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Icon (Mike Oldfield album)
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.
| 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 | |||
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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.