Mike Oldfield's complete original Tubular Bells will be given away free in next week's Mail On Sunday.

It just shows how the business has slumped when the 11th best-selling UK album of all time has to be given away to sell a newspaper !

One reason to get the paper then

Major confession: I have owned three copies of "Tubular Bells" in my time. But I was an impressionable youngster at the time, guv'ner, honest.

Maybe I'll get out my CD copy and give it a spin again.

I often say that at weekends I buy dirt cheap CDs or DVDs that for some peculiar reason has these useless newspapers given away as "free gifts". I chuck the paper in the bin and enjoy the CD or DVD I bought...

I think I'll be giving Mike Oldfield a miss though. Wonder which version it will be? The newest remaster from 1st generation tapes or are Virgin desperate to offload the not remastered from 1st gen versions?

It was quite good when the papers gave the Disney DVD's away! I bought a lot of Sunday papers those weeks