The Best of Tubular Bells explained

The Best of Tubular Bells
Type:	greatest
Artist:	Mike Oldfield
Cover:	The Best of Tubular Bells.jpg
Recorded:	1972–1998
Genre:	Progressive rock
Label:	Virgin
Producer:	Mike Oldfield Simon Hayworth Tom Newman David Bedford Phillip R Newell Trevor Horn
Prev Year:	1997
Next Title:	Collection
Next Year:	2002

The Best of Tubular Bells is a compilation album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield. It was released in 2001 and features segments from all of the Tubular Bells albums up to that year.

It is a single CD which consists of pieces of various past versions of Tubular Bells albums; Tubular Bells (1973), The Orchestral Tubular Bells (1975), Tubular Bells live (1979), Tubular Bells II (1992), Tubular Bells III (1998) and The Millennium Bell (1999). The album has been re-edited so that the changes between most of the different parts of Tubular Bells are seamless.

It was advertised on television in 2001, where the actor Tom Baker, known for his role as the Doctor in Doctor Who, provides his voice-over.^[1]

Track listing

1. "Tubular Bells" - Part 1 (Original edit) - 4:42
2. "Tubular Bells" - Part 1 (Orchestral edit) - 3:14
3. "Tubular Bells" - Part 1 (Original edit) - 3:47
4. "Tubular Bells" - Part 1 (Exposed edit) - 3:20
5. "Tubular Bells" - Part 1 (Original edit) - 8:29
6. "Tubular Bells" - Part 2 "The Caveman Song" (Original edit) - 4:46
7. "Tubular Bells" - Part 2 (Exposed edit) - 4:15
8. "Sentinel" (Tubular Bells II) - 8:07
9. "The Bell" (Tubular Bells II) - 6:59
10. "Far Above The Clouds" (Tubular Bells III) - 5:28
11. "The Millennium Bell" (The Millennium Bell) - 7:32
12. "Tubular Bells" - Part 2 "Sailor's Hornpipe" (Original edit) - 1:34

Notes and References

1. Web site: Where are they now - Tom Baker . Real Doctor Who Fans . 7 June 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111007164013/http://www.pearsecom.co.uk/where/wtntombaker.htm . 7 October 2011 .