The now-billionaire bought the boat ... It was also the place we signed Mike Oldfield as our very first artist,” Branson wrote in a blog post. “It was also where I learnt [my wife] Joan was pregnant ...

The now-billionaire bought the boat ... It was also the place we signed Mike Oldfield as our very first artist,” Branson wrote in a blog post. “It was also where I learnt [my wife] Joan ...

Richard Branson’s Duende houseboat in Little Venice — on which Virgin Records was born — is now available to rent for £5,200 per month.

Today in Music History for March 26: In 1827, composer Ludwig van Beethoven died in Vienna at the age of 57. His works bridged the classical and romantic periods and brought a new depth and emotional ...

Now inseparable from the tragedy ... Her latest exhibition takes its title from Mike Oldfield’s 1983 song Moonlight Shadow, in which he sings, “The trees that whisper in the evening / Carried ...

It began as a sharp abdominal pain that I dismissed as heartburn. Almost a decade later I received the shock diagnosis that I ...

Watch Sam McKewon and Mike Patterson break down the 2025 Nebraska high school state girls basketball tournament. Here are recaps from the first day of the Nebraska high school state girls basketball ...

Virgin Records was in the second year of its existence and riding high on the phenomenal success of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells ... and Atem (1973), they’d settled on what is now considered their ...

Credit: Joseph Branston/Guitarist Magazine/Future “Tubular Bells” and “Mike Oldfield” immediately evoke the iconic earworm that is the tune's opening piano motif, which, on a broader pop ...

Kidderminster Choral Society is celebrating the finale of its 125th season with a rousing tribute to the great Italian composer Rossini.

In Australia’s arid and semi-arid zones lives a highly elusive predator. It’s small but fierce and feisty, with big eyes, ...