Five Miles Out (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Five Miles Out


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Artist = Mike Oldfield
from Album = Five Miles Out
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Released = start date|1982|2|18|df=yes
Format = Vinyl
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Genre = Progressive rock
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Label = Virgin Records
Writer = Mike Oldfield
Producer = Mike Oldfield
Tom Newman
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Last single = "The Singles"
(1981)
This single = "Five Miles Out"
(1982)
Next single = "Family Man"
(1982)
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"Five Miles Out" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1982 (see 1982 in music). It is from the album "Five Miles Out" and features vocals by Maggie Reilly.

The song (and the music video) make numerous references to flight. The video which predominantly features the sky, a plane, a pilot, a woman in white and Oldfield wearing a headset is available on the "Elements - The Best of Mike Oldfield" video.

"Five Miles Out" is a song that has a complex structure despite its unusual length. Lyrics are written about Oldfield's experience of a near-tragic flight. Reilly sings with clean voice while Oldfield uses vocoder most of time himself. The song features same guitar riff that appears in the beginning of "Taurus II" and during the intro a keyboard quotes the opening motif to "Tubular Bells" a trick he repeats in later pieces such as "Crises".

Track listing

# "Five Miles Out" - (4:19)
# "Punkadiddle" (Live on European tour 1980) - (5:37)

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