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Five Miles Out is a record album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield. It was his seventh new album. Of all Oldfield's albums, this one is probably closest to progressive rock and is also one of the very few occasions where he sings, as he is noted for not having any confidence in his voice's qualities. Fans consider this album to be among his finest works. Image File history File links This image is the cover of an album or single. ...
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Michael Gordon Oldfield (born May 15, 1953 in Reading, England) is a multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music and more recently dance. ...
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Michael Gordon Oldfield (born May 15, 1953 in Reading, England) is a multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music and more recently dance. ...
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Michael Gordon Oldfield (born May 15, 1953 in Reading, England) is a multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music and more recently dance. ...
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Michael Gordon Oldfield (born May 15, 1953 in Reading, England) is a multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music and more recently dance. ...
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Album analysis
The first track "Taurus II" is typical for Oldfield with its changing melodies and instrument settings. It features many familiar sounds from his earlier albums such as uilleann pipes and female chorus. After the vocal section (called "The Deep Deep Sound") the music quotes the main riff from "Taurus I" making the link between the two stronger than just a shared name. Full set of Uilleann pipes Uilleann pipes (IPA: ) are the characteristic national bagpipe of Ireland. ...
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"Family Man" is Oldfield's first "real" rock song, Maggie Reilly in vocals. It was released as a single. Hall & Oates covered the song, which became one of the very few songs penned by Oldfield to chart in the United States. Family Man is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1982. ...
Maggie Reilly in the Moonlight Shadow video (1983) Maggie Reilly (born in Glasgow on 15 September 1956) is a Scottish vocalist best known for her collaborations with the composer Mike Oldfield between 1980 and 1984, especially by performing the vocals on Moonlight Shadow, Five Miles Out, Family Man, Foreign Affair...
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"Orabidoo" is another long and changing tune. It begins with silent duo of acoustic guitar and some glockenspiel-like instrument. Then over five minutes long "song passage" follows with vocals sung by Oldfield and Reilly through vocoder. After that, fast and fiery part follows that features a melody that also appears in the beginning of "Taurus II". At the end of the track, there is a song "Ireland's Eye" sung by Reilly and accompanied by acoustic guitar. A vocoder (name derived from voice encoder, formerly also called voder) is a speech analyzer and synthesizer. ...
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"Five Miles Out" is a song that has a complex structure despite its unusual length. Lyrics are written about Mike's experience of near-tragic flight. Reilly sings with clean voice while Oldfield uses vocoder most of time himself. The song features same guitar riff that appears in the beginning of "Taurus II" and during the intro a keyboard quotes the opening motif to "Tubular Bells" a trick he repeats in later pieces such as "Crises". Five Miles Out is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1982. ...
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Five Miles Out is the beginning of a reversal of the decline Mike Oldfield had in recent years had encountered in the charts throughout Europe. Both the album and the title song charted moderately high in different countries and were an indication of the big success that was to come with the next albums, Crises and Discovery. Note: crises is the plural of crisis. ...
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The cover of the album features a Beechcraft 18 aircraft, which is referred to in the lyrics of "Five miles out" ; "lost in static 18" and "automatic 18". The airplane has registration GMOVJ, as also referenced in the lyrics. Beechcraft 18 on floats The Beechcraft Model 18 was a small six to eleven place, all metal, aircraft manufactured by the Beech Aircraft Corporation of Witchita, Kansas. ...
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Track listing - "Taurus II" (Mike Oldfield) – 24:43
- "Family Man" (Oldfield/Tim Cross/Rick Fenn/Mike Frye/Maggie Reilly/Morris Pert) – 3:45
- "Orabidoo" (Oldfield/Cross/Fenn/Frye/Reilly/Pert) – 13:03
- "Mount Teidi" (Oldfield) – 4:10
- "Five Miles Out" (Oldfield) – 4:16
Family Man is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1982. ...
Five Miles Out is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1982. ...
Personnel - Mike Oldfield - Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer, Engineer
- Richard Barrie - Technical Assistant
- Graham Broad - Drums
- Tim Cross - Keyboards
- Rick Fenn - Guitars
- Martyn Ford - Conductor for Strings
- Mike Frye - Percussion
- Richard Mainwaring - Engineer
- Paddy Moloney - Uileann Pipes
- Tom Newman - Engineer
- Maggie Reilly - Vocals
- Carl Palmer - Percussion
- Morris Pert - Percussion, Keyboards, Arranger for Strings
External links - Five Miles Out at Tubular.net
- Explanation of the radio message in "Five Miles Out"
| v • d • e Mike Oldfield | | Albums | | Studio albums: Tubular Bells | Hergest Ridge | The Orchestral Tubular Bells | Ommadawn | Incantations | Platinum | QE2 | Five Miles Out | Crises | The Killing Fields | Discovery | Islands | Earth Moving | Amarok | Heaven's Open | Tubular Bells II | The Songs of Distant Earth | Voyager | Tubular Bells III | Guitars | The Millennium Bell | Tr3s Lunas | Tubular Bells 2003 | Light & Shade | Music of the Spheres | | Live albums: Exposed | | Singles | | 1974: "Mike Oldfield's Single" 1975: "Don Alfonso", "In Dulci Jubilo" 1976: "Portsmouth" 1977: "William Tell Overture", "Cuckoo Song" 1978: "Take Four" 1979: "Guilty", "Blue Peter" 1980: "Arrival", "Sheba" 1982: "Five Miles Out", "Family Man", "Mistake" 1983: "Moonlight Shadow", "Shadow On The Wall" 1984: "Crime Of Passion", "To France", "Tricks of the Light", "Étude" 1985: "Pictures In The Dark" 1986: "Shine" 1987: "In High Places", "Islands", "The Time Has Come", "Magic Touch" 1988: "Flying Start" 1989: "Earth Moving", "Innocent", "(One Glance is) Holy" 1990: "Étude (Nuforen Advert)" 1991: "Heaven's Open", "Gimme Back" 1992: "Sentinel", "Tattoo" 1993: "The Bell", "Moonlight Shadow", "In Dulci Jubilo" 1994: "Hibernaculum" 1995: "Let There Be Light" 1997: "Women of Ireland XXV" 1998: "Man In The Rain, "Far Above The Clouds" 2002: "To Be Free", "Thou Art In Heaven" | | Related content | | Changeling | Virgin Records | Richard Branson | Sally Oldfield | Terry Oldfield | Anita Hegerland | Maggie Reilly | |
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