• Hergest Ridge is the second studio album by English musician and songwriter Mike Oldfield, released on 30 August 1974 by Virgin Records. The unexpected...
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    Hergest Ridge is a large elongated hill which traverses the border between England and Wales in the United Kingdom, between the town of Kington in Herefordshire...
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    to sell over 2.7 million copies in the UK. Oldfield followed it with Hergest Ridge (1974), Ommadawn (1975) and Incantations (1978), all of which feature...
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  • (SQ system) remix versions of his first three albums:Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge and Ommadawn. An additional fourth LP contains new musical collaborations...
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  • album, Hergest Ridge. However, The Orchestral Hergest Ridge was never released to the public as an album. Excerpts from The Orchestral Hergest Ridge were...
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  • of his debut studio album, Tubular Bells (1973). He followed it with Hergest Ridge (1974), which generated a more negative critical reaction in comparison...
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  • (1975), which, like his previous two albums, Tubular Bells (1973) and Hergest Ridge (1974), had reached the top-five of the UK Albums Chart and helped to...
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  • David Bedford arranged Oldfield's first two albums, Tubular Bells and Hergest Ridge, for orchestra. These were both performed and recorded, but only The...
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  • Run (1973) by Wings, and Oldfield's second album Hergest Ridge (1974). In surpassing Hergest Ridge for the number one album, Oldfield became only the...
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  • England Hergest Ridge, a hill on the border between England and Wales Hergest Ridge (album), a 1974 album by Mike Oldfield Red Book of Hergest, a medieval...
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    lies on the western side of Offa's Dyke. The town is in the shadow of Hergest Ridge, and on the River Arrow, where it is crossed by the A44 road. It is...
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  • orchestrated Oldfield's follow-up album-length composition, Hergest Ridge (1974) as The Orchestral Hergest Ridge, which was performed live and recorded for radio...
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  • "Shadow of the Hierophant" With Mike Oldfield 1973 – Tubular Bells 1974 – Hergest Ridge 1975 – Ommadawn 1978 – Incantations 2002 – Tres Lunas 2003 – Tubular...
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    are the Castle Twts motte and bailey earthwork, Hergest Court 15th-century manor house, and Hergest Ridge on the England–Wales border. Kington as a settlement...
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    to as mini-albums or EPs. Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, and Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yes's Close to the Edge, include fewer than four...
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    album, Shades of a Blue Orphanage, and sang on the Mike Oldfield albumsHergest Ridge, Ommadawn (also helping Oldfield to coin the album title). In 1976 Simonds...
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  • acoustic-oriented one similar to that of his first three: Tubular Bells (1973), Hergest Ridge (1974), and Ommadawn (1975), and learned that the latter had become...
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  • pieces from Oldfield's released works, including Tubular Bells and Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn and "Portsmouth". It also featured excerpts from what was...
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  • arrangement similar to much of Hergest Ridge, and featuring Lindsay Cooper on oboe, who had played a similar section on Hergest Ridge. Mike Oldfield likely plays...
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  • session work for other musicians, including Mike Oldfield on his album Hergest Ridge (1974). While working on a theatre project, Cooper encountered Henry...
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    Hatterrall Ridge is the highest point on the trail at 703 m (2,310 ft) Black Mountains Llanthony Priory Hay-on-Wye Newchurch Gladestry Hergest Ridge with wild...
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    rock artists and reissues of earlier Virgin / Atlantic albums such as Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Fish Rising by Steve Hillage, which Columbia chose...
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    Ringmaster Part One and Two, Tigermoth Productions, 2021 Tubular World, Hergest Ridge 50th Anniversary Edition,2021 The Weever Sands, Secrets of the Pecking...
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  • Elizabeth Hall on 25 June 1973. Terry also appears on Mike's albums Hergest Ridge (woodwind – uncredited), Ommadawn (pan-pipes) and extensively on Incantations...
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  • search by police and local volunteers, she was found dead in Yeld Wood, Hergest Ridge on 3 July. Source: Taste of Murder (1966) Shroud of Canvas (1967) Point...
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  • on 27 April 2015. This follows the recent releases of Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, QE2, Five Miles Out and Crises on the same format. All tracks by Mike...
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  • Oldfield's new home studio, shortly after he moved from his previous home in Hergest Ridge, which was the location of his previous home studio, the Beacon. "Speak...
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  • Oldfield - Tubular Bells: Deluxe edition + bonus dvd (2009) Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge: Deluxe edition + bonus dvd (2010) Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn: Deluxe...
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  • Oldfield (1974) Hatfield and the North – Hatfield and the North (1973) Hergest Ridge – Mike Oldfield (1974) Platinum – Mike Oldfield (1979) "All Right Now"...
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    north of the Black Mountains and to the east of the Cambrian Mountains. Hergest Ridge is immediately to the south-east of the area (just across the English...
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