HDCD reissues of the albums.
  • This included a hybrid SACD version of Tubular Bells, containing a new remaster of the original LP in 2-channel CDDA and DSD, and a new remaster of the 1975 quadraphonic mix.
• In the 2000s Virgin Japan released the albums with Mini-LP style artwork.
• From 2009, when Oldfield's Virgin albums were transferred to Mercury Records (later Virgin EMI) they were slowly reissued with bonus material. In 2009 Tubular Bells was released in multiple editions including an Ultimate Edition and a Deluxe Edition. The Ultimate Edition contained 3 CDs, 1 DVD, 1 Vinyl, 1 Book and other items.
  • Hergest Ridge and Ommadawn were reissued in June 2010, and Incantations followed in July 2011.
  • On 30 July 2012 two more albums were re-issued, Platinum and QE2. Both are available as both a standard single CD edition, a 2 CD deluxe edition and a limited edition coloured vinyl LP (blue for Platinum, white for QE2). Both albums have been remastered and the releases were supervised by Mike Oldfield.
  • On 2 September 2013 Five Miles Out and Crises (also in a 5 disc edition) were reissued.
  • On 29 January 2016 Discovery and The Killing Fields were reissued. Discovery is a 2 CD, 1 DVD release including a CD of the 1984 Suite, a combination of the works from Oldfield's two 1984 albums.

Singles

Oldfield has had more than 25 charting singles in the UK. Oldfield's highest charting single in the UK is "Portsmouth", which charted at number 3, however "Moonlight Shadow" reached number 1 on many European charts.

Compilations and remixes

Year	Title	Notes	UK Album Chart	GER	NED
1976	Boxed	Versions of Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge and Ommadawn encoded into SQ Quadraphonic. Also a 4th LP, Collaborations, of shorter tracks with some of the musicians he's worked with on the longer projects. The CD release preserves the quadraphonic encoding.[9]	22
1979	Impressions
1980	Mike Oldfield's Wonderland
1980	Music Wonderland			5	12
1981	Episodes
1985	The Complete Mike Oldfield		36
1987	A Virgin Compilation
1990	Collector's Edition Box I & II	Boxed sets of three albums.
1993	Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield	1 CD	5	13	54
1993	Elements Box	4 CDs
1997	XXV: The Essential		78
2001	The Best of Tubular Bells		60
2002	Collection
2003	The Complete Tubular Bells	3 CDs + 1 DVD. Includes Tubular Bells 2003, Tubular Bells II and Tubular Bells III.	167
2006	The Platinum Collection	3 CDs	36
2009	The Mike Oldfield Collection 1974–1983	2 CDs (1 is Tubular Bells)	11
2012	Icon	1 CD released by Universal Music Enterprises.	-
2012	Two Sides: The Very Best of Mike Oldfield	2 CDs, personally compiled by Oldfield	6
2012	Mike Oldfield Classic Album Selection 1973–1980	6 CDs (Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, Incantations, Platinum, and QE2)	-
2013	Tubular Beats	Remix album by Mike Oldfield and York (Torsten Stenzel). Released on 1 February 2013 in Germany by Edel Records.	-	55	54
2013	Moonlight Shadow: The Collection	1 CD Released on 22 April 2013 by Spectrum Audio.	-
2014	The Studio Albums 1992–2003	8 CDs of Oldfield's Warner Music albums released in October 2014.
2015	The Best of 1992–2003	2 CDs of music from Oldfield's Warner Music albums released in April 2015. It features a number of edits and remixes that had previously only been available as single B-sides.

Video/DVD

Year	Title	VHS release	DVD release	Blu-ray release
1977	Reflection [10]	Unknown [11]	-	-
1979	The Space Movie	1983	2007, re-released in 2015.	-
1979	Exposed	-	2005	-
1980	The Essential Live	1980	-	-
1981	Live at Montreux 1981	-	2006	-
1984	The Killing Fields	1992	2001	2013
1988	The Wind Chimes	1988	Included on DVD Elements (2004)	-
1992	Tubular Bells II, The Performance Live	1992	1999 (with Tubular Bells III)	-
1993	Elements - The Best of Mike Oldfield	1993	2004	-
1998	Tubular Bells III, The Performance Live	1998	1999 (with Tubular Bells II)	-
2000	The Art in Heaven Concert	2000	2001	-
2006	Best of Night of the Proms – Volume 2	-	2007	-
2006	Best of Night of the Proms – Volume 3	-	2008	-
2012	2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony	-	2012	2012

Other:

• On 4 June 1977 a documentary showing Oldfield working on Ommadawn was emitted on UK television, as a part of Tony Palmer's series All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music. The whole series was released in a 5 DVD collection in 2008.
• In 2003 Warner Music released a DVD-Audio with Tubular Bells 2003 in 5.1 Surround sound. The DVD includes also the original Tubular Bells demos of 1971.
• DVDs with diverse music videos, live performances and 5.1 Surround mixes are being included in Mercury Records Deluxe Editions of Oldfield's albums.

Collaborations

Year	Title	Artist	Notes
1968	Children of the Sun	The Sallyangie	As part of a duo with his sister Sally Oldfield. Sallyangie also released two singles.
1969	"Two Ships" / "Colours of the World"	The Sallyangie	Single
1969	"Child of Allah" / "Lady Go Lightly"	The Sallyangie	Single
1970	Shooting at the Moon	Kevin Ayers and the Whole World	Bass guitar, lead guitar and backing vocals
1970	"If You've Got Money" / "Yep"	Bridget St. John	Elektra single; Bridget St. John featuring Kevin Ayers and the Whole World, including Mike Oldfield on lead guitar
1971	Edgar Broughton Band	The Edgar Broughton Band	Mandolin on one track
1971	Ear of Beholder	Lol Coxhill
1971	Whatevershebringswesing	Kevin Ayers and the Whole World	Bass guitar and lead guitar
1972	Nurses Song with Elephants	David Bedford
1973	Legend	Henry Cow
1974	Rock Bottom	Robert Wyatt	Lead guitar on one track
1974	The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories	Kevin Ayers	Lead guitar on one track
1974	June 1, 1974	Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Nico and Brian Eno	Live album recorded at the Rainbow Theatre in London on 1 June 1974.
1974	Star's End	David Bedford
1974	Unrest	Henry Cow
1974	Theatre Royal Drury Lane 8th September 1974	Robert Wyatt	Live album released in 2005; lead guitar.
1975	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	David Bedford
1976	Odd Ditties	Kevin Ayers	A compilation of singles and unreleased tracks.
1976	The Odyssey	David Bedford
1976	Bandages	The Edgar Broughton Band
1977	Instructions for Angels	David Bedford
1977	Mathematicians Air Display	Pekka Pohjola	Also known as a collaboration with Pekka Pohjola or The Consequences of Indecisions album. The original title is Keesojen Lehto, under which it is available on CD from Love Records. There was also a release with a Swedish title.
1977	Song of the White Horse	David Bedford
1977	Fine Old Tom	Tom Newman
1978	Water Bearer	Sally Oldfield	Mandolin on "Child of Allah"; a song that Oldfield had previously recorded with his sister, Sally, as Sallyangie.
1979	Faerie Symphony	Tom Newman
1979	Downwind	Pierre Moerlen's Gong
1979	Strange Man, Changed Man	Bram Tchaikovsky
1979	"Judy's Gone Down/Jung Lovers"	James Vane	Single
1980	Live	Pierre Moerlen's Gong	Live album
1980	The Concertina Record	Lea Nicholson	Guitar, sleigh bells and bodhrán on one track
1980	Joy	The Skids
1983	Star Clusters, Nebulae & Places in Devon/The Song of the White Horse	David Bedford	Produced and Engineered by Oldfield. Also the only LP issued by Oldfield Music.
1990	Natasha	Sally Nathasha Oldfield
1990	Kâma-Sûtra	Michel Polnareff
1992	Still Life with Guitar	Kevin Ayers
1992	BBC Radio 1: Live in Concert	Kevin Ayers
1992	Pavarotti & friends	Luciano Pavarotti
1995	Variations on a Rhythm of Mike Oldfield	David Bedford
1996	Singing the Bruise	Kevin Ayers
1997	Snow Blind	Tom Newman
1998	The Garden of Love	Kevin Ayers
2000	Official Bootleg One	Phil Beer
2000	Do Ya Wanna Play, Carl	Carl Palmer
2002	From the Banks of the River Irwell	Max Bacon
2005	Tag und Nacht	Schiller
2006	Night of the Proms 2006	Night of the Proms	Various artists live concert album; sections of Tubular Bells and Ommadawn, and "Shadow on the Wall" with John Miles.
2008	"Song for Survival" featuring the Anuta tribe	Songs for Survival	Various artists charity album for Survival International. In support of the BBC television series Tribe and Amazon.[12]
2012	Journey into Space	Terry Oldfield	Guitar on "Origin", "Flight of the Eagle" and "Dancer in the Void".
2012	Isles of Wonder: Music for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games	Various	Soundtrack from the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. Features new arrangements of Tubular Bells introduction, "Far Above the Clouds" and "In Dulci Jubilo". This album charted in the top ten around the world.[13][14] Live performance also released on BBC DVD/Blu-ray.
2012	Islanders	York	"Islanders"

References

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9. "Boxed". tubular.net. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
10. Keith Critchlow, Lawrence Moore (1977). Reflection (16 mm film with stereo sound). Music by Mike Oldfield & Alan Hacker. A Vortex Production, ©Arts Council of Great Britain. OCLC 51663848.
11. "Reflection (VHS)". Rainer Muenz (mike-oldfield.es). Retrieved 2 August 2014.
12. "Bruce Parry presents Amazon / Tribe Songs for Survival". Kensaltown Records. Retrieved 2008-08-25.
13. "Olympics opening ceremony soundtrack album tops download charts". Washington Post. 29 July 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
14. "Opening Ceremony album tops the download charts". London2012.com. 29 July 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2012.

External links

• Mike Oldfield Discography – The official Mike Oldfield website discography
• Mike Oldfield Discography at Tubular.net
• Mike Oldfield Discography at Amadian.net
• Argiers - Mike Oldfield's collector corner, includes Rainer-Muenz's lists