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Posted: April 13 2014, 13:18
In 1972 Uri Geller left Israel for Europe where he gained a lot of attention, apparently reading minds and bending spoons psychically. The image of bent spoons quickly became famous.
Tubular Bells came out in 1973. I wonder if, when contemplating what cover image would suit an album called Tubular Bells, Trevor Key took the image of the bent key and applied it to a tubular bell?
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Posted: April 26 2014, 09:08
There's never been any mention of him as an inspiration, from what I've read. The twisted bell idea Trevor used came from the beat up bells Mike had pounded with a sledgehammer to get the right quality of sound out of them.

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