When Mike Oldfield met Richard Branson, the former was a hopeful songwriter and the latter a wannabe wheeler dealer. One recording session in a bedroom later and a creative genius and billionaire were created. They, of course, had no idea what was to come. Bill Gates was a geek long before anyone else and also sat in a room, being taunted by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen over his music tastes and awkwardness with women. A perhaps unlikely success followed and the billionaire intelligentsia wa

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