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Posted: Feb. 09 2025, 15:59 |
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Of course Mike Oldfield is primarily a solo artist, but through his 60 year career he has collaborated with on his recordings countless luminaries - starting with his own sister Sally, as well as his brother Terry Oldfield, and including the likes of Vivian Stanshall, Maggie Reilly, Roger Chapman, Michael Cretu, Kevin Ayers, Bonnie Tyler, Lang Lang, Hayley Westenra, Max Bacon, Anita Hegerland, John Cleese, Alan Rickman, Billy Connolly, David Bedford, Phil Collins, Morris Pert, Pepsi DeMacque, Miriam Stockley, Maddy Prior, Cara Dillon, Clodagh Simonds, Barry Palmer, "Sir" Karl Jenkins, Sir Les Penning, Simon Phillips, the Tallis Scholars, Liam O'Flynn, and of course the most immortal titan of progressive and new age music, Jon Anderson, and many more.*
Yet I think perhaps his best collaboration track is not any of these, but the lesser known serenely blissful, languid chillout anthem "Never Too Far" with Tarja Turunen and Yorke, from 2013's outstanding Oldfield career retrospective dance remix album Tubular Beats.
Never Too Far
* I refuse to acknowledge Luke Spiller...lol. Not because of anything personally against him but the album was just so poor and I don't believe Spiller was a good choice. It needed someone slightly more mature and rugged.
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