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6/09/2016 , , , , ,
Mike Oldfield - Man On The Rocks
Mike Oldfield - Man On The Rocks


Mike Oldfield - Man On The Rocks Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Man On The Rocks
Released: 2014

Man On The Rocks Lyrics


Man On The Rocks
  • This is the title track of Mike Oldfield's 25th album. Recorded in the Bahamas, it was produced by Oldfield with Stephen Lipson (Jeff Beck, Paul McCartney) and features bassist Leland Sklar (Phil Collins, James Taylor) and drummer John Robinson (Michael Jackson, Daft Punk).
  • The genesis of the record was when Oldfield started playing Rolling Stones records, paying fresh attention to the drum clatter. "I listened to the snares," he told The Daily Telegraph. "And I started experimenting with these old blues slide guitar sections in open G tuning, which is what Keith Richards uses."
  • Oldfield tried singing the songs himself at first, before recruiting Luke Spiller from The Struts to interpret his words. "I thought: let me see if I can sing like Mick Jagger," he told The Daily Telegraph before adding that unimpressed with his efforts, he called his record company. "I asked them to recommend a rock vocalist with a really high range and I was instantly pointed toward Luke Spiller of The Struts. I went online and thought: yeah. He did a much better job of sounding like a rock star than me."
  • The title song is about addiction: "Not necessarily to drugs or alcohol," said Oldfield, "it can be to certain kinds of relationship patterns, about an addiction to failure."

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    Mike Oldfield - Irene
    Mike Oldfield - Irene


    Mike Oldfield - Irene Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Man On The Rocks
    Released: 2014

    Irene Lyrics


    Irene
  • This song was inspired by Hurricane Irene which battered Oldfield's home in the Bahamas in 2011. Safe behind his hurricane shutters, he sat up all night watching it on the Internet. "What's fascinating is that while what's happening on the ground is wild, if you watch what the satellites show you from space then it's just beautiful," he told The Daily Telegraph. "This spiraling, slowly rolling, swirling thing."

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    6/01/2016 , , , , ,
    Mike Oldfield - I Give Myself Awa
    Mike Oldfield - I Give Myself Away


    Mike Oldfield - I Give Myself Away Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Man On The Rocks
    Released: 2014

    I Give Myself Away Lyrics


    I Give Myself Away
  • This Gospel number was written by worship leader William McDowell, who serves as the lead pastor at Deeper Fellowship Church in Orlando, Florida. McDowell's original version can be heard on his 2009 As We Worship Live album.
  • Oldfield covered the tune for the final track of his Man on the Rocks album. He explained to HMV.com : "You know, I just heard that song by complete accident actually, but I sometimes find that, if I like a song, I want to get involved with it and I just decided to make my own version of it."

    "It wasn't originally going to be on the album, we'd settled on ten tracks, but Stephen (Lipson, co-producer) liked what I'd done with it," he added. "I changed some of the lyrics to make it better represent everyday life, as opposed to being a song of worship that belongs in a church."

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