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Title: Mike Oldfield – Airborn
Year/Genre/City: 1979, Progressive Rock, Reading, UK
Matrix #: VA 13143
Condition: Excellent
Cultural Facts:
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Studio Lore: Oldfield’s one-man-band method—layering parts obsessively and treating arrangement like construction rather than a “band take.”
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Band Drama: Long-running friction with Virgin over deadlines and direction; he kept trying to outrun the “Tubular Bells” shadow on each new LP.
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Media Narrative: By the late ’70s, prog artists were adapting to punk/new-wave skepticism—Oldfield stayed instrumental-forward while navigating that backlash.
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