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The Platinum Collection
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Released on March 13th, 2006
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Tracklist
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CD one
01. Tubular Bells
(Part 1, Opening Theme)
02. Tubular Bells
(Part 1 Final Excerpt)
03. The Sailor's Hornpipe
04. Hergest Ridge
(Part 1, Intro Excerpt)
05. Ommadawn
(Part 1, Intro Excerpt)
06. Ommadawn
(Part 1, Final Excerpt)
07. In Dulci Jubilo
08. Don Alfonso
09. Portsmouth
10. William Tell Overture
11. Cuckoo Song
12. Incantations
(Part 4, Final excerpt)
13. Platinum (Part 4)
14. Woodhenge
CD two
01. Moonlight Shadow
(Ext. Version)
02. Blue Peter
03. Guilty
(Long Version)
04. Arrival
05. Wonderful Land
06. Sheba
07. Five Miles Out
08. Family Man
09. Mistake
10. Shadow on the Wall
(Ext. Version)
11. Foreign Affair
12. In High Places
13. Crime of Passion
14. Tricks of the Light
15. To France
(Ext. Version)
16. Etude
17. Evacuation
(also includes the
hidden track Legend)
CD three
01. Sentinel (Single Restr.)
02. Pictures In The Dark
(Ext. Version)
03. Shine (Ext. Version)
04. Islands (12" Mix)
05. Flying Start
(12" Version)
06. The Time Has Come (12" Version)
07. Innocent (12" Mix)
08. Earth Moving
(Club version)
09. Amarok (Africa I)
10. Heaven's Open
(mistitled as the 12" Version)
11. Hibernaculum
(Single Edit)
12. Women of Ireland
13. Far Above The Clouds (Single Edit)
14. The Millennium Bell (Remix)
15. To Be Free (Radio Edit)
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The Platinum Collection is a 2006 Virgin Records compilation album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield. It contains most of Oldfield's best known work, and some rare mixes of songs that had previously only been available as B-sides to singles.

The first two discs are entirely made up from content Oldfield's Virgin albums, whereas some pieces on disc three are under licence from Warner.
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