Mike Oldfield London 2012 Olympic Music Ltd Ed. (500) Coloured 12" Single
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Mike Oldfield
Single Sided Pink & Blue Coloured 12" Vinyl Record
Exclusive Music from the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony
This is a Brand New Limited Edition Numbered (137 out of 500) Pink and Blue Coloured 12" Collectors Vinyl.
This collectors Item was sold out within a couple of days of its' release and is already a highly sought after item.
The back of the cover carries the Official London 2012 Product Hologram and the Limited Edition Number.
The Disc, Card Insert and Cover are all Mint Conditioned.
Total Running Time: 11.26 recorded on one side
- i: Tubular Bells (Part One Excerpt)
- ii: Tubular Bells (Part One – Swing)
- iii: Tubular Bells (Part Two Excerpt)
- iv: Tubular Bells III (Far Above The Clouds)
- v: Mary Poppins Arrival
- vi: Fanfare For The Isles Of Wonder
- vii: In Dulci Jubilo
- viii: Olympic Tubular Bells Coda
When Mike Oldfield stepped out on stage at the Olympic Park in Stratford, London on Friday 27th July 2012, it marked his first major live concert performance in his home country for over a decade. However, this was no ordinary show.
Oldfield’s music had been personally selected by Danny Boyle to play a central part in Isles of Wonder, his specially-created work for the Opening Ceremony of the 30th Olympic Games.
In front of an estimated global viewing audience of a billion (not to mention the 80,000 in the stadium), Oldfield opened with the immediately familiar theme from his legendary Tubular Bells before he and his band lifted off into the incredible ‘Tubular Bells Swing’ section, which as many will recall, accompanied the staff and patients of Great Ormond Street Hospital doing some remarkable choreography.
Add into that newly-composed material to signal the arrival of the flying Mary Poppins, a spirited rendition of his 1975 UK Top Five single ‘In Dulce Jubilo’ and the beautifully wistful closing coda, and you have eleven-and-a-half minutes of premium Mike Oldfield.
It was an extraordinary night to kick-start an extraordinary Olympics, and this is extraordinary music.
Already one of the most talked about tracks on the Isles of Wonder CD, this strictly limited 12” coloured single will be the only place you can hear this on vinyl.
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