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Fact #90749

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Michael Gordon Oldfield is born in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK, Europe. As multi-instrumentalist composer Mike Oldfield he will find international success with the album-length instrumental composition Tubular Bells, which will provide the financial foundation for Richard Branson's Virgin empire and inspire the whole New Age musical genre.