and once in 1976 by the Scottish National Orchestra, again with Hillage on guitar. Andy Summers played on other performances that year. Parts of its performances were used in the NASA and Tony Palmer documentary The Space Movie. it has not been officially released. Reception Paul Stump commented on Hergest Ridge in his 1997 History of Progressive Rock: "So how to follow Tubular Bells? Simple. Merely repeat its developmental techniques through new (but less inspired) sequences of tunes." Hergest Ridge, the place Hergest Ridge on the England–Wales border is a popular holiday destination for Oldfield's fans, and the house where he lived at the time, The Beacon, is now a guest house. The cover photograph features scenery from Hergest Ridge, and was taken by Trevor Key; the Irish Wolfhound on the cover (and on the LP label) was named Bootleg. Mike Oldfield himself can be heard pronouncing it in the song "On Horseback", which concludes "Part Two" of Ommadawn. Although the album was written at The Beacon, it was, like Tubular Bells, recorded at Richard Branson's The Manor. Track listing Personnel Credits are adapted from the 1974 liner notes. Musicians Mike Oldfield – electric and acoustic guitars, bass guitar, glockenspiel, sleigh bells, mandolin, nutcracker, timpani, gong, Spanish guitar, Farfisa organ, Lowrey organ, GEM Gemini organ June Whiting – oboe Lindsay Cooper – oboe Ted Hobart – trumpet Terry Oldfield – flute Chilli Charles – snare drum Clodagh Simonds – vocals Sally Oldfield – vocals David Bedford – choir and strings conductor Production Mike Oldfield – production, engineering Tom Newman – production and engineering assistant Trevor Key – album cover Bootleg – Irish wolfhound on the album cover HDCD remastered reissue In 2000 Virgin re-released all of Oldfield's back catalogue, remastered in High Definition Compatible Digital, by Simon Heyworth at Chop 'em Out studios between March and April 2000, from the 1976 Boxed Quad mix. The album was re-released on 29 May 2000. HDCD is a patented process for delivering on CD the full richness and detail of the original microphone feed. Although a HDCD player is required to fully appreciate a HDCD recording, some improvement is still noticeable on normal CD players. The "lyrics" in Part 2, are more easily heard in the remix, although attempts to deciphering them have failed. It seems that they are an example of Clodagh Simonds' skill in inventing nonsense lyrics, which she did again