Echoes Podcast: Mike Oldfield-Ommadawn’s 50th

Interview Podcast – Echoes · Nov 6, 2025 · 15m

Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn at 50: The Echoes Podcast

In the Echoes Podcast,Tubular Bells’ composer Mike Oldfield talks about Ommadawn, his two-sided epic from 1975. Mike Oldfield changed the world of progressive rock and instrumental music with his 1973 opus, Tubular Bells. But two years later he released this third album that many consider to be his masterpiece. It was released 50 years ago on September 25 or November 7. There’s a little dispute there. Today we revisit this epic work and our interview with Mike talking about an album that was inspired by his mother, who died during the…