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Posted: April 03 2011, 01:06 |
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Looking right back in time from 3rdAPRIL2011, I find this gem of a post to join in on.
THE ORIGIN OF THE BELL and its album cover artwork.
WELL IMHO the sea I believe represents something that joins all lands of planet earth, its a life giving body in fact it moves as if alive, reaching out with its waves falling crashing in a rhythmical sound, since time immoral it has pounded out a constant beat upon the shores it roars like thunder and like the waves of sound it moves.
Now over this we see the BELL flying suspended ringing out its sound in the waves below sending its message to all lands and life there on,
(HOW ELSE I ASK DOES 1 REPRESENT SOUND WAVES ? you cannot draw them can you?).
THE BELL SHAPE OR FORM ITSELF intellectual artwork or art?;
well I have many reasons to BELL EVE ITS something more than just art, & I DO NOT MEAN this to belittle art, yet I don't see it in Mike, he appears maybe whimsical, flippant in speech, but in his work he is deep, mystical, careful, planed & ordered he puts so much effort into creating this work and remember this was a long dream in the making as it was the culmination of some 20 or so years of life that led up to it, that to say such a talented and deep thinking person would not have put thought into this symbol seems strange beyond belief, that just isn't the Mike Oldfield I recognize.
But I will start a new thread IF I AM ALLOWED and go into this in more detail soon if requested or I get no feed back due to the age of this thread.
I have just come across this section from an interview with Mike in which he states this [QUOTE; There are things hard to explain. The symbol of the bells is one of them. There were bells on the first album, but they could have been eggs. Originally, the first album name's was going to be "Breakfast in bed". The designer wanted to put a blooding egg on the cover. I said "don't put that, but bells".]
The interview can be read in full here:- http://tubular.net/article....history
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However, I think that the actual shape of the Bell itself was Trevor Key's idea, not Mike's (although it's credited to him in the TBIII liner notes). IMHO Mike just told to Trevor Key that he wanted a bent bell, then the photographer bent it the way he (i.e. Key) liked it, and Mike happened to like it... 
