Changeling: The Autobiography of Mike Oldfield

What's it like to be Mike Oldfield? Born without social instincts many people take for granted, brought up in a environment that was beyond his ability to deal with, but at the same time possessed with an extraordinary musical talent, Mike was thrust into the spotlight at the tender age of nineteen. His first album "Tubular Bells" went on to sell fifteen million copies worldwide and catapulted him into a stardom he was ill equipped to cope with.

All his life, Mike has felt like an outsider, a stranger in a strange land. From his difficult childhood, growing up with an alcoholic mother, to his feelings of alienation and struggles with depression, this book takes Mike from his early years, through the recording of "Tubular Bells" and his staggering fame, to his rebirth experience at a controversial Exegesis seminar and up to the present day.

With a supporting cast including Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful, Richard Branson and Steve Winwood, Viv Stanshall and Kevin Ayers, Mike's tale is packed with amusing anecdotes told against the colourful backdrop of the sixties and seventies and is as unique as it is inspirational. Mike Oldfield has been on a journey few of us could ever imagine, and he offers a message of hope to anybody who feels they live on the edge of society.

CONTENIDO

Prologue - Exegesis - Summer 1978
1. Beginnings - 1953
2. Lost in Music - 1960
3. The Clubs - 1963
On Family - 2007
4. Harold Wood - 1966
5. Pimlico - 1969
6. The Horrors - 1970
On Spirituality - 2006
7. The Manor - 1971
8. The Recording - 1972
9. The Beacon - 1974
On Fame - 2006
10. Hergest Ridge - 1975
11. Trougham Slad - 1976
12. The Seminar - 1978
On Rebirth
13. Flying High - 1978
14. Crises? What Crises? - 1981
15. Berlin to Now - 1990-2006
On Me - Now
Acknowledgements
Index