Icon (Mike Oldfield album)
| Icon | ||||
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| Compilation album by | ||||
| Released | 31 May 2012 | |||
| Recorded | 1973 – 2007 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock, Progressive rock | |||
| Length | 55:35 | |||
| Label | Universal Music Enterprises | |||
| Producer | Mike Oldfield, Tom Newman, Simon Heyworth, Simon Phillips, Karl Jenkins | |||
| Mike Oldfield chronology | ||||
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Icon is a compilation album by British multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield. It was released on 31 May 2012 in Europe.[1] It is part of a series of similar Icon albums released by Universal Music Enterprises.
The album includes selections from Oldfield's recorded output with Mercury Records. Pieces from earlier in Oldfield's career were originally released on Virgin Records but have been subsequently moved to Mercury/Universal.
The album was released during the same year as another Mike Oldfield compilation from Universal, Two Sides.
Track listing
[edit]| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Tubular Bells" (Original theme from The Exorcist) | Mike Oldfield | 3:18 |
| 2. | "Moonlight Shadow" | Oldfield | 3:39 |
| 3. | "In Dulci Jubilo" | Johann Sebastian Bach | 2:51 |
| 4. | "Spanish Tune" | Oldfield | 3:12 |
| 5. | "Harbinger" | Oldfield | 4:09 |
| 6. | "Ommadawn" (Excerpt) | Oldfield | 3:39 |
| 7. | "The Tempest" | Oldfield | 5:49 |
| 8. | "Angelique" | Oldfield | 4:42 |
| 9. | "Family Man" | Oldfield, Tim Cross, Rick Fenn, Mike Frye, Morris Pert, Maggie Reilly | 3:46 |
| 10. | "Guilty" | Oldfield | 6:44 |
| 11. | "The Gate" | Oldfield | 4:15 |
| 12. | "The Sailor's Hornpipe" (Viv Stanshall version) | Traditional | 2:49 |
| 13. | "Portsmouth" | Traditional | 2:01 |
| 14. | "Incantations" (Excerpt from part 4) | Oldfield | 4:41 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Mike Oldfield - Icon". Discogs. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
