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In 1973, a 19-year-old multi-instrumentalist named Mike Oldfield locked himself in a Berkshire studio and conjured a ghost. The result, Tubular Bells , was a trembling, majestic, and utterly unclassifiable suite of progressive rock, folk, and minimalist terror. It launched Virgin Records, haunted the soundtrack to The Exorcist , and sold 17 million copies. But to appreciate the craft —the hours of