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Deadcalm Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 752 Joined: Nov. 2004 Posted: Feb. 10 2006, 17:16 Watching the Opening Ceremony at the Winter Olympics in Torino Italy   Tonight  "Moonlight Shadow" was clearly played as part of the competitors entrance to the Stadium !! There were quite a few oldie tunes played but the "Shadow" stood out quite well.... Near the end "Peter Gabriel" did a version of Imagine which was pretty dam good.. ts not my favourite song even by Lennon but old "Peter" gave it a great twist with his old Genesis type vocals !! cool   Back to top

El Bosnia Group: Members Posts: 58 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: Feb. 10 2006, 20:22 Was it played by musicians or was it just a recording? -------------- "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering" "Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny" Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Feb. 10 2006, 20:56 Recording.Me watching it...and playin' Depeche Mode's Just Can't Get Enough -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Feb. 10 2006, 20:59 ...and I saw MO's Moonlight Shadow on TV \o/ -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Feb. 10 2006, 21:50 cool. I must see the reprise tomorrow   -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Inkanta Group: Admins Posts: 1453 Joined: Feb. 2000 Posted: Feb. 10 2006, 22:21 Mmm...the recording with Maggie herself--it started about the time that Liechtenstein's team was introduced and ended just beyond Mike's riff when the Madagascar folks came in--then the music switched to the Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams." -------------- "No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From:  Moongarden's "Solaris." Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Feb. 10 2006, 23:28 To think that finally, after all of these years, "Moonlight Shadow" has been aired in the U.S. I have this intro on tape, and will go back and look for this in the "L" section. -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

DarkFeline Group: Members Posts: 144 Joined: Oct. 2005 Posted: Feb. 11 2006, 01:10 NOOOOOOOO!!! The ceremony was broadcasted at around 3am last night, and I stayed up until 5am, but I forgot to watch it!!! I missed hearing Moonlight Shadow live on international TV!!! [Edit]: Does anyone have the clip when the song was playing? Pretty please?   -------------- Who's your mummy, where she go? Back to top

Bill Bobaggins Group: Members Posts: 477 Joined: June 2005 Posted: Feb. 11 2006, 10:05 Yay.  I was dozing on and off the couch as I was watching.  My husband said out loud that he knew I would like this song.  I said "Wow, it's Mike Oldfield".  And then he said "It is?  I didn't know - but it sounded like something you would like".   Thank goodness he woke me up.  It was a real treat to hear it.  Up until that point they were playing mostly disco/dance music.  Then they switched to MO, then Eurythmics and then the Buggles!!  Very nice.  It wasn't long afterwards that they were back to disco and YMCA by the Village People.  The worst part was they went to commercial in the middle of the song!!!  When they came back, MO was still playing.  Hooray!! I couldn't help think about who the person was who had the job of coming up with the soundtrack for the Parade of Nations.  I would have loved to have done it.  Think about the songs you might have chosen, knowing the whole world would be listening. -------------- Speak friend and enter. Back to top

Inkanta Group: Admins Posts: 1453 Joined: Feb. 2000 Posted: Feb. 13 2006, 09:11 This topic is also in the news section; please carry on your discussion here, under Moonlight Shadow used at the Olympics. Thanks! -------------- "No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From:  Moongarden's "Solaris." Back to top

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