OK, so tonight’s music selection takes some commitment. It takes 25 minutes to watch, and might mean absolutely nothing to anyone born after, say, 1960.
This is a live BBC recording of Mike Oldfield’s glorious Tubular Bells, an important artifact of the post-hippy lyrical movement. This was recorded in 1973, about forty years before much of today’s electronic wizadry was available. It is, I believe, one of the very few truly symphonic pieces to have emerged whole from the chaos of those days. Listening to Viv Stanshall’s droll roll-call of the instruments near the end brought back so many good memories.
Jak's View of Vancouver v.3 