His most successful album of this period was Crises (1983), which features the worldwide hit single " Moonlight Shadow" with vocalist Maggie Reilly. In the late 1970s, Oldfield began to tour and release more commercial and song-based music, beginning with Platinum (1979), QE2 (1980), and Five Miles Out (1982). Oldfield followed it with Hergest Ridge (1974), Ommadawn (1975), and Incantations (1978), all of which feature longform and mostly instrumental pieces. Its opening was used in the horror film The Exorcist and the album went on to sell over 2.7 million copies in the UK. In 1971, Oldfield started work on Tubular Bells which caught the attention of Richard Branson, who agreed to release it on his new label, Virgin Records. From 1967 to 1970, he and his sister Sally Oldfield were a folk duo The Sallyangie, after which he performed with Kevin Ayers. Oldfield took up the guitar at age ten and left school in his teens to embark on a music career. He has adopted a range of musical styles throughout his career, including progressive rock, world, folk, classical, electronic, ambient, and new age music. Though primarily a guitarist, Oldfield plays a range of instruments, which includes keyboards, percussion, and vocals. Michael Gordon Oldfield (born ) is a British musician, songwriter, and producer best known for his debut studio album Tubular Bells (1973), which became an unexpected critical and commercial success.
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