Mike Oldfield is best-known for his 1973 one-man symphony, 'Tubular Bells,' a chart topper in his native England and a Grammy winner in 1975. During his decade-long stint at Warner Bros, the musician and composer released four sequels, as well as four eclectic studio albums. Rhino collects all eight albums for an anthology presented in a clamshell box.

After joining the Warner Bros. roster in 1992, Mike Oldfield released his first sequel, Tubular Bells II, which climbed to the top of the chart in England. Another sequel arrived in 1998 with Tubular Bells III, which was followed a year later by another instalment in the series, The Millennium Bell. With Tubular Bells 2003, Oldfield revisited the original album and re-recorded it so he could take advantage of technological advances in the studio that were unavailable to him in the early Seventies.

The other four albums heard in this collection reflect a wide range of musical styles, starting with his follow-up to Tubular Bells II, 1994's The Songs of Distant Earth. A novel by the same name inspired him to record the album. Voyager, released in 1996, is a Celtic-themed album that's marked a dramatic stylistic departure. For 1999's Guitars, the musician recorded all of the music using only electric, acoustic and synthesizer guitars. The millennium Bell was written to usher in the new Millennium at a live concert in the centre of Berlin in front of 500,000 people.