Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow album flac

Moonlight Shadow: The Collection is a compilation album by British t Mike Oldfield. It was released on 22 April 2013 in the United Kingdom. The title is from Oldfield and Maggie Reilly's 1983 song "Moonlight Shadow" which topped many European charts. The album includes selections from Oldfield's recorded output with Mercury Records. Pieces from earlier in Oldfield's career were originally released on Virgin Records but have been subsequently moved to Mercury/Universal Music

Album: Crises (1983). Charted: 4. Get the Sheet Music License This Song. A look at the extended version of the song supports this, with the line "The crowd gathered just to leave him" creating the image of a crowd of (105) people around the man's dead body.

Moonlight Shadow is a song released in 1983, and remains Mike Oldfield’s most successful single. Maggie Reilly performed the vocals, but Oldfield wrote the lyrics and was the song’s guitarist. The song tells the story of a woman who loses her lover to a violent struggle in the middle of the night. People have since speculated that the song refers to the death of John Lennon, who was killed by gunman Mark David Chapman in 1980. The details in the song differ from that of the incident in which Lennon was killed, and Oldfield, in a 1995 interview says the song was inspired by the film Houdini.

Lyrics to "Moonlight Shadow" song by Mike Oldfield: The last that ever she saw him Carried away by a moonlight shadow He passed on worried and warning . .The trees that whisper in the evening Carried away by a moonlight shadow Sing a song of sorrow and grieving Carried away by a moonlight shadow All she saw was a silhouette of a gun Far away on the other side He was shot six times by a man on the run And she couldn't find how to push through. I stay, I pray See you in Heaven far away I stay, I pray See you in Heaven one day. Four .

Moonlight Shadow" is a pop song written by British t 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.