Mike Oldfield ft Maggie Reilly - Moonlight Shadow (1983) • TopPop

Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is a British musician, songwriter, and producer best known for his debut studio album Tubular Bells (1973), which became an unexpected critical and commercial success. He is regarded as one of the greatest multi-instrumentalists of all time. Though primarily a guitarist, Oldfield plays a range of instruments, which includes keyboards, percussion, and vocals. He has adopted a range of musical styles throughout his career, including progressive rock, world, folk, classical, electronic, ambient, and new age music. In the late 1970s, Oldfield began to tour and release more commercial and song-based music, beginning with ’Platinum’ (1979), ’QE2’ (1980), and ’Five Miles Out’ (1982). His most successful album of this period was ’Crises’ (1983), which features the worldwide hit single “Moonlight Shadow“ with vocalist Maggie Reilly. This unique performance was recorded on location in Zierikzee, the Netherlands and b