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All songs written and composed by Mike Oldfield except "The Sailor's Hornpipe" (traditional, arranged by Mike Oldfield) first, "Tubular Bells, Part 1" 25:36 Side two "Tubular Bells, Part 2" Staff 11:20 p.m. Mike Oldfield acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, Farfisa, Hammond, and Lowrey organs, flageolet, fuzz guitars, glockenspiel, "honky tonk" piano (piano with detuned strings), mandolin, piano, " Piltdown Man ", percussion, Spanish guitar," double speed guitar ", the producer," sealed motor drive amplifier body agree ", timpani, violin, singing and tubular bells. Additional personnel percussion Steve Broughton Lindsay L. Mundy Ellis Cooper string bass voice recorders Jon Field Sally Oldfield Vivian Stanshall voice emcee nasal Choir Choir Manor (Simon Heyworth, Tom Newman, Mike Oldfield) Simon Heyworth - producer Tom Newman - producer Trevor Key - art album art Tubular Bells disk image. The cover design was by Trevor Key, who was creating the album covers many Oldfield, and was inspired by Magritte's "Castle of the Pyrenees. [Edit] The concept of triangular Bell on the cover art originating the idea of a bell that had been destroyed. Oldfield came with when he started the series of tubular bells used to record the album when read. The leaning bell "image on the cover is also associated with Oldfield, even used the logo of his personal business of music, Oldfield Music Ltd The image was the main theme of the album art successive Tubular Bells. Tubular Bells was also issued as a vinyl picture disc, showing the bell bent on Skyscape. The cover of the album Tubular Bells was among the ten selected by the Royal Mail for a series of "Classic Album Cover Stamp post ", published January 7, 2010. Importance Virgin Oldfield approached (and was rejected by) many other established labels. Some of these releases have been because they believed the piece to be sold. Oldfield then played his demos to some engineers at the manor, they with their boss, Richard Branson decided to give a chance Oldfield. Oldfield Virgin Records released debut album Tubular Bells as his first album, where the catalog number V2001 (V2002 and V2003 have well been released the same day). The significance of this album in the Virgin empire has not lost to Richard Branson, who is one of the first Virgin America plane, an Airbus A319-112, N527VA Tubular Belle. Prior to Virgin Atlantic had appointed a Boeing 747-4Q8, G-tube VHOT Belle in 1994. Virgin reissued the album a few times, including in 2000 for release HDCD and SACD 2001 version. The release notes included HDCD by David Laing, and SACD release notes were by Phil Newell and Simon Heyworth. The 50th anniversary edition of music magazine Music Week features the album in the Top album sales in the United Kingdom 19,592,009 to No official 35, noting that the only entry is not given at once. In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd and The Story of Prog Rock, the album is No. 9 in the list of "40 Rock Cosmic Albums. The Mail on Sunday The free edition April 22, 2007, a British newspaper The Mail on Sunday, gave 2.25 million free copies of the original Tubular Bells complete with its readers, which came in a pack of cards displaying original artwork. EMI (owners of the label Virgin Records) earned between 200,000 and 500,000 of the promotion. The Mail on Sunday claimed that their promotion has increased album sales of 30%; sources industry, however, noted that this was not a significant increase for the title at the time. This cover assembly agreement is reached before the transfer of album for Virgin / EMI Back to Oldfield. Oldfield attacked in EMI the press to have accepted this agreement with The Mail on Sunday, not having been consulted Abu.