Moonlight Shadow - oldfield - acoustic cover

The single peaked at #4 in the British charts, making it Oldfield's second highest ranked single after "Portsmouth" which reached #3 in 1976. "Moonlight Shadow" was successful throughout Europe, It reached #1 in countries including Italy, Austria, Switzerland for four weeks and Norway for six weeks. It spent four weeks at #2 in Germany and also hit #6 in Australia. It was re-released as a maxi-CD single in 1993 to promote Oldfield's Elements box set, charting at #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.

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 and Miriam Stockley.

The original cover art is an enlargement of the lower right corner of the Crises album cover.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Moonlight
• Shadow
• oldfield
• acoustic
• cover

[freakyscumbag]

very bad version

[thefatmuff]

i think thats an Ovation guitar, am i right? ovation is a great guitar. i`m about to buy an ovation à la Dj ashba soon.

[sosna00]

guitar for cowboys

[pitoflasido]

its really good very relaxing

[jerome96114]

You have a very cool guitar, guy :D

Please check out also my cover :

/watch?v=fHchwpwIiTM

[erik987987]

Simple.. Bad..

[nutellagood]

Ma atzè ciuk?

[dEnIsInApRiNcEsS]

mah... boh....

[hunabi]

i liked it ^^

[ElvenDane]

watch?v=UJY1PHa6pug

Very nice acoustic version a la what I mentioned below ;-)