I can hardly add to Keith Hatcher's well composed review, and he certainly seems to know a lot about Oldfield's work. Still I'll just "chime in" with a glowing approval of this magnificent recording, I didn't know a lot about Mike Oldfield but of course remembered the single of Tubular Bells as accompanied the Exorcist movie from 1973.
Ever since `Tubular Bells' appeared, now over 25 years ago (I occasionally blow the dust off the cassette recording and give it a hearing) passing through `Moonlight Shadow' with Maggie Reilly, and then `Tubular Bells II' - a kind of plagiaristic bridging operation which did not go too far -, it was to be hoped that having recovered from the difficult task of `The Killing Fields', Mike Oldfield would come up with something worthwhile, and not just a regurgitation of the afamed original version. So, as if celebrating a belated coming-of-age banquet, lo and behold, the third version appeared one rainy night in a park in the centre of London, fortunately relayed live on one of Spain´s TV channels and captured for posterity on this 60 minute video.
