The Essential Live
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The Essential Live is a live concert video by Mike Oldfield
. It was recorded live at the Knebworth Festival on 21 July 1980 and the interviews are in Oldfield's studio. It was released on Laserdisc
and VHS
in 1980.
Mike Oldfield
Michael Gordon Oldfield is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age, and more recently, dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature...
. It was recorded live at the Knebworth Festival on 21 July 1980 and the interviews are in Oldfield's studio. It was released on Laserdisc
Laserdisc
LaserDisc was a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium. Initially licensed, sold, and marketed as MCA DiscoVision in North America in 1978, the technology was previously referred to interally as Optical Videodisc System, Reflective Optical Videodisc, Laser Optical...
and VHS
VHS
The Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....
in 1980.
Track listing
Written by Mike Oldfield, except "Sailor's Hornpipe", Traditional- Beginning
- Interview part 1
- "Guilty"
- Interview part 2
- "Tubular BellsTubular BellsTubular Bells is the debut record album of English musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1973. It was the first album released by Virgin Records and an early cornerstone of the company's success...
part 1" - Interview part 3
- "Tubular Bells part 2" (including The Sailor's HornpipeThe Sailor's HornpipeThe Sailor's Hornpipe is a traditional hornpipe melody.- History :The usual tune for this dance was first printed as the "College Hornpipe" in 1797 or 1798 by J. Dale of London....
) - Interview part 4
- "OmmadawnOmmadawnOmmadawn is the third record album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1975 on Virgin Records. The cover photograph was by David Bailey. It peaked at #4 on the UK Albums Chart. The album was reissued in June 2010 with additional content.- Album history :...
part 1" - End credits