{"id":24463,"date":"2012-08-08T08:23:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T12:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=24463"},"modified":"2012-08-08T08:23:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T12:23:46","slug":"music-legend-sings-praises-of-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/08\/music-legend-sings-praises-of-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Music Legend Sings Praises of The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24464\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24464\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24464\" title=\"mike-oldfield\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mike-oldfield-250x197.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Oldfield\" width=\"250\" height=\"197\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Music Legend Mike Oldfield<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have just asked the creator of the  phenomenally successful 1973 album Tubular Bells if performing in front  of worldwide audience of a billion people at the Olympics Opening  Ceremony has tempted him to end his self-imposed exile and return to  Britain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The answer is &#8216;no&#8217;. It seems the Reading-born father of nine is blissfully happy on his little tax-free island in the Bahamas. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever go back to  Britain \u2014 I can\u2019t stand being cold,&#8217; he says. &#8216;I&#8217;m very comfortable with  the local people here. They&#8217;re so very genuine and friendly. They don\u2019t  seem to have an agenda.&#8217; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We\u2019ll  get on to what Oldfield thinks about Britain and its &#8216;agenda&#8217; later,  but for now he\u2019s still basking in the glow of the ceremony, which is  even warmer than the Bahamas sunshine. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After decades in the critical wilderness, however, Oldfield admits he was surprised to get the Olympics\u2019 summons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Having lived in the Bahamas for three  years, Oldfield and his family \u2014 wife Fanny and sons Jake, eight, and  Eugene, four \u2014 flew to London four weeks before the ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music legend Mike Oldfield, back at his home in New Providence after his performance at the opening of the London Olympics, says he is blissfully happy in the Bahamas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[46,22],"class_list":["post-24463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-celebrities","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}