I was at that concert too. At the interval they handed out sheets of paper with lines printed on them. Folded, they became the paper planes. I remember pelting Mike and the band when they came back on stage. Good times, good times.
Maginificent!! And this word is too little to describe this piece of work! Ode To Cynthia definitively one of my fav excerpts of Incantations. Oldfield He's a master it's a shame that over here in Mexico almost nobody knows him :(
I remember seeing this concert on TV. Thanks for posting - wish I had been there to see this great show. The climax of 'Incantations' is one of those musical 'wow' moments.
Mike is a guitar god! Fantastic brilliant. But... this was 1979, punk was in the charts, electro pop was arriving. No wonder Mike never got the recognition he deserved
mike oldfield recognition was beyond charts moonlight shadow and others tracks were in the pop charts he had his recognition ..... tubular bells was the base for virgin records if you wanna say the humanity changed in worst that is another argument
Not sure about the second lyric she sang at the end but the first is from the final stanzas of Hiawatha by Longfellow. Stunning performance, what pipes, what dedication all these musicians had to bring this off live
I was at this concert, there was a paper dart to make on every chair, during the interval the whole of the audience at Wembley took part in throwing all these planes. A member of monty pythons flying circus was master of ceremonies during tubular bells I think it was terry jones.
De las canciones de este compositor clasico del siglo XX mas preciosas que jamas he escuchado, gracias MIKE OLDFIELD por esas canciones que quedaran para la historia de la musica de verdad!
Maddy Prior and Pierre Moerlen (R.I.P.) together on stage with Mike Oldfield. I love each one of them for their own stuff with Steeleye Span and Gong - amazing to see and hear them play together! Thanks for this uploads!!
@AntiqueGraphicStudio , i agree with every word you wrote !!!!!!! fantastic voice and the brilliant mike oldfield , what a combination ! all the very best !
I saw this tour in Brussels, but forgot completely about the paper airplanes until seeing this. I bet those printed sheets are a collector's item today.
This man is one of the greatest music talents Britain ever produced.....he chose to waste his talent in such a disappointing way though.....this track always brings tears to my eyes....a monumental finale to an unbelievable record.....his 80's stuff-a shame...
If you look at the sparse front row carefully, you can see that Margo and Jerry from the Good Life have been lured to Wembley by Tom and Barbara under duress. They're stroking their chins with stiff-upper-lipped distress and awaiting the lift back to Surbiton in Tom's beige Marina via the North Circular for a stiff G & T and a soggy celery sarnie supper
I watched the same concert in The Netherlands and really thought: why can't the others keep up, we all know how the song goes! But still, Mike had to gesture that people should not clap at a certain stop in the music.
Why Mr. Oldfield has this fixation with Tubular Bells, having all of those masterpieces such Incantations, Ommadawn, QE2, Platinum, ... He could make bazilions remaking any of those before TB.. ! :-???
wadelacme The disco companies are guilty for those useless compilations,not Mike,but yes...we don't need TB4. And if we erase from our minds The Millenium Bell, 3 TB are the perfect pack.
Hoi, van een andere Mike Oldfield fan, sinds 1976... misschien wat ouder dan jij? Maar heb hem 3x live gezien en het was geweldig! Vind hem bij tijd en wijlen wat te commercieel, maar Pierre Moerlen en Mike zelf zijn wonderkinderen!
@ShinyDemise - if you mean the lyrics, they're from a Jacobean masque in praise of the goddess Diana, written by Ben Jonson. Tune, I assume, Oldfield's own!
