A million-selling classic that by now most music lovers own, have heard or at least heard of. Im not getting in to its already well documented background here, but whatever you wanna know you can probably find in this vast and detailed Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubular_Bells . Even if I've heard it many times before I can safely say that it still works for me. Not entirely sure if it's just the music that makes me feel good today, or if it's the attached memories from my free and reckless seventies that does it, but either way it has a magic impossible to deny. It wasn't much noticed at release, first after a part was used in the sundrack to "The Exorcist" movie it started to sell around six month later. To this day it has sold over 15 million copies and reached top ten on many lists around the world, which is unique for a mostly instrumental prog album. For a long time I've been trying to find a very first, pre-Exorcist press copy, but as you always can find at least 5-6 variations for sale on the net, all presented as premiere, it's hard to be sure. Yet after some research I now believe the copy shown here is if not the absolutely first so at least early. The label is black and white, the sleeve fully laminated and the matrixes handetched simply V-2001-A and V-2001-B.
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