How Many Miles to Babylon? In the 1824 edition of "The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia" there's a description of the rhyme and the game, giving the distance as "six, seven or a lang eight". The rhyme was originally accompanied by a singing game in which two lines face each other, with one player in the middle. At the end of the rhyme the players have to cross the space and any caught help the original player in the middle catch the others. The game seems to have fallen out of use in the twentieth century. In literature In film In music How Many Miles to Babylon?
The Best of Tubular Bells The Best of Tubular Bells The Best of Tubular Bells is a compilation album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield. It was released in 2001 and features segments from all of the "Tubular Bells" albums up to that year. It is a single CD which consists of pieces of various past versions of "Tubular Bells" albums; "Tubular Bells" (1973), "The Orchestral Tubular Bells" (1975), "Tubular Bells live" (1979), "Tubular Bells II" (1992), "Tubular Bells III" (1998) and "The Millennium Bell" (1999). The album has been re-edited so that the changes between most of the different parts of "Tubular Bells"