The Orchestral Tubular Bells

The Orchestral Tubular Bells
Live album by Mike Oldfield
Released	January 1975 (1975-01)[1]
Recorded	September 1974
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	50:46
Label	Virgin
Producer	David Bedford, Mike Oldfield
Mike Oldfield chronology
Hergest Ridge (1974) The Orchestral Tubular Bells (1975) Ommadawn (1975)
Tubular Bells series chronology
Tubular Bells (1973) The Orchestral Tubular Bells (1975) Tubular Bells II (1992)

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The Orchestral Tubular Bells is an orchestral version of Mike Oldfield's album Tubular Bells, arranged by David Bedford and recorded in 1974 by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, featuring Oldfield himself playing the guitar. Excerpts from the album were featured in the 1979 NASA film The Space Movie. It peaked at #17 on the UK Albums Chart in 1975.

In 2000 it was reissued by Virgin as a HDCD and is the only one of Oldfield's 1970s albums yet to be reissued by Mercury Records.