Moonlight Shadow: The Collection

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Moonlight Shadow: The Collection
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Compilation album by
Released22 April 2013 (2013-04-22)
2019 (vinyl)
Recorded1973 – 2008
Genre Pop rock, progressive rock
Length75:36
Label Spectrum Music
Producer Mike Oldfield, Tom Newman, Simon Heyworth, Simon Phillips, Karl Jenkins
Mike Oldfield chronology
Icon
(2012)
Moonlight Shadow: The Collection
(2013)
The 1984 Suite
(2016)

Moonlight Shadow: The Collection is a compilation album by British multi-instrumentalist 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.

Contents

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. It was Universal's third Oldfield compilation album in two years.

In 2019 a vinyl with a different track listing was issued with the same title and artwork.

Track listing

2013 CD release

No.TitleWriter(s)Original albumLength
1."Tubular Bells" ( Two Sides excerpt) Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells , 197313:28
2."Ommadawn" (Excerpt)Oldfield Ommadawn , 19753:37
3."In Dulci Jubilo" Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Lucas Pearsall Non-album single, 19752:50
4."First Excursion" David Bedford, Oldfield B-side to the "William Tell Overture" single, 19775:52
5."Diana" (Excerpt from "Incantations")Oldfield Incantations , 19786:32
6."Platinum" (Part One - Airborn)Oldfield Platinum , 19795:00
7."Guilty" (7" single version)OldfieldNon-album single, 19794:13
8."Blue Peter"Herbert Ashworth-HopeNon-album single, 19792:05
9."Sheba"Oldfield QE2 , 19803:31
10."Mount Teidi"Oldfield Five Miles Out , 19824:10
11."Moonlight Shadow"Oldfield Crises , 19833:37
12."Good News"Oldfield The Killing Fields , 19841:44
13."Amarok" (Part one) (Two Sides excerpt)Oldfield Amarok , 19905:03
14."Slipstream"Oldfield Light + Shade , 20055:14
15."Sunset"OldfieldLight + Shade4:42
16."Aurora"Oldfield Music of the Spheres , 20083:43

2019 Vinyl release

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Original albumLength
1."Tubular Bells" (Two Sides excerpt)OldfieldTubular Bells, 1973 
2."Amarok" (Part one) (Two Sides excerpt)OldfieldAmarok, 1990 
3."Mike Oldfield's Stream" (Theme from Return to Ommadawn Part One)Oldfield Return to Ommadawn , 2017 
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Original albumLength
4."Moonlight Shadow"OldfieldCrises, 1983 
5."Sailing"Oldfield Man on the Rocks , 2014 
6."Slipstream"OldfieldLight + Shade, 2005 
7."Guilty"OldfieldNon-album single, 1979 
8."Good News"OldfieldThe Killing Fields, 1984 
9."In Dulce Jubilo"Bach, PearsallNon-album single, 1975 

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