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Release Date: 1975

Label: Virgin

UK Virgin sampler, highlighting their roster of artists and featuring updated '2 virgins' label 'red dragon' logo design.

Retouching by Michael Mann Studio
Sleeve: Shorepak - Shorewood Packaging Co., Ltd., England

℗1975 Virgin Records Ltd., 2/4 Vernon Yard, London W11.

Contains tracks, extracts, bonus-work & session material relating to artist's works, as follows:
A1: Recorded at CBS, October 1974.
Other records: "Rock Bottom" (V2017); "I'm A Believer"/"Memories" (VS114).

A2: Recorded at The Manor, October 1974.
Other records: "Tubular Bells" (V2001); "Hergest Ridge" (V2013); "Mike Oldfield's Single"/"Froggy Went-A-Courting" (VS101).

A3: Recorded at Kaleidophon Studios, November 1974.
Not available on "Dandruff" (V2021).

A4: Recorded at CBS Studios, June 1974.
Part of the soundtrack for the Chichester Festival production of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus.
Other record 'Phaedra'.

B1: This version recorded live by Manor Mobile at Hyde Park open-air concert, June 1974.
The accapella track was on the 1973 double album, forming part of "The Marjory Razorblade Suite".
B2: Recorded at The Manor Studios, Oxfordshire, June 1974.
Records are: "Marjory Razorblade" double (VD2501); "Blame It On The Night" (V2012); "Lovesick Fool"/"Sea Of Love" (VS104).

B3 & B4: Recorded at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, June 1974.
These 2 live tracks later appeared in 2006 on the concert CD "Live London '74".
Other records: "Unconditionally Guaranteed" (V2015); "Bluejeans & Moonbeams" (V2023) .

C1 & C2: Recorded at The Manor November 1974. From "Desperate Straights", to be released 21 February 1975 (V2024).
C1: Other record "Slapp Happy" (V2014).
C2: Other records "Legend" (V2005); "Unrest" (V2011).

C3 & C4: From "Fine Old Tom", to be released 14 February 1975.

C5: Recorded at The Manor, September 1974. Mixed at Nova.
From "Quickstep", to be released 28 March 1975 (V2028).
Other record "Busy Corner" (V2009).

C6: Recorded at The Manor, September 1974.
From "Jabula" (CA2004) released February 1975.

D1: Recorded at The Manor. From "Clear Light Symphony", to be released 28 February 1975.
(Will also feature Tim Blake, Steve Hillage & Didier Malherbe)

D2: Recorded at Saturn Sound, Worthing October 1974.
This track is to be re-recorded, to appear (in a different version) on the new album (V2030), to be released 7 March 1975.
Other records "Hatfield & The North" (V2008); "Let's Eat (Real Soon)"/"Fitter Stroke Has A Bath" (VS116).

D3: Recorded at Kaleidophon Studios.
An extract from "White Noise II", to be released 4 April 1975.

D4: Recorded at The Manor, September 1974.
A track from sessions for a forthcoming Steve Hillage album (V2031), to be released April 1975.
(This track will not be included on that album).

Runouts are stamped except for PN and JUMBO which are etched.

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