The Making of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells

Using hours of taped interviews that he recorded in 1993 with the three people who made Mike Oldfield’s legendary Tubular Bells, author and broadcaster Richard Newman presents the true story of how this unique, iconic and multi-million selling album was created.


Their accounts tell how a chance meeting by a group of young people was to result in them simultaneously creating the first residential recording studio, producing one of the biggest selling records of all time, and establishing the renowned Virgin Record Label.


Tubular Bells has gone on to sell approximately 20 million copies, and continues selling today.