Mike Oldfield’s 1974 Hergest Ridge Album 12" Vinyl, Near Mint. V2013 A-1U & B-3U
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Description
This is an original 12" vinyl copy of Mike Oldfield’s 1974 “Hergest Ridge” album, in near mint condition. The inner and outer sleeves are also in good condition, with just a couple of minor creases near the spine of the outer sleeve. The numbers on the “dead wax run out” grooves are V2013A-1U and V2013B-3U respectively. Also etched there are “ARUN” on side B and “PETE + FIELY” on side A.
About the artist:
"Hergest Ridge was the second album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1974 on Virgin Records. The album was reissued with bonus material and new artwork in June 2010.
During 1973, Oldfield was uncomfortable with the public attention that he had received from the success of Tubular Bells, and retreated to the English countryside to work on his follow-up. The result was Hergest Ridge, named after the hill near Kington, Herefordshire, on the border between England and Wales and close to where he was living at the time.
Hergest Ridge entered the UK album charts at number one, only to be displaced by its predecessor, Tubular Bells. Oldfield is thus one of only a few artists (among whom are The Beatles and David Bowie) to have “defeated” themselves in this manner."
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