Anthem for Doomed Youth the first line of the poem: "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?" The third album by British band The Libertines is named "Anthems For Doomed Youth", and features a song of the same name. American composer Stephen Whitehead included an orchestral setting of "Anthem for Doomed Youth" as a movement in his orchestral piece "Three Laments on the Great War" for soloists and orchestra. The piece is scored as a duet for mezzo-soprano and bass/baritone with orchestra. Anthem for Doomed Youth "Anthem for Doomed Youth" is a well-known poem written in 1917 by Wilfred Owen. It incorporates the
Tubular Bells "Tubular Bells III". The opening is also quoted directly in the song "Five Miles Out" from the album of the same name, and the song also features his "trademark" instrument, "Piltdown Man" (referring to his singing like a caveman, first heard on "Tubular Bells"). "Tubular Bells" can be seen as the first of a series of albums continuing with "Tubular Bells II" (1992), "Tubular Bells III" (1998) and "The Millennium Bell" (1999). In 2003 Oldfield released "Tubular Bells 2003", a re-recording of the original "Tubular Bells" with updated digital technology and several "corrections" to what he saw as flaws in