BBC 6.55 Special, M O interview and Mistake 1982

[@angelaandersons7918]

How beautiful is Mike old field x

[@MrAugustus88]

he was so beautiful

[@erawa2740]

He still is.

[@ajs41]

He's 29 here. Maggie Reilly was 26.

[@BACALL1965]

​@@ajs41thought he was about 26 here. How old was he in tubular bells?

[@ajleponiemi3485]

A true artist to me, like Van Gogh or Beethoven. I love songs in which he sings to some extent. Five Mile Out is another. A very unique voice.

[@hoffer54]

Five miles out, just hold your heading true, gotta get your finest out. Thank you for all the great music Mr Oldfield, changed my life view for the better!

[@geoffjoffy]

What a nice guy Mike is. Thanks for this.

[@AndrewOvenden]

A couple of years later he did do a film score for The Killing Fields.

[@Coneman3]

Yes but he was pissed that they didn’t play a lot of it in the movie and it could hardly be heard in it. I agree with him.

[@NoreenHoltzen]

He timed everything perfectly to the film footage he was given and it would have been extremely artful and then later they chopped it up and put his music in completely differently places and oldfield was furious and felt let down.

[@linolino-wm4ng]

Un bijou ce live !!! 💙🤍❤️ 👏👏👏💪💪💪👍👍👍

[@tangerine825]

Genius Of Instrumental Music ! Classics,Electronic,New Age...Poland Love Mike ;-)

[@LauradelCarmenRíos]

❤Es una bella persona y siempre está dispuesto a contestar lo que le pregunten, de hecho siempre suelta toda la sopa acerca de su vida el guapo Mike Oldfield. Dios lo bendiga por ser tan sincero. Besos.

[@screen_spirit740]

Oh dear it was a certainly a mistake to not mix down the volume on Mike's backing vocals.

[@dunebasher1971]

Especially as he seems to be seriously out of time.

[@jerkedevries]

@@dunebasher1971sounds weird indeed. On the studio version the delay of his voice is great, but live….

[@vivi1649]

It took him 30 years to realize his dream of remaking Tubular Bells, but I'd say it was worth the wait. TB 2003 is absolutely wonderful :D

[@arnoldsturm7306]

TB 2003 is good but TB 1973 is more "warmful"! TB 2003 is more "metallic"! I prefer TB 1973! However, both are masterpieces, as whole MO works! Arnold Sturm from Romania

[@Cheximus]

@@arnoldsturm7306 TB II is the real masterpiece.

[@saffronfarmer3665]

he is the best ever x

[@hawkyt1881]

Really strong. We fell all the power of oldfield musical in it.

[@ghostwriter71]

He's great.

[@KRAZEEIZATION]

The musical genius! Not even 30 years old here!!! It would be ten years later in 1992 before TBII came along!

[@jagmedrex]

Thanks for posting this!. One can really say this was a real live performance. Like a small gig in a Pub doing a sound check. Love to see mike playing and miss maggies voice in his later work, who knows? Maybe they do some reunions and at the same time put together som new stuff, thanks again for posting this 👍

[@KitCurranRadioShow]

I doubt they'll get back together, but you never know I guess. Did you know it was Maggie's birthday yesterday (when you posted this)? Happy Birthday MR!

[@jagmedrex]

one can always hope, no i didn't know that.

[@Boris-o7b]

Wonderful

[@johnm2558]

The way the song ends sounds like Eurovision. It was a (pause) ..MISTAKE! , brief applause followed by Terry wogan chiming in with a brief recap before moving on to Luxembourg’s offering.

[@aivalsonic3537]

❤❤❤Mike live on bass guitar. 😄🥰👍 Mike is for me one of the best musicians ever.

[@heavensopen]

>Maggie, the best oldfield singer ever

[@peddaz55]

too bad she fucked up so many otherwise beautiful live recordings with her endless howling and "doodoodoo"

[@mvl71]

@@peddaz55 No one has yet found the hidden morse code in the live version of Taurus II: s-h-u-t-u-p-m-a-g

[@anja9303]

Found her in a church

[@rainbowwarrier1469]

And Anita as well!

[@volt9903]

AND ,MADDY PRIOR, AND CLODAGH SIMONDS and of course SALLY OLDFIELD

[@EntropiaMusic]

Thanks for the upload! Great!

[@t3chnod3lic]

Great to see Sally James in something other than Tiswas!

[@capcolombie3834]

It's Maggie Philbin.

[@t3chnod3lic]

@@capcolombie3834 Nope, thats Sally James. I have a Tiswas dvd and know 100%

[@ajs41]

@@t3chnod3lic Yes, it definitely isn't Maggie Philbin.

[@oliverpengilley]

thanks for posting this! I still see Oldfield as a composer and its almost sad to see him trying to make singles....He is a true artist.

[@gilessteve]

Never was a song more aptly named! It must have taken considerable effort on MO's part to achieve his level of mediocrity.

[@KitCurranRadioShow]

Aww come on, it's just different from his other stuff. He should've put this in for Song For Europe actually, it has that feel about it.

[@emmaphilo4049]

Very attractive

[@nleeks12]

I wonder if someone picked up what Mike said about writing a soundtrack that lead him to be tasked to compose film music. Which would be 'The Killing Fields'?

[@Stadtpark90]

god they were young. and good.

[@ElChokin]

Genial este Mike y Maggie, saludos.

[@paologiorgio9728]

Maggie che bella voce! bravissimi dal vivo!! che tempi... grazie per averci regalato delle grandi emozioni!!

[@sergiotani1928]

Ciao,in che anno ?

[@flaviopitanga65]

Maggie is awesome

[@dalemoore387]

Mike’s playing bass guitar here. I think he liked the bass guitar more than lead, which he usually played on the shorter songs.

[@lawrencedavis5459]

Mikes niche was creating soundscapes and instrumental pieces, his shorter songs sound like eurovision rejects

[@pedroalmeida9596]

Maestro

[@manuelpe1979]

He sounds like a very clever guy. I guess he is, apart from his brilliant musical abilities...

[@gilessteve]

'Mistake'. Never was a song more appropriately titled!

[@Coneman3]

Not his best, but it’s ok.

[@gilessteve]

@@Coneman3 MO can do so much better than 'ok' though.

[@lindybeige]

Ouch! Sometimes you need to practice a bit more.

[@rechtschreib-exorzist8936]

You heard that it was said, the song was finished just the night before!?!

[@steenman69]

Oh god, why isn't Mike playing the guitar solo ?

[@frankschmitz6117]

Maybe, because he plays the bass?😜

[@eerk76]

Because Tim Renwick did it 😅

[@eerk76]

The incredible Tim Renwick on guitar !

[@citizenscriv]

Sally James :-)

[@XanAxDdu]

not in a briliant mixture of sounds but hey thanks it is not in playback but live performance !

[@opinionday0079]

hellooooooo Sally James

[@Spillage66]

What a shame that Pierre Moerlen on drums, is dark in the backgound.

[@Mick_Mars]

OMG how out of time was mike on the backing vocals, I think He shouldn’t of sang and just let Maggie sing on her own

[@pantofis]

I think this was on purpose. It’s Mike making a Mistake so to speak.

[@Daniela99]

It’s sung on purpose that way…listen to the recorded version and it’s the same….

[@BACALL1965]

It is mic delay The engineer warned him but he liked the effect

[@michaeln3023]

The Musicians today vs Oldfield are all so little like Mouses against him

[@MrSevillian]

I love Maggie.

[@Slarti]

It's quite funny that he is such a brilliant musician and composer but completely sucks at backing vocals. I am a great fan of Mike Oldfield and his music to the Killing Fields started me on my study of classical guitar - I will let you guess which piece in the Killing Fields it was.

[@Tredecimus]

Actually quite similar for me, it was the first time I came across Tarrega and it triggered something. Took me still some years until I started with the classical guitar. And alas I never got good enough to really tackle the tremolos in Recuerdos de la Alhambra.

[@Manobaru]

On the other hand, look what a journey his vocals made to "Heavens Open" though. It's like a whole evolution. Hard to believe it's the same person singing :D

[@constantinkostenczyk4966]

Tineretea si esenta fac diferenta ..o parerere doar ....tschuß/servus 👍

[@Ian-gw2vx]

Sally James very like Kirsty Alsop .

[@jacqueshenry267]

Maggie is fantastic, Mike is...not a singer.

[@hoffer54]

Mike, please don't sing, LOL!

[@MiguelBaptista1981]

Heaven's Open is a good example of him singing well. Here, not so much.

[@scotttait2197]

Great interview but...my least favourite MO song

[@opinionday0079]

That song really was a mistake ....

[@ivantopolcic]

@Johnny Hash he makes effects actually like on the record, but live it doesn't sound quite good, but i like his vocal though he was never assured.

[@ajs41]

@Johnny Hash I agree, although it's not that different to the vocoder vocals he performs on Five Miles Out which actually sound very good on there.

[@norwegianzound]

Great musician. Shame he turned into a silly old Brexiteer codger.

[@billjones8503]

Is it just me, or does the interviewer come off as a snobby condescending prima donna!? - Does she even have a clue who she's talking down too, a musical legend that deserves far more respect than that!? Grrrrrrrrrrrr

[@benmarshall404]

No, not really. Sally James, she was popular herself as a TV presenter/interviewer (most notably kids TV) rather than a music journalist type interviewer...but I can’t pick up any disrespect here. As great a musician and composer as Oldfield is he was socially awkward and was never the greatest interviewee.

[@ajs41]

Not to me personally. I thought she was pleasant and nice. I can see how that style of interview might discombobulate people who are used to modern style interviews which are more fast and direct.

[@billjones8503]

@@ajs41 & @Ben Marshall ~ I dunno what I was thinking!? Probably drunk outta my mind! Sorry Sally Jones, & Andy & Ben. My mistake. She's great & graceful interviewer! - My apologies everybody!

[@mvl71]

@@billjones8503 It was a ... mistake 🎵

[@stuarthenderson7663]

Terrible song though