Innerviews is the world’s longest-running online music magazine. It has just released a brand new Amarok 35th anniversary roundtable discussion with Markus Reuter (renowned musician, composer, and Oldfield authority) and Dark Star's Editor, Chris Dewey.
We explore the conception and construction of the album, the music industry issues Oldfield faced at the time, the marketing of the recording, and its legacy 35 years since its release.
To celebrate the 35th anniversary of this much loved Mike Oldfield LP, a personal favourite of the artist, a double LP edition, half-speed mastered by Miles Showell is being released.
Originally presented as a sixty-minute suite of music, split into two halves on single vinyl, here, with approval of Mike, Universal have divided the album into four 15 minute edits, in order to optimise audio fidelity, with expanded artwork. Mike again plays almost everything on the album, including “long thin metallic hanging tubes” as listed on the sleeve; a punning reference, of course, to ‘Tubular Bells’.