Mike Oldfield is in many ways the only true celebrity in New Age Music. At least the only artist that that has had his share of scandals and negative tabloid headlines. Artists such as Enya, Kitaro or Edgard Froese are, well, more down-to-earth and have never been given that role in media. To see that this is true you only have to read this recent article in Sunday Express by Adam Helliker. It starts with the words: 

SO DISILLUSIONED is multi- millionaire composer Mike Oldfield with Britain that he has rejected a formal education for his children and is teaching them himself while he sails his family on a yacht around the Caribbean.

And more:

“Unless you want to be a nuclear physicist there is nothing you can’t teach yourself on the internet,” Oldfi eld tells me from his yacht moored off the Virgin Islands. “My children are getting a wonderful education learning all about sea life and meeting other children who sail into the harbour.”

Hopefully the time at sea will give Mike new inspiration – or at least some peace of mind, far away from the UK and the tabloids.

Source: Tubular.net