opening Tubular Bells theme in her live shows. It began during the 1996 Dew Drop Inn Tour where she would let “Father Lucifer” segue into Tubular Bells on the piano while singing words from Bronski Beat’s “Smalltown Boy” as well as playing it on the harpsichord during songs “Love Song” (a Cure cover) and “Bells for Her” (from the album Under the Pink), usually while mixing in lyrics from a third song such as Bjrk’s “Hyperballad” or “Blue Skies”. It appeared again in 2005 as part of “Yes, Anastasia” and on the current 2007 tour promoting her album American Doll Posse it is being performed with full band as an intro to “Devils and Gods”.
Forma Tadre use the intro guitars from the second part of Tubular Bells in their song “Automate” on the 1998 album of the same name. Their version is done with synth and only repeats the first two bars.
Therapy? jokingly covered the opening theme live in 1998 as part of a medley, which opened with “Tubular Bells”, segued into Judas Priest’s “Breaking the Law”, and ended with their own “Nowhere”.
Duo Sonare, a German classical guitar duo, made a complete rerecording of Tubular Bells for two guitars in 2000.
Rapper Tech N9ne used a version of the intro in the song “Be Warned” in 2002, only he moved it to 4/4 time.
Interactivo, lead by bandleader Roberto Carcasss, based their 2005 Cuban jazz-funk arrangement entitled Escriba y Lea Con las Tubular Bells on themes from late in the second half of Tubular Bells, Part One.
Finnish a cappella performer Paska recorded an abridged version for his 2005 album Women Are From Venus, Men From Anus. Paska has also performed the song at his live performances. In a concert on 1 October 2007, before performing it, Ari Peltonen gave a speech about his hatred towards the song and
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