Brian James, founding member and guitarist with the legendary British punk band The Damned has died at the age of 70.

Getty/Michael Putland Hear from Mike Oldfield himself, alongside Virgin boss Richard Branson, talking to the BBC in 2013, as ...

White Red Architects have designed the interiors of Virgin Group’s new £15 million London HQ in a former recording studio.

Wilson's eight studio album promises to be “an old-fashioned piece of conceptual rock in the tradition of The Dark Side of the Moon and Tubular Bells” ...

For Branson, it was a propitious time. Virgin Records was in the second year of its existence and riding high on the phenomenal success of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells. The label’s mail order service ...

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 ...

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 ...

This was the guitar that Mike Oldfield used to record the electric guitar parts on Tubular Bells,' he said. The guest revealed how he managed to acquire the guitar and added: 'Mike put it up for ...

He explained: "This is the guitar that Mike Oldfield used to record the electric guitar part of Tubular Bells." The crowd was wowed by hearing about the creation of the iconic 1973 album the ...

Prog writer Sid Smith pays tribute to the former Soft Machine founder and keyboard player Mike Ratledge, who sadly died after a short illness, aged 81 When you purchase through links on our site, we ...