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Pleased To Meet You: Mike Oldfield & Orbital

David Quantick, Q, October 1996

Without "funny" Mike Oldfield ambient music as we know it might never have existed. Without ex-baldies Orbital the Royal Albert Hall might never have hosted a rave. Without cuddly David Quantick there would have been nobody to record their Ibizian chit-chat.

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