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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Jimbob on 16 September 2009, 08:29:29
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I am after a track......
Midnight Passion, by Mike Oldfield with Hazel O'Connor
The song evolved into Moonlight Shadow with Maggie Reily, but I am after the original version.
Anyone got a copy / mp3 / link at all?
Cheers!
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I am after a track......
Midnight Passion, by Mike Oldfield with Hazel O'Connor
The song evolved into Moonlight Shadow with Maggie Reily, but I am after the original version.
Anyone got a copy / mp3 / link at all?
Cheers!
Am I missing something here?
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Dunno....
to clarify....
I am looking for .....Mike Oldfield & Hazel O'Connor - Midnight Passion.
Don't know if it was even formally released (would be vinyl if it was), i'd just like to hear it.
There is nowhere I can find to buy, preview, etc, or anything other than text references to it.
If it ever hit an album, the name would do.
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Nothing on the alt.binaries search but I presume you will have looked there already. :y
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Dunno....
to clarify....
I am looking for .....Mike Oldfield & Hazel O'Connor - Midnight Passion.
Don't know if it was even formally released (would be vinyl if it was), i'd just like to hear it.
There is nowhere I can find to buy, preview, etc, or anything other than text references to it.
If it ever hit an album, the name would do.
I know what you want Jim, and if it's out there then I will find it.
I was just curious as to why I've had posts removed simply because piracy has been hinted at, yet here you are blatantly asking for copyrighted material.
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Dunno....
to clarify....
I am looking for .....Mike Oldfield & Hazel O'Connor - Midnight Passion.
Don't know if it was even formally released (would be vinyl if it was), i'd just like to hear it.
There is nowhere I can find to buy, preview, etc, or anything other than text references to it.
If it ever hit an album, the name would do.
I know what you want Jim, and if it's out there then I will find it.
I was just curious as to why I've had posts removed simply because piracy has been hinted at, yet here you are blatantly asking for copyrighted material.
You could look at it that way, but there are many fully legal sites like youtube where things like this can be heard legitimately.
I would also happily pay for a copy....if one existed anywhere.
This is so old, I suspect there is no hope anyway.
Someone may have it on a record, would be no more than going to their house and listening to it, or play it down the phone ;D
not looking to get round copyright, just want to hear it.
Ive seen enough sites shut down for discussing the wrong copyrighted info, obviously dont want that to happen here :y
Ive spoke to Hazel O'Connor a few times, so would have asked her, but have only just found out it existed.
May mail her and ask if she has a copy, or wait till I see her next.
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Try here:-
http://www.reddingtonsrarerecords.co.uk/
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its not on Spotify
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Or here:-
http://www.tipped.co.uk/listings/21390/the-diskery
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Try here:-
http://www.reddingtonsrarerecords.co.uk/
Cheers, but no luck :'(
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Been through as many track listings as I can, and it doesnt seem to ever have been released.
So looks like an email or 2 could be the only hope.
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MOONLIGHT SHADOW
"Moonlight Shadow" is a pop song written by British multi-instrumentalist Mike
Oldfield and released as a single in May 1983 and included on the album Crises
in the same year. The vocals were performed by the Scottish vocalist Maggie
Reilly, who had joined Mike Oldfield in 1980. It has been his most successful
single to date, with Tubular Bells being his most successful album worldwide. It
is said that the lyrics were a reference to the death of John Lennon.[1]
The single peaked at number 4 in the British charts, making it Oldfield's second
highest ranked single after "Portsmouth" which reached number 3 in 1976.
"Moonlight Shadow" was successful throughout Europe, It reached number 1 in
countries including Italy, Austria, Switzerland for four weeks and Norway for
six weeks. It spent four weeks at number 2 in Germany and also hit number 6 in
Australia. It was re-released as a maxi-CD single in 1993 to promote Oldfield's
Elements box set, charting at number 52.
A 12" single (later reissued on a 3" CD single) featured an extended version of
the song with an extra verse and the single B-side was "Rite of Man" which was a
rare instance of Oldfield singing lead vocal. The extended mix also appears on
his compilation album The Platinum Collection.
In 1991 the song was re-released in France and in 1993, it was featured on
promos for Elements in France and Spain.
Maggie Reilly sang "Moonlight Shadow" live when she toured with Oldfield in the
1980s. However since then, other singers have performed the song live with
Oldfield including, Anita Hegerland, Miriam Stockley and Rosa Cedrón.
The original cover art is an enlargement of the lower right corner of the Crises
album cover. This shows a man with his foot on a ledge with the sea and sky in
the background. The moon, the tower and its shadow from the album cover cannot
be seen on the single cover.
An early version of the song was entitled "Midnight Passion" with vocals by
British singer Hazel O'Connor.[2] Along with Maggie Reilly, a girlfriend of one
of the roadies when Oldfield was on tour, Oldfield used a rhyming dictionary and
recorded many of the lyrics word by word.[3] According to Oldfield, Virgin
Records were immediately happy with the song and wanted more pieces similar to
it.
Oldfield later sampled the drums from "Moonlight Shadow" for the song "Man in
the Rain" on his 1998 album, Tubular Bells III.
It was long believed that the lyrics are a reference to the murder of John
Lennon, although when asked about this in a 1995 interview, Oldfield responded:
[It's] not really [about Lennon]... well, perhaps, when I look back on it,
maybe it was. I actually arrived in New York that awful evening when he was shot
and I was staying at the Virgin Records house in Perry Street, which was just a
few blocks down the road from the Dakota Building where it happened, so it
probably sank into my subconscious. It was originally inspired by a film I loved
- Houdini, starring Tony Curtis, which was about attempts to contact Houdini
after he'd died, through spiritualism... it was originally a song influenced by
that, but a lot of other things must have crept in there without me realising
it.
—Mike Oldfield, Gareth Randall Interviews Mike Oldfield
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http://musiconvinyl.blogspot.com/2009/07/moonlight-shadow-mike-oldfield.html
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Mike Oldfield along with Boy George made Branson his first millions 8-)
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Haven't found what you want yet, but I did happen across the Beatles Remastered 2009 albums.
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Cheers.
The beetles, now theres a band I have never liked (with the excepetion of an odd song)
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Mystery solved.
Had a chat to Hazel last night, and she's told me it was never released, and only exists on an audio tape somewhere in her house.
Ahh well, least I know now.
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How did you manage to do that?
Met Mike Oldfield and Hazel O'connor (at different times) in a studio at about 1982 when i was playing session guitar for someone. Haven't seen or spoken since!!
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She is currently touring, and was in Chester last night.
A fantastic concert, and she always comes out to meet people afterwards.
Took the opportunity to ask her about it, and she was really forthcoming and happy to share some old memories.
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Had a lot of time for Hazel, thought she was lovely, bought me a coffee!! quite fancied her.
(But I was only 23 at the time, long blonde hair, and slim...............)
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She has always seemed a genuinely nice person. :y
The obvious passion she puts into her performance really shows too.