Man on the Rocks

Man on the Rocks
Studio album by
Mike Oldfield
Released3 March 2014 (2014-03-03)
Recorded2013
StudioMike Oldfield's home studio (Nassau, Bahamas)
The Village (Los Angeles)
Battery Studios (London)
GenreRock,[1] pop rock[2]
Length59:32
LabelVirgin EMI
ProducerMike Oldfield, Stephen Lipson
Mike Oldfield chronology
Music of the Spheres
(2008) 		Man on the Rocks
(2014) 		Return to Ommadawn
(2017)

Man on the Rocks is the twenty-fifth studio album by British musician Mike Oldfield, released on 3 March 2014 on the Virgin EMI label.[3] The album is Oldfield's second full album of exclusively songs with no long or instrumental pieces, the first being 1989's Earth Moving.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

  1. ^ "Man on the Rocks review". Classic Rock Magazine. March 2014.
  2. ^ "Man on the Rocks review". Prog (44): 63. ... his first collection of conventional pop-rock tunes arguably since 1991's Heaven's Open.
  3. ^ "Man on the Rocks Release & Format Information". Mike Oldfield Official. 10 January 2014. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  4. ^ "Mike Oldfield - Man on the Rocks". Amazon.co.uk. 3 March 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2014. Debuting at #12 in the UK Albums Chart, the album is Oldfield's second non-instrumental following on from 1989's 'Earth Moving'
  5. ^ "Mike Oldfield - Man on the Rocks review" (in Dutch). NU.nl. 19 March 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2014. Unlike most plates Oldfield, Man on the Rocks consists entirely of vocal pieces. His only other album in that objective was Earth Moving from 1989 (translated from Dutch)
  6. ^ "Mike Oldfield - Man on the Rocks review" (in Spanish). Hipersonica. 12 March 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  7. ^ "Mike Oldfield - Man on the Rocks" (in Chinese). Universal Music Taiwan. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  8. ^ "Mike Oldfield - Man on the Rocks review" (in Czech). MusicServer.cz. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  9. ^ "Mike Oldfield - Man on the Rocks". 925rebellion. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  10. ^ "Mike Oldfield - Man on the Rocks" (in Polish). Onet Teledyski. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  11. ^ "Mike Oldfield - Man on the Rocks". Nuclear Blast. Retrieved 19 September 2014.