4-17-08 Mike Oldfield – Five Miles Out
Posted by gavortnik on April 18, 2008
The Dusty Show on WFMU is mostly a spoken word show, but Clay Pigeon does spike some music into the proceedings. This is one that was on today: Five Miles Out, the title track off the 1982 album by Mike Oldfield (Wikipedia here). The song (so Wikipedia claims) is about a “near-tragic flight” that Oldfield was in and, once I read the lyrics, I knew I had to put it up here.
The video is filled with all kinds of early eighties MTV goofiness. Ah, my youth…
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