Mike Oldfield - BBC 1983

Breakfast time show,with some of his guitars.

[@emmaphilo4049]

He is such an introvert. I love it

[@oscarleijontoft]

Yeah definitely on the spectrum but he's a gift!

[@KnorpelDelux]

That Strat is amazing. Sends those Dire Straits vibes into my body straight away.

[@Bonkers4Hex]

Yeah talking between £20,000 - £60,000 now as well

[@krisscanlon4051]

It's essentially a Knopfler/Straits homage with those proggy Chappo vocals.

[@scanspeak00]

Surely one of the finest musicians of modern times.

[@martinschnelle8664]

Errrr .... no.

[@robertl6591]

Omg, didn't realise your son composed better music than Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge and Ommadawn. Please let us know his name and where we can buy his recordings. What do you mean nobody has signed him? he's a better musician than Mike Oldfield, isn't he? Or were you just talking bollocks ?

[@Coqui-Media]

Oh .... sorry - was tubular bells actually music? LOL! Couldn't really tell through the train wreck that it sounds like ... Chimpspanner on Basick Records butthead!!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3Kzc4xoZcx9Z5o Steve Vai, Joe Petrucci, Joe Satriani and the like think he is the bollocks! Of course, you're on such a lower plane of evolution, those names and that league of musician is light years beyond you so don't bother. Oh - don't tell me - you're also one of those that thinks Hank Marvin is god's gift to guitarists :) Me? More major labels than you can count. Who's talking effing bollocks now matey??? Pfffft LOL!!! Why am I even bothering qualifying your stupid assed response? Get a job!!! Over and out ............

[@Coqui-Media]

My son was making better music at 9 lol!

[@robertl6591]

I pity you if you cannot appreciate the compositional genius of Mike Oldfield. Tubular Bells is one of the greatest albums ever recorded. Ommadawn is a beautiful jewel. Music is not about how many notes you can play per second. There are thousands of guitarists who can play fast but there's very few who compose great music.

[@Nosmirk]

1:50 Shadow on the wall! Brilliant!

[@darcy_taylor3103]

Great Musician ! Greets From Poland !

[@ellemore733]

He talks so modestly and so simply for us to all understand until genius fingers start playing. With no pretence this man is a genius

[@juanjavierm]

@Andrew Fry People/press/media call Prince a genius. Obviously Oldfield is far higher.

[@MagicAyrtonforever]

@@juanjavierm Did you have to do that?

[@theblueacorn]

I call Prince a genius. There's room for more than one, even on this crowded earth.@@juanjavierm

[@lindybeige]

I've noticed a mannerism of his. Very often when picking up or setting down a guitar, he clears his throat with a grunting noise. He does it a couple of times here, and in other interviews I've seen.

[@TheAmarok87]

Oldfield has always been a heavy smoker.

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

He's a nervous kind of fella. Crippling anxiety at various times in his career/life. He's done amazingly well despite depression, agoraphobia and other issues. Very talented composer and musician. Tubular Bells is still phenomenal.

[@juanjavierm]

1:51 There certainly are two kind of people: people who appreciates Oldfield music, and deafs.

[@toomanygittars]

The lick from 'Shadow on the Wall' at 1:50 sounds just like it did on the album! What a 'stratty' Stratocaster sound.

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

Well spotted.

[@tonyjedioftheforest1364]

Musical genius at work. Great little bit of Shadow on The Wall.

[@kungpuk5186]

I just love " who still use them?" I love it..

[@someoneelse101]

We are talking about interviewers who wouldn't know a decent guitar if it kicked them in the kiwis

[@jhorton4791]

Hahaha yes, I LOL-ed at that.

[@MrRichardofyork]

How wonderfully nostalgic! I recorded this myself on VHS at the time and there is some more since it was aired prior to the 10 Years On Tubular Bells concert at Wembley Arena which I attended also, around the time of "Crises", hence his playing a snippet of "Shadow on the Wall". When I dig out my copy, I'll post it for completeness.

[@TomasStibtoStibal]

Mike is still a thing in 2018. WOW! :)

[@hectoraguirre2938]

Mike oldfield genio maestro!!! Extraordinario!!!!

[@rileyjenkins3150]

I love the way old television sounds.

[@malcolmhardwick4258]

1500 quid for a 50s strat ! Those days are long gone !

[@Bends95]

Fascinating interview..this is what got me interested in delving into Mike Oldfield’s music.

[@MoveOverCasanova]

great to see how he loosens up when he is in his element

[@RUDI-UK]

I love watching him play during interviews. I remember the original 1980 VHS of the Knebworth performance had some fascinating footage of him playing the intro to Tubular Bells in different keys and chord progressions, explaining to the interviewer how the original riff had been ripped off so many times since, by himself included.

[@noopportunitynecessary]

Totally crushing 🥰

[@sally7424]

A handsome and awesome man 😍

[@mrindecisive100]

What 's not to like? 52 people found something! Thanks for posting.

[@Ian-gw2vx]

Those were the days when Mike was in the UK and all was well.

[@caveatrotters3324]

Yeah, the glorious Thatcher years of privatisation, when unemployment was quadrupled, the miners strike and Falklands War for nothing and IRA bombs because Thatcher wouldn't negotiate etc. Yeah, all was well 😀

[@MagicAyrtonforever]

@@caveatrotters3324 LOL you legend.

[@Ian-gw2vx]

Yep, because of course everything is so much better now isn't it. 😉@@caveatrotters3324

[@krisscanlon4051]

Knopfler must of been on Mike's mind...I watch this every few years...love it...listen to that twang

[@HighwayUK]

One of my favourite artists, few come close to his talent

[@nicodu02140]

Thank you very much for uploading !!

[@signalenergie]

1983 was a great year. Not only because he demonstrates the chords of "Shadow on the Wall".

[@MrJJMcBlaze]

I was thinking that same thing... How he talks about 'tools of the trade' and the Ovation made me want to write a Spinal Tap reference, but then I saw your post! I totally agree with you! ;)

[@tangerine825]

Genius...Poland Love Mike Oldfield ;-)

[@BertieBullfrog]

Man, he sure is, what a nice dude! Who would have imagined 30 years later, that little ole 61 strat would now be worth $15000, time is a crazy thing...Mike Rules!

[@DX7036]

He is talking with Oldfield as if he was some kind of collector of things and seemed like he never saw a guitar in his life...what an interviewer

[@juanfranciscopurdoncantini7154]

That Strat sounds tremendous!!!

[@sawneybean71]

Thx for the upload - very nice clip

[@The19towers]

Absolutely brilliant upload! Thanks 1967ngre - never seen this before.

[@karlaleksandrovic6519]

Thank you :))

[@sincoset]

Amazing!

[@herby4215]

The Master of strings

[@davedavidson2213]

"This One Goes To 11"

[@beijaflor9313]

Lmfao.

[@twelvepetaledlotus1721]

Ha ha ha...it really does!!!!

[@Bends95]

twelvepetaledlotus don’t touch it well don’t point ..it can’t be played

[@nrdl1431]

mike ein genie

[@nasrudinnasrudin6443]

Picking up a touch of the Nigel Tufnel's about this. :)

[@HalfLifeAMD]

The interviewer should have asked if his amp went up to 11...lol

[@MrHairyNeck]

What a talent.

[@trygveknudsen3809]

"If you're lucky enough to get a 1957 one, you can pay as much as 1500 pounds"... Nowadays, that's what you'd be paying for a new 'reissue' (copy) of a '57 Stratocaster, while the original 57s are stuck away in collector's vaults.. Worth ten times more than they were back when Mike did this interview. Awww...should have bought one back in '83 !!

[@ambientaylor]

Mike really reminds of Nigel Tufnel of Spinal tap in this clip. I'm thinking of the scene where Nigel talks us through his guitar collection. I bet that amp Mike is stting in front of goes up to 11.

[@gerardodoherty9178]

Ha! Exactly what I thought. Just 8 years late!

[@mrjohnknott]

Wonder what that Fender guitar of his is worth today...??? 30yrs down... 70yrs to go as mike said , In a hundred years it'll be worth a fortune...! Keep rocking Mikey..!!!

[@tomcat12321]

I wonder what that strat is worth now ,nearly 30 years later.

[@micheld5767]

un guitariste mal connu et peu reconnu ; mais incontestablement un très grand. Je suis sous le charme de tubullar bells entre autre, c'est une oeuvre magistrale proche des compositions des grands mucisiens classiques du XIII ème.

[@classicartfoundation639]

"is that a real guitar?" lol no it's a hologram

[@MagicAyrtonforever]

Mike is thinking to himself "No it's a shadow on the wall" Or indeed a "moonlight shadow"

[@mykehyslop198]

1500 quid for a 50's Strat.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@trainstracks2221]

@@MagicAyrtonforever 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@trainstracks2221]

Chester Bennington would say: "No, it's just the Shadow of the day." 🤣🤣

[@euro-commerce23]

Man from other planet...

[@lesjohnson9740]

Magic!.

[@4eversas]

AWESOME..especially 1.51-2.00 Shadow on the wall !!

[@juanjoseoterolourido5674]

Platinium. I LOVE this LP. The BSO if my Life. Luck, Mike. I wish you the BEST.

[@ShellacScrubber]

An awkward moment there ,where the presenter Andrew Harvey didn't even recognize Mikes rendition of the theme tune to the very program he was presenting!

[@testacorsa150]

1:51 DAMN!

[@enriquecarmona3456]

Yes! Shadow On The Wall!

[@testacorsa150]

It sure was!

[@Halligen1972]

YEAHHHH - I like the shadow on the wall guitar riff !!!!!

[@mattbelloni]

How many are here only for "shadow on the wall" riff?

[@mikehydropneumatic2583]

Glockenspiel... Got that on vinyl. Epic.

[@fenderstratocaster3974]

wonderful Sound

[@PAZ-3205]

I love Mike!!!

[@SanityIT]

When we get the making of Amarok? Fantastic peace of music history.

[@marcuspfister2047]

Amarok is one of my all time favourites.

[@rockerdrake]

man is chill asf

[@JonesAndYou]

My thoughts exactly! :D

[@signalenergie]

Michael is guitar hero.

[@realTelSav]

1:51 I love it

[@michelvandenhof12]

On the 20th of June 2019, at the Christie's auction in New York, David Gilmour's 1969 Black Strat made a whopping $3,975,000.

[@MrHairyNeck]

He said that guitar was out of tune. I couldn't tell. Ha ha.

[@classicartfoundation639]

Hairy Neck! Haven't seen you for ages!

[@bonzobub]

Fkin brilliant

[@bunglebonce]

Mike YOUNGfield more like!

[@St_Modler]

But interestingly enough, it also bears a remarkable resemblance with the theme played about halfway through Mike's Taurus II.

[@Harrysound]

Hmm I just discovered Mike oldfield today.... Again... But kinda for the first time, and I think I see a remarkable similarity in the strength of his guitar melodies to my own..... Really quite impressed

[@angelman93]

amazing artist..

[@MoveOverCasanova]

the first ovation i see that sounds good

[@marcuspfister2047]

Yes! It needs Mike Oldfield to get something out of it.

[@joseassuncao5598]

MAGNIFICO

[@seesthruu]

WOW brings back some terrible memories, not Mike the breakfast tv clock, 5 minutes and i would have been leaving for school aged 6 NOOOOOO!!!

[@maximusquavius2453]

Was this the inspiration for Spinal Tap's "But these go to 11"?

[@bonzobub]

Fuck you moron

[@rg2027x]

When TV was our friend

[@miletina600]

good staff

[@stenandersson8064]

oldfield is a king

[@chocomalk9801]

800 pounds for that Strat lol...a BARGAIN!

[@noi5emaker]

I'll take half a dozen...

[@MrGustass1]

Inflation

[@72marshflower15]

That’s 20 yrs ago you larf... just goes to prove what mr oldfield said...

[@JLBodhran]

£120 in 1961 is around £2691 today, and £800 in 1983 is around £2700 today, so yeah - checks out.

[@djabwlr9960]

Hmm inflation is one thing but a 1957 strat all original will set you back at least £20,000 today!

[@JRcash226]

1500 for a 1957 stratocaster :D oh my fucking god *_*

[@307anuradha]

The best guitarists in the World ..... fan from Sri Lanka

[@constantinkostenczyk5045]

He is great like my son , open view ......no hai sa -ll ascultam , servus

[@DavePopeMusic]

3:30 Never touch another man's guitar!

[@Flashstar5]

Really enjoyed his 'electronic rock' excursions. Purchased 'Crises' the day I left school in June 83 following a Biology exam so somewhat sentimental. His later albums became a little esoterical for my tastes but 'Crises' had a lovely melodic sound and of course the sublime 'Moonlight Shadow'. But the movement 'Crises' from the album has touches of Handel about it. Would've loved to have heard an orchestral arrangement. Nice guy Mike, always slightly leftfield but a great guitarist.

[@jean-lucsanson3118]

stupéfiant ! pas la dop mais les guitare ! et lui qui en joue comme un dieu ! vraiment j'aime sa music !

[@Tennis19999]

A Professional!

[@stefanoscovenna3601]

1:52: Marvellous.

[@BBDAutomotive]

It's a Hofner 181 Shorty, but i'm not sure how easy they are to come by these days.

[@dukestt]

can someome tell me what he plays at 3:31, please

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

"Fender stratocasters ... who still uses those?" - Wow ... o.O

[@Edward1312]

Oldfield reminds me of Jon Anderson from Yes.

[@jonanderson4767]

I agree :)

[@Edward1312]

He reminds you of yourself!

[@mauricelamain1978]

Epic

[@AndrewJanusson]

Buying a late 50's early 60's Strat for ~1000 pounds in 1983? Yeah, I'd say that's a good investment lol.

[@34hedgehog]

Interviewer knew sod-all about the guitars, which is why he kept harping on about how much they were worth.

[@HeggemusNL]

SHADOW ON THE WALL

[@HP47]

How right he was

[@monkeysmollock]

2:02 'who still uses those?' What a bulb..

[@maximusquavius2453]

+monkeysmollock I laughed at that too!

[@George-fh9zm]

That was a stupid thing to say

[@urgulp1554]

Anyone would think it was a Lute

[@Silber7]

Even if the question is out of ignorance: in the mid 80s they truly were not really fashionable - everyone used new brands and models, even apart from the Metal scene...

[@flauwegeit]

COME ON youtube, let me add this to a playlist PLEASE, you removed the option ' ADD ' from the bar ! :(

[@sasastojanovic5639]

No1.

[@anthonyholland2669]

2.44 is that a Hofner shorty ?

[@Sancho_Retablez]

Yeah, but a rare version with built-in amplifier. I guess there was that kind when made on Germany instead of today's made in China.

[@ajleponiemi3485]

I think Mike just woke up the hosts for this show, gawd." And where did Guy Smiley come from all the sudden in the background?