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Home » Tubular Bells is 40!
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Tubular Bells is 40!

by DS_admin|Published May 25, 2013

Tubular Bells was released forty years ago today! We are celebrating with a new biography and a fan convention. Prog Rock Magazine has also released a commemorative magazine to celebrate this special anniversary.

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        • 1975 Music From The Soul
        • 1976 Chart Success Highlights Busy Year
        • 1977 Mysterious Air Display
        • 1978 Short Hair and Sports Jacket
        • 1979 Live!
        • 1980 Ocean Liners and Flying Machines
        • 1981 Freeman of London
        • 1982 Continued Success throughout Europe
        • 1983 10th Anniversary Year
        • 1984 Voices from the Darkness
        • 1985 The Best Of…
        • 1986 Visually Stunning Images
        • 1987 Back to Basics
        • 1988 Essential Re-issues
        • 1989 Earth Moving Experiences
        • 1990 Contents of an Aero-Modeller’s Toolbox…
        • 1991 End of the Virgin Years
        • 1992 Tubular Bells Revisited
        • 1993 20 Years of Magic
    • Discography
      • Tubular Bells
      • Hergest Ridge
      • Orchestral Tubular Bells
      • Ommadawn
      • Boxed
      • Incantations
      • Exposed
      • Platinum
      • QE2
      • Five Miles Out
      • Crises
      • Discovery
      • The Killing Fields
      • The Complete
      • Islands
      • Earth Moving
      • Amarok
      • Heaven’s Open
      • Tubular Bells II
      • Elements
      • Songs of Distant Earth
      • Voyager
      • XXV
      • Tubular Bells III
      • Guitars
      • The Millennium Bell
      • Best of Tubular Bells
      • Collection
      • Tres Lunas
      • Tubular Bells 2003
      • Light and Shade
      • Platinum Collection
      • Music of the Spheres
      • Two Sides
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