As far as I’m concerned, up there with Gerschwin. His stuff is almost a genre in its own right because it’s so little like anything else. A few of his albums were too far out for me (Amarok…) but TB was far from his only hit. His soundtrack for The Killing Fields was amazing, too.
Should also be mentioned, no TB, no Virgin records, i.e. no Virgin anything. The first thing that Branson took a wild chance on that paid back avalanche returns. Well, him and Tangerine Dream. I remember Virgin Records ads in mid-70s National Lampoon pointing out they’d found TD and Oldfield, shouldn’t you check out our whole collection?
