About Five Miles Out by Mike Oldfield Album
Mike Oldfield was back into the extended composition game with Five Miles Out, continuing the "Taurus" series with the mammoth "Taurus II," an entertaining enough romp with references to Irish music, brass bands and Oldfield's beloved Morris. The true standout, though, was the title track, a paean to flying in bad weather that could easily double for Oldfield's feelings about the sort of monumental critical drubbing he was accustomed to receiving. "Family Man" became a huge worldwide hit for Hall & Oates. Music Mike Oldfield – guitars, bass guitars, keyboards, percussion, Linn LM-1 drum machine, vocals, vocoder, Fairlight CMI Graham Broad – drums Tim Cross – keyboards Rick Fenn – guitar Mike Frye – percussion Maggie Reilly – vocals Paddy Moloney – Uilleann pipes on "Taurus II" Carl Palmer – drums on "Mount Teidi" Morris Pert – percussion, keyboards, strings arrangement on "Five Miles Out" Martyn Ford – conductor on "Five Miles Out"
