Try Account & Lists Sign in Account & Lists Returns & Orders. Atlantic) VR-55100 (same number as non-promo edition) This version can be found with either a white (normal) or blue label, and some copies were issued in a cover that did not come with the version issued to the public. This version was issued in Portugal, the Netherlands (one of two editions), Australia, New Zealand (second edition), and South Africa (second and third editions, with different covers).Side 2 is an alternate mix. Since this section had been omitted from the previous promo single, a new promo record was necessary. The cover was designed by This version was also issued in Sweden, Portugal (second edition), Greece, and A shorter version of this track (3:56) was remastered and remixed for the 2009 Side 1 is the same as the American "Now the Original" version, but without that sub-title on the label. In Canada the single was released as "Tubular Bells (Theme from There are many different live recordings; a complete one can be found on the double live album Live video performances are available on the following releases: The single was an edit of the first three sections from Part One and was not authorised by Oldfield. Oldfield, who was 19 years old when it was recorded, played almost all the instruments on the mostly instrumental album. "I never thought that the word 'tubular bells' was going to play such an important part in our lives ... Virgin going into space most likely wouldn't have existed if we hadn't hired that particular instrument. Atlantic) E.P.-PR-199, issued in 1974 Some time after the release of the "Now the Original" excerpt, Virgin/Atlantic tried promoting the section near the end of side 1 of the album. The Deluxe Edition uses the original artwork with a "Deluxe Edition" white banner at the bottom. This version fades out slightly earlier, although some labels quote the UK mix's timing. It appears to be another record company's re-creation of the "Now the Original" version, and is unlikely to have been approved by Oldfield. In 2004 Oldfield launched a virtual reality project called The Olympics version was released as a 500-copy limited edition pink/blue vinyl single on 8 October 2012. A UK test pressing of this record exists, with catalogue number VS-101,This version of the single was also issued in Canada, France, New Zealand (first edition), South Africa (first edition), and Chile.Recently, a similar version has been heard on radio in Canada and the USA, which appears to be made from the remastered CD version of the album, edited in the same way as the "Now the Original" single. "There are five known variations of the vinyl edition of The album was also released on CD for the first time in 1983, with the serial number CDV2001.In 2008, when Oldfield's original 35-year deal with Virgin Records ended, the rights to the piece were returned to himAll formats of the reissue included a new mix of the album created by Oldfield at his home in Oldfield admitted that once he had finished recording Oldfield and many of the musicians who had taken part in the Queen Elizabeth Hall concert performed Part One again later in the year for the BBC arts programme The most important promotion for the record came from an unexpected source, when the introduction to Part One was chosen to feature in the film The first single released from the album was created by the original US distributor, Atlantic Records. A screenshot of the session in This article is about the Mike Oldfield album. The Ultimate Edition has a plain white cover with the bell logo. The Ultimate Edition included a 60-page hardback book with a foreword by Mike Oldfield, plectrums, a poster, a copy of the Manor Studio's recording brochure, a concert ticket, a postcard and recording information. Tubular Bells is the debut studio album by English multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter Mike Oldfield, released on 25 May 1973 as the first album on Virgin Records.