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TIL Mike Oldfield, when Virgin Records insisted on hi9m calling his next LP "Tubular Bells 2", responded with "Amarok" - an album with rapidly shifting themes, random bursts of noise, and a message in morse code saying "F**k you RB" - apparently directed at Richard Branson.

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