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Mike Oldfield – Hergest Ridge
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Title: Mike Oldfield – Hergest Ridge
Year/Genre/City: 1974, Progressive Rock, London, UK
Matrix #: VI 2013
Condition: EX
Cultural Facts:
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Studio Lore: Recorded at Virgin’s The Manor as the high-pressure follow-up to Tubular Bells, with Oldfield layering many parts himself.
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Album Art: Named after Hergest Ridge on the England–Wales border, tying the record’s identity to a real place he’d spent time around.
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Scene Ecology: An early flagship for Virgin Records—Oldfield’s run helped bankroll the label’s rapid growth in the mid-’70s.
1.26.26 OB
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