Merci de France Patxi de m'avoir fait découvrir'' Mirrors''' La magie de la voix de Sally Que du bonheur!!! Longue vie à l'Irlande que nous aimons tant.... Dereck nous mettra peut-être un jour The Dubliners .... Et la folie ' The Pogues'' le concert magique à l'Olympia ( une mythique salle à Paris .).pour les 30 ans du groupe ........
“Foreign Affair” from the same record is very soothing, sometimes I even hear it on the radio. Not as much as “Moonlight Shadow” though which receives airtime every now and then.
Great song by Mike Oldfield/Maggie Reilly - note that Mike Oldfield usually does instrumental recordings only ut his songs are very good also. His first album Tubular Bells was the theme from The Excorcist
Oh my. I heard this song on the radio this morning and thought " oh, Dereck should react to this". And little did I know you were about to put out this video, but there it is! Such a great song.
Thank you for whoever sugested Mike Oldfield. All his old stuff are great like Tubular, but his new works like Nuclear are really realing movin on a different level.
MAGGIE'S magical voice is as if it's coming out of a fairytale.As addictive as an Odysseus siren. She sounds too relative to Anita Hegerland/Candice Night/Sharon Del Adel vocal colors.The fabulous gem "Wait",as well as" To France","Foreign Affair","5Miles Out","Family Man","Crystal Gazing","Everytime we touch",ABBA's "Arrival" cover, are some great stuff she contributed.I can never get bored of her seductive sound and vocal abilities.Mike managed a great discovery while introducing her to us.
My father used to play his vinyls when I was a kid. I was born in 1994 so it means I grew up with classics. Such nostalgia right now. Thanks for the memories!
What a treat! This song was huuuuge in the UK in 1983. Mike Oldfield is a genius. He is playing the guitar in the video- he was also absolutely gorgeous. I was 10 years old and had the hugest crush on him. I knew then my life was going to be complicated 😍
Now, you have to discover all Mike Oldfiled. As for reacting to his songs, you will not be able to do it for all. Some of his songs last... 1h. But listening to them, yes, it will be very good for you. You will feel so good afterwards.
I love the guitar solo. It features Mike Oldfield's two trademark guitar sounds: the clean, compressed stratocaster sound and the more distorted gibson guitar -like sound.
Thx a million, a gem, a treat, pure jam. So addictive melody, so bewitching soaring guitar set, so mesmerizing Maggie's rendition and ton of voice. In one word: masterpiece.
Thanks Dereck. This is a beautiful song about Harry Houdini's widow's attempts to contact him by seance after he died and on the anniversary of his death for many years afterwards. (A tradition carried on annually by the Society of America Magicians to this very day) Houdini proclaimed that he loved his wife so much that if he died before she did he would do everything he could to be with her again. In the song she never manages to 'push through' but there are lyrics in the song that suggest she came close... 'vision forming' and 'night was heavy and the air was alive'. She becomes resigned to the fact that she will not see him again until she herself is in heaven but in the meantime she will 'stay' and 'pray'. Houdini actually died of peritonitis and Oldfield alludes that the death by gunshot was subconsciously influenced by the murder of John Lennon which occurred at the time he was composing this song. The combination of this inspirational story, catchy tune, Maggie Reilly's amazing voice and sublime guitar work makes for my favourite song for almost 40 years. Thanks for featuring it.
I love it... Listen to "To France" and Everytime We Touch" You should also take a listen to Bonnie Raitt "Something To Talk About" and "The Fundamentle Thing" and "Luck Of The Draw" and "I Cant Make You Love Me"
Funny! I just saw a recording of Stjernekamp 2020 (a Norwegian live talent competition for established singers that has been on NRK1 since 2012). The Norwegian vocalist Anita Hegerland, who sang with Mike Oldfield (and had a relationship with him, 2 children) performed Moonlight Shadow, and the lady could still sing! Was taken right back to the 80's. Hehe
For me, I really attached this song when it came out. Like you said, the storytelling is great. The light vocals I loved. I dunno as a boy it triggered my imagination a lot. I don't know if it has aged that well, I think this form of musical storytelling has sadly long since passed. Maybe at the time it was not like anything I heard in the charts ? I still love it.
There are still storytelling, maybe as a niche, at least in the north-european prog/metal scene. You may be interested in giving a look to Arjen Lucassen projects (Ayreon, Star One) which are mostly sci-fi tales and tributes to movies, always featuring guests singers or instrumentists (for instance, Steve Vai made a guitar solo for his song about Interstellar "lost children of the universe"). Usually reaction channels starts with "The day that the world goes down" (which has a lot of behind-the-scene explanations in subtitles and featuring "the 11 main singers of the album") followed by the live version of "Everybody dies". That said, "Intergalactic space crusaders" live can be a great entry point :)
oh man..... :) Mike Oldfield is first and formost a guitar player and composer. I think you'd like PICTURES in THE DARK much much better....with Norwegian singer Anita Hegerland, wich he married and had two kids with. Mike Oldfield got famous due to film music for the Exoraiar where Tubular Bells, were the main score. A music piece he composed at age 17.
"To France" from the same team (electric guitar and sing are more fascinating). The end of this old music video reminds me the poster of the new concert tour of Mylène Farmer, Nevermore 2023 (a long hair woman in the reflection of the eye of a bird with two colors, black and blue).
Haha, I know this song from early RU-vid. A remix of this song was very popular for anime videos. Used to watch a particular video (vampire anime movie, I believe) with the remix when I was a kid on early RU-vid. Havent heard this song in about 14 years, completely forgot it existed.
Unlike Frieda from ABBA, Maggie Reilly who is actually the lady sitting singing with the hat on here is from Glasgow in Scotland. She still writes and produces her own music. This song always had this old camp fire vibe about it, lovely song and beautifully sung by Maggie and Mike Oldfield compliments it with some heavenly guitar.
Mike Oldfield is a great composer, a talented guitarist, and was a pioneer in multi-layer recording : on Tubular Bells, his first album (1973, used as The Exorcist movie theme), he played over than 20 different instruments from piano to percussions ! Only hiring other musicians for drums, flutes and double-bass. Live sessions needed a lot of musicians : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KXatvzWAzLU.html
This was huuuge in the 80s. Maybe you will like To France or Shadow on the wall better. But I'm sure you will like Innocent... Btw: Maggie Reilly was the original singer of Everytime we touch. Cascadas version is a cover...
This is such a shame. Mike Oldfield was huge and his music, especially Moonlight Shadow, did blow people away, but it seems he has been almost forgotten and totally underrated. This is not the reaction I had expected, growing up with this music.
Mike Oldfields best song,always liked this song alot even if i listened to it much more in the past...a great song..good reaction choice there Dereck..it has a attractive sense of mysticism to it that really enjoy..
I have the vinyl sleeve of Moonlight Shadow a Mike Oldfield song signed by Maggie Reilly who sings, Phil Spalding the bassist in the video and now Simon Phillips the drummer in the video has signed it too! beautiful people.
Mike Oldfield is a genius, one of the greatest ever composers and guitarists. He is primarily known for writing instrumental music, this is his most successful song though, Maggie was a featured vocalist for many of his songs, but you can hear Mike himself singing on Heaven's Open, which is a great song. If you want to hear one of his instrumentals, try Sentinel from the Live at Edinburgh Castle concert.
I love this song and never heard it in it's day (1983 release, I think) but heard a great cover by Aselin Debison recently. It doesn't surprise me that the meaning is not totally clear, EVEN TO THE WRITER, Mike Oldfield. People need to consider that during the 1960s, 1970s and even early 80s most of the songs had puzzling, psychedelic, mysterious lyrics. In this song the heartsick woman is seeking to connect with a lost lover through a medium, or psychic of some sort to have a spiritual encounter. I too, Dereck, read that the composer, Mike Oldfield, said he was inspired by the movie about Houdini starring Tony Curtis, but people asked if it was about John Lennon. He considered that subconsciously perhaps it was. In the end, I think much of it is fictional using poetic licensing, of which is what many books, poems, songs and other writings are made. IN THE END, IT IS A GREAT AND CATCHY SONG. LOVE IT.
I absolutely love Mike old field such a talent I love the whole album it's a bit emotional after drinking tho my dad loved this and introduced me to it tubular bell's 2 I cry now its an album that wakes many demons I get upset it touches so deep.
No, it's about the famous American magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, whose wife would try to contact his spirit for years after his accidental death via spiritual media.
This is an all-time classic song !!! .. On first listen, it's very good, but after a couple more, I absolutely fell in love with it .. Love the melody, Mike Oldield's guitar sound and lead break, and Maggie's faultless vocals .. Very disappointed by not seeing a Dereck Reacts Approved here .. Give it another spin or 2 and see if you change your mind .. Wayne
A song that brings me back to when I was a kid and my father was listening to this song in the car. I suggest Edwyn Collins with "A girl like you" which is also an old hit, it was used on a Charlie's Angels movie. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6oqJ0JpMj6I.html
There is an even better extended version with an extra pre-intro played (twice) in "parallel" chords - and with an extra verse at the end. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ktHi3OKfgqc.html
