Sweep
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Posted: Oct. 01 2011, 16:31 |
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I was reading Mike's Changeling again the other day, and he says his idea was an image of a bell broken into bits, but Trevor Key came up with the image of the bent bell instead, and Mike loved it.
Richard Branson's Breakfast in Bed title seems not to have been entirely serious, but a threat to make Mike come up with a proper title. Though as mentioned, it did get as far as a cover design.
As Toby said, Opus 1 was the working title. The Tubular Bells title came up because of the way the music built up to the introduction of the bells, plus the dramatic way Viv Stanshall introduced them. It seemed to fit. The tubular bells had been in the studio from a previous session (John Cale I think it was) and Mike liked them and decided to extend the hire period.
I've never heard the allegation about Tubular Bells and Magma's album before. I heard both albums in the seventies and listened to them a lot, and I never noticed any similarity. And as Guimauve2 pointed out, the opening of Tubular Bells had already been written before Mike went to the Manor. Of course if he'd stolen it, he would claim it was already written by then, but I can't hear that in the Magma music at all, myself.
Re Trinidad's post, Mike's Changeling version is that he asked for a bigger hammer, then a bigger one still, and gave one of the bells a huge whack that put a dent in it. But in addition the secret of the big sound is in the recording technique as well.
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], Magritte (which by the way is one of my favourite artists - I love surrealism) is definitely an influence: "The Castle in the Pyrenees" for the sea and the whole idea, and maybe 
