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The Best Of Tubular Bells With Mike Oldfield

The Best of Tubular Bells is coming out on June 4th, how do you feel about that?

I'm looking forward to it. It's hard to believe after all these years that its been deemed worthy to... not exactly be resurrected because it never went away, but you know shake the dust off it and put it together with the other things in the cupboard, with pieces of music from that series. It's great. I'm looking forward to it.

How much work was required on the editing to get it to feel like an album?

Simon Heyworth did that as he was one of the engineers involved in the original recording. I saw him the other day in a magazine - he hasn't changed much. I remember him because he used to look after the enormous Irish Wolfhound we used to have at the manor called 'Bootleg' who used to spend most of the time at our feet under the mixing deck. He'd hang out either end because he was enormous. I think 'Bootleg' should have got a credit on the album as our foot warmer. He never batted an eyelid and sometimes we'd really crank up the volume!

Is Bootleg anywhere on the recordings then?

Well there are people who say there's a bit on the 'Caveman' part where I get talking with some people and they're going 'Bootleg Bootleg' because there was this whole thing about bootleg albums at the time. But that's something we don't talk about!

Are there any bits you'd have liked to include on the Best of Tubular Bells but didn't?

Well, yes but there's such a lot of it. It would have been lovely to put it all on but we couldn't do that. It was quite nice the way Simon edited from the original version to the live version then to the orchestral version then back again because you get a picture of all the different versions that do exist.

So is it true that you broke the Tubular Bell in the original recording?

Well it certainly made a big dent in it. You're supposed to hit it with this little wooden hammer - but I wanted a big hammer so they got me one from the workshop. I actually ran from one end of the studio wheeling this hammer and smashed it into them. It went flying and it made a big dent in it. Years and years later we tried to find the original set but we discovered there's about half a dozen people who claim that they have the original set! So we looked at all of them and it turns out that none of them were the original set. I think I threw them in the skip when I'd finished with them!

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