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LUKE SPILLER The Struts’ flambouyant frontman was seduced by the devlish music of Mike Oldfield, which later blossomed into a divine collaboration. My initial knowledge of Mike Oldfield would have been limited to Tubular Bells as the soundtrack to The Exorcist, and I didn’t put two and two together until much later. But I really started to dive more into him when I was approached to work with him on 2014’s Man On The Rocks. You have two sides to him – you have his really deep instrumental side where he becomes like a rock classical composer and then you have the songs that feature a vocalist. Being the son of a preacher man, The Exorcist was regarded as something that one does not tiptoe into. Tubular Bells is such…

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