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Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells Telecaster has cropped up on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow – after it was bought for $12,500
So how exactly do guitars play a role in this story?Well, Mike Oldfield, who recorded Tubular Bells at just 19, used only one guitar on it: a 1966 Fender Telecaster. Over fifty years later, this same ...
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Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells Telecaster has cropped up on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow – after it was bought for $12,500
Credit: Joseph Branston/Guitarist Magazine/Future “Tubular Bells” and “Mike Oldfield” immediately evoke the iconic earworm that is the tune's opening piano motif, which, on a broader pop ...