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Night of the Proms 2006/Best of, Volume 2 (CD, excerpt from part one) Cover versions
Various sections of Tubular Bells have been covered by many artists, with the most used part being the introduction piano piece.
Lol Coxhill recorded a very short track of “doubled and echoed flexatones” (a flexatone is a hand percussion instrument consisting of two balls striking a piece of metal, which makes a “spooky” sound effect), titled “Tubercular Balls” on his 1974 Caroline Records half-album, …Oh Really? (the other side being The Story So Far… by Stephen Miller, a.k.a. Steve Miller, ex Caravan; the album is often referred to by a combination of its two titles: The Story So Far … Oh Really?).
The Champs Boys Orchestra released a short rendition of Tubular Bells in 1976.
Thrash metal band Possessed played the intro in the first song of the record Seven Churches (in 1985), which is titled “The Exorcist”.
Paul Hardcastle based his 1985 single “19” around the piano theme of Tubular Bells.
Another thrash metal band called Death Angel played the main theme in the title track of the album The Ultra-Violence in 1987.
Book of Love opened their 1988 album Lullaby with a cover version, stretched to 4/4 time by adding stretching a note to make it danceable.
Ed Starink made an abridged cover for an album Synthesizer Greatest (the first album in a multi-volume series) that was released in 1989. Tubular Bells appears only on the CD-version as a “bonus track”. Other tracks on the album are cover versions of famous synthesizer songs but the original Tubular Bells features no synthesizer.
Italian Keyboarder Claudio Simonetti covered the song on his Days of Confusion album in 1992.
American artist Tori Amos has frequently been using the
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