" She Moves Through the Fair" is a traditional Irish song, the melody of which had been used by Simple Minds for " Belfast Child" in 1989. "The Hero" is a Scottish piece originally written by James Scott Skinner in 1903, as "Hector the Hero". After the daughter of a Warner Music exec said it sounded boring, Oldfield added synthesizers and more instruments to the album. ![]() The album was originally recorded using only acoustic hand-played instruments. The music on this album is the most overtly Celtic music Mike Oldfield has produced. In an interview from the time, Oldfield claimed that the album was one of his quickest to create, only taking a month and a half to record, also claiming that he composed and recorded some songs in one morning. Oldfield would stay with Warner until 2003, where his final album for the label was Tubular Bells 2003. ![]() ![]() The album was the last in the original three album deal which Oldfield had signed with Warner after leaving Virgin, starting with Tubular Bells II.
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